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Sleet it will report UP which is unknown precip, because it doesn't understand sleet.

I believe it was officially broken.

Thankfully my office we have a pretty good relationship with the tower. If anything I am usually having to call to get vis updated etc. As for automation they expected that to happen 20 years ago. ASOS can't even report PL correctly, doesn't do lightning even remotely right, can't see extremes like tornadoes, or significant clouds. AI is obviously coming but AI can't do a lot of things.

5 was the lowest so far today, we have had a bit of snow flurries and clouds.

FAA should have never taken over any of this, it is a conflict of interest. If they control the weather observations they can put out whatever they want which would keep planes flying in adverse weather. It is always a concern about the positions getting eliminated but thankfully congress on both sides realizes the importance of contract weather observers and we are a small portion of the FAA budget to begin with. The value of information we produce is very high for the cost. As for snow measuring, I would love to do it here at DTW but as you all have seen from posts in the past, my office is on top of the terminal and 70 feet in the air. It is impossible to measure snow up here with no protected grass. We had done it in the past before we moved into the Evans (North) terminal in 2010.

Got down to 6 here this morning, got a few nights below zero coming up.

Yeah let's bitch about a lack of a Detroit storm from Florida when he could go anywhere

I mean you are complaining from Florida about something you aren't experiencing most of the time. It would be like me complaining about the heat and humidity in Miami.

So you complain from somewhere else about missing snow that you wouldn't see unless it was a major snowstorm? You are ridiculous.

The observers here don't measure snow at DTW, so I am in the dark on this one. We haven't measured since 2010.

Tons of thundersnow reports in KS and starting to show up in Missouri. Good luck to those who are cashing in today.

Okay you are just irrational and also this isn't the thread to keep the complaining going, move it elsewhere.

Yeah don't look at it at least until Tuesday.

RAP is a very coarse model, I wouldn't use it

Not really no.

Yeah that PV lobe is really screwing everyone over.

Yeah he needs to stop making the thread about himself, and move that shit to another thread, like the complaint thread for example.

Dude the GHD blizzard was a panhandle storm, so was the Blizzard of 99 and 78. What are we even doing here..

Yes the winters have sucked but the northern suburbs have seen more snow in the period. Nothing to sugarcoat just stating the facts.

Texas lows are our favored track for snowstorms here, so no it isn't 'at best a mix'. Colorado lows are more favored to track to our west.

As he should

Good, with the recent rains and warm temps the grass in my neighborhood greened back up. I wouldn't want below zero temps, that's the kind of stuff that kills plants.

Yeah that's the problem, it is just moving straight east

We have to hope for the typical Feb boost we have had in the last 20 years, because if that doesn't happen this could be a top 10 dud for many in the region.

Everything went south, the problem I am seeing is the strength of the system is much weaker too, narrowing the band of snow as well. That to me is the bigger issue than the shifts.