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Well this is certainly overperforming. Flakes are large! Ground is pretty much covered except for pavement. Nice to watch anyway. Still sitting at 31° in the triad.

Already covered the gravel drive and grass in Stuart. Just cold enough 40 miles north of the triad to get the job done. Very wet here in Kernersville. But covering the mulch. I'll take what I can get at this point.

Heavy flurries in Kernersville and raining snow at the farm in Stuart!

Are we in need of a Burger Boom??

Nice...leave it south for another 72 hours and keep bringing the cold. We're already winning on surface temps and the developing snow pack to the north. Pieces just might fall into place!

I think the hope we have, if any, is that we are still far from model consensus. But it sure does feel like the odds are not in favor of the phase we need to see. Near miss again.

Local forecast for the Triad did a complete 180° flip as well. Went from snow/ice to all rain, no transition. Couple more days of model runs and this casserole will be fully baked.

Can confirm roads are brined. Somebody is optimistic!

And there it is!! We have a winner on January 1st!

2025 thread is open! (But not pinned yet)

You're on the hook now brother! 2025 is going to be a winter to remember!

Happy New Year all! This thread is now outdated. Who will update it to 2025 and bring the mojo?

A lot of people down here in the water already. Just let us go man.

First Fab Feb comment in 3...2...1... It is so unbelievably hard to line up the ingredients for a storm in the south.

Vortex means business. Suppression city. Nothing but pixie dust falling from Carolina Blue skies. I honestly don't ever recall 6+ inches being modeled for northern FL. Anyone know top of mind the most snow ever in one event in FL?

Oh, you can almost imagine it can't you? The "pipe busting cold" moderates into a 40s and drizzle. That movie has at least a hundred sequels. Somebody said it yesterday I think. Delay a couple of times and we'll be talking about Fab Feb in no time. I'm most concerned about our mountain folks though. They simply don't need that kind of modeled cold right now. It wouldn't be survivable in the tiny homes that have been installed in many locations.

So somewhere between skiing and golf. Got it.

Temp is dropping. Glad they delayed schools in the morning. Could be an ice rink.

Snowing in the triad in Kernersville!! About dang time. Update - ground is already covered!! Wake up people! Just let the dogs out to play. Second update - did the alien invasion scheduled for tomorrow come early and take the forum?? This is an epic overproducer for anyone with a snow craving. I'm shocked this forum is not wide awake!!

I can confirm some very light flakage on the farm cam in Stuart VA. Virga might be about to give way to flurries.

This is just a plumber's special. Catch a few souls off guard and break some pipes, then back into the new norms. I am very much digging my crunchy leaves. I was thinking we were going to completely miss fall.

Well then it will be snowing from Birmingham to Myrtle Beach.

I work disaster response for a living supplying equipment for government and private entities. FEMA has condensed their response efforts tremendously over the last week. Initially because they were ineffective in remote locations (as evidenced by local sheriffs telling reps to just leave). And now governors of NC, SC and TN are taking the lead in directing response efforts. I had multiple orders out for FEMA that should have been approved on Friday. Now they have been cancelled and redirected to the state of NC. I'm not sitting here saying the FEMA is 100% out of NC. I am saying their efforts have been consolidated to larger aid centers where their logistics supply chain has the most effect. For the average citizen outside of Asheville, FEMA basically doesn't exist. And as for terroristic threats, I suggest you get in your car and head to Burnsville, Spruce Pine, Micaville, Pensacola or any other town along the state border. I'm confident you won't find anything more than people defending their property and telling FEMA to take a hike. As said in a prior post, don't believe much of what you hear or read on government websites (regardless of party...this isn't a politcal comment). Get on the ground and talk to people. Understand what they are afraid of. They just lost everything and all they see in their yard are agents coming to register them and take them to Asheville to a camp. That's not who these folks are.

Pulled two deceased from the mud in a Dollar General this morning per the dog team. This is so far from over. Took a mother and baby to the hospital with horrible coughs. They were living in the shell of a trailer with the floor half washed out. So many people yet to be located. I completely understand the world moves on. I mowed yards yesterday, worked on my tractor ,etc. We can't be in the NC mountains 24/7. Now that FEMA has pretty much pulled the plug there, give until it hurts (please). Don't forget these people. Winter is here.

I'm not going to say they were getting shot at, but those guns ended up being needed more than once when they were escorting FEMA door to door. As @Met1985says, this is quickly becoming a humanitarian disaster.