Portastorm wrote:KeriCarter wrote:Still sleeting heavily here in Texarkana. My picnic table has a good film of frozen precip on it and the yard and pastures are so white it looks like snow. Sleet is not melting on contact with the ground or driveway as it usually does even though the temp is 31. Do the weather gurus have any idea of what we can expect here? I am on the Arkansas side of Texarkana

I hope that doesn't mean I have to vacate the forum for being a Texas imposter.
You're welcome here Keri as long as you don't do that "soeey pig" stuff!
Here's the latest advisory per NWS Shreveport for your area:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
417 PM CST TUE FEB 11 2014
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH LOUISIANA AND
PORTIONS OF DEEP EAST TEXAS AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE FOUR STATE AREA THROUGH 6AM WEDNESDAY...
ARZ070-071-TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149-150-152-165-
121200-
/O.CON.KSHV.WW.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-140212T1200Z/
MILLER-LAFAYETTE-RED RIVER-BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-
WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG-HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-NACOGDOCHES-
ANGELINA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TEXARKANA...LEWISVILLE...CLARKSVILLE...
MT VERNON...MT PLEASANT...PITTSBURG...DAINGERFIELD...ATLANTA...
QUITMAN...GILMER...JEFFERSON...TYLER...LONGVIEW...MARSHALL...
RUSK...HENDERSON...NACOGDOCHES...LUFKIN
417 PM CST TUE FEB 11 2014
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST
WEDNESDAY...
* EVENT...THE SECONDARY ROUND OF PRECIPITATION CONTINUES MOVING
INTO SOUTH ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...BRINGING RAIN AND SLEET
WITH A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION THIS EVENING. A MIX OF SNOW
AND SLEET WILL LINGER INTO THE EARLY MORNING WITH STORM TOTAL
ICE ACCUMULATIONS REMAINING BELOW ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH AND AN
INCH OR TWO OF SNOW.
* TIMING...BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL SUPPORT ICE
ACCUMULATIONS IN THE ADVISORY AREA THROUGH THE EVENING AND INTO
OVERNIGHT HOURS BEFORE ENDING.
* IMPACT...ICING OF ELEVATED OBJECTS...SUCH AS BRIDGES AND
OVERPASSES...AND TREES AND POWER LINES...IS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH
SOME SECONDARY ROADWAYS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF RAIN...SLEET AND
EVENTUAL FREEZING RAIN AND SOME LIGHT SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL
DIFFICULTIES THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY
ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.