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Another U.S. location not used to a lot of snow, let alone Blizzard conditions: .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH 6 AM WEDNESDAY/... As of 615 AM Tuesday... KEY MESSAGES: - A winter storm will impact eastern NC with heavy snow, dangerous cold, and strong winds - Snowfall amounts have been increased and now all of eastern NC is expected to reach warning criteria snowfall Winter Storm Warnings have now been posted for all of eastern NC for tonight. The developing offshore low will circulate very moist air over the top of the arctic airmass. This will result in widespread snow developing across the area this evening and continuing for most of the overnight hours. The trend in the models is for a continued slight inland movement of the heaviest snow location with forecast amounts of >=3 inches covering a very large portion of eastern NC. Based on this, the Winter Storm Watch and Winter Weather Advisory have been upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. As the right entrance region of the upper jet approaches and ascent becomes maximized tonight, banded precipitation is likely to occur which will lead to locally heavier snowfall amounts of 6+ inches. Right now it is very difficult to predict exactly where these bands will form but they will most likely occur along and just inland from the coast. Thermal profiles also support periods of sleet occurring along the coast but still expecting primarily snow to occur. The current snowfall forecast has been increased and now is is calling for max amounts of 6-8 inches east of Highway 17. Gusty northerly winds will cause considerable blowing and drifting of snow with blizzard conditions possible along the Outer Banks where the strongest winds and heavy snow will coincide. Cold ground temperatures will allow the snow to rapidly accumulate which will make roads snow covered and slick. No unnecessary driving is advised tonight across the area. The snow should begin tapering off around 9Z inland with accumulating snows expected to be over by 12z Wednesday.

Daughter and her family left Palm Coast about an hour ago. Palm Coast is a little north of Daytona. Forecast is for lows tonight in the mid 30s but with winds out of the north up to 30mph. I think tomorrow or Thursday night the winds die down and the temp crashes into the 20s.

Lancaster's "other" official station at MU recorded a low of 6. That's 11 degrees warmer than MDT. That's remarkable. Every local news outlet that I watch/see/follow in the Lancaster area refers to the MU readings as Lancaster's temp. Is there any other example of an area's official temp not being at the airport? LNS is never referred to by outlets that I see around here. @Mount Joy Snowman @pasnownut @Superstorm - do you have any clarification on this?

Low of 1.7 here in Maytown. Temp only fell an additional 3 degrees after midnight. Currently it's 6.7.

4.8 at 12:15am.

9 in Maytown. Tee shirt and shorts for taking out the trash.

Down to 12 at 6:50pm.

That is a major ice storm (.25") here. In Florida...

THAT...is a great picture. One to cherish years from now when as adults you can share this picture with them. Thanks for sharing.

In fairness - 21 was the highest that I got. Shortly after posting this the temp plateaued and has been bouncing between 19 and 21 for the past few hours. Original forecast ended up being pretty darn accurate.

MDT 11 degrees below me this morning? Nah.

Same here. Pretty much dead calm until about 5 minutes ago and can now hear it on my west windows.

Up to 21 here now, already 2 over the forecast high. I alluded to this last week...cold, regardless of the extent of the air mass, often seems overdone. At least for today, that's going to hold true.

Yep - there's reason for optimism that we're not finished yet. Always a good thing when you know you're not at the end of the line.

You're not kidding, those are some pretty intense streamers in northern MD training over the same area.

The sun, blue skies and snow-covered landscape this morning makes for any amazing descriptive word that one can find. So nice to snatch winter from the jaws of Nina.

Is there a secondary front coming through today? I sort of expected a day when temps were very slow to budge, CTP had me for a forecast high of 19. It's 8:50am and I'm already up to 17.3.

I cannot remember a time previously when MDT was 11 degrees lower than my for an official low temperature. Almost as remarkable as the half foot of snow about to fall in Baton Rouge.

13 this morning in Maytown.

40? I love to shovel and I'm 7.5 months from 60...

That looks like a lake effect streamer over you.

Yes, it was approaching Blizzard conditions at times. Winds were just a little short of official criteria but not by much.

Yes, a couple of huge turnovers and a couple of field-induced injuries.

Yep. Much of it is powder. She's going to blow and drift a lot.

6:30: Light snow. Temp is 23.5. Average of 3 measurements is 6.2". About 4-5" on the driveway. For the first time in over 1,000 days...it's time to shovel!