Northeast U.S Snowstorm Dec 29, 2016 (meteorology, hours, live, Maine)
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Definitely a coastal storm feeling now. Wind picked up, and banding on radar.
Precip got so heavy that ice pellets were falling with the rain. 40° at surface. Can't be sleet, there's no cold layer under 4000'. So has to be mini Hail
Ah, you saw ice pellets too. Weird, midlevels must be cold
Pouring really hard on Long Island, think I was out in that yellow band with a few red spots. Looked like a few sleet pieces. Rather hard rain rates for a winter storm. If the precipitation rate is similar back home the snowfall rate must be very high.
It was hail. For sleet you need a warm layer above a cold layer underneath. We don't have that. It's now above freezing to about 3000 feet then just goes below freezing all the way up. So it was hail. Impressive indeed for a winter storm. Impressive vertical lifting going on.
And yeah, rates got interesting. This is part of the bombogenesis going on with the storm off the coast now. Snow rates are gonna get crazy for parts of New England!
Interstate 91 closed in BOTH directions near Brattleboro, VT on the NH/VT border.
It's going to get worse as the storm strengthens for NH & Maine and parts of MA
Yikes. That's about 45 miles north of me. I wonder when the last time that happened was?
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