January '10 Weather Discussion

[oknacreous]

Looks like today's event basically shaped up as expected 24 to 36 hours ago. Major ice storm in the corridor from Duncan/Hobart to Purcell/Pauls Valley with widespread power outages and tree damage. Sleet farther north including OKC with 1" or better accumulation on top of the 1/4 to 1/2 inch of ice. Significant snows are staying far to the northwest in a band from north of Amarillo to Gage/Arnett and Enid, where some spots will get 6-10" (reports of more than a foot north of Amarillo).

Light freezing drizzle and a few brief light sleet showers tonight with no significant additional accumulations. Roads still crappy in the morning.

Tomorrow as the system departs an area of light-moderate snow is likely to develop late morning in the Duncan/Lawton/Norman area and spread northeast toward Tulsa/Muskogee during the afternoon. A band of 1 to 3" accumulation appears likely with this, but it appears it might miss north/west OKC to the east.

[Soonerus]

...on this winter storm...

[ssandedoc]

The rural communities outside of OKC haven't dodged this one. We are lucky to have power at the moment in OKC. Doesn't mean this won't change in the next few hours.

[Dustin]

I doubt central okc will lose power tonight. All they are predicting is snow with light freezing drizzle

[kevinpate]

Since I'm not as far south as Purcell, the biggest threat so far here in Norman appears to be a grader/plow with a speed fetish.

I've lived on a main road for over a decade. Before tonight, I've never seen a one of these chaps blaze through fast enough to scattergun golf ball to softball size chunks from the street up to our porch and on top of the vehicles in the driveway.

If I wasn't ticked off, I'd probably be mildly impressed with the distance achieved. Fortunately, the vehicles have a nice thick ice barrier to (hopefully) protect the finish, and my lad was inside and not out in the yard when the speed freak came through.

[Soonerus]

The rural communities outside of OKC haven't dodged this one. We are lucky to have power at the moment in OKC. Doesn't mean this won't change in the next few hours.

We dodged, if it was even legit to begin with....

[ShiroiHikari]

My porch is pretty icy but the roads seem to be okay here in Norman.

[Thunder]

While everyone been sleeping, we've been dealing with light to moderate freezing rain and sleet in the metro. Many on here will be waking up to see everything more thickly coated with the shiny glass-like ice. Roads is beyond hazardous. Only a matter of time for widespread power outage in the metro.

[gen70]

While everyone been sleeping, we've been dealing with light to moderate freezing rain and sleet in the metro. Many on here will be waking up to see everything more thickly coated with the shiny glass-like ice. Roads is beyond hazardous. Only a matter of time for widespread power outage in the metro.

Evort
Panic bitches..

[Thunder]

132,000 statewide is without power.

[OKCMallen]

Roads are pretty bad. Definitely passable, but pretty bad.

[venture]

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0087
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1141 AM CST FRI JAN 29 2010

AREAS AFFECTED...NRN AR AND ERN-NERN OK

CONCERNING...HEAVY SNOW

VALID 291741Z - 292145Z

POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR 1 IN/HR SNOWFALL RATES ACROSS NRN AR INTO
PORTIONS OF ERN-NERN OK THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

RECENT SATELLITE IMAGERY REVEALS AN EXPANDING AREA OF COOLING CLOUD
TOPS LOCATED IMMEDIATELY AHEAD OF A S/W TROUGH LIFTING NEWD ACROSS
THE RED RIVER VALLEY OF NRN TX/SRN OK. SHIELD OF PRECIPITATION HAS
SUBSEQUENTLY DEVELOPED WITH THIS SATELLITE FEATURE...WITH
PRECIPITATION TYPE AT 17Z IN THE FORM OF RAIN OVER SERN OK
TRANSITIONING TO SNOW /MIXED WITH OCCASIONAL SLEET/ TOWARD CENTRAL
AND NERN OK AS WELL AS NRN AR. AS 850 MB JET CONTINUES TO SHIFT EWD
AWAY FROM THE REGION...ANY REMAINING WARM LAYER WOULD BE MORE PRONE
TO COOLING...ALLOWING THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES TO FALL BELOW FREEZING
AND RESULTING IN PREDOMINANT PRECIPITATION TYPE IN THE FORM OF SNOW.
SNOWFALL RATES COULD APPROACH 1 IN/HR AS UVV/S BECOME MAXIMIZED
WITHIN MID LEVEL DEFORMATION ZONE...WHICH IS FORECAST TO RESIDE
ACROSS MUCH OF NRN AR WWD INTO ERN-NERN OK DURING THE AFTERNOON.

..GARNER.. 01/29/2010

[PennyQuilts]

We lost power for about an hour and a half, last night, but it came back. I discovered the source of my bright flashes - not lightning. Ahem. I'd set up a time lapse camera just for the fun of it and it was taking pictures. I am such a dork.

[sacolton]

ENOUGH SNOW ALREADY! It's been snowing non-stop for eight hours!

[LIL_WAYNE_2012_PREZIDENT]

is it okay for me to go out and drive?

[Uncle Slayton]

Traffic in Norman seems to be moving along well enough. Just the usual people with stopping distance issues and the damn fools who scrape a tiny hole in the ice on the windshield and drive their igloo down the road.

The shelves at the west side WalMart looked like a swarm of plague locusts had hit them.

[Bunty]

If you're brave enough.

[sacolton]

Everything is a complete white-out. I can't tell the yards from the streets ... and it's still coming down hard!

[venture]

This type of snowfall today has me home sick a bit for the Great Lakes. LOL

Very pretty outside. Thankfully it won't be 80 tomorrow to melt it all right away like usual.

[BrettL]

This type of snowfall today has me home sick a bit for the Great Lakes. LOL

Very pretty outside. Thankfully it won't be 80 tomorrow to melt it all right away like usual.

Yeah I am from MN and love this. I can do without the cold though.

[venture]

[venture]

Can confirm the 7-8" on this side of Norman. Over night things compacted a bit, as expected with snow, looks like probably about an inch or so lost as things settled.

[PennyQuilts]

I think we got about 5 - 6 inches of snow on top of the ice. Turned pretty.

[westsidesooner]

This type of snowfall today has me home sick a bit for the Great Lakes. LOL

Very pretty outside. Thankfully it won't be 80 tomorrow to melt it all right away like usual.

I'm sooooooo glad it changed over to sleet when it did Thursday...

It reminded me of the kind of snow they get in Colorado. I didn;t make it up there this winter to go skiing, so it was really nice to see a beautiful snow that stuck to the trees without too much wind. Looks like we ended up with about 5" according to the snowbear stick. Here some pics I took yesterday and this morning....as always, they're best viewed by clicking the "full screen" option on the top left.

icestorm2010 | Slideshow

[PennyQuilts]

Nice pictures. I love that area.