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It was extremely cold yesterday, it’s hard to stay in the 40s with full sunshine in early November, but wind both nights wind and clouds kept us from dropping much despite the overall environment suggesting much colder temps. We failed to meet forecast lows both nights 30 (28) and 37 (32) at my house. Accumulating snow to the coast and record cold south and west of here justified the hype though. We may never see snow in some areas that received it again this early in the season, and that’s backed up by it being the earliest snow ever for some areas. Wouldn’t say it didn’t live up to hype just bc central NC didn’t get as cold as we were expected to given it overperformed south of here and the snow way over performed in mountains and in areas with those surprise bands

We never really dropped last night. 36.7 was lowest we got all night. It’s crazy out of a system that brought sub freezing temps to Florida, snow to the coast, and single digits to mountains we managed one night below freezing

High of 49 and currently 38. Insanely cold early November day with full sun

We didn’t get as cold as forecast here but did have a hard freeze. Bottomed out at 30.0 and were at/below freezing for 6 hours

I had a Snapchat from one of my friends going deer hunting in Hamilton NC and it looked like an inch. Side roads were covered too. They must’ve gotten under some rates

Flurries flying here, first 32 degree reading of the season. Good band in NE NC likely putting down at least a dusting. Now back to bed

Flurries reported in statesville

Returns starting to blossom north of Greensboro

Accumulating snow south of Charlotte on November 10 is beyond rare

That’s nuts for November 10

Friend in Charlotte says it’s snowing hard but not sticking

RAH talks about the chance of a brief period of snow tomorrow night in latest discussion

Finished with .72”

We have not made it below 39 yet at my house this fall

Half an inch so far. Very solid rain event, my house seems to be in the best spot for once

Looks like the storm might come close to major again. Really getting its act together this morning on both satellite and recon

Melissa has now surpassed Erin in total ACE, becoming the highest ACE producing storm of the season, second storm of the season with >32 and third storm >26. I know people forecasted a backloaded season but to only have 5 hurricanes and get a basin seasonal ACE of likely ~140 is impressive.

As expected the wind damage where the eyewall came ashore is extreme. There are areas where well built structures appear to have been flattened by wind, not surge. With elevation in play I am confident assessment will find ground verification of 200+ mph gusts. Honestly some of the damage looks akin to a very high end tornado. I cannot wait to hear Josh’s take on it as he went through the worst of both this and Dorian

If Jamaica hadn’t been in the way this would’ve easily been top 3 too

1.26” here with a steady drizzle continuing this morning

To quote monte python, hitting Jamaica “tis but a flesh wound” to Melissa

https://www.metoc.navy.mil/fwcn/animate.html?icao=mugm&type=CMaxZH240 Guantanamo radar confirms satellite: small eye with violent eyewall reforming. This is bombing out

How this managed to keep a tight inner core after spending 5+ hours over the mountains with seemingly zero time to reorganize is beyond me. I’m at a loss. If it had been moving quickly over Jamaica, sure. But this thing crawled. And exploded the second it hit water. Looks high end-ish on satellite again. Doubt it goes back to a 5 but at this point I can’t deny the possibility

Going nuclear… again. Land apparently only inhibitor to Melissa

Truly incredible. This and Dorian are in a class of their own in the Atlantic