Snow in Barbados??

[abajan]

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TBPB.html
In reference to the above link, can someone kindly explain what the "light snow grains" observed at 3:00 PM are?

[drezee]

hail

[Air Force Met]

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TBPB.html
In reference to the above link, can someone kindly explain what the "light snow grains" observed at 3:00 PM are?

I believe it to be a human error. I think they meant -SHRA...but hit the G key instead of the H key...and then didn't check their product before it went out....so it read -SGRA...instead of -SHRA (which is light rain showers).

[Ola]

LOL must be some typo, cause if it was hail it wouldnt be light.

[drezee]

Somalia had a hail storm last month and called it snow

[Brent]

I used to live in another town and the reporting station(the airport) was about a mile down the road... one summer night when it was about 85 out they reported snow and then a few nights later they reported "fire".

[senorpepr]

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TBPB.html
In reference to the above link, can someone kindly explain what the "light snow grains" observed at 3:00 PM are?

I believe it to be a human error. I think they meant -SHRA...but hit the G key instead of the H key...and then didn't check their product before it went out....so it read -SGRA...instead of -SHRA (which is light rain showers).

Yes, AFM makes a great point. It's a simple typo on the METAR. -SGRA versus -SHRA. (The H and the G are right next to each other)

As for the "LOL must be some typo, cause if it was hail it wouldnt be light" statement, well... you're right. Hail cannot have an intensity, but the precip it is associated with can. -SHRAGS or light rainshowers and grauple (small hail) is common, although normally associated with a thunderstorm (-TSRAGS).

That's my METAR speech for the evening.

[mobilebay]

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TBPB.html
In reference to the above link, can someone kindly explain what the "light snow grains" observed at 3:00 PM are?

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

I thought it got cold in you know where for a second

[mobilebay]

It might have been evaporational cooling!

[dhweather]

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TBPB.html
In reference to the above link, can someone kindly explain what the "light snow grains" observed at 3:00 PM are?

I'd say it's a sign of the apocolypse, but what do I know.

[HURAKAN]

Let me tell you that here in Miami the penguins have been doing some visits from Antarctica, (they were brought by plane) to enjoy the frigid waters.

I remember those years before the Ice Age began when we had a fun summer tracking tropical cyclones!

[mobilebay]

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/TBPB.html
In reference to the above link, can someone kindly explain what the "light snow grains" observed at 3:00 PM are?

That has got to be the coolest thing ever. To live in the Lesser Antilles.

[Brent]

It's the Day After Tomorrow coming true!!!

[msbee]

my husband swears it will snow some day in the Caribbean!
could this be it???

[jimvb]

Senorpepr said they may have typed SGRA instead of SHRA. I looked up SHRA on the Web and found that it means "rain showers". I.e., "SHowersRAin". That same reference said that "snow grains" was SG. I could not find SGRA anywhere meaning something meteorological. I take it that these abbreviations can be combined, so that SGRA would mean "snow grains and rain". In other words, it was both graining and raining out. Is that correct, that the abbreviations can be combined like that?

[jimvb]

Senorpepr said they may have typed SGRA instead of SHRA. I looked up SHRA on the Web and found that it means "rain showers". I.e., "SHowersRAin". That same reference said that "snow grains" was SG. I could not find SGRA anywhere meaning something meteorological. I take it that these abbreviations can be combined, so that SGRA would mean "snow grains and rain". In other words, it was both graining and raining out. Is that correct, that the abbreviations can be combined like that?