Believe it or not, I say bring it. After today let's get historical. Let's put a solid 4ft snowpack on the ground. I've never seen it and now kind of want to.
I am now. I thought when we flipped back to snow, the coastal was taking over and the upper levels were crashing. Turns out it was only temporary. Question is, do we flip back to snow or are we stuck with sleet until the end?
See. I asked the same question earlier and I got crickets. But I was also contemplating cleaning my measuring area, and thought maybe someone would give me a recommendation.
I'm in a battleground area where it doesn't fully flip, but we do at times go 80/20 sleet. We've been back and forth for a few hours now. It's just enough to probably knock off a couple to few inches from the final tally.
Back to all snow here and nearly as heavy as it was before it started mixing.
Officially, we made it to 10 degrees, but the station is currently reading 9.5
Thanks. Hopefully it crashes east soon. Still have a few big flakes falling, but mostly sleet. Someone over in the Philly thread said the sleet line was racing northward towards Scranton currently.
Now, do I clean my measuring area, or wait to see if it flips back?
Well, the snow is still mostly snow here, but I'm standing on my front porch and it's getting increasing noisy, so sleet is mixing in here as well.
Dammit. Thought I might survive without the pingers...
Guess the NAM might have gotten it right upstairs after all.
I'm not doubting your observation, but the radars that I looked at all show the mix still down by the state line, and all snow north into Pennsylvania. Usually they are pretty good at showing where the demarcation is.
Are you kidding me? Look at the moisture feed coming up from all the way down in Houston. Not to mention the fact that it's snowing all the way back out west to Missouri.
Every one of the them but the NAM seem to be holding at 15-17 inches here, but...the caveat is that I'm probably farther northeast from any potential mixing. Not saying it can't, or won't, happen, but I suppose it's less likely here.
Looking at the historical graph from my weather station, temp held steady at 11 degrees until 3:05am when it started a decline to the current 8.1 degrees. I figure that's probably when it started here in my backyard.