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Might be some sneaky freezing drizzle or snow flurries tonight along the immediate Coast. Nam 3k hinting ( still has it for last few days). Others have backed off. Just something to keep an eye on

Per wakefield. 5.0-7.5 inches fell across CURRITUCK County/mainland. I heard there was about five in Corolla but I don't know if there's any way to measure accurately given the winds. Look at radar. It hung around across the southern Outer Banks which was a little unexpected. Great storm for the beaches. Just too damn windy. Ruined a little bit of the cozy snow covered landscape.

By all accounts it looks like a general five to eight inches fell across Currituck county. Around 5 to 5.5 up in Moyock by the Va border. Then its 6-8 inches depending upon where and who took the measurement. It's really impossible unless you had a snowboard and we're going out all the time. I have bare ground in many areas and 18 inches in others. By all accounts the storm may have slightly over performed or hit the higher end of the predicted range down here. Euro led the way with its consistency. GFS late to the game. Nam's caught up. All of the mesos were generally good inside 24 hours. RGEM was pitiful My location is right on Currituck sound so there's no buffer for the wind. I'm sure places just a mile or two inland had some lighter winds.

I have no idea what I ended up with. Went to bed with around 5 or 6 inches now most of it's gone. It blew away. There's so much drifting and bare ground it's hard to figure but I would suspect we got somewhere around six or seven inches. Just to my south in Grandy had a measurement of 7.5. It's snowed until around 5:00am. Great event here. Just kind of wish the winds wouldn't have kicked it all around but that's what you get when you have this light fluffy powder.

Not bad at all. We take whatever we can get and enjoy it. That's the fun part. The beaches along the Outer Banks are going to have a fun few hours between now and 3:00 a.m.

Nice enhanced band dropping South through the peninsula now. Might be the last hurrah up there but it's going to finish with a bang. Hoping the coastal moisture gets entrained to slow that crashing precip field a bit. Probably won't happen but we might see a few enhanced bands before it kicks off shore in a few hours.

10:45 pm

This was 10:20 pm

Yeah that's looking scary. Next hour or 2 is time to cash in. I got lucky and was in that initial band for about 2 hours. Before I went out, I thought there was probably only about an inch or 1.5. I was wrong. But I just looked at the updated NWS forecast and now they have my area at 2-4. I may be in a narrow jackpot area for now.

All said I picked up well over 1.5 the past hour and closing in on 3 inches. Wonderful fluffy snow

The best part should hit us (Southside/NENC) between 11-3am. Atlantic and Gulf moisture is just beginning to get entrained into the system south near Wilmington. That will enhance the coverage for a while before it starts sliding further east off the coast. The western precip push appears done and is retreating back southeast but it should slow around somewhere from the lower Peninsula through Hampton Roads for a few more hours. We're going to need some good rates to get to the higher end of those forecasts.

It's on the move north and strengthening. Now, extending way back into interior NE NC and may be fattening up. Depending upon the flow in the next few hours that may get stuck right over the south side of Hampton Roads and that would be the jackpot. Went thru here but it was nothing more than fatter flakes. I wouldn't even call it moderate. That's probably fooling with the reflectivity a bit but it certainly wasn't heavy by any stretch. But it did fly through here pretty quickly. Let's see where it sets up

Dendrites! Nice sized flakes starting without any needles or dust. I'm just north of that nice band in Central Currituck. 23.3/11

Great looking band developing in Northeast North Carolina just to my south on the North Shores of the albemarle. There's some yellows in there. Yet I haven't seen a flake yet. That wind won't quit though.

5pm obs. 23.5/9 Wind NW 13/G22 Lowering deck. I suspect we'll start seeing something in the next 60 to 90 minutes. One thing of concern. Dew point all day was in the mid teens. It's dropped into single digits now with the cold air continuing to advect and deepen. Hopefully it doesn't take more than 90 mins to get snow to fall. Good Luck everyone. Can't wait to see everyone's Obs through the night.