cpg2 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Accident due to car sliding into center divider on I-385 at Roper Mountain Rd. Greenville, SC. I am so glad I left work when I did as I drive right by there. My bedroom window has a glaze of ice on it and I can't see out. I am hearing a ping or two every once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Outages are not as bad as i thought they would be. only 2,000 people without power so far. Very early on in this event... check back again tomorrow morning by 7-8am. The true scope should become clear by then. what do you think is up with GSP? They have dropped ZR total for Greenville co to nill. Yea I have no clue... their freezing rain accumulation map does not appear to be based in reality at the moment (unless they are going with actual accretion of trees and exposed surfaces). If preicp rates are high enough, some of the total liquid precip won't actually accrete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Sisk Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Moderate sleet has been falling in Taylors, SC (6 miles N of I-85 around Wade Hampton Blvd) The roads are covered white...roads are bad, wrecks all over the place. School has already been canceled in Greenville County tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 All sleet. Not good -- travel will nearly impossible if the moisture flow holds with these temperatures. Amazing. We are at 16F here and the snow if mixing with sleet. Whaaaaaathe??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winterhawk Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Been watching the SPC Mesoscale Analysis, the below freezing bulge into NE GA has been pushing slightly SE/continuing to hold. Will be interesting around here if it continues to hold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upstate Tiger Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Roads and grass all white now in Easley, SC. Amazed how quickly everything got covered here. Holding at 26 degrees. Heavy sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Very early on in this event... check back again tomorrow morning by 7-8am. The true scope should become clear by then. Yea I have no clue... their freezing rain accumulation map does not appear to be based in reality at the moment (unless they are going with actual accretion of trees and exposed surfaces). If preicp rates are high enough, some of the total liquid precip won't actually accrete. What's your sense of what tomorrow will look like for us down here Phil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_WX10 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Not good -- travel will nearly impossible if the moisture flow holds with these temperatures. Amazing. We are at 16F here and the snow if mixing with sleet. Whaaaaaathe??? This might end up being the most frustrated I've been with a storm. We are a warm nose away from a huge storm. I've never seen snow with temperatures this cold. Tomorrow is going to be bad with sleet accumulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oconeexman Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I can be corrected but thus wasn't a classic CAD, more InSitu with extremely cold and dry air that just wasn't handled well by any of the models. Classic CAD would've been nice HP anchored up North with strong NE winds coming down to reinforce. This time we got a late turn to NE but it pulled more of the low DP's down to reinforce the "wedge." Definitely a situation to remember and kudo's to Lookout for recognizing it very early. You are correct more of an in situational cad. Haven't had one of those in a while either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQPublic Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Yea the severity of this ice storm will be at least on par with Jan 29-30 2005, although this one might be worse given the likelihood that more of this falls as FZRA in Greenville and much of upstate, SC. The worst ice storm I ever lived through was the Dec 4-5 2002 event. Even though it was worse up in Raleigh, NC... we got hit pretty hard in the upstate too. We probably won't see high enough precip totals to rival that event, but somewhere between the 2005 and 2002 event could definitely be attainable. Yup, 2002 was awful. When hardwoods are cracking under the weight of the ice, you know it's bad. Not gonna wish that on my worst enemy. Can't believe that was 12-13 years ago! Nothing crazy going on currently. Thin coating of sleet/snow on sidewalks and some roads. A lull at this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpg2 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I don't know if it was mentioned yet or not but Greenville County schools are closed tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sleet and freezing rain coming down steadily. We started this afternoon around 3pm with beautiful snow for about 30 minutes. Then it turned to sleet. Now it's 28° with sleet and freezing rain. I hope the qpf stays on the low side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperium Americana Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Beginning to hear the first pops and cracks. Several trees are noticeably leaning. Low level clouds streaming to the east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLTwx Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Free app with NOAA app purchase: Police Scanner. Just turned it on in Charlotte. Past 5 minutes a crazy amount of wrecks just now unfolding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poimen Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sleet fest in NE Franklin County Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nam0806 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Snow/Sleet mix in NW Greensboro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Painful as in a lot of qpf and bad. I want to keep my electricity. It's like that line from The lost World of Jurassic Park: "Hang on folks. This is about to get bad." LOL. Good luck down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gman Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 what do you think is up with GSP? They have dropped ZR total for Greenville co to nill. I live near Paris Mountain State Park in Greenville, SC. It's 27 with sleet. The roads are white. I just posted a remark on the GSP NWS Facebook page, suggesting they look outside and change their forecast. They have no mention of sleet in their forecast, even though its been sleeting for several hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlin1926 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sleet fest in NE Franklin County Ugh, bet 561 is a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshM Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Heavier precip, back to a sleet/zr mix, temp 28, its risen some from earlier, was around 26.9 to 27.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 The grass seems to be slowly disappearing under the sleet. It never feels like a legit winter storm until I can't see the grass anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua in Charlotte Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Of course it is. I don't know how your area seems to luck out everytime. In CLT saw some light token flurries about the size of fleas and that was it for the snow. Same here in N. Charlotte - lasted a good 30 minutes now rain and 27 degrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winterhawk Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Beginning to hear the first pops and cracks. Several trees are noticeably leaning. Low level clouds streaming to the east. Scanner starting to get a bit active with trees down or laying on power lines in parts of the county (Forsyth, GA.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oconeexman Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Solid .5" of sleet on the driveway and deck now and still pouring pingers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernUpstateSC Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 27 with heavy sleet since 3:30pm, close to half inch on the ground with roads completely ice covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_hailstorm Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Freezing rain here with just a little sleet. 22.6 I don't think my power will survive the night,we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrasher Fan Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 RN+++. Belting down. It's going to be a very very long evening for those to the NE of here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpStateCAD Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Free app with NOAA app purchase: Police Scanner. Just turned it on in Charlotte. Past 5 ? looks like there are a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGa Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Yea, this is setting up to be worse than 2005 IMO. We've got quite a river of moisture pointed our way on the radar and there's no way the sleet can hold on much longer. With temps in the upper 20's and another inch of liquid heading this way i'm thinking widespread 1/2 inch ice totals are on the way. Edit: My temp is still dropping, i'm at 29.2/27.0 right now. radar is just down right impressive, the most impressive i have seen with a winter storm in a long time. if the warmer air doesnt make it in we could get clobbered lol it looks like there is a mix of sleet and frz rain again (or mist) the roads are competlely covered now and trees have noticeable ice in them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADDOGG Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 radar is just down right impressive, the most impressive i have seen with a winter storm in a long time. if the warmer air doesnt make it in we could get clobbered lol it looks like there is a mix of sleet and frz rain again (or mist) the roads are competlely covered now and trees have noticeable ice in them gainesville says 30 still setting here at 28 imby its crazy amount of ice here in south hall starting to see some outages http://outagemap.georgiapower.com/external/default.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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