Disc Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 One thing I've noticed is the snow doesn't look very wet at all and the flakes are VERY fine. I was expecting more of the larger, wet-type flakes with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 James and Burns about to get woken up. That band is going to be LOUD on the windows! I'm never in bed this early. 3:00am is my usual time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarheelwx Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Temp back up to 31 now. Hmmmmmm.Down to 30.4 her in Colfax. My lowest yet. TW 30.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Some of these sleet pellets are really big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvegas-wx Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Holy crap!!! Heavy snow!! U aint seen nothin yet. When that death band comes through look out! Looks like you may stay in the heavy snow for an extended period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 All I have is the usual, elevated surfaces and tree branches freezing. Ground and any pavement just wet, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_WX10 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 U aint seen nothin yet. When that death band comes through look out! Looks like you may stay in the heavy snow for an extended period. I'm hoping I will. How long for that band to get to me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvegas-wx Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I'm hoping I will. How long for that band to get to me? 15-20 maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 It almost looks like snow is mixing in, but that almost can't be right. It's probably just huge ice pellets. Quite large and falling a little slower than the rest, though. Rates have mostly been moderate here so far. EDIT: Well, now it's picking up some. EDIT: Seriously, some on in the GSO area look. I swear that looks like snow flakes mixed in, but I don't see how temperatures support this? I might be hallucinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disc Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0174 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1137 PM CST THU MAR 06 2014 AREAS AFFECTED...SRN VA...CNTRL NC CONCERNING...FREEZING RAIN VALID 070537Z - 070930Z SUMMARY...POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN SHOULD CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF SRN VA AND CNTRL NC INTO THE EARLY MORNING. FREEZING RAIN RATES OF UP TO A TENTH OF AN INCH PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE. A CHANGEOVER TO ALL RAIN MAY OCCUR IN SOME AREAS WITHIN THE MCD AREA. DISCUSSION...LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A DRY SLOT IN SRN GA AND SRN SC WITH A LARGE EXPANSE OF PRECIPITATION EXTENDING FROM THE SRN APPALACHIANS EWD ACROSS SRN VA...NC AND NRN SC. THIS PRECIPITATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A ZONE OF STRONG WARM ADVECTION AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NWD THROUGH DAYBREAK. SFC TEMPS IN SRN VA AND CNTRL NC ARE NEAR FREEZING WITH FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOWING A SUBSTANTIAL WARM LAYER FROM 900 TO 800 MB. THIS SHOULD FAVOR FREEZING RAIN WHERE SFC TEMPS REMAIN AT OR BELOW 32 F EARLY THIS MORNING. FREEZING RAIN RATES OF UP TO A TENTH OF AN INCH PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE. AS SFC TEMPS INCREASE TO ABOVE FREEZING IN PARTS OF THE MCD AREA OVER THE NEXT 2 TO 4 HOURS... A CHANGEOVER TO RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED. ..BROYLES.. 03/07/2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_WX10 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 15-20 maybe? Thats what I was thinking. I'll try to get some video. Hoping for maybe a little thundersnow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarheelwx Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Ok. Got out of the bed and looked and unquestionably snow mixing in in Colfax near GSO. TW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Ok thanks. Would you think it be possible for the column to start cooling more switch back to snow since the greastest warm bubble according to spc is on the retreat? Still alot of mixing with sleet. The flakes are getting bigger slowly. Standing out side you can feel the heavy rates do the job of dragging down colder air through the warm layer. Each burst it seems like it gets colder. Definitely more snow and the temp here is down to 28.9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLweather Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 It almost looks like snow is mixing in, but that almost can't be right. It's probably just huge ice pellets. Quite large and falling a little slower than the rest, though. Rates have mostly been moderate here so far. EDIT: Well, now it's picking up some. EDIT: Seriously, some on in the GSO area look. I swear that looks like snow flakes mixed in, but I don't see how temperatures support this? It be snow flakes It is 50/50 mix of sleet and actual flakes here and doing what you said. They're falling slower than the sleet. Its cooling off the 850 temp level underneath that band for actual flakes to reach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 We had thundersnow here just about 20 minutes ago. It is absolutely pounding out there. Covered the roads in about 5 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvegas-wx Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Ok, dragged me out of bed too. 50% IP and 50% snow. IP is the size of diamonds or pebbles. Seriously the biggest i have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_hailstorm Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Heavy rain/some freezing rain. 31.8 Trees are bending slightly.Thank god it isn't colder of it would be horrific out there by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLweather Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 We had thundersnow here just about 20 minutes ago. It is absolutely pounding out there. Covered the roads in about 5 minutes. That ULL is closed off. So you're probably under its influence aloft. Hopefully that will keep the band going through the middle of the state and help cool off the atmosphere to mix out this sleet into a heavy wet paste snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Cool, thanks. Maybe we do have a fighting chance at changing over to snow tonight, as RAH said. Cool. They mentioned the main threat being under the mid-level deformation band after 06z (1 AM EST). I'm thinking we may avert a major ice storm, at least (though we probably already have a couple tenths of accretion). Looks like the ZR has been extinguished in the immediate Greensboro area for now (not sure how long that will hold). The road out front is now pretty much covered and more snow is mixing in. We need a reverse bust. It's been awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepandfetch Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 hmm seems like right now we are at about half IP and half ZR. (Whitsett, eastern guilford county) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hvward Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 We had thundersnow here just about 20 minutes ago. It is absolutely pounding out there. Covered the roads in about 5 minutes. Nicceeee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
32AndCloudy Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 About 80/20 sleet/snow. Had to wait for a flake to land right in front of me to know for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallsLake Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Woke up and looked outside and this is turning into a ice storm. Knew I would get some ice but the trees now look like glass and it's really starting to stick to most surfaces. Still getting mixing with sleet. Temp down to 30.6. On the boarder with Wake and Granville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_hailstorm Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Pouring rain,some freezing. 31.8 I can hear the trees just cracking with every gust coming through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvegas-wx Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 That heavier precip moving through hp/gso is definitely bringing the snow with it. Must be mixing out the warm nose aloft quickly. Snow line on radar almost down to kvegas/ walkertown/ gso / burlington as this band pushes north. Definitely more snow mixing in now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_WX10 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Insane rates!!Huge flakes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvegas-wx Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Insane rates!!Huge flakes! Take those pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownheel Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 That heavier precip moving through hp/gso is definitely bringing the snow with it. Must be mixing out the warm nose aloft quickly. Snow line on radar almost down to kvegas/ walkertown/ gso / burlington as this band pushes north. Definitely more snow mixing in now. It's really teasing us now.....if it can just get down here and get going....we could have a nice pop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 One thing I've noticed is the snow doesn't look very wet at all and the flakes are VERY fine. I was expecting more of the larger, wet-type flakes with this. Thats because you are on the northern fridge of the deformation band where it will still take some time for the low-level column to moisten up to allow those big fat dendrites. Until then, most of your snow has partially evaporated and you need the full column to saturate before you can gets those bigger flakes. It almost looks like snow is mixing in, but that almost can't be right. It's probably just huge ice pellets. Quite large and falling a little slower than the rest, though. Rates have mostly been moderate here so far. EDIT: Well, now it's picking up some. EDIT: Seriously, some on in the GSO area look. I swear that looks like snow flakes mixed in, but I don't see how temperatures support this? I might be hallucinating. Certainly possible given that GSO is in the very high (40+ dBz) band right now. You can actually see the notch of higher CC representative of more snow vs. sleet mixing in over this region. http://climate.cod.edu/data/nexrad/animations/codnexlab.NEXRAD.RAX.N0C.20140307.613.024ani.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
32AndCloudy Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Another band looks to be forming west of Fayetteville. Could bear watching as it would follow a similar path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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