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Just a quick question @Buddy1987. You having gusty winds last hour or two?

I asked the same earlier. Mine was 4.3 on 0.10. Yours is even worse, or the driest snow ever.

Wait. 4.3 of snow on 0.10 liquid???

Jiminy Christmas!! Just had a 5 minute 'gust' roll thru, 35-41 mph from WNW the entire 5 minutes. Where did that come from?!?! At 23.8/10 that made the wind chill 5 to 4 degrees. There is another starting... 32, 34 mph. Sheesh.

Only 7-8? I figured a '1' would be in front of those two numbers minimum.

Right at 12:30 pm I have 21.1/3.5 under VERY sunny skies, amazing how bright/reflective sun is off this stuff. W wind 11 gusting 28 so still a WC of 9 to 3 degrees. Forecast is 24, so I may run by that too before the day is over. OK with me, I still have a couple spots to 'clean up' where I shoveled yesterday.

Beautiful!

I had 1.85" yesterday and 1.82" this morning. Heavy stuff! Best part is unless forecast and trend changes fast it will do a S L O W trickle into the ground instead of running off in one day into the rivers and out to sea.

The mini blizzard doesn't worry me as much as the ice chunks flying off. That depends on the consistency of the snow. Fresh dry/fluff will blow off. Crusty or old snow will break off in chunks and becomes incoming projectiles!

1.8 was as cold as I got from 5 am thru 8 am, it bobbled between 1.8-2.5 during that time. Now that sun is out and winds have turned SW? I'm at 8.8/-3.0 at 9:45 am.

Yep, that is what happens 95% of the time. Sleet doesn't 'add' to OTG for a good while, it relentlessly beats whatever newly fallen snow to a pulp, reducing it by up to half depending on how fluffy (dry) or hard (wet) it was prior to the flip, and how hard/fast/heavy the sleet is falling. Once it reaches a compacted consistency, THEN sleet starts to add to the OTG totals.

Low was 1.8 degrees here, agree with @EastCoast NPZ, wind probably helped hold temp up a bit. Set a new 'cool max' for the date with the 19.0 high, old mark was 22 degrees in 1982. Nowhere near record low, that is -5 from 1987. The 1.8 with the W at 7 mph wind makes a WC of -11.

11.3/1.1 at 11:30 pm. NW wind at 7 gusting to 16 mph, WC 1 to -5.

And so, will it snow again? Will it be a HECS? Stay tuned, as those are the days of our lives.....

Inconvenient and scary as hell, but just glad you are OK.

13.8/3.0 at 6 pm here. NW wind 6 gusting to 20 mph, making WC 5 to -4. Never crossed 20 degrees after 7 am CoCoRaHS report.

I'm not sure how NWS verifies info that comes in immediately? I do know they have reached out to me 3 times in the last 2 winters to verify reports they have received near me.

I JUST got off the phone with NWS Blacksbug. They were trying to confirm what happened in this area this weekend. I gave them my totals, what was on the ground now and what types of precip I had. And WHY would they call you ask? Well, Covington CO-OP (who is notorious for reporting either low or not at all) reported 3.4 inches yesterday 0.0 today and 4 OTG this morning. So they INCREASED OTG but reported no new snow. Then Hot Springs CO-OP (which usually does a great job) reported 7.0 yesterday with 7.0 OTG, then 8.0 this morning with 8.0 OTG (I'm guessing they oopsied and put OTG for new snow too). BTW- I'm the 4.1 E Covington

Backing in.

Somehow I managed to get skipped with the freezing rain. Super, super happy about that.

I know it has been said before, but a friendly reminder that this stuff is H E A V Y. Don't overdo yourself and mess up your back or end up in ER with a possible HA. This stuff isn't going anywhere soon. To those that haven't touched the stuff yet, best to make just enough of a path or opening to get in and out for yourself (and vehicle if you wish to chance it) and work on the rest later. Few flurries in the air, wind is sadly still whipping around NNW at 10 gusting to 22 mph. Temp 17.6/9.4.

11/11 0.1 11/30 0.1 12/02 0.2 (sleet) 12/05 3.8 12/06 1.5 12/08 0.5 12/09 5.1 01/17 0.1 01/25 4.5 (mix of snow and sleet) 01/26 2.8 (95-97% sleet) Total 18.7

Storm totals here, 4.5 inches yesterday, 2.8 today for a 7.3 inch event total with 1.91 liquid. I did FOUR CoCoRaHS measurements/SWE's to get an average for the property. Bottoms of hills and low spots have 7-8 inches and the tops of hills have as little as 4. Ended up with a 5.5 average (and that is what a level spot and the undisturbed snowboard measures) on SWE of 1.85. Temp rose to a 3 am high, then down rapidly as winds turned on from W/NW. Currently 17.7/12.3 with W 12 gusting 26 wind with some flurries in the air. There are 18+" of sleet piled on ground at the bottom of the roof where the angles meet lol.

11/11 0.1 11/30 0.1 12/02 0.2 (sleet) 12/05 3.8 12/06 1.5 12/08 0.5 12/09 5.1 01/17 0.1 01/25 4.5 (mix of snow and sleet) Total 15.9

My wife got 2 pair after tearing a tendon in her foot the very FIRST TIME she went on snow/ice here after moving from California. I had her hand as we slowly crossed and said 'Now be careful, this stuff is" and she was down. Anyway, a pair stay in the house and one in the vehicle we take out now in the winter.