December 8-9 Holiday snow event Observations

[griteater]

That looks like a heavy band from Shelby to Lincolnton to Mooresville

[calculus1]

Heavy wet stuff here.  I just measured between 1.5 and 2 inches on the deck picnic table.  Scraped it all off to measure again in an hour or so.

[griteater]

1 minute ago, CARDC79 said:

As the system goes from positive to more neutral tilt, is that when we start seeing a slightly more S-N component of the radar flow?  So SSW to NNE instead of just SW-NE?

Fo sho

[sctvman]

4" in Acworth, GA per reports.

[HKY_WX]

2 minutes ago, griteater said:

That looks like a heavy band from Shelby to Lincolnton to Mooresville

I think that's a mix of sleet/snow. A melting band. That's the changeover corridor.

[southernskimmer]

Flipped to all sleet in Monroe. Warm nose? 

[SnowDeac]

Back to light rain. Barely doing anything really. 36/33. Hopefully one more heavy band will do the trick.

[CaryWx]

Full flip to sleet in Cary, NC

 

[GunBlade]

Just now, southernskimmer said:

Flipped to all sleet in Monroe. Warm nose? 

The cold air is just very shallow. It’s still collapsing.  Give it a few hours and hopefully it’s more consistently snow. 

[griteater]

2 minutes ago, HKY_WX said:

I think that's a mix of sleet/snow. A melting band. That's the changeover corridor.

Ok, makes sense

[snowlover91]

Looks like a nice band may pivot through Central NC tomorrow afternoon, hopefully those of us from RDU and east can see a little something from it.

[LithiaWx]

Back to snow in Lithia.  Pain train of moisture pushing through.  I think this will be a major down here 

[BIG FROSTY]

Mod/Heavy snow 32.3 measured 3 inches on top of car and 4 inches in yard..................... Bring it!!

[HKY_WX]

This looks like a pretty good interpretation of where the snow/ip/rain line is in western NC.

[broken024]

Mix of rain snow sleet in waxhaw

[GunBlade]

Back home and it’s more like graupel here.  But starting to stick to roads and sidewalks quickly.  Always dangerous when sleet covers the roads first then snow on top.  

[calculus1]

Just now, HKY_WX said:

This looks like a pretty good interpretation of where the snow/ip/rain line is in western NC.

Your image didn't come through.

[haaking]

Token flakes mixing in here in N. Raleigh!! 

[Poimen]

This is getting serious!

[BullCityWx]

Lincolnton(IPJ) is reporting .25 vis with +SN

[HKY_WX]

1 minute ago, calculus1 said:

Your image didn't come through.

Here's a link to the radar i was trying to past. Just use the correlation coefficient tool on the left.

 

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=GSP-N0C-0-6

[SnowDeac]

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=GSP-N0C-1-24

 

Correlation coefficient radar that strongwxnc just posted in the storm thread. That line is zooming NW. Warm nose to be damned as always, it appears.

[haaking]

Switching to heavy sleet and snow!!  Bit of white showing on raised surfaces.

[Cold Rain]

Nice steady rain down in the armpit of Wake Co.

[JoshM]

Giant cotton ball flakes coming down, 32/32 100%

Dusting on the ground, but these big flakes are sticking to pavement

[NCSU_Pi]

3 minutes ago, SnowDeac said:

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=GSP-N0C-1-24

 

Correlation coefficient radar that strongwxnc just posted in the storm thread. That line is zooming NW. Warm nose to be damned as always, it appears.

Seems like the line had been moving SE across Wake County, but seems to have come to a dead stop directly overhead. We had a burst of sleet here in Northern Apex at work, but it didn't last long.

[wncsnow]

Mod to heavy snow last hour with about an inch on the ground and roads covered here in Danville

[snowlover91]

1 minute ago, NCSU_Pi said:

Seems like the line had been moving SE across Wake County, but seems to have come to a dead stop directly overhead. We had a burst of sleet here in Northern Apex at work, but it didn't last long.

WAA is racing inland at the 700-850mb level right now. The HRRR shows the transition zone rapidly shifting west the next few hours.

[Gastonwxman]

Back to snow but mixed with sleet.  

[WidreMann]

Still snowing in Durham, at variable rates. Flakes aren't that big. Not really any sticking at all, though I am in the city, so that may be causing it. I see the changeover line heading back north, so I expect us to be all rain in the next two hours.