Wintry King Kong Winter Storm Potential Feb 13th-16th

[craig827]

Heavy rain and 30.7 degrees in Haleyville in northwest Winston County. It briefly warmed up to 32.2 and has started to drop again. Trees and power lines are starting to get heavy coatings of ice.

 

[ghost1]

Wind driven sleet. Reducing visibility. This is insane!

I just looked and I am starting to get a few sleet pellets mixing with the rain. Hopeful this transition keeps moving in that direction

 

[HSVweather]

Thunder sleet in Starkville

 

[Tagat]

 

[HSVweather]

Seeing several reports of snow mixing with sleet in northwest Alabama.

 

[Brent]

What a mess

 

[Bama Ravens]

I will say this for those of us in central AL, particularly in places like Birmingham, we've got some pretty heavy rain headed our way. If it drops a decent amount of rain, it becomes less likely that it will all dry up before we get below freezing. That could mean a more significant black ice situation for tomorrow morning.

 

[Pup12]

Winds were out of NE for like 20 minutes and now shifted back to NW. Wouldn’t be surprised if we get hit harder here in in northern Madison County. Schools here have already closed for tomorrow

 

[EMTime]

what kind of precip now?

Sleet.

 

[HSVweather]

Winds were out of NE for like 20 minutes and now shifted back to NW. Wouldn’t be surprised if we get hit harder here in in northern Madison County. Schools here have already closed for tomorrow

I just dropped 2 degrees in a few minutes. Watching the PWS just to my west at 32

 

[ghost1]

I just looked and I am starting to get a few sleet pellets mixing with the rain. Hopeful this transition keeps moving in that direction

The transition was pretty quick... just about all sleet now a my house

 

[HSVweather]

 

[LovingGulfLows]

Austin just got it's biggest snowstorm since 1949! Widespread 4-6 inch amounts. Historic Mongolian sfc high = historic Madrid snowfall. Historic Alaskan sfc High = Historic Austin, San Antonio, and Houston snowfall.

The super-hyped SSWE did it's job this winter even if it didn't affect my area.

 

[Dewpoint Dan]

Austin just got it's biggest snowstorm since 1949! Widespread 4-6 inch amounts. Historic Mongolian sfc high = historic Madrid snowfall. Historic Alaskan sfc High = Historic Austin, San Antonio, and Houston snowfall.

The super-hyped SSWE did it's job this winter even if it didn't affect my area.

I thought Austin had like 6" not long ago ?

 

[Flotown]

heavy sleet ,down to 24 briefly got to 29

 

[HSVweather]

 

[Darklordsuperstorm]

Currently 45 with a heavy rain storm in hoover. High winds as well

 

[La Plata]

Got up to 49 degrees, in SW Jefferson near the Tuscaloosa Co line, during the heavy rain we experienced earlier. Less than 25 minutes later I'm back down to 43. Crazy to watch the temperature rapidly rise and then fall like that.

I don't think the models have a good handle on the location, depth, or movement of this airmass. There may be a number of people who end up getting surprised by a brief changeover that causes significant travel issues or a major black ice issue due to how quickly the temp may drop below freezing before roads and other surfaces can dry out.

 

[olhausen]

This is what it looked like this morning. I measured between a half inch to 3 quarters of inch of sleet. Round 2 is starting now and I can here sleet slamming against the garage door! The temps are the big story and none of this is going away anytime soon.

 

[HSVweather]

Heavy rain here and 33, wind has really picked up from NNW