My greatest fear for tonight is white pine limbs already laden with snow from yesterday. Longer limbs wont take a lot of additional weight before they begin to snap.
I lost about a dozen last week.
8" with several reports of 9/10 within 10 miles.
For tonight, I tossed the NAM 3k which unreasonably depicts .80 zr to 0 zr within 10 miles.
A 4 model blend of .23 zr seems reasonable. I expect mostly on elevated surfaces.
32 degrees at noon.
At 5 am the NWS posted a rather stupid WSW for my area of 4 - 6 inches when the models were at 8 inches.
My forecast is 6 - 12.
I fully expected the NWS to wake up and they did at 3 pm, raising from 4 - 6 to 5- 10.
At 6 am the NWS was woefully deficient with their WSW giving my area only 4 - 6 inches.
I was and am at 6 - 12.
At 3 pm, NWS woke up and raised expectations for Augusta to 5 - 10.
The ECM says atmospheric memory will rule the roost for Tue/Wed
In the 60's looking at hand drawn weather map on the evening news, one friend would sometimes say. "If you see that L in Arkansas, another snowstorm is on the way.
You are exactly right!! IMO the AO is the most important winter factor to watch.
Here are 7 reasons why: Feb. 1958 -2.40, March 1960 -1.62, March 1962 -2.84, January 1966 -3.23, February 1978 -3.01, January 1996 -1.20, December 2009 -3.41.
Your rain and mine must have been coming from the same cloud. My Tru Check still has ice inside to melt but very similar. The two inside gauges froze up at about .20"