DaculaWeather Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 There is literally almost white out conditions here with a combination of blowing sleet, frozen mist and frozen drizzle. It's coming down in sheets and is piling up quick. I said it before but I will again, I've never seen anything quite like this. It honestly feels and looks like a blizzard out there with winds gusting to 30mph, white out like conditions, and this stuff coming down in sheets and hitting you like a sand blaster. Also, athens, atlanta, and gainesville are all reporting light snow. I wonder if they are getting this stuff and calling it snow? Because i'd be surprised if it was snowing in athens and atlanta with 850s of plus 2. Hell it's so heavy now there really isn't much difference between it and "real snow". Athens is reporting ice fog too. What an awesome weather day lol radar is looking better and better for north ga too. Hopefully the threat for additional freezing precip is lessoning given the current conditions. Chris, i agree, they "think" they see snow, but here it's light sleet and freezing drizzle. It's no different than when we get non-frozen CAD's, cloudy, windy drizzle and light rain. But it is really cool when it comes down hard. The first two big bands hit me good and it looks like another one is forming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkman Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Can someone explain to me the 12 inch totals I keep seeing for western NC? They basically look like they are out of the storm already.. I just don't see 12 inches or even 6 inches covering them I would like to direct your attention to the weenie freak out thread. We all have to go in there from time to time, it's ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLweather Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Anybody know where the options for the COD radar is at for the correlation coeff?? Would like to use it to determine the 0c 850 line.. but everytime I look it takes it back to regular radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raysum Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaur Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 CMan, if your looking....I finally got cold enough in the column for some light sleet...I wouldn't quite call it a dusting, but it tried in two batches. In a hole again now. So it's working that way finally. T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgertime Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Just need it about 30 miles to my east. I'm stuck with sleet now but snow is mixing in. Hopefully somehow I can slide into the heavy snow zone but I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltadog03 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Good Stuff Chris, sounds like you got everything today...hahha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGa Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Good deal. thanks. Oh it's going to last until dark it would seem. It's moving pretty slow..nothing like last night/this morning. I wouldn't think you are either based on the spc meso page/rap. You would be happy if you saw the radar, especially the southeast view/precip type radar. It's quite impressive. Now tell me you aren't one of the great unwashed and don't know the difference between frozen and freezing precipitation I want snow, not ice. Plus I don't want to lose power and I have just enough ice on the trees to make it really pretty with the snow. Whatever this stuff is, it's accumulating at about 0.25 to 0.50 per hour here. I'll walk outside and my footprint will be filled up in an hour. But i'm on the eastern fringe of that precip to the west and although I would suspect it would pivot east, it's doing it pretty slow which worries me a bit that it will move by to the north and not get much of it. lol the "something" was said sort of in jest hoping the sleet flips back to heavy snow....obviously i would love to get pounded by 1" per hour snow, but being realistic in ga this raging winter storm is pretty sweet at this point ....although i do agree about power of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Good deal. thanks. Oh it's going to last until dark it would seem. It's moving pretty slow..nothing like last night/this morning. I wouldn't think you are either based on the spc meso page/rap. You would be happy if you saw the radar, especially the southeast view/precip type radar. It's quite impressive. Now tell me you aren't one of the great unwashed and don't know the difference between frozen and freezing precipitation I want snow, not ice. Plus I don't want to lose power and I have just enough ice on the trees to make it really pretty with the snow. Whatever this stuff is, it's accumulating at about 0.25 to 0.50 per hour here. I'll walk outside and my footprint will be filled up in an hour. But i'm on the eastern fringe of that precip to the west and although I would suspect it would pivot east, it's doing it pretty slow which worries me a bit that it will move by to the north and not get much of it. Lookout, I guarantee you that what I'm getting in Dunwoody is pure bouncy sleet (small size but a lot of it with a great sound making it add up to 1/2" per hour) and not snow at all. Now, from a distance, it may look like dry, powdery snow. That may be causing some confusion as it normally doesn't snow with +2 850's. That having been said, the 12Z GFS/Euro have the 0C line reaching the northern ATL burbs at ~6 PM. So, I'm expecting a changeover from IP to snow here in Dunwoody around 6 PM or soon after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow haven Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Looks like pretty good wrap around moisture for tomorrow!! 2-4" more on top of this ice whew!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxBlue Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Today didn't look hot for Western NC to start of the event, but NWS GSP and WPC raised the totals anyway because the radar look really promising from Georgia/Alabama for us. NWS GSP is going with 6-12 inches (highest in last 3 days) and WPC is going with 10-12 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winterhawk Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 There is literally almost white out conditions here with a combination of blowing sleet, frozen mist and frozen drizzle. It's coming down in sheets and is piling up quick. I said it before but I will again, I've never seen anything quite like this. It honestly feels and looks like a blizzard out there with winds gusting to 30mph, white out like conditions, and this stuff coming down in sheets and hitting you like a sand blaster. Also, athens, atlanta, and gainesville are all reporting light snow. I wonder if they are getting this stuff and calling it snow? Because i'd be surprised if it was snowing in athens and atlanta with 850s of plus 2. Hell it's so heavy now there really isn't much difference between it and "real snow". Athens is reporting ice fog too. What an awesome weather day lol radar is looking better and better for north ga too. Hopefully the threat for additional freezing precip is lessoning given the current conditions. I'm about 20 miles SW of Gainesville, we still have sleet not snow. Probably like somebody else said it's an excited person not knowing what the heck they're looking at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 WPC has a pretty inland track, comma head wrap around snow as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguy3107 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 lol the "something" was said sort of in jest hoping the sleet flips back to heavy snow....obviously i would love to get pounded by 1" per hour snow, but being realistic in ga this raging winter storm is pretty sweet at this point ....although i do agree about power of course. It looks like we may luck out on the deformation band setting up back in Mississippi.......it seems to be moving straight east ATTM.....if it starts lifting north than it would only clip us, but it looks like we'll get into it later on tonight. From a snow standpoint, that'll save the storm for us.....it's been pretty nice so far actually, but when I heard the term "biblical" yesterday, well you know. I'd love to know exactly where the sleet/snow line is right now.....has to be oh so close.....the SPCs mesoanalysis page has the 850 freezing line literally on top of where I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaur Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I'm starting to do the cringing duck and cover every few minutes now, as the ice weight starts to fire the cannons. Glad for two things.....the inch of rain this morning didn't freeze, and now it's cold enough to sleet. Dodging a big bullet, though I've lost at least one fir tree, and the night won't be fun, even if it snows, with this wind wearing down the will of the poor limbs. Looks about 1/3rd on the tippy tops now. T Edit: Dang, that's not good. Just started up some heavier zr. That'll pile up quick. The earlier rain spells were dripping off, but this stuff, is liquid sticky now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovingGulfLows Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 HRRR wants to set up a sharp gradient in the ATL from the NW to SE. Snow totals as high as 8 in the NW to trace - 1 inch SE counties. Yikes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpStateCAD Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 sleeting like a mother here in the upstate right now......if this were snow I don't think I could see the cars in the drive way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No snow for you Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 sleeting like a mother here in the upstate right now......if this were snow I don't think I could see the cars in the drive way. You are right about that. This is part of the transition, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguy3107 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 sleeting like a mother here in the upstate right now......if this were snow I don't think I could see the cars in the drive way. Friendly reminder to keep these kind of things over in the observation thread so others can read what you're reporting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Thoughts on how this is lining up with the modeling?(Time sensitive) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packbacker Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Latest RAP has the SLP officially over HAT at 10am tomorrow. It's been ticking east on every run and it's still 18 hours from being over HAT, I guess it could shift back west though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 HRRR wants to set up a sharp gradient in the ATL from the NW to SE. Snow totals as high as 8 in the NW to trace - 1 inch SE counties. Yikes... Compared to the much more reliable Euro and even the GFS, that 8" of snow on this HRRR run to the NW of ATL seems way overdone...say by a factor of 2:1. ~4" would look much more reasonable to me. I wonder if this map assumes 10:1 for IP and ZR, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Latest RAP has the SLP officially over HAT at 10am tomorrow. It's been ticking east on every run and it's still 18 hours from being over HAT, I guess it could shift back west though. That is interesting. Remember when it was driving the low nearly up I-95 this mid-morning? LOL. Its NW bias in the LR is serious business, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amos83 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Brad P just tweeted this... If accurate that would be some intense rates of snow/sleet setting up along the 85 corridor http://twitpic.com/dvbhjx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullCityWx Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Bufkit went nuts with the deform band in CLT and drops 9" tomorrow morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 So what happens if the low goes off the coast instead of being more inland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a5ehren Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 HRRR wants to set up a sharp gradient in the ATL from the NW to SE. Snow totals as high as 8 in the NW to trace - 1 inch SE counties. Yikes... That's a serious thumping for the GA-400 corridor. I'll take 6" in Dunwoody, though...(not actually expecting it, though ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowDeac Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Can someone post the HRRR for the Carolinas? I may have missed it, but am having trouble getting it to load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven_1974 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 So what happens if the low goes off the coast instead of being more inland? I would think that means it may spare us Triangle folks from getting any worse than sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amos83 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Bufkit went nuts with the deform band in CLT and drops 9" tomorrow morning. QC if that is even close this would be a sight... Brad P tweeted a few minutes ago about the 700mb VV setting up right along 85 this evening so I can see it happening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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