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Misc General Banter Thread

For all my ATL folks - how should I be expectation setting for ice in the city tonight? Everything I’m seeing is indicating a razor-thin margin for significant freezing rain or nothing but cold rain (and maybe not even that much of that). Even NWS is inconsistent in some of the different products they’re publishing. What does everyone think?
 
Curious how long it takes for NEGA to get to the point we start snapping tree branches and power issues, I know that’s around .25-.35 ish but with the current storm, how many hours in are we talking? It looks like we start to ice between 9-11pm give or take, when do we start to hear the damage? I’m trying to remember from 2015, felt like it was about 5 or so hours in, but totally may be making that up.
 
Does FRAM account for surfaces wet from the initial rain? Like on the HRRR it shows Atlanta getting rain starting at 8pm and only switching over to ZR around 3-4am. That’s like 0.13” QPF of rain, which of course won’t all freeze, but I’d imagine most surfaces would be wet and not evaporated when(if) surface temps hit freezing
 
I swear…. Just like the pandemic. People hoarding ----, not a D battery to be found in Southern Iredell County. Like seriously? 2 packs of everything per person, they outta arrest these idiots and the ones that bought 75 packs of toilet paper. Bunch of inconsiderate mother F


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ATLien said:
For all my ATL folks - how should I be expectation setting for ice in the city tonight? Everything I’m seeing is indicating a razor-thin margin for significant freezing rain or nothing but cold rain (and maybe not even that much of that). Even NWS is inconsistent in some of the different products they’re publishing. What does everyone think?
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I think the city of Atlanta will remain all rain. I think you will struggle to get down to 35 degrees. The wedge is not supplying enough cold and dry air to overcome the warm air advection.
 
Amazes me how the "little" 20K BTU gas heater we have heats the whole house on days like today when there's no sun and cold. Don't even run the heat pump just have the air handler on the circulate setting to move air on low speed like every 15 minutes.
 
Everyone assume no one likes an ice storm but that is not true. Some like all types of winter weather and extreme weather. We can’t change it so if it is going to happen might as well enjoy it.

DUSTIN I think it was you this was directed at quite a while ago “I hope you get an inch” of ice lol
 
NE Ga Wx said:
Everyone assume no one likes an ice storm but that is not true. Some like all types of winter weather and extreme weather. We can’t change it so if it is going to happen might as well enjoy it.

DUSTIN I think it was you this was directed at quite a while ago “I hope you get an inch” of ice lol
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I don’t care for an ice storm in and of itself but if it comes with sleet and / or snow that can change things. A little bit of ZR on top of snow can be cool, even if I’d rather it just be snow.
 
I feel like this could be a much smaller deal than anticipated for the southern piedmont. I could be wrong but looking at radar, I think 80 percent of the qpf will be from the front passing. The rest is so far north and west. I’m not sure I’ll wake up in the morning and see any evidence of the storm yet.
 
SnowNiner said:
I feel like this could be a much smaller deal than anticipated for the southern piedmont. I could be wrong but looking at radar, I think 80 percent of the qpf will be from the front passing. The rest is so far north and west. I’m not sure I’ll wake up in the morning and see any evidence of the storm yet.
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Allegedly we're going to get a bunch of isotropic upgrade and stuff and it will fill in rapidly as the storm approaches.
 
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