The Dreaded Red/Green Line.....Moving North up the Coast!

[Anonymous]

Please see this webpage for the latest, and here's hoping you won't have to put up with all that sleet and rain slop!!!

I know that feeling very well. I've been dejectedly sitting here, watching the steady rain sogging out and slushing my once-beautiful 5 to 6 inches of snow into a 2 to 3 inch slushpile. It isn't exactly uplifting if you know what I mean. It's heck to shovel too, max heavy and it slides right out of the shovel.



Enjoy your snow and lets keep a lookout for that Dreaded Rain/Sleet/Slop Line!


-Jeb

[Colin]

It's been sleeting here for the last hour or two...a coating of it all over, and it's really slippery. Yuck.

[Anonymous]

It's been sleeting here for the last hour or two...a coating of it all over, and it's really slippery. Yuck.

How much snow you get before you got hit with the sleet?

[Colin]

About 4" ... now it looks like significant icing may be a concern.

[roarusdogus]

About 4" ... now it looks like significant icing may be a concern.

Sleet doesn't cause to many problems, it's freezing rain that causes nightmares.

[Anonymous]

About 4" ... now it looks like significant icing may be a concern.

Sleet doesn't cause to many problems, it's freezing rain that causes nightmares.

I agree with roarusdogus there. Colin, if you still have low to mid 20s sfc temps and you get a mix of FRZRA and sleet or just plain freezing rain, watch out. Those frigid surface temps will allow the freezing rain to pull all the stops out in building ice accumulations on tree branches and powerlines.

I know that freezing rain crap all too well. 1993-1994 was an ice season for the Mid Atlantic. On Monday, Jan 19, 1994 we got an inch and a half of ice from heavy freezing rain that fell for a few hours that evening, in 19 degree conditions. I was out walking around in that stuff like a fool. I didn't believe the forecast, thought we'd get snow. That ice got on everything, Some folks couldn't even get in their cars!! Ice covered the handles so thick, the door couldn't be opened! I had a lot of trouble walking on the road, so I got a brilliant idea: I tried walking on the grass.

No deal: The grass was a sheet of ice too. It was just as slippery. There was this hill on the way home. I had to climb it. It was really embarrassing. I would get partway up, then slither back down to the bottom again. It was very slippery. It took awhile, but with a lot of grit and careful, patient determination, I finally managed to scale that ice-covered hill without busting up my lower back or a leg or a wrist. Lots of people did that night, I was one of the lucky ones.

You can't be too careful with freezing rain and temps like the ones you have. There's gonna be a good deal of ice accumulation there, if you get freezing rain.


-Jeb