[Cambium]

Sunday we're getting 1"+ of liquid which will be Rain

Wednesday we're getting all snow but its less than 1/4" liquid.

24th Storm... POOF. VANISHED. GOODBYE. ADIOS. GONE. Now showing a clipper or nothing. Will it come back?



Is it over yet?

[Cambium]

BDL reporting Light snow from Streamers off the Lakes.

Wind gusts over 30mph here. Binghamton reporting 1/2 mile visibility with snow.

A look at the wind gust reports and whos reporting snow.

[Cambium]

Whats better than 30s and Rain?

50s and Rain! Long Range Flip Flops here. GFS says these will be the temps Jan 29th with rain again.

I think someone is going to see 3-5" with the Clipper on Wednesday

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by Cambium

BDL reporting Light snow from Streamers off the Lakes.

Wind gusts over 30mph here. Binghamton reporting 1/2 mile visibility with snow.

A look at the wind gust reports and whos reporting snow.

Yeah, unfortunately I can tell you that you have to really strain your eyes to see the tiny grains of snow...

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

Yeah, unfortunately I can tell you that you have to really strain your eyes to see the tiny grains of snow...

Thanks, I noticed "Light Snow" also means flurries when it's reported. Judging by the radar at the time looks like you're right. Thanks for the confirmation.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Thanks, I noticed "Light Snow" also means flurries when it's reported. Judging by the radar at the time looks like you're right. Thanks for the confirmation.

Wouldnt they report that as "flurries" then?

[jp03]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

Wouldnt they report that as "flurries" then?

//man we are really getting desperate We need a good storm. BAD on this forum. LOL

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

Wouldnt they report that as "flurries" then?

To be honest I'm not 100% sure.. I know my software has 3 colors for the snow icon. Light blue, regular blue, dark blue representing Light, regular/moderate, & heavy.

I believe in the hourly report they do type flurries in, but on the metars they don't have one for Flurries. The only intensity shown is Light, regular, moderate, and heavy. So flurries would fall under the light obviously. http://weather.cod.edu/notes/metar.html

The other thing is, I believe for Flurries you literally need someone looking out the window to identify it as opposed maybe a sensor which is picking up the snow?

Let me ask someone who would know for sure.

[Kamsack]

Originally Posted by Cambium

To be honest I'm not 100% sure.. I know my software has 3 colors for the snow icon. Light blue, regular blue, dark blue representing Light, regular/moderate, & heavy.

I believe in the hourly report they do type flurries in, but on the metars they don't have one for Flurries. The only intensity shown is Light, regular, moderate, and heavy. So flurries would fall under the light obviously. http://weather.cod.edu/notes/metar.html

The other thing is, I believe for Flurries you literally need someone looking out the window to identify it as opposed maybe a sensor which is picking up the snow?

Let me ask someone who would know for sure.

Hi

NWS forecaster here... and for observations as was alluded to by Cambium there is only -SN, SN and +SN, based on visibilities. So for any observation directly decoded there is light snow, snow and heavy snow.

Now, what is flurries vs light snow is more up for human interpretation. Many times I may call an observation with p6sm -sn as flurries as it is a very light snowfall with no visibility reduction. Back in the manual observation days we could put remarks at the end such as INMT when reporting say 10SM -SN to indicate a very light fall.

But in the world of observations there is no designation for flurries, it is up human interpretation. The link provided by Cambium is very good and answers all the metar code questions.

--Dan

[7 Wishes]

Thanks Cambium and Kamsack, makes sense