kelani

I drove to Hickory, Morganton, and Blowing Rock and saw decent snowfall. Friends in Wilkesboro and Taylorsville are also reporting flakes. And then I look at our radar, and what always happens here is happening once again. Nobody's seen precip of any kind. I really wish someone could explain the physics of why this always happens in this tiny pocket of Caldwell county.

Thanks for the reply. That would make sense. I also tend to ignore the holes (and always did when I lived in Charlotte, Cary, Wilmington, and Wilkesboro), but those holes actually seem to happen here for pretty much every storm from any direction --albeit less so for these southern storms. No matter whether it's a line of thunderstorms or snow, there always seems to be a 5-10-mile wide swath across central Caldwell that receives far less precip than the surrounding areas. The last time it didn't happen that I can recall was 1993. It's an odd thing, for sure.

Why is Lenoir/central Caldwell county always a lone dead zone in these guys? (Ok, dead-ish in this one, but you get my point).

That last Canadian run looks exactly like what happens in Caldwell county, NC every darn time the early models predict something big. Excluding '93, of course.