Chrisr4419 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 First sleet pellets and snow mixed in in the metropolis of Dacusville, SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilj4425 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Up to 35 degrees near I385 and I85. Hooray for cold rain lol What's your wet bulb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKY18 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Flurries in Lenoir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyefan1 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 What's your wet bulb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hickory Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 15 miles NE of greensboro NC very light sleet or flurries shocked at how the radar is filling in on the northern part of NC surprised this is even reaching the ground yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceagewhereartthou Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Light sleet in Travelers Rest briefly. Interesting because it was just a little dot on the radar and dewpoints were still very low. No virga at all. Yeah, my thoughts too. I guess sleet doesn't evaporate like rain and snow does, so no virga and no evaporational cooling? Mets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILMRoss Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Yeah, my thoughts too. I guess sleet doesn't evaporate like rain and snow does, so no virga and no evaporational cooling? Mets? it makes sense. Some still evaporates, there's just less surface area on sleet than there is snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_WX10 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Light snow and roads are starting to get white Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southernskimmer Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Token flakes flying in Jamestown NC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WES1023 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Light wintry mix in Easley, SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceagewhereartthou Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Light sleet again here in Easley. Not a single flake - still waiting on my first flake of the season . I'll pretend all my snow is evaporating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Light snow just starting here in McDowell county Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drfranklin Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 flurries just south of downtown Greenville, SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmh90 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 25 degrees and complete overcast here in Washington NC...don't think we will hit the projected high of 32 if this keeps up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drfranklin Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Between Walhalla and Seneca Thank you - I used to live in a lake community just north of Seneca - beautiful area - while living there, I always felt shafted in the winter with frozen precip to my south (Anderson) and east (Greenville) - I think you should do well with this event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisr4419 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sleet w/ minimal snow mixed in has picked up in mby in Dacusville, SC. Temp at 32. Curious what it will drop to from saturation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Apps. Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Starting to snow in Boone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeVa Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Temps definitely busting here. Just hit 20.5. Probably going to set a record low max temp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Cloud ceiling has lowered significantly over the past hour. Temp 24.8º, dewpoint is 2.3º. Something, who knows what, should start falling before long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sleet in Simpsonville and downtown Greenville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 There's also a report of sleet mixing with rain in Greenwood at Lander University. Farther south than expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No snow for you Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sleet in Simpsonville and downtown Greenville. Light sleet off of Augusta road in Greenville. Current temps are 34 with dews of 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cg2916 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sleet in Mauldin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 swbt.gif Therein lies the problem. This is a super cold and dry airmass, but its not optimally placed for entrenched cold air damming. This is not classical CAD, but rather in-situ CAD which can still give you a huge ice storm, but you need some other factors to go your way. One of those factors is the need to wetbulb quickly to allow the in-situ ridge to intensify. If the precipitation can move in quickly, before the surface low approaches, it can actually intensify at the surface as the temperatures wetbulb. The effect of this is to reduce the impact of the inverted trough (currently located on the west side of the Apps.) to induce southeasterly flow which brings WAA. The reason why folks in GA are colder than forecasted by the NAM and HRRR is primarily because both models were too slow with the progression of precipitation. They wetbulbed before they had a chance to warm up by solar insolation and now those cold temperatures are producing a finger of surface ridging that is locking the cold air in place. We need that further east into SC and NC too. Precipitation rates, especially early on will be very important for the maintenance of this cold air and whether or not it will have some staying power as the event ramps up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Sisk Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sleeting pretty good here in Greenville SC, at Pelham/I-385 (Haywood Mall area) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lookout Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Yea, I'm thinking we might finally have a storm busting on the cold side. I think I'm about to wetbulb down to at least 28 or 29 and no short range model had me going below 31... and actually no shortrange model had me going below freezing until around 6 oclock. Also, No model had precip starting before about 3pm here and it has already started. The radar looks absolutely awesome for my area right now.... My biggest concern here is if precip stays steady where i'm at. there could be a break for a few hours which could allow temps to rise. But for now, my temp is hovering around 32.4 (it did drop to 31.8 a few times) with a dp of 28 so i have a wetbulb of around 30..maybe 31. There appears to be a light glaze starting about 10 feet off the ground I'm not sure if i stay this low with the light precip the rest of the afternoon..in fact i see it probably going back up to 33 or 34. Even if i don't get below freezing for long or I only manage to get this low and no further, i will still consider this one of the more impressive temperature busts by the nam..especially in such a short time. . The nam says I should be 43 heading for a high of 45. As I said yesterday timing of precip would be crucial in determining temps and I thought all the models were out to lunch if the precip arrived this early. Areas around Gainesville and NE could be looking at more significant icing than we thought. Temps aren't going to rise much if at all this afternoon, we just need to get more precip. in here and see what happens. Looks like areas just to the south of Gainesville around Buford, Dacula, and Winder could wet bulb down to about 29 or 30 with steadier precip. We're still at 33 here, with light rain. - Buck Most likely but then again I've thought for some time now that around gainesville eastward and north of 85 was going to get significant icing. My "call" was for 32.5 here for a low and that's what I reached already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drfranklin Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 moderate sleet now (with a few flakes) near downtown Greenville, SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No snow for you Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Dew point has already gone up by 2 degrees in about 15 mins while the temp has dropped by 1 degree since the sleet started. Let's hope it continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 @WBTVSteveO: #breaking Snow has started falling in Morganton..fairly light right now. Just the start, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avianman Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Light snow has started to fall in northern Catawba County and also reports of snow falling in Hickory too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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