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Wintry Feb 17-19 Smastsmasher Snow/Ice

This is a picture my wife sent me from King it is sleeting like crazy there right now.
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Drove around for 20-30 minutes just north of 540 in Raleigh. Nice glaze on everything over 10-15 feet tall. But only saw a few smaller pines sagging and only 1 or 2 power lines in precarious positions. A degree or two cooler and we'd have been in bigger trouble I imagine. But kind of the story of this winter...
 
jovialweather said:
Drove around for 20-30 minutes just north of 540 in Raleigh. Nice glaze on everything over 10-15 feet tall. But only saw a few smaller pines sagging and only 1 or 2 power lines in precarious positions. A degree or two cooler and we'd have been in bigger trouble I imagine. But kind of the story of this winter...
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Can confirm. Glaze on everything 10 ft and above.

32/31.6 on the Wake/Durham line.
 
I guess RDU is at 32, but I checked outside here in SW Durham/hell(?) near the Orange County border and I’m not noticing any icing. Maybe there’s a light glaze on the higher branches, but I’m not even noticing that to be honest. We suck. At least my power will stay on.
 
Poimen said:
We are not accruing efficiently on the bottom of the limbs--still at 1/16" there. BUT--I just measured 1/4" on the tops of the limbs in places.
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Most swaying,wind ive noticed all day. Got a flicker, 1st one here at work 5 mins ago.
 
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13miles south of Downtown Raleigh and a decent icing on all surfaces. The evergreens are noticeably drooping and branches are hanging low.

I saw a few reports to the WNW (Chapel Hill, RDU, Durham) there wasnt icing. Family in Durham county near I40/hwy55 confirms no ice accrual on any surface. Odd. Perhaps it had to do with heavier rain returns?
 
SouthGarnerSleet said:
13miles south of Downtown Raleigh and a decent icing on all surfaces. The evergreens are noticeably drooping and branches are hanging low.

I saw a few reports to the WNW (Chapel Hill, RDU, Durham) there wasnt icing. Family in Durham county near I40/hwy55 confirms no ice accrual on any surface. Odd. Perhaps it had to do with heavier rain returns?
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It seems to be the area between 85 and 40 didn’t get much accretion yet due to QPF. I can confirm I’ve had an increasing glaze since early today.


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SouthGarnerSleet said:
13miles south of Downtown Raleigh and a decent icing on all surfaces. The evergreens are noticeably drooping and branches are hanging low.

I saw a few reports to the WNW (Chapel Hill, RDU, Durham) there wasnt icing. Family in Durham county near I40/hwy55 confirms no ice accrual on any surface. Odd. Perhaps it had to do with heavier rain returns?
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It may have to do with urban heat islands and their juxtaposition to warmer large area lakes around here. It usually doesn’t matter too much but when things are super marginal for ice accrual it can matter a lot.
 
Tons of sleet with it still sleeting/freezing raining
 
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