What's your weather currently?

[jakeroot]

Some pretty cool weather last Friday in DC...

https://twitter.com/jakeroot/status/1110185790657708032

[MNHighwayMan]

That's nuts, and awesome! I don't know/remember if I've ever seen something like that before.

[jakeroot]

That's nuts, and awesome! I don't know/remember if I've ever seen something like that before.

I know it's something I've never seen! We couldn't decide what it was that was falling. Built up on surfaces very quickly.

[noelbotevera]

That's nuts, and awesome! I don't know/remember if I've ever seen something like that before.

I know it's something I've never seen! We couldn't decide what it was that was falling. Built up on surfaces very quickly.

I was going to presume hail, but that's like no hail I've seen before.

Meanwhile, in the Great Southern Pennsylvania Rainforest...
-Clear/partly cloudy for three days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), highs in the 50s
-Cloudy and rainy for three days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday), highs in the 70s; Sunday has a high of 52
-Back to sunny on Monday; high of 49

Mmm, delicious climate change.

[MNHighwayMan]

That's nuts, and awesome! I don't know/remember if I've ever seen something like that before.

I know it's something I've never seen! We couldn't decide what it was that was falling. Built up on surfaces very quickly.

I was going to presume hail, but that's like no hail I've seen before.

Yeah, that would be the softest/most mushy hail I've ever seen. Watching the video again, it kind of just looks like some really intense rain/snow mixture. Hard to say without having been there, though.

[jeffandnicole]

Because of the storm and severe weather, it was most likely hail.  It probably formed within the clouds, then once it became too heavy it fell to the ground.

Sleet would've started falling as snow.  While possible, it was a fairly warm day.  The leading edges of the storm probably would've been snow as well if this was sleet.

The end result of either: It's icy balls.  Good sleet/hail storms can have an accumulation before it melts.

[Roadgeekteen]

22 and sunny, high of 44.

[Mark68]

Denver currently:

Partly Cloudy and 42, headed for a high of 70 (our first 70 degree day since the end of October).

[US 89]

Because of the storm and severe weather, it was most likely hail.  It probably formed within the clouds, then once it became too heavy it fell to the ground.

Sleet would've started falling as snow.  While possible, it was a fairly warm day.  The leading edges of the storm probably would've been snow as well if this was sleet.

The end result of either: It's icy balls.  Good sleet/hail storms can have an accumulation before it melts.

I was going to go with graupel, which is just a fancy word for snow pellets. It's fairly common in cold-weather convective storms, such as thunderstorms and lake-effect snow showers. The mechanics for forming it are somewhat similar, but hail is much harder. The precip in that video was falling apart as it hit the windshield, which likely rules out sleet (ice pellets) or hail. But the distinction is subtle with smaller hail, and in fact the same METAR code (GS) is used to describe both. Larger hail gets the GR code.

[MNHighwayMan]

Here's a video I took on February 6th of actual sleet/ice pellets. Way different from jakeroot's video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLzAFvT2Msc

[ET21]

Because of the storm and severe weather, it was most likely hail.  It probably formed within the clouds, then once it became too heavy it fell to the ground.

Sleet would've started falling as snow.  While possible, it was a fairly warm day.  The leading edges of the storm probably would've been snow as well if this was sleet.

The end result of either: It's icy balls.  Good sleet/hail storms can have an accumulation before it melts.

I was going to go with graupel, which is just a fancy word for snow pellets. It's fairly common in cold-weather convective storms, such as thunderstorms and lake-effect snow showers. The mechanics for forming it are somewhat similar, but hail is much harder. The precip in that video was falling apart as it hit the windshield, which likely rules out sleet (ice pellets) or hail. But the distinction is subtle with smaller hail, and in fact the same METAR code (GS) is used to describe both. Larger hail gets the GR code.

Definitely looks like graupel, the dip-n-dots of weather

[jakeroot]

Here's an image (a bit after the fact) of what accumulated. Like an icy snow:

[ET21]

Slop lol. When you have snow, graupel, and rain all mix

[jakeroot]

Slop lol. When you have snow, graupel, and rain all mix

Snaipel!

[ipeters61]

Just something I thought I'd share, this is from the rain that occurred on Friday evening here.  It rained pretty much from the moment I left the grocery store to when I got home (so less than 10 minutes), and the rainbow came just in time for me to get my camera!  To be fair, it was raining some time earlier in the day that day, but I don't have a window at my desk at work, so I don't know when exactly.

[Roadgeekteen]

27 and sunny, high of 46.

[Roadgeekteen]

31 and sunny, high of 53.

[Eth]

38 and sunny this morning with a high of 66. One of those annoying days where I need a jacket for my morning commute that I'll have to stuff into my backpack later.

[Ben114]

43 currently tonight, looking at some rain and a high of 54 tomorrow, 65 on Saturday, and back to 40s Monday

[Roadgeekteen]

47 and cloudy

[Roadgeekteen]

65 and sunny (wow)

[Bruce]

Sunny in the low 60s. The famous UW cherry blossoms are starting to reach their peak bloom.

https://twitter.com/ChrisDaniels5/status/1112107701314547712

[ipeters61]

It reached 76 degrees in Dover today.  I went up to Wilmington's Brandywine Park (my favorite place in all of Delaware) and saw the cherry blossoms starting to bloom.  The blossoms at the Governor's House in Dover are pretty close to peak bloom.

Photo at Brandywine Park.

[Buck87]

36 degrees and snowing for the first time in a few weeks. Could get at much as an inch tonight, with temps dropping below freezing and staying that way until tomorrow's forecasted high of 34 in the afternoon.

March is not exactly going out like a lamb.

[Roadgeekteen]

60 with clouds