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December 16th event


RaleighWx

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Weird.... the NWS in Blacksburg seems very bullish on this event for the areas immediately bordering NC, probably 40 or 45 minutes north of me:

Snow and sleet, becoming all sleet after noon. High near 34. South wind between 3 and 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow and sleet accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible.

Very odd.

Both the GFS and the Euro are giving my area a little over .5" of precipitation for this event. The NAM being the driest at just under .4" so it may be a big deal up this way.

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Southern piedmont left out of advisory. Can't buy one yet ;)

the way I see this for the southern piedmont is light snow to sleet beginng around midnight. Then to sleet by 6 am or so, with some light accumulation of both. The ground is frozen and our surface temps will still be below freezing until probably around 9 or 10 am, then we climb above 32. I don't see much ZR with this but a little glaze is possible, but the whole event happens so quickly that a sneaky 1/2 of snow and sleet is possible for the southern piedmont. Roads would be slick almost instantly if enough precip does come , which is still in question. If more precip does arrive than models show (and really we have to watch the trends now/radar/obs upstream) then someone in the southern piedmont could get over 1" of snow, and or sleet, but the snow shouldn't last past 7am or so around here.

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Both the GFS and the Euro are giving my area a little over .5" of precipitation for this event. The NAM being the driest at just under .4" so it may be a big deal up this way.

Obviously a much longer period of snowfall expected to get to 3-7". That seems like such a drastic variation though given that Eden is so close to the border, or Kernersville / Walkertown / Winston / GSO for that matter. You are only talking about a 30 mile run into southern VA. If I end up on the south side of that cutoff I'll be quite grumpy! That said, I won't make it home from Nashville tomorrow night anyway so what do I care? :snowman:

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18z NAM looks jucier and about 50 miles south of 12Z. Now looks in line with the 12z GFS. Might be a little more significant in the morning than what I've been thinking for the past 2 days.

Looking good. The house is in the dark green with the 18z NAM and 12z GFS. Maybe I will be far enough north in NC to get some good accumulation.

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It looks like getting rid of my Bloo Q Kazoo avatar worked. I'm now under a WWA. :arrowhead: Oh and cloudy here with a temp of 35. Light winds.

If only you had heeded my advice before the end of last winter, we might not have had to endure 13 hours of non-accumulating snow in early March! thumbsupsmileyanim.gifSnowman.gif

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