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4 minutes ago, SoCoWx said:

Well, it is still above freezing currently. Were we supposed to be colder than this already?

There’s snow and sleet reaching the ground in the 757 where my folks are.

Dewpoints are in the low single digits. Any precip will cause temperatures to fall below freezing quickly with evaporative cooling.

I'm just pointing out that sleet is pretty far east and practically on our doorstep this early, essentially right at the onset, is not a good sign. We want a solid 6-8+ hours of snowfall before any sleet arrives if we want to maximize accumulations. It's early, but obviously sleet doesn't take up as much room as snow, so it won't accumulate as much.

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5 minutes ago, RVAman said:

You mean speaking facts? Got it. 

Saying you’re speaking facts, is not the same as actually doing it. Especially on the internet.

If your cynicism was to be believed, then it would mean the models all went to hell today, and that’s not what happened. They converged and came to a consensus.

Some models ticked south, and some ticked north.

Everything else seems to have remained the same.

If all of the current data holds true, we will see more snow than we’ve seen in awhile, even if it isn’t as much as we’d like.

But yes, it is Richmond. You *could* be right. It doesn’t mean you *will* be right.

I personally don’t care that much, it’s been so long that we’ve gone without.

Hell, if I woke up to 50 degrees and rain tomorrow, I’d laugh.

 

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This is why I don’t post much here .. The storm hasn’t even started yet & people are going nutty.. Dry air?

that’s always at the start of every storm..

some of you either need to stop drinking or start and come back around 10pm

By then there should be some decent action started and a better idea where this will all go .. smh lol

 

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8 minutes ago, eaglesin2011 said:

This is why I don’t post much here .. The storm hasn’t even started yet & people are going nutty.. Dry air?

that’s always at the start of every storm..

some of you either need to stop drinking or start and come back around 10pm

By then there should be some decent action started and a better idea where this will all go .. smh lol

 

We’ve had plenty of experience failing and not much action past few years so we should all be pros at this by now. Expect the worst and hope for the best. It’s just nice to even have chances especially 5 days into Jan. 

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17 minutes ago, Sernest14 said:

It’s crazy!  If you watch the models and then see the radar, it’s actually better than modeled at the moment

You can’t really watch the radar unless you actually have something hitting the ground .. most of it is  Virga right now, also here in central VA the mountains steal allot of the precip and never make it over or split the percip up.. That’s why whenever the heavy bands set up is going to be key for the amount of snow everyone gets

 

 

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3 minutes ago, eaglesin2011 said:

You can’t really watch the radar unless you actually have something hitting the ground .. most of it is  Virga right now, also here in central VA the mountains steal allot of the precip and never make it over or split the percip up.. That’s why whenever the heavy bands set up is going to be key for the amount of snow everyone gets

 

 

More so combining radar with reporting of early start and more souther areas (not true radar depiction

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