RaleighWx Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Snow and sleet at 43! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poimen Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 snowing in Wake Forest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCMetroWinston Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 And people wonder why North Carolinians believe that if it thunders in winter/late fall/early spring, it will snow within a week! It keeps being proven to be true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillzPirate Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 still cold and dry here in Greenville.... waiting is the hardest party (Tom Petty was right)............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidreMann Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Decent snow rate, but it still isn't really sticking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidreMann Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 And not a few minutes after I posted that has the snow finally started sticking. Things are turning white and I think we are now getting bona fide moderate snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpiemaniac Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 I'll post a video shortly as soon as I get it uploaded to a host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strongwxnc Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 @wxbrad Brad Panovich WCNC 1" of snow in Greensboro. #ncwx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVille Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 I'll post a video shortly as soon as I get it uploaded to a host. Any chance the clipper makes it back around? Would love some more snow here in Statesville, since it has stopped completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherNC Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 And people wonder why North Carolinians believe that if it thunders in winter/late fall/early spring, it will snow within a week! It keeps being proven to be true! The rule I have heard was tornados in late fall and it will SN within a week, not sure about the thunderstorm part... Put the SN board out in it's usual unimpeded spot around 10am this morning before I went shopping. After this event, I am going to paint it white with some graphics for effect. It is a 2'x4' piece of 3/4" white oak plywood, that my neighbor gave me last year. Hoping everything wraps up in the early am so as to get an accurate measurement before dawn, if we see accumulations, which is in question still. officially PGV will end up 6 degrees below the forecasted max today of 45. 39 at the airport and OVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKY_WX Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 some pics before play was cancelled of my friends from blackberry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strongwxnc Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 NORTH CAROLINA ...AVERY COUNTY... NEWLAND 2.0 1218 PM 12/4 5 E FLAT SPRINGS 1.1 100 PM 12/4 ...BURKE COUNTY... JONAS RIDGE 1.5 1240 PM 12/4 ...HAYWOOD COUNTY... MAGGIE VALLEY 2.0 1230 PM 12/4 CATALOOCHE SKI AREA http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=201012041934-KGSP-NOUS42-PNSGSP ********************STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL******************** LOCATION STORM TOTAL TIME/DATE COMMENTS SNOWFALL OF (INCHES) MEASUREMENT NORTH CAROLINA ...AVERY COUNTY... FLAT SPRINGS 1.7 100 PM 12/4 ELK PARK 0.6 700 AM 12/4 LINVILLE FALLS 0.1 715 AM 12/4 ...MITCHELL COUNTY... BAKERSVILLE 0.3 700 AM 12/4 ...YANCEY COUNTY... BURNSVILLE 0.2 720 AM 12/4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherNC Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 And not a few minutes after I posted that has the snow finally started sticking. Things are turning white and I think we are now getting bona fide moderate snow. Impossible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCMetroWinston Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 below freezing temps mean Triad roads are becoming treacherous http://tims.ncdot.gov/tims/cameras/viewimage.ashx?id=Bus40-salemlake.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpiemaniac Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Video from house four miles west of downtown Greensboro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROxBe8BkJc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCMetroWinston Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 NCDOT says: in CLEMMONS (forsyth county) slow traffic on I 40 between HARPER RD/EXIT 182 and LEWISVILLE CLEMMONS RD/EXIT 184 due to snow use caution as reported by cameras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCMetroWinston Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 awesome Magpie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 First flakes here, finally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poimen Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 huge flakes in Youngsville....ground is becoming covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poimen Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31064171&l=b8ad72fd3a&id=1287515460 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carvers Gap Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 And people wonder why North Carolinians believe that if it thunders in winter/late fall/early spring, it will snow within a week! It keeps being proven to be true! FWIW. I think that is a W NC saying...I have always heard that if you hear thunder in the mountains, it will snow within two weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmglockson Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 My grandma used to tell me that and we live in the Piedmont. She is from West Virginia originally, however, so that might be where it originated from for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidreMann Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 I'm a bit concerned about the radar situation. It looks like a lot of the upstream bands are going to pass by to the north and east. There's not much upstream from the Triangle, so this may only last another two or three hours before quitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidreMann Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 My grandma used to tell me that and we live in the Piedmont. She is from West Virginia originally, however, so that might be where it originated from for her. I've heard it around here too from natives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poimen Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 solid dusting in Youngsville with moderate snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaggy Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Bozart called to tell me it was snowing in fountain NC. so the snow has officially started in Pitt county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidreMann Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Bozart called to tell me it was snowing in fountain NC. so the snow has officially started in Pitt county. Are his phone conversations anything like the fanciful prose he writes in AP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCMetroWinston Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 coastal plain could get good accumulations because the sun will soon be going down. by the time precip gets east of 95 as snow, sun wont inhibit accumulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 000 FXUS62 KRAH 041943 AFDRAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 240 PM EST SAT DEC 04 2010 .SYNOPSIS... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CROSS NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH TONIGHT. WINDY... COLD... AND DRY WEATHER WILL FOLLOW THIS SYSTEM SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... AS OF 235 PM SATURDAY... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR NORTH CENTRAL NC WITH ONE TO TWO INCHES ACCUMULATION EXPECTED MAINLY ON GRASSY SURFACES... WE HAVE RECEIVED REPORTS OF ABOUT A HALF INCH TO ONE INCH ACCUMULATION OF SNOW IN THE TRIAD REGION SO FAR WITH SNOW CONTINUING TO FALL ACCORDING TO OBSERVATIONS... D.O.T. WEB CAMS... AND MEASUREMENTS FROM THE VERTICALLY-POINTING MOBILE MICRO RAIN RADAR LOCATED NEAR GSO. ISENTROPIC LIFT IN THE 285K-300K LAYER CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN ACCORDING TO THE LATEST FINE SCALE MODEL GUIDANCE INCLUDING THE HI RES RAPID REFRESH MODEL AND OUR LOCAL WRF... WHICH DEPICTS THE MAXIMUM ASCENT AND SATURATION WITHIN THE DENDRITIC GROWTH ZONE ALOFT OVER CENTRAL NC OCCURING IN THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. THIS LIFT HAS BEEN SUFFICENTLY STRONG TO OVERCOME THE INITIALLY DRY SUBCLOUD LAYER WITH DEW POINT DEPRESSIONS DROPPING QUICKLY WITH THE ONSET OF PRECIP. TEMPS HAVE ALREADY REACHED THEIR HIGHS IN THE MID 30S TO LOWER 40S AND WILL CONTINUE TO FALL THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS SHOW STRONG MOIST UPGLIDE PERSISTING THROUGH 00Z... WHEN THE SURFACE LOW IS EXPECTED TO BE LOCATED OVER FAR UPSTATE SC... ON PACE TO TRACK JUST SOUTH OF THE NC/SC BORDER THROUGH THE EVENING TO OFF THE ILM COAST BY 06Z. DURING THIS TIME THE BEST MID LEVEL DPVA ARRIVES (ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG VORTICITY LOBE DROPPING SE THROUGH VA AND NC) IN CONJUCTION WITH INCREASED UPPER DIVERGENCE WITHIN THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF A STRENGTHENING 140+ KT UPPER JET CORE PUSHING TOWARD NC FROM THE NW. AS A RESULT... THE SPC WRF / LOCAL WRF / HI RES RAPID REFRESH / 13KM RUC / 12KM NAM-WRF ALL SHOW STEADY PRECIP PERSISTING OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL NC INTO MID EVENING. WILL KEEP THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY RUNNING ALONG/NORTH OF THE HIGHWAY 64 CORRIDOR UNTIL MIDNIGHT. BASED ON THE SMALL SCALE BANDED STRUCTURE OF THE SNOW AND LOCALLY BRIEF HEAVIER SNOWFALL... HAVE UPPED THE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL TO 1-2 INCHES. THIS IS BASED ON A SNOW/LIQUID RATIO OF ABOUT 8:1 TO 9:1... IN LINE WITH CLIMATOLOGY AND WITH RATIOS OBSERVED SO FAR IN THE TRIAD. ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE PREDOMINANTLY ON THE GRASSY AREAS... ALTHOUGH THE SNOW IS COMING DOWN AT A HEAVY ENOUGH RATE WITHIN SOME OF THESE MESOSCALE BANDS THAT A DUSTING MAY STICK ONTO UNTRAVELED ROADS. AS THE SURFACE LOW MOVES OFF THE COAST SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT... WE BEGIN TO DRY OUT ALOFT WEST TO EAST... SEEN ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AS A DRY POCKET UPSTREAM OVER SRN IL INTO KY. LOSING SATURATION IN THE -12C TO -18C LAYER WILL MEAN A TRANSITION TO LIGHT DRIZZLE OR FREEZING DRIZZLE OVERNIGHT. WITH FORECAST LOWS EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 28-33... ALL BUT SOUTHERN SECTIONS COULD SEE A LIGHT GLAZE ON ELEVATED SURFACES. THE RELATIVELY WARM SOIL (4 INCH TEMPS STILL 40-50F) AND PAVEMENT TEMPS SHOULD TRANSLATE TO VERY FEW PROBLEMS ON THE ROADS... AND THE PERSISTENT THICK CLOUDS WILL TEMPER OVERNIGHT COOLING... HOWEVER BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES MAY BE TREACHEROUS AND WE MAY NEED TO EXTEND THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TO COVER THE OVERNIGHT AND DAWN HOURS FOR THE FREEZING DRIZZLE THREAT. WILL EVALUATE THIS NEED FURTHER EARLY THIS EVENING... BUT ADVISORY OR NOT... MOTORISTS EARLY SUNDAY MORNING WILL NEED TO BE VERY CAUTIOUS AND DRIVE SLOWLY. -GIH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwagner88 Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Well you can color me green with envy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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