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Misc Winter Whamby 2020, a New Decade

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Brent said:
I have seen everything now "snow" in Palm Beach with temps well into the 50s :rolleyes: it's been 40 and raining here all day

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Just get the feeling something is brewing for next weekend somewhere in the SE. might be restricted to just the foothills and mtns of NC and TN, but something is brewing I think. Just my opinion.
 
Brent said:
I have seen everything now "snow" in Palm Beach with temps well into the 50s :rolleyes: it's been 40 and raining here all day

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:eek::eek: IF true, this is absolutely awesome!!! As a lover of following extremely rare events in strange places, this would be hard to beat!

And if so, even more kudos to @pcbjr for sniffing out that a very rare wintry event would occur deep in the SE! He'll be buying my lottery tickets from now on.

I had been speculating about possible flurries on the coast between Daytona and Canaveral based on models. But way on down there?!? No I wasn't at all as I thought it was too warm at 850. To be honest, I'm not yet buying this because 850s had already risen to ~+6 C at 1 PM (see below). They earlier had been as cold as ~+2 C. And the 2 meter temp was way up at 57 with a dewpoint way up at 48:
22 Jan 1:53 pm​
57​
48​
72​
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WNW​
17G28​
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7.00​
Lt Rain​
BKN026,BKN055,BKN070​
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So, how could there have been snow? The NWS thinks it is either just mist or graupel:

"The National Weather Service said what fell may be some graupel but not snow. Graupel is a soft ice pellet-looking precipitation, or small hail."

That's from here:

https://www.wflx.com/2020/01/22/video-snow-flurries-palm-beach-county-treasure-coast/
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"The National Weather Service said it believes what people actually saw was a light mist."

That's from here:

https://www.abc15.com/national/vide...s-spotted-in-palm-beach-county-treasure-coast
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Other opinions? Here are 850s from 1 PM: ~+6C
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Maybe I've forgotten what snow looks like since I haven't seen it fall out of the sky for two years now but that sure looks like snow... If anything else maybe a graupel shower because it looks like white stuff falling out of the sky.

I remember after a strong front came through a long time ago, there was people on facebook saying that it was snowing, and I went outside and there were these tiny little white pieces of ice falling. It was in the mid 40s.
 
I got like 4 inches from a lee side trough event like 10 years ago with temps in the mid 40’s so I know it can snow with scorching 2m’s
 
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