weatherwiz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Strong WAA beginning to occur at 925/850 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Snow is mixing back in now lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Based on the LAB, this snow is not the powder I got last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Radar from OKX gives impression that sleet zone is slowing down N progress near the CT/MA border. That may partially be because of the limited range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowMan Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Well this is actually a blessing. We really needed some ice into the snowpack. Over 2 feet on the ground..locked in with an inch of ice..and then another 8-12 on Friday. This will be locked in place until late may or so But won't the rain melt it later in the day and tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 still heavy snow here hoping sleet and zr stay to the south for a little bit longer! I'm 100% positive it was freezing rain here, went outside and the flood light came on and looking it the flood light it was not sleet, it was rain and it's freezing on contact on top of the snow...side roads aren't even plowed yet either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Will what are you thoughts about icing here? We are right next to the river...so our elevation is around 220 ft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 But won't the rain melt it later in the day and tonight? It'll be all freezing rain in the interior..We'll never get above 32. It'll just put a deep layer of thick ice over the pack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 50/50 snow/sleet again..snow fighting back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 I wonder what time the snow started here...I screwed up in timing this, said it wouldn't start to between 6-8 AM...obviously that didn't happen. Forgot one important rule when dealing with SWFE...always expect the faster timing in things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Sounds and looks like snow here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 I wonder what time the snow started here...I screwed up in timing this, said it wouldn't start to between 6-8 AM...obviously that didn't happen. Forgot one important rule when dealing with SWFE...always expect the faster timing in things. It was always supposed to start around 3:00am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 heaviest snow so far huge flakes change over should be coming soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Will what are you thoughts about icing here? We are right next to the river...so our elevation is around 220 ft. That's a tough spot to predict it...I'll bet it goes on for at least a little bit, but the warmer BL temps will be creeping in from the E and SE in that area. We'll have to see when it flips to ZR too obviously...longer period of snow/sleet would reduce the impact of ice. The models are usually pretty bad at handling these CAD situations and I can confidently say that back into central MA and those areas will be almost impossible to warm above freezing, but your area is definitely always a bit tougher. You're right on that line often of where you go SE and its 38F and then go 5-8 miles NW and its 29-30F. Its kind of a cop out answer, but it really is tough, lol. I'll bet it does warm above freezing there, but how long that takes is the key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 It was always supposed to start around 3:00am Alright thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 heaviest snow so far huge flakes change over should be coming soon Yup..that's how you know the change is coming..big fluffy flakes..then comes the sleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Will, any early calls on accretion amounts? 0.25" possible? Edit, just saw your respone a few posts above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Beautiful Arctic type snow falling. Temp and dewpoint steady at 12/8. 2.5" down. Always nice to get snow falling on an already deep snowpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 It'll be all freezing rain in the interior..We'll never get above 32. It'll just put a deep layer of thick ice over the pack Unless it's all sleet. SN, 1/3 miile vis., 12.3/9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 If it totally stopped precipitating now, with 1.5" of snow, I would be happy rather than having it change to sleet or zr... Looks perfect outside now...but a few larger flakes are mixing in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 There's now some zr mixing in .. But also still some snowflakes along with the sleet..A little bit of everything coming down..17.1 could be quite the ice storm if we can get up to 3/4 of an inch of accretion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leesun Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 And sure enough- heavy sleet right now. Just a couple of huge flakes mixed in. Hate to say it but the NAM was telling the story at 0z last night, heaviest snow so far huge flakes change over should be coming soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Unless it's all sleet. SN, 1/3 miile vis., 12.3/9 You and MRG will both end as freezing rain/drizzle..no way around it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Unless it's all sleet. SN, 1/3 miile vis., 12.3/9 I think at least down here we are looking at a decent ice storm...were going to see thnigs warm aloft to the point where any snow falling will melt and turn to rain and then refeeeze as it nears the sfc. Could be ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 There's now some zr mixing in .. But also still some snowflakes along with the sleet..A little bit of everything coming down..17.1 could be quite the ice storm if we can get up to 3/4 of an inch of accretion :axe: Please, no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 There's now some zr mixing in .. But also still some snowflakes along with the sleet..A little bit of everything coming down..17.1 could be quite the ice storm if we can get up to 3/4 of an inch of accretion I was thinking between 0.50'' and 0.75'' and looking over things a bit this morning I could certainly see some of us getting close to 0.75''...not good considering many have 1-3'' of snow on the ground...although it doesn't appear to have sticked much to trees/power lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterfish55 Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 22.8/21 steady lt/mod snow still holding strong here. No pingers to be heard.....as of now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Where is MRG? I told him yesterday outright exactly what would happen today and he basically said I was crazy. This happens more often than not with a southern stream heavy system and no locked-in arctic high THE MAIN DIFFERENCE FROM PREVIOUS MODEL CYCLES IS THAT THE COLUMN IS WARMING QUICKER ALOFT GIVEN THE DEEP SOUTHERLY MID LEVEL FLOW. THUS THIS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN SLIGHTLY LOWER SNOWFALL TOTALS BUT MORE ICING THAN EARLY THOUGHT WITH A QUICKER CHANGEOVER TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN AND EVENTUALLY ALL RAIN FOR THE COASTAL PLAIN OF RI AND EASTERN MA. CONFIDENCE WAS NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO UPGRADE TO AN ICE STORM WARNING BUT NEXT SHIFT WILL HAVE TO MONITOR TRENDS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Back to 100% snow here but flake size is incredibly small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Still 16.8F here, with moderate snow (small flakes, but quite thick). Just under an inch so far from the looks of it. NWS tells me I've only got 1 more inch to go before the changeover... But I hope they're wrong! I'd take zr or sleet any time over rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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