I wasn’t able to fix my snowblower yet so I’ll be shoveling 12-2am.
Happy New Year to me.
Part of me is cheering on a fail now. Pushing 2” on this ice will go relatively quickly.
I’m not. leading edge sleet in these situations happens quite a bit when midlevels are moistening up and still somewhat cold. It even happens with 2m temps over 40° sometimes.
18z NAM was more marginal here a couple hours earlier than previous runs. GFS is still cold through 5-6z. I may actually get out there and clear the snow after midnight since I’ll be up anyway. I don’t feel like shoveling glop at 6am.
I wonder if the coldest high temp for a winter ever occurred in November. My 13F on 11/22 may be tough to beat if we start punting the chance for any high end cold through much of January.