January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage OBS Thread!

[winter_warlock]

10 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Are you measuring to the individual diameter of a sleet grain?? How are you getting the ten-thousandth place!?! lol

Ten-thousandths???  ..Well if you must know.. I'm now using my 48 inch ruler from work.. alot more precise  .1875 is 3/16th lol it's not that precise . It's just when I report to skywarn I use decimals not 16th of an inch

[WEATHER53]

I got some kind  of shimmering stuff slowly sifting  down amidst the sleet  

[TSG]

Ice accreting quickly in Charlottesville... ready for the back end now

[davidjd1114]

About 7 inches in York with light sleet


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[Another Field]

Temperature down to 21.4° from 24.3° at 17:09 in Baltimore Metro. Down nearly 3° in 45 minutes.

[nj2va]

@H2O Got up to 28.6 but dropping now.  28.2.

About 50/50 sleet/freezing rain.

[nw baltimore wx]

3 minutes ago, winter_warlock said:

Ten-thousandths???  ..Well if you must know.. I'm now using my 48 inch ruler from work.. alot more precise  .1875 is 3/16th lol it's not that precise . It's just when I report to skywarn I use decimals not 16th of an inch

I think that they only record to the tenth.

[wxmeddler]

About 50/50 ZR/IP here now. Good thing the back end approaches.

[EHoffman]

Basically all ZR here now.  

[winter_warlock]

Just now, nw baltimore wx said:

I think that they only record to the tenth.

Well I give them to the 16th but they round it off too the tenth.   Like if I give them 10.1875. They will put it down as 10.2

[DanTheMan]

A mix of sleet and Freezing Rain now. Things have a light glaze. Up to 21

[ChillinIt]

4 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

That would be awesome. That’s when I’m planning to tackle the glacier.

post  pic please........

[BlizzardNole]

I measured 6.5 snow and 3.5 sleet which aligns perfectly with official reports of 10.8 from Clarksburg and 9.2 from Germantown on either side of my spot.

 

[jayyy]

Oh sure NOW the coastal low takes over to beat down north/northeast of here lol But hey, still a great snow day even with the oddity...to add to a DEEP winter week on tap!

Yeah man, I’m super jealous of my peeps up north. This is turning into a classic for them with HOURS to go

[Amped]

Just took a walk and this crap is easily as bad as 15" of snow. Dense and slippery, like walking on a pile of dead fish but without the smell luckily.

[ErinInTheSky]

I don't know how most people will get places tomorrow. I just measured the sleet in the back and front of our townhome complex and lol... All of the sidewalks and parking lot coming out of people's garages are under 1.5' of sleet because it has all just flowed from the roof.

 

Also, Gaithersburg right now and I am sitting at 3.6" of sleet on top of 6" of snow measured earlier. Just 0.4" to break double digits, don't know if I'll do it.

[nw baltimore wx]

Just now, ChillinIt said:

post  pic please........

Of the glacier or the ambulance?

[bncho]

Thanks for 23”, TWC!

[stormtracker]

5 minutes ago, EHoffman said:

Basically all ZR here now.  

Back end needs to do the typical DC thing and fly threw

[GATECH]

28.6….glaze getting serious.  At least .1”.  Hard to measure…have a metal railing where I usually measure…down several steps….don’t want to break my neck.

[GreyHat]

32F

Pressure still dropping 29.53

Winds NE 3

Freezing rain  .17 and still coming down

Looks pretty in the street lights but don't know how many trees or limbs will come down.

[EHoffman]

Must be nice to be a Bostonite.  Your team back to the Super Bowl and 20 inches of snow.  Wonder what that's like.

[NovaWahoo]

8" (at least). 4" of snow, 4" of sleet about 1 1/2 hours ago. Sleeting. 18.

[Cobalt]

1 minute ago, EHoffman said:

Must be nice to be a Bostonite.  Your team back to the Super Bowl and 20 inches of snow.  Wonder what that's like.

2015 all over again.

[RickinBaltimore]

4 minutes ago, bncho said:

Thanks for 23”, TWC!

And a 5% chance at another 12+!!

[Maestrobjwa]

3 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Back end needs to do the typical DC thing and fly threw

Threw? DC people don't say threw for through! That's a Baltimore thing!

[H2O]

12 minutes ago, nj2va said:

@H2O Got up to 28.6 but dropping now.  28.2.

About 50/50 sleet/freezing rain.

Spike to 28.5, then my ex station stopped reporting, came back, now it says 27.7 so maybe that’s the max

[Ephesians2]

Moderate/heavy sleet with temps at 23 degrees in Lynchburg, VA. Had a period of ZR with lighter rates, but really only a glaze of ice. Not much precip left. Central/Southern VA as well as the NC Piedmont seem to really have dodged a bullet. 

[Bob Chill]

A bit surprising I'm going to finish with no zr with the east part of the DMV getting some ice rn. Still pinging but should be a wrap by 7pm. Outside reminds me of an old chest freezer that hasn't been defrosted in a decade lol. 

[H2O]

5 minutes ago, GATECH said:

28.6….glaze getting serious.  At least .1”.  Hard to measure…have a metal railing where I usually measure…down several steps….don’t want to break my neck.

Part of me wants to go shovel the sleet that fell before it went to zr but not sure I want to cause it might make it stupid slippery