stepandfetch Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Glaze starting to appear on surfaces outside. My house is half way between gso and burlington, about 4 miles south of the interstate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparklecity Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 All I can say is God is smiling down on MBY...still all sleet, with virtually no ice on trees as of yet. Wonder how much more precip I have left before this ends, and how much might be fz rain.. Yep, still primarily sleet here. I was hoping for freezing rain, sleet is kinda boring to me. Maybe GSP was right all along with their ice totals, but for the wrong reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaryWx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 very little of anything falling in Cary. If so extremely light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua in Charlotte Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 How are things in Charlotte area? Moderate FZRN around 27 degrees - trees look like they have about 0.15-0.25 ice on it. This is North Charlotte near Northlake Mall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poimen Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Moderate to heavy sleet here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua in Charlotte Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Just saw on Facebook there is a 35 car pile-up on 77 in York County SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lookout Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Well, there goes our power.....a lot of NE Gwinnett is now out of power. This sucks! yeah this is where it stops being fun Welp...It's like the 4th of July here. Constant booms of transformers and cracks of trees. I thinks a sub station near by got hit. A series of bright green flashes on the western horizion followed by a couple brownouts. Just heard a couple booms and giant buzz sound. Somehow we still have power but canle and internet is down. over 30,000 without power and counting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Welp...It's like the 4th of July here. Constant booms of transformers and cracks of trees. I thinks a sub station near by got hit. A series of bright green flashes on the western horizion followed by a couple brownouts. Just heard a couple booms and giant buzz sound. Somehow we still have power but canle and internet is down. Oh man... sounds like you unfortunately are in the freezing rain bullseye. Hope you can keep power! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaleighWx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 But the thing is... latent heat release at the surface due to freezing precipitation is offset by the continued advection of northeasterly flow from VA and northward. The airmass located north of you guys is arctic in nature and should have no problem locking in 20-25F temps across raleigh and points northward. http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/ppapin/lb13_img/hrrr/hrrr_ncep_2d_flt.php Yep absolutely correct. The late heat release is a warming process but low level cold air advection can offset it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxBlue Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Light to moderate ZR with few lulls in between. Roads are downright awful at this point with 1/4 inch of sleet with growing amount of ice on top of it. Glazing so far, but it's building up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaleighWx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Still mostly sleet here west of Youngsville, 70/30 compared to freezing rain. 19.9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Holy Shiatt!!! Look at the 24 frame loop of this radar around greenville and you can actually see the low level wedge advancing underneath the main precipitation... It is wild!!! http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=GSP-N0Q-1-24 You can also see it with the VAD profiler... very shallow cold air northeasterly flow under 3000 feet with roaring 50-70 knot southerlies just overhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Fufkin Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Speaking of winds, they are really picking up here. Probably gusting to 15mph or better. They are also quite high in gainesville. 17mph gusting to 23. one thing to keep an eye on. Mt oglethorpe in jasper is up to 32 after being below freezing all day. The sensor is at an elevation of around 2800 feet so It's normally a good indicator for warm or cold air advection at 925mb..indeed gainesville is at 31 now, which is up a degree. It's not much but maybe the waa or latent heat release is starting to work in a little bit. On the other hand, freezing temps are down to loganville and nearly social circle, which is pretty far south. edit..well between the time i wrote that and going back to look, it's back down to 30 FWIW, my weather station at our cabin in Bent Tree across from Mt. Oglethorpe is reporting 34.7 degrees (altitude 2300). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QC_Halo Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Interesting - been a steady moderate FZRN in Northlake Charlotte (temp at 26-27 degrees) for past 2 hours.Oh it's freezing...make no mistake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullioz Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Finally seeing sleet here in Eden after 3" of snow. Current temperature is 15.7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXinCanton Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 think WAA is warming me up here and I'm about done, but those to the east and northeast of me. Hope you keep the lights on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Already decent icing going on here, rates are probably .05-.10" a hr right now and look to continue like that for a good long while.....cars and anything elevated already glazed pretty good, no trees in the yard thankfully but a large pine stand across the street should be fun to watch droop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amos83 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 The situation has gone down hill big time in the last 15-20 minutes here. We have has mostly fzra with a little sleet mixed in which has kept the roads relatively OK but now we have switched to mostly moderate sleet. Everything, including roads, are now completely ice covered. Temp holding at 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Congrats to those seeing some wintery precipitation! I know it been a lon winter for yall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skbl17 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 33.7 degrees on the GT campus in Atlanta. We were supposed to hit the mid 40s today, but we've been hovering between 33 and 37 for most of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapelhillwx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Pics from Furman University. Probably 80 percent sleet at least, but some ZR showing up in the trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallsLake Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Still mostly sleet here west of Youngsville, 70/30 compared to freezing rain. 19.9 Also the Triangle should not see any lulls for some time now. Radar looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest T Bass Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Still pretty heavy sleet. Some snow earlier before dark. A little freexing rain mixed in now, but sleet is the story. 21F Great sledding conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapelhillwx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Won't let me attach two files, here's a cool pic of ZR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrasher Fan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Can't say I've ever experienced this side of the storm before. Been sitting at 32.6° for the last hour and a half. No joke literally 4 or 5 miles up the road they are experiencing Ice Storm Warning level stuff. Power loss now wide spread across the northeastern portion of Gwinnett Co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidreMann Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 All sleet here now and roads are turning white. I did check for ZR and there seems to be none. We did get a good glaze during the lull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrips27 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 33 and rain all evening. The weenie part in me says this sucks, but the common sense part in me is thankful we won't have any power issues. I imagine there will be lots of black ice on the roads once we go sub 32. Prayers up for everyone to my north and east! Hope y'all get a big storm but with no power problems! A lot of lessons about model performance with a wedge in place will be learned from this storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua in Charlotte Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Uh-oh, moderate sleet now in North Charlotte on top of about .15 FZRN -- roads getting white instantaneously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rduwx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 IP/ZR mix in Cary near Hwy 55. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidreMann Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 33 and rain all evening. The weenie part in me says this sucks, but the common sense part in me is thankful we won't have any power issues. I imagine there will be lots of black ice on the roads once we go sub 32. Prayers up for everyone to my north and east! Hope y'all get a big storm but with no power problems! A lot of lessons about model performance with a wedge in place will be learned from this storm. My fingers are crossed that we stay mostly sleet. I don't mind a solid glaze up to 0.25", but no power outages, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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