January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage OBS Thread!

[ErinInTheSky]

1.2” sleet total now. On top of 6” snow. Gaithersburg.

Sleet rates slowed but picked up again. The whole plowed area is now white with sleet pellets.

[Maestrobjwa]

3 minutes ago, Steckstacks said:

Nam needs to not go into retirement lol


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Or just keep the thermal part and throw the rest out, lol

[Solution Man]

17F, fighting sun angle

[dailylurker]

Wind blowing hard from the north and it almost looks like it's trying to mix with snow.

[mitchnick]

1 minute ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Or just keep the thermal part and throw the rest out, lol

Nah...keep the Nam nest and shoot the mother hen!

[LongRanger]

no HowCow plows in the hoods west of BWI yet, which is just as well since clearing roads now would only expose them to the ice to come

[North Balti Zen]

This is one for the memory books - this kind of sleet falling in these temps on half a foot of snow.  What a stunning storm. So damn glad not dancing with the dry slot.

[aldie 22]

Im out for a walk this stuff stings! Getting deep...it all counts!

[Wetbulbs88]

This is by far the best sleetstorm I've ever experienced. Way better than 2017 NYC, and not just because that was a busted mega-HECS. 

The rates are almost better than the snow from this morning. Absolutely dumping. 

[GATECH]

5.0 of snow sleet.  Snow board is useless, everything just bounces off!

[pazzo83]

as someone who remembers the several inches of sleet we got in PD2 in C'ville - this shit is not gonna melt for a long time.  So that is the one plus side of sleet.  The water content is much higher than snow lol.

[eyewall]

The scene this morning from Herndon (had to get LAANC clearance)

[LongRanger]

DCA avoids the bounce problem by plugging in their snow board

[Imgoinhungry]

Sleet up to Harrisburg per the Central PA forum. Didn't think that would happen.  Nam humiliated all the globals, and probably some mesos too.

Think im just looking at the euro a few days out and then the nam in the 24 hours up to onset. Ignoring everything else.


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[aldie 22]

I walked up to our clubhouse...too bad the hot tub isn't open yet 

[RandyHolt]

1 hour ago, adelphi_sky said:

Me and my neighbors have not started yet. I have a snow blower. Will go out after coffee. Still sleeting. I can't imagine the crust if we get freezing rain in the teens. 

I think an auger style would chop it right up vs a brushless but report back!  I am still surprised how heavy the first 5" were and at the drifting before the sleet took over. This is an impressive amount of sleet.  The trails i carved out for the tyke to sled are all but gone. 

[Paleocene]

Four hours of dumping sleet in Silver Spring. Pretty unbelievable 

[wxdude64]

1 hour ago, wxdude64 said:

And looks like I'm headed for that dry slot in about 45 minutes or so. If it hits I'll measure. Currently 12.0/9.0 with sleet still falling.

So measured right at noon, 1.5 inches of new sleet. We had a small 20 minute break where we went back to a snizzle, but the sleet with some snow grains mixed in has returned. Currently 13.3/9.9 at noon. The snow still being compacted by the sleet, 5.0 currently OTG and untouched snowboard. 

[EB89]

Sleet will now be known as sparkle balls per my 5 year old. 
 

rates are crazy. 

[H2O]

1 minute ago, GATECH said:

5.0 of snow sleet.  Snow board is useless, everything just bounces off!

I had 5” at the flip and it’s been pouring sleet but really hard to get a measurement since. 
 

It’s like sugar or fine sand poured over everything

[BlizzardNole]

5 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

This is one for the memory books - this kind of sleet falling in these temps on half a foot of snow.  What a stunning storm. So damn glad not dancing with the dry slot.

So glad the Baltimore region finally got a big storm after 10 years!  I know it's a Nina, but here's to a good old fashioned GulfMex baby coming up the coast as the cold pattern relaxes.

Sleet dust (thanks to BobChill for the new p-type term ) and 18 degrees

[H2O]

So that’s the timeline for precip now?  

[CAPE]

13 minutes ago, mattie g said:

I walked outside like 10 minutes ago and there f’ing CHUNKS of sleet coming with diminished visibility.

I’m guessing that there are small flakes/needles in there, which is bringing the viz down and helping with accumulation just a bit.

Same thing happening here. After a lull earlier its been sleeting hard and definitely some needles mixed in. Visibility almost as low as it was earlier when it was all snow.

[snowfan]

We still have 6-8 hours of this? Geesh

[pazzo83]

2 minutes ago, H2O said:

I had 5” at the flip and it’s been pouring sleet but really hard to get a measurement since. 
 

It’s like sugar or fine sand poured over everything

it almost kind of feels like man-made snow at a ski resort

[Nomz]

Just now, pazzo83 said:

it almost kind of feels like man-made snow at a ski resort

Ends up as the same mashed potatoes too

[Brianonymous]

I dont even know how to measure this stuff. Some places its 1/2"... some places maybe 5? 6?

[GreyHat]

23F

Pressure dropping 29.83

Heavy sleet with snow mixed 

[Wetbulbs88]

4 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

it almost kind of feels like man-made snow at a ski resort

Very apt. This is exactly what it's like. 

[Maestrobjwa]

10 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

This is one for the memory books - this kind of sleet falling in these temps on half a foot of snow.  What a stunning storm. So damn glad not dancing with the dry slot.

Or on the northern fringe of precip while 90% of the forum cashes in, lol