wkd Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Back to sleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Agnes Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Getting fzra mixing back in with the sleet and a few large flakes. Temp @28F and breezy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChescoWx Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Heavy Sleet now transitioning back to snow here in NW Chester County PA Temp at 26 Snow/IP so far 6.0" as of 830am - sleet balls are rolling off roof.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazwoper Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Well, I won't see 2 feet (or even 1 in all likelihood), but this is a pretty amazing storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTA66 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Still mainly sleet, temp down to 27.5F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geeter1 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Heavy snow Temp 23 degrees Dew point 22 Winds s/e @ 18mph Visibility 200 ft. Total snow accumulation 15.2 inches (so far) This may top last January up here........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds~69 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Snow mixing in a little now but still mainly sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwiecz01 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 6 minutes ago, ChescoPaWxman said: Heavy Sleet now transitioning back to snow here in NW Chester County PA Temp at 26 Snow/IP so far 6.0" as of 830am - sleet balls are rolling off roof.... less than 10 miles south of you on the West Bradford/Thorndale border and still all sleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockem_sockem_connection Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I feel like every time I was looking at maps, this event was going to be too warm. But every time a snow map was posted, it begged to differ. Fringe events never go Philadelphia's way. If temps might be marginal, they probably are. People are so used to bad forecasting though, it's really not even a big deal at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherNC Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Next to impossible to measure, there are cars half way buried on one side and barely up to the rims on the other. I would say around a foot but again, don't really have a clue. Wind is taking the visability down to a couple hundred yards at times. Unsure if we will hit two feet unless that death band / enhanced melting layer over NJ parks itself over NE PA for a bit. Walking it is high shins to just below the knees, thigh high drifts. That is the main deformation axis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Agnes Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Added another 1/2" sleet since the last measurement a bit under an hour ago. Up to 3.5" of compacted snow/sleet/graupel now. Temp up to 29F now and still breezy with some 20mph gusts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockem_sockem_connection Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Does not look like Philly or immediate suburbs (both NW/SE) will even get to a few inches of snow at this point. Hopefully we can just accept this winter is done, and have a phenomenal spring. Useless cold was useless yet again lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, hurricane1091 said: I feel like every time I was looking at maps, this event was going to be too warm. But every time a snow map was posted, it begged to differ. Fringe events never go Philadelphia's way. If temps might be marginal, they probably are. People are so used to bad forecasting though, it's really not even a big deal at this point. Exactly. The proximity to the coast screamed warm layers and mix and I did say in the past a storm like this would bring all kinds of mix and rain issues. Models blew it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RkTec Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 1.5" last hour 8.5" total Good amount of sleet mixing in again now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenmsav6810 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 100% sleet in douglassville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 5.5" of snow and ice with moderate sleet 24.4F A new high for the season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Agnes Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Mt. Holly Philly update - URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 813 AM EDT Tue Mar 14 2017 ...A MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT OUR REGION... .A still intensifying storm near Wallops Island at daybreak will be astride the New Jersey coast during midday, then off to southeastern New England this evening. The storm will continue to produce a nasty mix of hazardous conditions to much of our region through midday. Blizzard conditions are likely for a few hours in east central and northeast Pennsylvania as well as northern quarter of New Jersey, where snowfall rates of 2 to 4 inches per hour are forecast during mid and late morning. DEZ001-MDZ008-NJZ016>019-PAZ070-071-142200- /O.CON.KPHI.WS.W.0003.000000T0000Z-170314T2200Z/ New Castle-Cecil-Salem-Gloucester-Camden-Northwestern Burlington- Delaware-Philadelphia- Including the cities of Wilmington, Elkton, Pennsville, Glassboro, Camden, Cherry Hill, Moorestown, Mount Holly, Media, and Philadelphia 813 AM EDT Tue Mar 14 2017 ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...The Interstate 95 Corridor in northeastern Maryland, northern Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania and southwestern New Jersey. * HAZARD TYPES...Sleet and freezing rain possibly changing back to a brief period of heavy snow during midday before ending by mid afternoon. * ACCUMULATIONS...Storm total snow accumulation of 2 to 6 inches, along with around a tenth to one quarter inch of glaze. * TIMING...Mixed heavy amounts of wintry precipitation will continue this morning, possibly ending as snow between Noon and 3 PM. * IMPACTS...Ice and snow accumulations will create treacherous driving conditions. The weight of the ice and snow on tree limbs and power lines could produce scattered outages. Strong winds will lead to additional power outages. * WINDS...Northeast 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * TEMPERATURES...In the lower 30s. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... This Winter Storm Warning for heavy snow means that severe winter weather conditions are occurring. Significant amounts of snow are forecast that will make travel dangerous. Only travel in an emergency. If you must travel...keep an extra flashlight... food and water in your vehicle in case of an emergency. Report snow and ice accumulation to the National Weather Service by calling our trained spotter line...posting to the NWS Mount Holly Facebook page or by using Twitter. Snowfall and ice accumulation forecast maps in addition to experimental probabilistic snowfall information for the latest event are available online at www.weather.gov/phi/winter && $$ Updated accumulation for 2" - 6" which is probably a good call assuming it doesn't suddenly pivot more east putting us under a very cold (through the whole column) death band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iceman Posted March 14, 2017 Author Share Posted March 14, 2017 after 5 hours of sleet looks like we are about to get a dry slot. that should just about be the nail in our coffin. 4.5". 18 to 24 forecasted downgraded to 12 to 16" after the storm began. what a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RkTec Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Heavy sleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newman Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Is anybody in that band of heavy whatever that's pivoting? Is it still sleet in that band? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazwoper Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, Newman said: Is anybody in that band of heavy whatever that's pivoting? Is it still sleet in that band? yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow_ Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I just got that band that is moving through allentown. I'm in whitehall and boy the skys have opened up. Huge flakes 3'' hour rate or more. First time i'm hearing some pinging but mostly all snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penndotguy Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Is anybody in that band of heavy whatever that's pivoting? Is it still sleet in that band?I was thinking the same thing this whole storm has confused the hell out of me heavy returns i thought would be snow ended up being sleetSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newman Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 1 minute ago, hazwoper said: yes So we got our deformation band we all looked for, but its all sleet lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCT777 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 That heavy band has been almost all sleet (with the occasional flakes of snow mixed in) in Spring Mount, PA. It changed to primarily sleet here a bit before 5 AM after 4.5" of snow fell. Since then, I've picked up over 2" of sleet - more than half of that since 8 AM. Still sleeting fairly heavily and 24.4 degrees (which is down from 26.7 at 5 AM). So temps have been dropping while it's been sleeting. And this "waiting for the sleet to change back to all snow" is so much like the sleetfest in March 2007. That time, it never did change back to snow IMBY. Maybe it will this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABE SnowObserver Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 All sleet now in allentown.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVLion77 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, Newman said: Is anybody in that band of heavy whatever that's pivoting? Is it still sleet in that band? Lehigh Valley going back to heavy sleet, apparently the line is meandering back and forth in the I 78 corridor on the PA side. Thought the transition back to snow at 7am would have been permanent this far north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuniorTT Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Just went to sleet for the first time. The 30-35 dBZ returns were crazy snow. The 40-45 dBZ is where it turned to sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow_ Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 meh i jinxed myself, now its 50/50 snow and sleet. I knew it was to good to last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penndotguy Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I swear this is the goofiest storm ever not 2 mins sho it was light sleet i go to the garage come back out and its dumping snowSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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