Winter Storm
January 29th-30th 2010

Bobby Boyd
Meteorologist
National Weather Service
Nashville, Tennessee

January 29-30 2010 Winter Storm In Progress

NWS Forecaster Looks up at the snow, sleet and freezing rain that was falling Friday evening around 930 pm cst on

January 29th 2010. About 3 inches of snow, sleet and freezing rain was on the ground at this time. The snow, sleet and

freezing rain continued throughout the night and into the next day. Sleet and freezing rain were the predominate

precipitation types after midnight on the 30th of January 2010 as a snow density measurement showed 40 percent

water at 9 am cst on January 30th 2010. The snow, sleet and freezing rain had a ratio of 4:1 for this event. Had it been

all snow it would have been more like a 9:1 snow to liquid ratio since the water equaivalent measured 0.88 inches.

Photo Credits: Bobby Boyd

National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office