51 and liquiding lightly. May be the sun angle? Sun is out, barely above the horizon, creating a yellowish-orange sky. Sailors warning liquid snow alert!
Temp will drop fast later today when the front passes. RAH saying folks along and north of US64 should see a little snow or sleet:
Non-liquid precip chances: As models converge on an agreed-upon
common timing of precip and vertical
thermal structure, confidence
is fairly high that the northern Piedmont and northern Coastal Plain
(roughly along and N of Hwy 64) will see some wet flakes and/or
sleet pellets mixing in with the rain on the back edge of the
precip. But based on how the strongest and deepest lift (including
fgen and that aforementioned strengthening upper
divergence) is
lining up vertically and temporally with the arrival of the cold air
and within the DGZ, I have some concerns that we`ll see a short
period of sufficiently high precip rates to switch us over to mostly
snow and sleet for a brief time, although
likely no more than an
hour. While the ground should be warm enough to prevent accumulation
there (
NC State
Climate Office agnet stations confirm this), heavy
enough rates may produce a light coating on elevated surfaces.
Confidence in this scenario is not high enough to warrant any
mention of accumulation at this time. But this is certainly
something to be watched closely this morning.