Wintry Jan 15-16 Winter Storm Discussion & Obs

[Jlaw0097]

1PM Update
27.3°F
Extreme SW Mitchell County, NC
Mainly sleet for the last 2-3 hours…looks like we’ve picked up 6-8 inches of snow

 

[FallsLake]

I guess we’re going to escape with minimal icing at this point given surface temps are creeping up close to freezing and the IP continues. Might changeover for a little bit, but no way we’re getting 0.2”+ like forecasted.

I'm getting freezing rain now, but even here it shouldn't be too bad:

 

[NCSNOW]

Wheres weathernc or Mcdowell obs?

 

[griteater]

2.75 inches of snow and sleet. No freezing rain. Near Cowans Ford Dam. Lake Norman

 

[Iceagewhereartthou]

Heavy snow!

 

[Weatherheels]

Raging sleet storm taking place. Around 3” snow/sleet on the ground. Wind has been gusty all morning, seem to be picking up some steam now. Still hovering around 22 degrees. Guilford/Forsyth county line.

 

[BullCityWx]

I’m honestly surprised how long sleet has held on here.

 

[Wild Weather Monger]

Best band in a couple of hours is overhead now. Really needed this to fight off ole Sol for the next couple of hours.

 

[Broken024]

I’m honestly surprised how long sleet has held on here.

I'm still getting sleet mixing in down here.

 

[drfranklin]

precip has changed to snow on I85 corridor in Upstate SC - light to mod snow here

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

Trying to flip back to all snow here

 

[BullCityWx]

HRRR still has half an inch of ZR in Orange and NW Durham

 

[Bannerdude]

Last 30-45 minutes of below freezing precip will be freezing rain, sleet is no more

 

[Metwannabe]

Transferring energy to coastal and it's about to go boom, look at the cooling cloud top streaks along SC coast

 

[MichaelJ]

currently moderate sleet, winds up to 25mph and 22.4/16.8 wind chill of -3

 

[NCSNOW]

I’m honestly surprised how long sleet has held on here.

Ditto. It hammered to.
Noticed we get snow sounding back around 6 to 630. Future radar shows a nice little band around 830 to 930. Mtns have a big backside band at this time. Be a great way to cap off with a half inch to inch. We have had to had over 2 inches of sleet heading toward 3. This on the inch of snowfall.

 

[Metwannabe]

32.4 temp slowly rising but all frozen over here now obviously, looks like about .1-.15 of ice accrual. Pressure dropping too and winds should start to crank in a few hours

 

[iGRXY]

Light freezing rain here but you with 850’s crashing and under freezing this is due to no moisture yet in the DGZ but snow reports back in Greenville tells me that’s changing quickly. Honestly looks like some snow trying to mix with it but it’s too hard to tell yet.

 

[Snowflowxxl]

Flake size finally increasing! Dropping quarters now and accumulating much faster

 

[dawg]

Pretty heavy snow sticking here