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I have a very light dusting on my side of town. I got out and drove about 5 -8 miles east and the difference was amazing. All of the yards were completely white, roofs white, sidewalks turning white and even the roads were starting to turn white along the edges. My church parking lot was slush as I drove through it.

 

It was very hard driving. The flakes were so small, but there were so many that it made it very hard to see.

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I have a very light dusting on my side of town. I got out and drove about 5 -8 miles east and the difference was amazing. All of the yards were completely white, roofs white, sidewalks turning white and even the roads were starting to turn white along the edges. My church parking lot was slush as I drove through it.

 

It was very hard driving. The flakes were so small, but there were so many that it made it very hard to see.

 

Yeah, the flakes reminded me of the overnight portion of the January 2010 storm with how small and numerous they were.

 

Anyways, the snow has tapered off to flurries and radar honestly looks pretty awful.  Even if this is it, I got as much as I could have hoped for.  I'd guestimate I got somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/4"-1/2".  QPF was probably pretty good, but we "wasted" a lot as rain.

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Going on 27 degrees and still falling. Roads are dangerous and interstates are at a crawl.

Sounds like you can enjoy the evening watching it snow  :lol: 

 

60/40 rain/snow here.

Almost there!! :)

 

By the way, it was 10 days ago we had the severe weather here. The old wives' tale is on point.

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IT's been snowing moderately for an hour and a half and we don't even have an accumulation on the grass, or the cars or on, well, anything. I've never seen it come down as fast as it has without at least dropping a dusting. NC snowstorms never cease to come up with new ways to screw us over.

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***ALERT*** MD IS HERE.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0033.html

 

 

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MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0033

   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

   0609 PM CST TUE JAN 21 2014

   AREAS AFFECTED...DELMARVA PENINSULA...SERN VA...NERN NC

   CONCERNING...HEAVY SNOW

   VALID 220009Z - 220515Z

 

   SUMMARY...SNOWFALL RATES ARE FORECAST TO INTENSIFY ACROSS THE

   DELMARVA PENINSULA INTO THE COASTAL PLAIN OF SERN VA AND NC THROUGH

   THE LATE EVENING...WITH PRECIPITATION CHANGING OVER TO PRIMARILY

   SNOW ACROSS NERN NC BY 01-02Z. RATES OF 1 INCH PER HR COULD BECOME

   COMMON...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER RATES POSSIBLE.

 

   DISCUSSION...LATEST RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS LIGHT SNOWFALL PRIMARILY

   ALONG/E OF THE I-95 CORRIDOR ACROSS SERN VA...WITH A MORE

   SIGNIFICANT BAND RECENTLY INTENSIFYING FROM N OF RIC S-SWWD TO NEAR

   AVC...WHILE PRIMARILY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING FARTHER S INTO NC.

   MEANWHILE...A SFC LOW WAS ANALYZED NE OF ILM AT 00Z...AND IS

   FORECAST TO PROGRESS NEWD WHILE SLOWLY DEEPENING AHEAD OF AN

   APPROACHING VORT MAX MOVING THROUGH THE SRN APPALACHIANS. THE

   COMBINATION OF LOW-LEVEL COLD ADVECTION NW OF THE SFC

   CYCLONE...ALONG WITH DYNAMIC COOLING ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPROACHING

   VORT MAX...WILL RESULT IN RAPIDLY COOLING SFC TEMPERATURES ACROSS

   SRN VA AND NRN NC. THIS WILL OCCUR SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH INCREASING

   MIDLEVEL DCVA...AND A SUBSEQUENT INCREASE IN SNOWFALL RATES.

   THE HEAVIEST RATES WILL OCCUR WITHIN SNOWFALL BANDS ACROSS THE

   COASTAL PLAIN OF VA/NC INTO THE DELMARVA PENINSULA...WITH RATES NEAR

   1 INCH PER HOUR POSSIBLE. ADDITIONALLY...A LAYER OF STEEP MIDLEVEL

   LAPSE RATES ACCOMPANYING THE VORT MAX COULD SUPPORT EMBEDDED

   CONVECTION...AND LOCALLY HEAVIER RATES. THE RELATIVE PROGRESSIVE

   NATURE OF THE VORT MAX SHOULD NOT YIELD A PARTICULARLY LONG-DURATION

   EVENT ACROSS NC/SERN VA...WITH MOST MODEL GUIDANCE INDICATING THE

   HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION SHIFTING OFFSHORE BY 06Z.

   ..ROGERS.. 01/22/2014

WxSouth had that exact area outlined in a map this afternoon.

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IT's been snowing moderately for an hour and a half and we don't even have an accumulation on the grass, or the cars or on, well, anything. I've never seen it come down as fast as it has without at least dropping a dusting. NC snowstorms never cease to come up with new ways to screw us over.

There is the Widre we know! You and packbacker should hang out.

Ground got covered here in less than an hour.

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IT's been snowing moderately for an hour and a half and we don't even have an accumulation on the grass, or the cars or on, well, anything. I've never seen it come down as fast as it has without at least dropping a dusting. NC snowstorms never cease to come up with new ways to screw us over.

I feel you on that one, it was crazy how hard it was coming down for a while. I guess I shouldn't have taken last week's dusting for granted.

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Yeah that reminds me of the Phantom Snowstorm before I moved last year.

At least that was lighter snow during the day in mid-February, when one might expect such crap. But it's January 21st at night with really cold air just a thousand feet or so above the ground. It looks like one of this POS isothermal events, but it shouldn't be. I had concerns about the sun all day, and it looks like it did its job.
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