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Wintry 1/9-12 Winter Potential Great Dane or Yorkie

jackendrickwx said:
Thoughts on this starting as sleet around here? I'm starting to think those light returns will get here a bit before expected but not be snow in the light stuff
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Yeah it could definitely start as a snow/sleet mix before rates increase. Going to be a back and forth affair around here (with that classic Wake County gradient from probably a dusting to 0.5" south to around 2" far north) probably.
 
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RAH 1240pm disco
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One thing of note, the regional radars are showing the H925/H850
warm front progressing northward through far northern MS/AL,GA and
upstate SC, depicted by the bright band. It has been progressing
quickly from Birmingham to Huntsville in 4-5 hours. Atlanta is now
reporting rain. While this will surge northward, it will be impeded
by the rapidly developing in-situ CAD east of the Blue Ridge, and
will likely stay south and east of the region through at least
00z/tonight before starting to make a run at FAY and GSB.
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Not sure this will be visible, but I tried to take a picture of the icesicles here (pretty sure I got the spelling wrong).

It is having a hard time with sticking, so that shows I was still right to say that we’d probably just miss on a more impactful ice event, but some areas may have had 2 inches of snow/sleet here before a transition occurred. Not 100%.

I’ll try to see if my better stuff on my phone can load later.
 

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In northeastern Columbia, never saw any snow but it's been consistent sleet and (freezing) rain. Definitely starting to see some ice hanging off plants. Temp has remained 30-31
 
Myfrotho704_ said:
Hrrr really consistent on I-85 being the cutoff between 1-2” of snow/sleet and maybe 2-4” of more snow/less sleet, notice during heavier banding on it the snow sorta crashes south a bit before changing back to IP. Someone along I-40 is gonna do really well View attachment 162473
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That minimum over me is real. Not 1 flake of snow and only a very little sleet here so far.
 
Clinton busted low on snow. Flurried. Light snow lasted15 mins. Sleet/mostly freezing rain. Ice forming roof line. Few pockets of sleet on the mulch. Roads wet for now. Not often it snows south and west of here and we get zilch. Congrats to Greenwood and Saluda peeps that saw SN from that heavy front band that missed me. Bummed out.
 
DopplerWx said:
Cursed.
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You may already know this, but others may not, but this is completely normal and happens in all of these events. The radar beam is increasing with height as it goes away from the radar, so it looks like it is snowing all around it but in reality the column is slowly moistening with height. That's why the ring will slowly close in as the column moistens downward with time.

This is why when you look at higher tilts, the ring of radar returns is closing in.

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Checked the latest complete RAP and it has parts of ATL metro cooling back down to 31ish after about 5pm with decent additional icing occurring.

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