1234snow Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 7:29 AM, Stovepipe said: Internet Fist Bump! I've never seen sleet pellets this large. Not trying to be dramatic but seriously, this is the craziest sleet I've ever seen. Both in terms of rate and pellet size. On 2/21/2015 at 7:42 AM, John1122 said: The rates are pretty impressive on the frozen parts of the storm. Not sure how much zr I'll get, still 95 percent sleet. Maybe some small snow flakes and drizzle mixed in as well. It's almost like little popcorn convection but without the convection part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Radar precip estimates are showing areas of .6 qpf already fallen very close to me. Still a ton of wintery precip to come, probably at least 8 hours here, maybe 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 That precip type radar is impressively accurate right now. From all I have found this week, sleet shows up as blue on them. The mostly blue with little areas of pink over CC seems to perfectly represent how the precip types are falling here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I don't know if it's the early trajectory but it appears upper east ky and upper swva aren't doing as well as the bottom of swva and upper tn in tri....at least looking at the radar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 7:49 AM, Bango said: I don't know if it's the early trajectory but it appears upper east ky and upper swva aren't doing as well as the bottom of swva and upper tn in tri....at least looking at the radar It's odd, Kentucky is experiencing much more warming that we are. Somerset, two counties above Scott Co is up to 32 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stovepipe Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 7:47 AM, John1122 said: That precip type radar is impressively accurate right now. From all I have found this week, sleet shows up as blue on them. The mostly blue with little areas of pink over CC seems to perfectly represent how the precip types are falling here. For my area the pink has been 75% sleet and 25% freezing rain. There appears to be a sharp gradient though. Texting with Reb, he's remained mostly lightish ZR. Where the QPF has setup has been almost as interesting as how the skew-t has wavered around. Still blown away by the sleet intensity at times. I keep thinking I'm going zr and then blam, another sleet round. Pretty awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 7:58 AM, Stovepipe said: For my area the pink has been 75% sleet and 25% freezing rain. There appears to be a sharp gradient though. Texting with Reb, he's remained mostly lightish ZR. Where the QPF has setup has been almost as interesting as how the skew-t has wavered around. Still blown away by the sleet intensity at times. I keep thinking I'm going zr and then blam, another sleet round. Pretty awesome. I can't explain it then. My sleet has still been mixed with a bit of snow, maybe it simply goes by atmospheric profile and the cold is a tiny bit deeper here than there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234snow Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 This is much heavier than the snow from the beginning of the week storm. As far as I can tell I'm over an inch. Pouring down right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 An interesting thing to me, the temps for tomorrow and tomorrow night keep getting lower and lower. JKL has updated their grid and their entire CWA goes back below freezing tomorrow night, they even mention freezing precip returning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234snow Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Huge flakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bango Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Stove are you winding down yet? Looks like returns to the west are weaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Still sleeting, but now about 50 percent freezing rain. Temp has warmed up to 26. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234snow Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 9:27 AM, John1122 said: Still sleeting, but now about 50 percent freezing rain. Temp has warmed up to 26. Hope you don't stay freezing rain too long. Knoxville looks to have round too of freezing rain coming. I'm still all snow but I have no clue what I've got. Have to be near 3 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 The warming is going pretty decently here now. I am up to 28. 6 degrees since midnight. Over 1 inch of qpf looks to have fallen here, all frozen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1122 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 50+ dbz area of sleet/zr streaming overhead. I've picked up .4 or so of ice encrusted sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnEastTN Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Still Sleet and freezing rain but there are some snowflakes mixed in from time to time. Sitting steady at 28 still here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234snow Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Still snowing. Turned over to sleet and now back to snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed33 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Picked up about 2in of snow overnight before the switchover. Got sleet now. Temp is 23. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234snow Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 12:14 PM, Jed33 said: Picked up about 2in of snow overnight before the switchover. Got sleet now. Temp is 23. Awesome! I'm shocked to still be snow and the temp here is 23. I've got 3 new inches and in some spots 7-8 total from the last storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed33 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Wow, I can't explain it, but I've got moderate to heavy snow with big flat flakes now and no sleet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkhorn Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Back to snow for a time in Knoxville. The footprints I left this morning have filled back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvskelton Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 12:28 PM, 1234snow said: Awesome! I'm shocked to still be snow and the temp here is 23. I've got 3 new inches and in some spots 7-8 total from the last storm. Same here for just across the TN/VA line in Church Hill, Snow. I really expected to be having ZR by now but looking at radarscope it appears the changeover is still around the Jefferson City area. I would estimate our new snow total to be in the 2-3 inch range so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed33 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 It's absolutely ripping quarter to half dollar sized flakes right now Awesome! I've added another half in like 15min unreal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkhorn Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Still snowing in Knoxville. It's as if the cold air is staying in the valley longer than anticipated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234snow Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 1:06 PM, Jed33 said: It's absolutely ripping quarter to half dollar sized flakes right now Awesome! I've added another half in like 15min unreal! It is unreal! Heaviest snow in a few years right now. 24 degrees. The pictures don't do it justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearman Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I was shocked to wake up to giant flakes this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnweathernut Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Amazingly, I still have mixed precip, even though I have warmed to 33.9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed33 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I've added another inch now up to 3 for this event and still pouring snow it's unreal!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastkywx Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 On 2/21/2015 at 7:52 AM, John1122 said: It's odd, Kentucky is experiencing much more warming that we are. Somerset, two counties above Scott Co is up to 32 degrees.Yeah, here in eastern KY we have experienced nothing but freezing rain/rain to this point. I currently still have around 8 inches of snow on the ground from last weeks storm, but that has not helped cool anything at all. Actually, if you look at radar returns for eastern KY, the areas showing the rain are the areas that got hit the hardest by the last storm. Kind of crazy to see, really. We do have a light icy glaze here and roads are nearly impassable at this point. Salt trucks have chains on them and are still struggling. Not a good day to be out and about around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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