January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage OBS Thread!

[pazzo83]

2 minutes ago, Brianonymous said:

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

it also easily falls off non-flat surfaces (a roof, tops of cars, etc) so it piles up in those spots a ton

[RedSky]

10 minutes ago, GATECH said:

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

Use a sleet bucket

 

[pazzo83]

not sure how other folks in the DMV are doing, but DC so far seems to have done a pretty good job with its "snow team".  Every street in our neighborhood has seen a plow at least once.

[Farmboy]

29 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

There hasn't been this kind of CAD Wedge / Storm combo in this region since 2007 (Valentines Day), and even then, this dwarfs that for the depth and strength of the cold air. You'd have to find some really old timers to remember when something like this occurred. 

Not at all the same kind of storm, but I remember the "Storm of the Century" in 1993 turned into a sleetfest in south Arlington, where I was living at the time. But it was March and was much "slushier." Almost impossible to walk through on the streets.

[IUsedToHateCold]

I don't know what to call this precipitation. It's definitely sleet, but its so powdery it's weird. Heavy to shovel like sand but blows around. 

I imagine this storm is going to be studied for a long time.

And like @dailylurker I definitely see flakes mixing in when the wind blows. 

[GreyHat]

Dark red and yellow heading to Dover

[Harv_poor]

Measured about one inch of sleet since the transition. Almost 8 inches on the ground.

 

While Jan 1994 was the incredible freezing rain/ garbage cans frozen on the street, this also brings back Feb 1994 (I think) and Doug Hill saying at 6 PM everything looks good for a major snowstorm with freezing temperatures throughout above and then on the 11 PM news saying how do you measure sleet as the sleet was pounding.

[09-10 analogy]

Not quite relentless puking pingers, but right next door, since early this morning. I don't remember the rates from Valentine's Day 07, but I doubt they exceeded -- or matched -- what I've been getting this morning.

[WeatherQ]

Pure Sneet (mainly heavy sleet) 

7.5” starting to compact due to pingers 

14F/10F

30.18 in (falling)

83% RH

1/3 mile visibility 

Wind - West 3 mph 

Extreme NE MD (I can spit and hit PA/DE)

[LeesburgWx]

Not a shock but Alexandria, Loudoun, and Fairfax county schools all closed tomorrow

[T. August]

1 minute ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Is it just me or has anyone else the last couple of days been scrolling through threads and read a @WxUSAF post and scrunched your face and thought, “Wtf?”,  and then realize it’s a Grey Hat post? 

YESSSS

[Interstate]

I see the across the bay on the eastern shore it is supposed to get into the mid 30s

[Imgoinhungry]

Not a shock but Alexandria, Loudoun, and Fairfax county schools all closed tomorrow

Will be interesting to see how many days schools will cancel. Nightly lows below 10 all week. Imagine this will be a nightmare to clean up.


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[somecallmetim]

17 minutes ago, eyewall said:

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

 

As a fellow photographer, that is an extraordinary shot. 

[konksw]

17.8 degrees still. 

[Solution Man]

Gotta be closing in on 8.5 inches of sneet, ain’t going out to measure

[Eskimo Joe]

8 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

not sure how other folks in the DMV are doing, but DC so far seems to have done a pretty good job with its "snow team".  Every street in our neighborhood has seen a plow at least once.

Not having a winter for almost ten years helps.

[somecallmetim]

There's some light flurries falling amongst the sleet here in Del Ray Alexandria amidst the "dry slot".

[Brianonymous]

I'm also a FlightAware tracking station, and as far as I can tell there are only 3 airplanes flying over the entire state of maryland and delaware, lol.. Unless this stuff is good at blocking 1090mhz.

Usually there are at least 80 I can see.

[ErinInTheSky]

1.3" of sleet so far. Also, don't look now, but Nam 3km and HRR still gives us like 2.5" more sleet. If that ends up being correct I'll end up with nearly 4" of sleet.

[RickinBaltimore]

11 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

not sure how other folks in the DMV are doing, but DC so far seems to have done a pretty good job with its "snow team".  Every street in our neighborhood has seen a plow at least once.

Not in the DMV, but my street here and in the neighborhood have not been touched. 

[konksw]

2 minutes ago, somecallmetim said:

There's some light flurries falling amongst the sleet here in Del Ray Alexandria amidst the "dry slot".

Heavy stuff coming up shortly from the SW. 

[Interstate]

I am on a main road and had a plow come by once.  They have not touched the side street at the bottom of my hill. 

[CAPE]

Went outside to measure and currently there is more tiny flakes/needles falling than sleet. Can see it clearly on my navy blue jacket. Anyway 3/4" of sleet/whatever else is falling.

[Interstate]

Sleet line all the way up past Harrisburg. 

[SnowtoRain]

Just now, CAPE said:

Went outside to measure and currently there is more tiny flakes/needles falling than sleet. Can see it clearly on my navy blue jacket. Anyway 3/4" of sleet/whatever else is falling.

Yeah, I noticed when the intensity drops it turns to needles here. 

[rjvanals]

7.75” snow/sleet so far in Potomac 

The sleet actually has a tint of blue to it when its shoveled which I’ve never seen before 

[Solution Man]

This is incoming to the DMV

 

Reflectivity 

 

 

[RickinBaltimore]

Just now, rjvanals said:

7.75” snow/sleet so far in Potomac 

The sleet actually has a tint of blue to it when its shoveled which I’ve never seen before 

Reminds me of the snow in 2016. I was shoveling and there was a tint of blue in it.

[DDweatherman]

27 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

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

Aldie, isn’t that where creighton farms is? That place looks amazing.