phil882 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Another cool radar observation... you can actually see the snow/sleet line collapse back south when the precipitation rates increase. Direct observation of dynamical cooling. Pretty cool stuff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drfranklin Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 25 deg/23 dpt/mod snow - snow has really picked up in intensity in the last 1/2 hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquawind Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Just started to flurry here Currently 27.1/14 YES! I see them! I am Alive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beanskip Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Yeah, radar trends look a lot better right now than 30 minutes ago -- rooting hard for y'all and living vicariously (in an attempt to avoid deep depression). It's going to start pivoting and backbuilding as the coastal kicks up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxKnurd Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Crazy - I'm near 485 and 77 north and been snowing since 10 AM! Same here to about 8 miles to you SW, but still can't maintain a decent flake size. Intensity is there to stay now it seems though, have a dusting so far. Best band is right along the south side of 85 for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGa Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 went back to sleet/snow mix (freezing rain was very brief lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_hailstorm Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Got some flurries here. 26.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franklin NCwx Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 By far best snow of the day here at 27 deg. Now lets accumulate.yeah its picked up here the last 20 min with bigger flakes. We have 2" on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua in Charlotte Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Same here to about 8 miles to you SW, but still can't maintain a decent flake size. Intensity is there to stay now it seems though, have a dusting so far. Best band is right along the south side of 85 for now. Yes, very small flakes here, but I'll take it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinky Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Coming down pretty good in Huntersville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Southern Wake county reporting in. Very light snow just started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windyinnc Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Tiny point of clarification. The word "deformation" gets thrown around a lot, and the band this morning was really more WAA induced widespread snowfall. Really when people say the "deformation zone" they refer to the area that is located on the NE side of a 850 or 700 hPa low where air stream "stretches" the flow, causing it to be deformed. Here, its just a broad area of WAA aloft (veering winds) that induces isentropic lift that is going over an area of frontogenesis. This is why I've loved this forum since 2010. Thank you very much for the clarification and education on what exactly led to our quick burst of heavy snow this AM. It's my bad for the pure sloppiness of posting quickly without first thinking about the correct usage of the term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidyr2k Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Light snow falling @ industrial park Sanford. 23 degrees and 10m nne wind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fury88 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Just started snowing consistently now in Willow Spring NC in southern wake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithiaWx Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I'm back to freezing drizzle. I am over .10 so far with a bunch of sleet on the ground as well.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CherokeeGA Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 yep, its back on now Cool. That was quick! I'm keeping the Georgia Power map up in a tab because I'm keeping any eye on my mom's house down in Cobb. Really, things are not going too badly for them, so far. This certainly could have been a lot worse on the trees to this point if we hadn't hit this giant hole of little to no serious precip. Hopefully the break will help them get caught up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazdaddy Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Southern Wake county reporting in. Very light snow just started. Hey I'm in So Cary Where are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 This is why I've loved this forum since 2010. Thank you very much for the clarification and education on what exactly led to our quick burst of heavy snow this AM. It's my bad for the pure sloppiness of posting quickly without first thinking about the correct usage of the term. Not a problem at all... all these terms can get confusing. In some cases, you can actually get a deformation band that forms along the warm front where WAA and CAA are battling each other, helping to tighten the temperature gradient and form the front (frontogenesis). This case though the frontogenesis is "tilted" since the CAD wedge and associated CAA is strongest around 925 hPa and the WAA associated with the warm front is riding over between 850-700 hPa. So the "deformation" doesn't occur at one specific level you can point to on the map, and it typically results in a pretty widespread area of snowfall as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Hey I'm in So Cary Where are you? SE Wake...south of Garner and about 3 miles from the Johnston Co. line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Snowing the hardest it has all day! Probably an inch an hour! Temp 27.5, radar looks great too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fury88 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 SE Wake...south of Garner and about 3 miles from the Johnston Co. line. Nice you're not too far from me. I'm west if you probably 5 miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowNiner Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 It's going to start pivoting and backbuilding as the coastal kicks up. I'm hoping so. Very light snow in west charlotte near the airport. Radar to the SW looks very underwhelming. Everything is directly south and moving east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguy3107 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 The radar is beginning to shape up in some of the dry slot areas over toward eastern Alabama. It looks like banding features may be our best bet to reaching some of the big totals that were forecast but I seriously doubt it. We have about 1.5 inches of sleet/snow (mostly sleet) on the ground. I think it's way too early to declare a bust, but I think unless something changes drastically between now and this evening, the whole catastrophic/biblical wording that was put out earlier was way too much. From some of the radar watching overnight into this morning, it looked to me like the whole initial thump just plain out moved too fast through the area. On a positive note, 1.5 inches of concrete made for some incredible sledding down our street this morning. It was like Sochi out there (only with more ice and more running water! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wow Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Ok, really kicking up here in Mooresville.. small flakes but a ton of them, like the 1/28 event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgertime Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I'm hoping so. Very light snow in west charlotte near the airport. Radar to the SW looks very underwhelming. Everything is directly south and moving east. Looking at the radar it's pivoting more NNE to NNW now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wow Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I'm hoping so. Very light snow in west charlotte near the airport. Radar to the SW looks very underwhelming. Everything is directly south and moving east. What radar are you looking at? Looks like it's headed straight for us, and more building behind it as it comes into view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCsandhills Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 This was after 20 minutes in Fayettevile, NC. Brick,I live off of Cliffdale in Fay, prolly 5-10 mins up from that spot. It is ridiculous here. HYasnt slowed down one bit, very heavy snow and temp has actually gotten colder. how is wake forest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_hailstorm Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Light snow. Wind is swirling a little,mostly out of the NE but on occasion get a S or SW gust. 26.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrips27 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 29.2 and freezing drizzle. Just witnessed a good sized limb fall off a tree about 50 yards back in our woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazdaddy Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Light snow in south Cary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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