Where’s the Snow?

If you’re trying to watch the flurries on radar, odds are unless you’re within 40 miles of a NEXRAD site (Calera, Hytop, or Greenwood Springs-Columbus, Miss.), you won’t see the snow with anything but your eyes. That’s because it’s literally flying under the radar! These flurries are forming somewhere in the lowest 3,000 feet of the atmosphere, and since that radar beam does not follow the earth’s curvature, the beam gets above 3,000 feet (and above the snow) farther from the radar.

The best way to watch flurries in this case is with a satellite. Now that the sun is up, it’s easy to see the small convective bands causing the flurries on the visible satellite, but compare that to the radar where you see very little.

We still expect little if any accumulation on anything other than grass & rooftops, but it sure is creating a buzz this morning! The big story is still the cold! I’ll have an updated forecast on television coming up at 11:00!

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