January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage OBS Thread!

[GreyHat]

Temps rising now 23F

Heavy sleet

[Wxtrix]

heavy sleet and snow, visibility down to 1/4 mile again. another 1-2 inches maybe since earlier this morning. it’s 80/20 snow/sleet.

[WhiteoutMD]

In annapolis 90% sleet and 10% snow it is really crazy looks like deep winter.  This is going to take some time to clean up I imagine schools will be closed all week my neighbor is shoveling and it looks like a foot but I know it is not but wow one car has snow/sleet from the ground to the hood and it is windy at times

[mattie g]

It’s sleeting.

[Chris78]

Just now, Wxtrix said:

heavy sleet and snow, visibility down to 1/4 mile again. another 1-2 inches maybe since earlier this morning. it’s 80/20 snow/sleet.

That's awesome to hear. Hoping I can get back into that. Been pure sleet here for the last couple of hours

[Mrs.J]

Back to a mix of snow and sleet just in the last 20 min. Winds are blowing more. 
 

And was surprised when our shoveling. While the temp says 12 it did not feel like 12. 

[LeesburgWx]

When would the freezing rain threat start today?

[Chris78]

8 degrees still with heavy sleet

[Wxtrix]

Just now, Chris78 said:

That's awesome to hear. Hoping I can get back into that. Been pure sleet here for the last couple of hours

i want to see pure heavy sleet, lol. i’d switch with you if i could!

[rjvanals]

7.3” snow/sleet so far in Potomac. At least w the sleet the parking lot snow piles will look like we got 18” 

[ifindppl]

Heavy sleet.  And it is heavy to shovel!

[mattie g]

I’m honestly not sure how much sleet I’ve gotten here in Burke, but it has to be over 1” at this point. It’s been sleet since like 7:30.

17° and f*cking pounding sleet for hours

[BTRWx's Thanks Giving]

Measured a 6" snow and sleet pack right outside my door in Alexandria.  

[clskinsfan]

A couple pics of my hood. Roads are a disaster. As always.

[Grothar of Herndon]

1 minute ago, mattie g said:

I’m honestly not sure how much sleet I’ve gotten here in Burke, but it has to be over 1” at this point. It’s been sleet since like 7:30.

17° and f*cking pounding sleet for hours

Same here in Herndon! 
Amazing winter storm 

22/17

 

[DSF]

5" of snow in West Springfield with sleet coming down pretty good on top.

[clskinsfan]

Gotta clean out my attachments. Will post more later

[Stormchaserchuck1]

Heavy sleet, 14F. I just measured 7.8" of snow/sleet. 

[Paleocene]

Unprecedented sleet avalanches falling off my roof when the wind gusts. Like waterfalls outside the windows. Better on the ground than up there though

[mitchnick]

Still getting a lot of snow mixing in. It's a day of continuous false weenie hope. Lol

[ThePhotoGuy]

 

[DSF]

The landscaping company our townhouse development hired to clear stuff out got their first truck stuck so the second hasn't been able to come in behind it.  They're slowly making progress, poor guys.

I don't think our street has been touched, and it almost doesn't look like Old Keene Mill Road (reasonably busy road during normal hours) has been plowed either.  Either that or it snowed right back over in the early morning.

[LongRanger]

up a degree to 15 with sleet, gotta wonder if the progged upper 20s are going to arrive

[jmk]

Seem to have flipped back to a very fine snow in Gainesville for the time being. 

[wxmeddler]

As I think someone previously mentioned, if you are seeing snow. That snow was formed below the melting layer (~8,000ft-ish). So sleet that you see formed above that, and flakes formed below. For you VA folks, if you stop seeing the tiny flakes, good chance you're gonna go to FZRA within a few hours.

[mikeg0305]

Parkton before the flip to sleet. I’d cal it 75/25 sleet/snow at this point.

[baltosquid]

5 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

As I think someone previously mentioned, if you are seeing snow. That snow was formed below the melting layer (~8,000ft-ish). So sleet that you see formed above that, and flakes formed below. For you VA folks, if you stop seeing the tiny flakes, good chance you're gonna go to FZRA within a few hours.

Yeah I was wondering if that was why I still see pixie dust floating down alongside the straighter falling sleet, cool!

[clskinsfan]

Just flipped to all sleet here. Enjoying being out in it. Makes shoveling tolerable.

[Solution Man]

That stuff in SW Va heading our way means business 

[aldie 22]

This is alot of sleet so far. My shoveled spots are accumulating well