Wintry Jan 23-27 Winter Storm Obs

[Flo]

Idk if it’s 32 or 33 and if stuff is melting or sticking but I’m glad I got to see frozen weather with no lasting issues. It’s still falling lightly all I want is something pretty in the morning and to reel in next week after attempting to avoid model watching for a few days. But we all know that won’t happen for any of us.

 

[Snow_chaser]

Very wet misty fog here in NW Paulding county. Temp back down to 37° side roads are very wet. Going to be interesting in the morning

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

The most stressful track of my 20 years doing this. Bar none. A week of sleep loss I’ll never get back. Had that high pressure been a tick weaker or in a different position or that 50/50 had slid out just a skosh early we’d all be singing a different tune right now. The data said prepare for impact and it was undeniable. For once, something went our way.

 

[iGRXY]

I literally just said the same thing to the Wife LoL....and that we were so close to this being a complete disaster for more folks than it was by just a few degrees

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The sleet lasting about 6 hours longer overnight and into the morning absolutely saved me. I was around 0.15” going into that final band. I got 2.5x that amount in 2 1/2 hours just from that band. I didn’t measure the sleet but I had to have had at least 1” of it or just over that amount. Flip that liquid from sleet to ZR and I would’ve been pushing 0.5” before that last band came through. The 925’s being as cold as they were absolutely saved us this time

 

[CltNative90]

Woodlawn Road, Charlotte,NC

 

[SnowDeac]

Maybe banter, but anyone have thoughts about driving from Sunset Beach up 74 to Charlotte tomorrow AM? Thinking it should be OK with temps getting above freezing and the sun doing its work?

 

[Goose88]

Just saw a video of flurries down in Lafayette,La

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

@Mitch West bump

Ball don’t lie

 

[NorthHillsWx]

Temp maxed out just over 30 here but down back into 20s now. Estimating 3/4” IP and .15” ZR. If it wasn’t for the frigid temps all day this would be a non event but with cold ground and air it was definitely high impact from travel perspective. Great sledding and the kids had fun sun up till sun down

 

[malak05]

Yeah that Misty Fog just sorta reinforced the trees/roads with more moisture on top of what came in earlier today. I am sitting at 33 now and a very cold stiff air will freeze up a bunch will be a icy mess in morning

 

[Roswellian]

Wind coming in now. Not super strong but blowing ice off the branches into the house. Stepped outside and the crackling noise is enough to make your skin crawl.

 

[superjames1992]

Freezing fog now.

 

[HDGator]

28/26 here in Lewisville. It is such a relief to not have that ZR hanging over our heads and to be able to enjoy the night with power.
We really dodged a bullet today. Had some light snow mixing in at the end as I was trying to shovel a path through the deck. Everything has a solid crust on top from that ZR mixing in at the end. The dog (pictured left) was not happy with the icy crust on top during the trip outside tonight. Final numbers here are:

IP/SN - 2.5"
ZR ~ 0.1"

It's going to take a while for this pile of sleet to go away. I'm thinking March ...

 

[JimBobs]

Kinda spooky but cool, freezing fog in CLT right now.

 

[olhausen]

Did not end well here. Power out still 15 hours later. In a hotel room after a 3 hour road trip normally 20 minutes away.

 

[Brent]

The cold is definitely verifying even if the 2 feet did not

 

[StormStalker]

Light snow falling here now late in the game. Got a nice dusting. Every flake is sticking because the ground is frozen.

 

[winterwx]

We have snow falling in Ellijay GA at 1800ft last hour, already a dusting

 

[wow]

I have been trying to delay the inevitable. Ugh

 

[Shadypines33]

Aaaand it's finally snowing in Alabama. It's 16F and the flakes are tiny, but we have a dusting here just north of Huntsville.

 

[GiantBear]

It looked like a decent frost outside this morning, but upon further investigation, appears we got some flurries last night, enough for a dusting on the patio furniture

 

[chapelhillwx]

I was about to say the same thing. Just noticed this very light dusting.

 

[jackendrickwx]

we may have tacked on a tiny bit more ZR overnight. maybe an extra .03" or something, something like 0.1-0.15" here

 

[crecre9]

Light snow currently and a surprise dusting on everything this morning.

 

[jackendrickwx]

Sun through the glaze this morning

 

[FallsLake]

Boone is getting it this morning:

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Not sure if it's still tied to this storm system. More upslope from the cold front.

 

[jackendrickwx]

Boone is getting it this morning:

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Not sure if it's still tied to this storm system. More upslope from the cold front.

Wow, that's an impressive shower. Wind is kicking up there today, it is indeed a cold front pulling through



But just enough lingering low-level moisture thanks to the system from yesterday

 

[cyclogent]

Few flurries here. Caught a pic when the sun was peaking thru the clouds.

P.S. I need to clean the top of my lens lol

 

[LukeBarrette]

Well

 

[Engeo]

 

[Showmeyourtds]

Gonna put this one into the nothing sammich category of ice storms. Might've gotten 'twixt a quarter & half inch before getting slightly above freezing late yesterday. Roads ended up just being wet and the temp never got below 29.1 at my station despite short rangers putting me as low as 24-26. That, combined with hardly any sleet kept things fine here in E Cherokee county GA.

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

That DrizzleSnizzle sun angle doing work already

 

[SuperNET]

Monroe ended with .5 IP/Snow and equivalent moisture of .51". Very pleased we did not get the brunt of this storm -

 

[Brent9]

A little SW of Clover SC ended with a little over an inch in IP/SN and a little glaze to .10 of ZR.. not bad 85-90% of this was IP

 

[NorthHillsWx]

Managed to make my 1/2” of sleet look like we had a snowstorm in my driveway

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

@Webberweather53 here was the accumulation on my truck this afternoon if this helps with your map later. iPhone for reference

 

[jackendrickwx]

Some roads might be dry before the day ends. I’m not gonna act like I didn’t think it would take longer to melt this

 

[superjames1992]

Insane melting. The road out front is dry in some places now. Sun angle doing work. Things don’t work like the used to.

 

[superjames1992]

Some roads might be dry before the day ends. I’m not gonna act like I didn’t think it would take longer to melt this View attachment 189562

It’s wild, I thought the cold ground temps would help this but it seems it doesn’t matter. When the sun is out, it’s over. Sun angle. I bet we’d have less melting if it were 55 and cloudy.

 

[NoSnowATL]

@Webberweather53 here was the accumulation on my truck this afternoon if this helps with your map later. iPhone for reference View attachment 189560

Pretty phone protector