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

GoDuke said:
Light freezing rain at 26.9 degrees. Is this what Dec 02 was like?
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The temperatures during the event were about the same but the QPF was much higher in December 2002 and that event lasted much longer than this will thankfully for many of us. I'm concerned about ice accrual but I also keep telling myself this will not be a another December 2002. It caused more tree damage in my neighborhood then Fran did when she came through.
 
Shawn said:
I've got a question. Why are some posting like they're gloating at a transition to sleet and ice, and why the hell are my branches covered in ice and breaking off when the ice wasn't supposed to accumulate well?

Weird dude.
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Even though this was forecast to be a mix, I think a lot of folks held out hope there would be some accumulating snow before the switch to freezing rain and sleet. We had a dusting here but the sleet and fzrn eroded it. Still a fan of any winter weather we can get.
 
NCSNOW said:
Yall will get backside pure sugar latter tonight,to cap it off as storm leaves coast ots.
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That’s what I’m hoping for. We had about a half inch of NW flow here Wednesday night that I wasn’t expecting. Short range models show some light powder through tomorrow mid morning.
 
jrips27 said:
Honestly I think in marginal temp situations like this, just light drizzle is probably the most efficient thing you can have for ZR to accumulate. Looks like parts of north Georgia have a couple of hours remaining of off and on light ZR
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Yeah im in Habersham and getting nervous. Lot of freezing rain and its building up on vegetation that is already covered in snow. Can someone help me understand why we have been under 32 all day but it started to meltat a pretty good rate once the zr came through? Would assume it would freeze on contact but its been dripping pretty hard off the roof for a few hours
 
chase223322 said:
Yeah im in Habersham and getting nervous. Lot of freezing rain and its building up on vegetation that is already covered in snow. Can someone help me understand why we have been under 32 all day but it started to meltat a pretty good rate once the zr came through? Would assume it would freeze on contact but its been dripping pretty hard off the roof for a few hours
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During the day solar insulation still can help melt it..the other is the temp of the drops themselves are warmed a bit from warm layer aloft. Lastly precip rates can be high enough to not allow it to freeze in time.

Getting concerned about the wind here..starting to gust a bit and see 20 to 30mph gusts showing up to the west.
 
BLKeene said:
Luckily here at the NC/SC border and around 1200 ft elevation it's been almost majority sleet since the changeover, with a few snowflakes still mixing in here and there. So far not much in the way of freezing rain.
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Yeah we switched to ZR for a short period before switching back to sleet and snow.
 
Avalanche said:
Um, I lived in Greensboro at the time and you wouldn’t make it if you stepped outside. 50 years old it was one of the worst in my life
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I was just a kid at the time so all I remember from Dec 02 was the quick burst of snow at the onset then waking up to no power and destruction the next morning.
 
Guessing we got about 2 hours left of good qpf then it shuts down. Will be about 7 hours, 5 we spent all snow. Just switched to ice, can hear it. Will have had snow sounding about 75-80% of the event, which is what was being advertised. Also we should end up .3 maybe .4 qpf when all said an done here in 2 more hours as crow flies. Gonna struggle get to 2 inch total compact sleet an snow. Over an inch good before the flip.
 
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