Sleet has commenced at my house, 5 N Dodge City. The initial band of precipitation (see Figure 1) began to move in around 8:30pm. It has been pretty much all sleet up to this point through the time of this writing around 9:30pm. It’ll be interesting to see how long the precipitation type will be sleet. There is a disagreement with respect to the warmth of the warm layer aloft over Dodge between the RUC and the NAM. The RUC is about 1 to 1.5 degrees C warmer and keeps the zero line at 850mb quite a ways northwest of Dodge, whereas the NAM keeps the zero line quasi-steady right over Dodge (see Figure 2).
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