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The Big One - Observation


JoshM

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1" with light snow ... 23 degrees

 

Latest RNK ...

 

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
148 PM EST WED FEB 12 2014

...HEAVY SNOW TODAY INTO EARLY THURSDAY...

.A LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AND INTENSIFY ALONG
THE SOUTHEAST COAST LATER TODAY INTO THURSDAY. COLD AIR ALREADY
IN PLACE WILL KEEP THIS PRECIPITATION MAINLY AS SNOW...WITH SLEET
EXPECTED NEAR AND EAST OF DANVILLE VA LATE TONIGHT. THE HEAVIEST
SNOWFALL WILL BE NEAR THE CREST OF THE BLUE RIDGE.

ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY-WATAUGA-WILKES-YADKIN-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-
WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-
BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-
AMHERST-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...DOBSON...
BOONE...WILKESBORO...YADKINVILLE...MARION...BLAND...PEARISBURG...
WYTHEVILLE...RADFORD...PULASKI...BLACKSBURG...INDEPENDENCE...
WHITETOP...TROUTDALE...VOLNEY...GALAX...FLOYD...NEW CASTLE...
CLIFTON FORGE...COVINGTON...HOT SPRINGS...ROANOKE...SALEM...
FINCASTLE...LEXINGTON...BUENA VISTA...STUART...ROCKY MOUNT...
BEDFORD...AMHERST...LYNCHBURG...APPOMATTOX
148 PM EST WED FEB 12 2014

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST
THURSDAY...

* LOCATIONS...MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND
  NORTH CAROLINA.

* TIMING...NOW THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY EVENING.

* HAZARDS...HEAVY SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 10 TO 14 INCHES...UP TO 18
  INCHES NEAR AND ALONG THE CREST OF THE BLUE RIDGE
. LOCALLY
  HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE.

 

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Hourly Update/2:20pm Observation: Temp. steady at 25°F. It started sleeting at 2:00pm, so I took a measurement and got 3/4" of snow. From 2:00pm to 2:20pm, got 1/4" of sleet. Sleet hitting the windows now. Wind 15 MPH.

 

Total snowfall today - 3.75"
Total sleet today - 0.25"

 

 Total frozen precipitation since yesterday - 5.50"

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Stupid, stupid, stupid.

 

Charlotte and Raleigh both pulled Atlanta this afternoon. You see that major freeway south of Clayton to SE of Raleigh? Nobody use that road since it's very rural, yet there's traffic jam showing up in that area. What the heck?

 

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 Very impressive sleet here in Dunwoody just north of Atlanta since ~1:45 PM! It is really starting to add up on the ground. I already had measured nearly 1" of IP as of ~11 AM. This is easily the most impressive part of the storm that I've observed to this point though I did sleep through some of it last night. Temperatures is at 28.8, near the coldest do far though pretty steady. Lots yet to go, folks!

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Stupid, stupid, stupid.

 

Charlotte and Raleigh both pulled Atlanta this afternoon. You see that major freeway south of Clayton to SE of Raleigh? Nobody use that road since it's very rural, yet there's traffic jam showing up in that area. What the heck?

 

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Have to blame the employers, too. I told my boss it was snowing hard in Fayetteville and coming this way. She let us leave at 12:00, just in time. If we hadn't closed then I was going to leave anyway. Some employers just don't care. It is not worth it, though.

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Have to blame the employers, too. I told my boss it was snowing hard in Fayetteville and coming this way. She let us leave at 12:00, just in time. If we hadn't closed then I was going to leave anyway. Some employers just don't care. It is not worth it, though.

Yup, my wife's employers started the day on a 2 hr delay in Charlotte. Started snowing on her way into work. Covered the roads at 10. Her bosses said, "we will close at 12." At 11 I called and told her to leave, consequences be damned. She did. 2 of her coworkers that didn't have gotten into accidents. I am going to call her bosses and complain the next chance I get.

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