Little Rock radar looks neat

[wrkh99]

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... klzk.shtml

Could be some thunder snow

[Erica]

It's either that or bright banding, where the radar is picking up melting snowfalkes and sleet that aloft.

[Stormsfury]

Little Rock AFD confirms a lot of snow/sleet in the offing ... latest OBS at Little Rock and N Little Rock with light snow and snow respectively.

SF

[verycoolnin]

proablly a pocket of sleet

[David]

Looks cool.

[wrkh99]

I thought that it was lightning cause of some bad Lighting data plus the returns.


False alarm

[ColdFront77]

Generally yellows, oranges and even reds on the radar indicate sleet north and northwest of a warm front and heavy thunderstorm rains and/or hail south and southeast of the warm front.

The low pressure is currently located just south of Pensacola, FL, thus the low is southeast or Little rock, AR.

Also, winter mosaic radar clearly shows snow (white or blue, depending on winter mosaic being used) across all of Arkansas.

[WXBUFFJIM]

That looks more like bright banding to me, no question about it. Ice pellets such as sleet and melting snow take on a higher radar reflectivity. Thus what seems like thunderstorms after the fact turns out to be sleet instead. Still impressive to see an occasional heavy snow report from west central Arkansas tonight.

Jim

[Anonymous]

Check out this Intellicast radar.

You LUCKY Dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ENJOY THAT SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Jeb