Deep South Winterwx Discussion 2015-2016

[Steve]

Rapid Update Cycle for 20z likes Hammond, hattiesburg, and SW AL in a SW/NE band latest into tonight. 5 hours and there is still moderate precip. Check the per hour stuff.

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[cycloneye]

Saved radar loop.

[momwalker1966]

I'm in Friendsville Tn outside of Knoxville, so I could be in the wrong forum. We were only supposed to have really cold temps, it's 18 now. We have ended up with 2-3 inches of snow/ice(still lightly snowing). They didn't cancel schools and other businesses until 10am. What a mess. Many families just trying to get home right now in East Tn.

[windnrain]

Man it is still coming down HARD in Baton Rouge. Hardest it has yet.

[Jag95]

Yard is almost completely white with sleet now. NWS still saying that we have a chance for an inch or two of snow before it moves out.

The radar is showing RED echos just to my north. Still more fun to come.

[Frank P]

Biloxi at 29 deg, frozen slush in my back yard about 1/2 inch... Sleet girl and I just chillin and having an adult beverage enjoying the winter ice event on the coast...



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[windnrain]

Streets in Baton Rouge completely impassable. I can't even imagine I10.

[SunnyThoughts]

NWS Mobile ‏@NWSMobile 1m

HEADS UP!! MT @DerekBeasleyWX Mobile County public work vehicles are being pulled off the road. Officials say it's no longer safe #mobwx

[Alacane2]

Birmingham was supposed to only have a dusting of snow. My sister sent her children to school and daycare, and she and her husband went to work. Then schools were closed early. My sister has been in traffic since 10am trying to get to her daughter's school (its now 5:30). Now the road she is on is closed, and she can go no further tonight, and her daughter is going to have to stay at school. This was a forecast failure in the Birmingham area.

[SunnyThoughts]

snowing now just to the east of Pensacola...small tiny flakes...but its snow hopefully the freezing rain is over...got icicles hanging off of everything.

[NewOrleans59]

Any shot for another round of winter precip. from flare up of disturbance showing up in and off the coast of Texas?

Clouds thickening up.

[hurricanehunter69]

Thank god I got out of that casino! I was worried I would be stuck at work throughout the event! I gotta say, it was absolutely awesome out in the parking lot! Heavy sleet storm with flurries mixed in[Bay St Louis MS]. Nice accumulation of sleet and everything is coated with a decent layer of ice! Now I'm waiting on the snow! I absolutely love this weather! God, I wish we could get these events every year!

[SeGaBob]

32 here with unknown precip... dewpoint is also 32. Is there any significance for the dewpoint and the temp both being at freezing or not?

[Brent]

Kids are spending the night at schools in the Birmingham and Atlanta metros, absolutely insane. The NW trend and the early start created massive chaos. TV stations have been in rolling coverage all day.

I have about 4" on the ground, forecast was for an inch.

[rsvh2000]

Bust here in Columbia, SC...snowpocalypse!!

[northjaxpro]

Yeah, pretty impressive Brent. 4 inches at your locale.

Meanwhile, I touched on thisz earlier today and now the NAM and GFS is showing additional pieces of shortwave energy streaming across the GOM and will form a secondary area of Low Presuure just north of the Northern Bahamas area by late Wednesday night along the barocliniic zone. This will allow moisture to hang back aross areazs of extereme North and Northeast Florida and areas along the coast late Wednesday all the way into Thursday morning. Thermal profiles going into Wednesday evening into Thursday morning would support sleet and even light snow across the I-10 corridor to the Jax area. This is what prompted the NWS Jax office to issue Winter Storm Watches for Jax metrofrom Wednesday night into Thursday.

I will be closely watching this the next 36 hours.

[Janie2006]

32 here with unknown precip... dewpoint is also 32. Is there any significance for the dewpoint and the temp both being at freezing or not?

Not particularly, aside from the facts that (1) it's 0*C and (2) you have saturation of the atmosphere, relative humidity = 100%

[SeGaBob]

32 here with unknown precip... dewpoint is also 32. Is there any significance for the dewpoint and the temp both being at freezing or not?

Not particularly, aside from the facts that (1) it's 0*C and (2) you have saturation of the atmosphere, relative humidity = 100%

Ok thanks.... waiting on the snow now.

[bella_may]

The radar is showing that it's snowing at my house but it's nothing but sleet. Weird. :/

[WXfan212]

seem like these winter systems throw curveballs that no one saw coming like this one with the larger amounts of snow in areas that were only forecasted to get a dusting maybe that is me just noticing small things though. Anyway as of now the sleet/ice has ended now to see if i can at least see some flakes if not this was impressive for a southern winter storm