eyespygawx Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 New statement for Georgia: Statement as of 7:02 PM EST on January 09, 2011 ... Significant weather advisory for moderate sleet across Harris... Jones... Baldwin... Pike... Monroe... Lamar... Troup... Meriwether... Spalding... heard... Butts... Hancock... Putnam... Coweta... Jasper... Fayette... Henry... Clayton... Newton... Greene... Rockdale... Douglas... Morgan... Carroll... Haralson... Walton... DeKalb... Oconee... Paulding... Polk. ..Cobb... Barrow... Gwinnett and Fulton counties until 830 PM EST... At 651 PM EST... National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a large area of moderate to occasionally briefly heavy sleet spreading northeast at 45 mph across central and into north central Georgia. The leading edge of this activity at 651 PM extended from Rome... to Atlanta... to Greensboro. Temperatures are just above freezing in these areas... but will fall to or slightly below freezing shortly after the onset of precipitation. Roads may quickly become ice covered and hazardous in areas of moderate to heavy sleet. A Winter Storm Warning remains in effect for this entire area through Monday. Stay tuned to NOAA Weather Radio or commercial radio and television for the latest information on this winter storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricanehic Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 As I posted in the **Storm Thread**, things are going like I'm reasoning it will be a nice surprize for us I'm hoping, (yeah the Weenie in Me),,,... OFF THE COAST, WESTWARD, instead of Cirrus before a "strom" I saw as the sun was setting, LIGHT CIRRUS DECK of clouds going stright into Lower "stratform"????/ Mid Level to LOW clouds to My south, (off the coast),,,,, & NW, approaching at a good clip..... I noticed some light radar returns(Viagria??), Already in Charleston, all the way to the Coast, they are setting @ temps of 37.9; Dew of 17.9... Here as I said in the Storm thread.... I expect KILM to get a nice surprise.... We are ALREADY below freezing.... setting at 31.0 and temps crashing........ Will be clear alil longer, for Raditional cooling.... Winds falling of to calm for the effect above... Our humidity went up from low 30%, now rising 48%.... Though the DEW is staying level, @ 14F Attached the History graph to let ya'll check it out,, Maybe a Lil Surprize for KLIM... At 7pm 27F and dewpoint at 9 in ilm!!! Looking good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXinCanton Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 31.9 and DP 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncjoaquin Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Yep...completely pointless IMO to use the 2-hour delay policy in this situation. Jackson County in WNC is doing the same. I was just told by someone on the inside that McDowell Schools are closed tomorrow even though their website nor any of the media outlets have yet to post it. BTW, its 28 and clouding up. Buncombe would have been closed regardless tomorrow. But, thankfully, they are not pulling the silly deal of waiting til tomorrow to close. I told my daughter that she would be out of school until next Tuesday since MLK Jr. day is Monday. My son is at UNCA and I doubt he will be so lucky. 24 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Weather Monger Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Light snow in Carrollton; I'm under a spot of heavier returns on the radar. Still 33.4 though. Nice. By the looks of radar, once saturated, the I-20 corridor looks in line for a early thumping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFDDeac Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 26.8 F 6.0 DP 19.8 WB Lewisville, NC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkabyssus Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Seems like the 18z has continued the trends for more snow at RDU. Gfs has us at about 4 inches... I'll take that in a sec. But im wondering why we are under an advisory when it seems like the models are showing getting above the 3" ( which i though was warning criteria) snow... followed by freezing rain? Anyone think RAH will upgrade ( RDU) to a warning sometime tonight ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutZero Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Mdt sleet and light snow at PTC. 33 over 8. I'll try to take a pic. Things are starting to get covered. Not much melting even with the initial light rain/sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastonwxman Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Downright dry for sure with these single digit dew point temperatures. Currently 30.6° with a 6° DP. 36% humidity value with calm winds. Thin clouds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaur Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Sleet and snow here at 32. T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wow Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 28/12 here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Charleston County schools are on a two-hour delay tomorrow. I think the other counties around Charleston will follow. One of the schools around St. George is already closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itunis Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Sleet and snow here at 32. T Good to see you getting snow already! 32 here as well, I don't want to look at the dew point because it would depress me seeing how much dry air we have to go through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckethead Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 31.9 with a dp of 11.8 currently, forecast low of 32 tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGa Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Sleet and snow here at 32. T cool! whats your dewpoint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oconeexman Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 good to hear the snow has broken through in atlanta area! 31° DP 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Other closings: City of Charleston non essential and non public safety employees report to work at 11AM, Colleton Prep closed Monday, Pinewood Prep closed Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Buncombe would have been closed regardless tomorrow. But, thankfully, they are not pulling the silly deal of waiting til tomorrow to close. I told my daughter that she would be out of school until next Tuesday since MLK Jr. day is Monday. My son is at UNCA and I doubt he will be so lucky. 24 here. Yea UNCA has a pretty stringent policy when it comes to school closings. I'm surprised they have actually cancelled classes tomorrow... they often use the "lets wait and see in the morning" approach. Last year, we only have 3 snow days total if you can believe that... however we had upwards of like 8-9 two hour delays. Ok about the leave the house here... but I'm at 24.8 degrees with a 10 degree dewpoint. Not to shabby already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugo_fran Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I think they just use the 2hr delay in this situation to buy themselves time to close it, as late as early tomorrow if need be. Yep...completely pointless IMO to use the 2-hour delay policy in this situation. Jackson County in WNC is doing the same. I was just told by someone on the inside that McDowell Schools are closed tomorrow even though their website nor any of the media outlets have yet to post it. BTW, its 28 and clouding up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherfide Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Light snow for me now,too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lookout Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Well its painstakingly slow but once it gets here, I'm expecting some ok rates.but the sleet is making it look more impressive than it is I'm sure. . The returns which *should* be reaching the ground I'm guessing will be here in 30 minutes or so. A little slower than I thought earlier but hopefully it's worth the wait. Speaking of slow, man I'm sick of the nws radars being so slow to load. It takes like 30 seconds to load a radar loop which is just absurd. Sometimes it's fine but even when things are NOT busy, they are slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyefan1 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Sleet and snow here at 32. T Congrats Tony The virga storm is about to begin for me 31.9 with a dp of 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaur Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Good to see you getting snow already! 32 here as well, I don't want to look at the dew point because it would depress me seeing how much dry air we have to go through. It didn't really take too long. I was in virga a few hours, but when the green come up it was sleet. I'm in that zran, rain, snow, sleet thing now not to heavy. Update...it is all snow now. T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaur Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 cool! whats your dewpoint? Still 2.6. Pretty good snow sticking on everything but the cement. Temp 31 T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWY316wx Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Coweta County, south west of the City of Atlanta is reporting sleet, then heavy snow then back over to sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKY_WX Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Temp here has plummeted here in relation to the airport. It's 26.9 and the airport is at 31. Dewpoint is 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Yep...completely pointless IMO to use the 2-hour delay policy in this situation. Jackson County in WNC is doing the same. I was just told by someone on the inside that McDowell Schools are closed tomorrow even though their website nor any of the media outlets have yet to post it. BTW, its 28 and clouding up. Yep Jackson County Schools are doing the same BS. Basically bad planning as far as snow days in the schedule this year, and have already had to take away from Christmas vacation, et al. I really don't understand why in the heck they don't just pad in 5-8 days at the end of the year that can be used if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob_ Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 30.6 and snow/sleet mix now, but it's starting to be more snow and less sleet. There's already a light dusting on most things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Mdt sleet and light snow at PTC. 33 over 8. I'll try to take a pic. Things are starting to get covered. Not much melting even with the initial light rain/sleet. 8 dewpoint? I didn't know that was possible. Totally not saying you're lying though at all. Just would like to know how that's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutZero Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Well its painstakingly slow but once it gets here, I'm expecting some ok rates.but the sleet is making it look more impressive than it is I'm sure. . The returns which *should* be reaching the ground I'm guessing will be here in 30 minutes or so. A little slower than I thought earlier but hopefully it's worth the wait. Speaking of slow, man I'm sick of the nws radars being so slow to load. It takes like 30 seconds to load a radar loop which is just absurd. Sometimes it's fine but even when things are NOT busy, they are slow. Yes, the NWS web farm can get killed on large scale events like this and land-falling hurricanes. The servers in Ft Worth usually handle most of the radar load for the US. Will be interesting to see some dual-pol data tonight. The ARMOR radar in Huntsville has a hydromet classification scan here... http://www.whnt.com/whnt-uah-armor,0,2121765.framedurl Snow is picking up a tad. Still "light" based on visibility but the flakes are geting bigger. Will upload a couple pics soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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