Tim, that's about what it looks like here northeast of Edmond. Well, we didn't get as much sleet initially as you did, but it looks similar. In the open areas, I'd say no more than 2-3", maybe a bit more in some of the slightly-more-protected areas. In some areas of my front and back yard, though, I can still find blades of grass (short lawn grass) protruding through the snow cover.
Visibilities up here aren't too bad either, considering the strength of the winds. It just looks like there's just not that much snow to blow around. Of course, this is in context of the apocalyptic snowfall that the NAM and some other forecasts were indicating. Honestly, the winds and cold are a bigger story for me (gusts to 45-55 mph earlier this morning) -- it's not too often that you see -10 to -25 F wind chills in Oklahoma.
I should turn on the TV to watch the reporters find the absolute tallest piles of snow / deepest drifts to stick their foot in as if it's some good reference for the snow in the area.
I feel for the folks who need to make official forecasts. I tend not to spend too much time on (nor pass on much hype about) snowfall forecasting considering the number of times I've been burned (by the models) or by the number of times the models have been burned (by the atmosphere
). The NAM forecasts (some of which had 16-24" for central OK) were so many standard deviations about high-snowfall climatologies in central Oklahoma that it gave me reasons to be cautious. Of course, this only applies to this area -- perhaps "snowmageddon 2011" will verify at points northeast of the OKC area.
