heavy_wx Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 The transition to sleet here in southern MoCo lines up pretty well with the low RhoHV and high reflectivity on the 4-degree PPI scan from LWX. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyHat Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 19F Humidity 95 ENE 15 Snowing bigger flakes and drifting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arlingtonforest Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 6 inches in Arlington, sleet, and a little rain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetbulbs88 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Flipped to sleet about 20 minutes ago. Let's see how far 3:1 can get us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balltermen Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 5 minutes ago, Scraff said: Can someone eyeball measure this for me. I can’t reach it from my couch. 5.8" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 4 minutes ago, Scraff said: Can someone eyeball measure this for me. I can’t reach it from my couch. Just hold up your beer can, eyeball the relative height of the snow out there on the deck against the can, and there ya go!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katabatic Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Damn Davis, WV reported 13.8" at 7 AM. Might have to do a little drive out that way. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 The 6" drought here lives on. Unreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csnavywx Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 15 minutes ago, Terpeast said: I think the snow im getting is grown UNDER the warm nose. Very strong cold CAD. Tiny flakes, poor growth, but still sn nevertheless Yep. I'm getting primarily needles, which would match up with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Just finished shoveling my snow stick got corrupted by my dog but about 6.5" but im sleet/snowing for awhile now. I thought that finger coming up from my sw might hurt and it did. Still really wintry out 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T. August Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 @CAPE you sleet yet? I wanna know what this massive blob of yellow will do lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Right at 5 inches in Fallston at 8:15 am - wasn’t expecting some of the gusts - at times blowing out here enough to really reduce visibility - racing to try and get 6 or more before the flip to sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 4 minutes ago, stormtracker said: NAM thermals are deadly. 2 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said: This is the last time the forum underestimates NAM thermals... until the next marginal event. Seems wrong calling this a "marginal event" when the temperature is in the teens. Fortunately, at least, the NAM was not correct in terms of QPF it appears. But yeah, there was no way the mid-level thermals were going to hold on in our area through the entire morning (though my hope of hopes was that we'd luck out through 18Z!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poprock49 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Kinda hard to classify the intensity of sleet, but I’d say this is mod-heavy. Don’t mind it actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinInTheSky Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Snow is HOLDING ON in Gaithersburg. I see that SN/Sleet line in Bethesda. You better STAY over there hahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 6 minutes ago, SnowtoRain said: Mostly sleet in Easton now. 4.5" of snow. After that band it lightened up, in a lull now. Looks like just a bit of sleet falling now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentTalkie Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Outages starting to show up in SW Virginia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GramaxRefugee Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 5.0" at 8:00, all snow 16f 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baltosquid Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Snowflakes falling less sideways now as they get heavier (as in weight) and bigger. It is also heavier rate wise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 6 minutes ago, osfan24 said: Seeing bigger flakes now. Probably a bad sign. We're in a little subsidence area looks like based on radar. Snow sounds icy against the window. Might go back and forth like the NoVA folks are getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 2 minutes ago, T. August said: @CAPE you sleet yet? I wanna know what this massive blob of yellow will do lol. Just went from moderate snow to not much of anything, but what is falling is sleet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scraff Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 3 minutes ago, Scarlet Pimpernel said: Just hold up your beer can, eyeball the relative height of the snow out there on the deck against the can, and there ya go!!! I figured it out. It’s a 16oz can. So 6.1” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Lots of MD traffic cams here https://chart.maryland.gov/InteractiveMap/GetInteractiveMap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Been a while (maybe never) when it is sleeting so hard (again, a few mangled flakes) that vis is .2-.5 mile. Temp finally budged up a hair after falling over 16 hours, currently 11.3/8.1 at 8:20 am. A solid .5 to .7 of new sleet/mix in 75 minutes! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 4 minutes ago, aldie 22 said: Just finished shoveling my snow stick got corrupted by my dog but about 6.5" but im sleet/snowing for awhile now. I thought that finger coming up from my sw might hurt and it did. Still really wintry out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kleimax Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Flake size starting to increase. Started Jebwalk around 7:50 mostly just icy little flakes, they’re starting to get a little fluffier now. Wind is def gusting and the snow is drifting a bit. Deep winter out there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowman. Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Big dendrites all snow in Sterling still holding on for now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 As much as I REALLY wish this could have been all or mostly snow, I don't totally mind experiencing what may be a veritable sleet bomb. In 2007, for the Valentine's Day storm when I was in the Capitol Hill area of DC, we got 3" of sleet. No snow at all. But that was a relatively warmer storm (I think it went just above freezing for a short time after the sleet before temps plummeted, and it didn't start as cold as this one). This event will be very cold throughout. I hear people talking about sleet bombs from 2017 or 2018 (??) but I don't recall that, maybe closer to the metro areas it wasn't much of anything compared to other locations. I do remember we were expected to get a ton of sleet in 2021-ish?? Ended up with an inch maybe that was over before noon, kind of a bust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 2 minutes ago, Scraff said: I figured it out. It’s a 16oz can. So 6.1” Might be the alcohol content, too!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 @T. August You can see a line on radar moving north. When that passed over me snow ended and a bit of sleet falling now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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