The 4 Seasons

We are probably up to 1/3 now id say, things are looking worse, trees sagging pretty good.

Looks like they got a nice solid base up there.

Latest CT totals updated, still ongoing.

First of all i don't want people to have property damage or harm to anyone on this forum or out there in the real world. But what i want or wish or not wish to happen doesn't change anything we all know this. Snow storms cause millions of dollars in damage, loss of life and property etc but i think we can all agree that we want snow, big snow, recording breaking KUs. So what's the difference? What's the difference between that and ice storms? It's winter weather and it looks "wintry." We're all here because we love extreme weather, record highs, record lows, tornadoes, snow storms, wind, squalls whatever. All of those cause damage and loss life, it's just a fact. To me ice storms are no different. It's wintry outside, it's not plain boring rain that i would otherwise forget even happened. Trees are crackling, roads are icy, the grass looks like frozen death spikes and most importantly this will go down in the record books and its something to watch and measure. If it's not going to snow i'd rather have ZR then PL. That's just my opinion/perspective on things. Today was one of those days when you used to watch the weather channel back in the day and it said "Wintry Mix" with that animated graphic icon. We got snow and sleet, then zr then back to sleet then back to zr, mixed both of them again, then all zr. It was a wintry day no doubt. Oddly temperatures rising again. Back up to 31F and freezing rain.

steady ZR for the past few hours .

Here we go, HVN back to 0C and accumulating ice again. Still around 28F and freezing rain here. MMK at 30 with ZR

If we're only going to get less than a half an inch of snow might as well have some destruction with freezing rain. Looks wintry out there at least. Still better than plain rain.... I want to get to 0.5" of ice ice baby

Light freezing rain. 28F. Let's bring down some trees baby.

pretty easy to rotate on a phone or Windows 10

doesn't look like the flip back to snow even for northern ct is happening shortly, should be another couple hours at least of mixed pcp

well all the shore stations went to +1 so they are done and they had the most. Inland areas were around .2 - .3 so well probably catch up to the shoreline numbers that are around .3-.4

Temps starting to fall around here. 29-31F around North Haven. Still Freezing Rain.

Put a ruler up to it. Go outside

if you measure it exactly ill put it in the map here's how if you don't know already. https://www.weather.gov/rnk/Measure_Icing

Everyone pretty much underestimated the freezing rain right along the shore this time. I went up to .20 but that was still too low. All shoreline stations went above 0C now though so the freezing rain is over for them. I should have just extended the .2-.4 to the shore and i was seriously debating it but at the end held off.

This is why i tell all my friends, family, whoever that it doesnt matter if you have 4wd or you have a car thats great in the snow or how careful or slow you drive, its about the OTHER person. All it takes is someone driving a car they shouldn't or too fast and all of sudden you are waiting hours to file a police report, damage to your car, getting it fixed all the hassle and thats not considering a risk to life or injury.

Milford, MA right? i was thinking CT for a minute there.

I would think main roads and highways are just wet with all the solution/salt down. Back roads, untreated roads, overpasses, side walks, driveways all a sheet of ice around here

Freezing Rain. 30F. 0.25" new ice. Heres an updated map for visual, numbers will go up a bit.

Totals per Ryans twitter Widespread 02.-0.4..HVN up to 1C now KHVN 171853Z 02009KT 10SM OVC013 01/M01 A2968 RMK AO2 UPE10B26E46 SLP051 P0000 T00061006

Thank you. Here is a good link, it does about the same job as texas A&M site but its a gov site https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar

yes, sorry, i just figured that out. Didn't notice it was an "i" Can you provide a good link for metars so i can take a look at them around CT?

This was really bad last year, a lot worse than this. I didn't get any reports from you on ice so i guess you escaped this scott free.

Ryan has been posting on Twitter continual updates of ZR accumulation at KHVN. Does anyone know how to get updated ice accretion at the airport ASOS stations? The PNS statements are old, from 9:29AM

Obviously the Snow/Mix line is not accurate but here is the current radar from wxtap, dual pole for mix line