QC_Halo Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." This was a bust...didn't get mail yesterday. Not surprising as on a good day I never know who's mail I'm going to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Thanks for the fun ladies and gentlemen, it's been a great ride I'll see you all again one day Next week!Enjoy your dusting, it may be more than RAH got! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thess Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Guy in my apartment complex has been revving the hell out of his truck for the last half our trying to get unstuck from our sloped, untreated access road. I have no idea what the revving is supposed to accomplish, but I suppose it's free entertainment. (Durham Southpoint, nice and iced up, a couple of people have tried escaping our apt complex and all have failed. No idea what might even be open that they are desperately trying to get to.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Cantore just said NYC was going to end up with more than DC, due to banding and such! Bet MA loves to hear that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidyr2k Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 If I came on here and said "Wow, this sure has been an crappy blizzard.", would I be wrong? The media has badly overused the word "blizzard" when describing this storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DopplerWx Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Cantore just said NYC was going to end up with more than DC, due to banding and such! Bet MA loves to hear that! can you imagine only getting 18"? ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thess Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Checked out local traffic cams to see where my neighbors think they're even going if they can escape the apartment complex, even I40 looks screwed (and empty) around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 can you imagine only getting 18"? ugh.That exact sentiment can be found in the MA thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burrel2 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Looks like places around Campobello got around a foot! Check out the pic I posted in the photo thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DopplerWx Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 mike trout from the angels on TWC talking to cantore nerding out about the storm, had no idea he was such a weather nut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Loving our dusting in Martinez! Not too much, but it's covering the ground (and the car)! For maybe just one person, this storm delivered exactly what was forecast - dusting to a 1/2". Shawn may be pleased this morning... Not bad by any means. About what I expected.. limited moisture.. couldn't get very big flakes out this way. Elevated surface accumulation etc. Glad Stormsfury got to see some frozen stuff all the way down to his area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDUBRDU Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 One day our luck will turn around and the MA and NE crew will be looking down with envy. We can't continue this track record of getting mixed storms after not having a pure powder storm with a strong high outside of the mountains in seriously almost 15 years. The last time I can remember a big snow for NC that didn't start or mix with rain, sleet, or freezing rain was February 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DopplerWx Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 One day our luck will turn around and the MA and NE crew will be looking down with envy. We can't continue this track record of getting mixed storms after not having a pure powder storm with a strong high outside of the mountains in seriously almost 15 years. The last time I can remember a big snow for NC that didn't start or mix with rain, sleet, or freezing rain was February 2004. we will get ours. my gut tells me we get a big dog in feb. i want a storm like this one for the MA, modeled 6 days out, no temp issues and just a crushjob for hours on end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasonsoflove Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Not bad by any means. About what I expected.. limited moisture.. couldn't get very big flakes out this way. Elevated surface accumulation etc. Glad Stormsfury got to see some frozen stuff all the way down to his area. All said and done we ended up with .75" here. I believe .7" was locally forecast. I'd lowered my expectations to 0", so can't complain! Thoughts on next week? Looks too warm for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDUBRDU Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 we will get ours. my gut tells me we get a big dog in feb. i want a storm like this one for the MA, modeled 6 days out, no temp issues and just a crushjob for hours on end. I travel for work for half of February so it will likely happen haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepPounding Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 If I came on here and said "Wow, this sure has been an crappy blizzard.", would I be wrong? The media has badly overused the word "blizzard" when describing this storm. What did you end up with out in Sanford? Have some friends up there and wife went up a few days ago as well to visit. Now she's trying to decide if she should come home this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon. We live just south of CLT so it's a long drive. 421 to 85 up by you to get here, then 485 down here. Anyone in the Greensboro, High Point, Salisbury, Kannapolis, and north CLT near University area as well with any input on road conditions would be great since all those places got varying amounts and types. I'm guessing by this afternoon things might be ok, but it's 153 miles. So any accident or bad conditions could make that a very long drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx4life Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." This was a bust...didn't get mail yesterday. Not surprising as on a good day I never know who's mail I'm going to get. I was surprised they suspended the Mail yesterday. I can't really a time when they have done that. I know they have the carriers out today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovingGulfLows Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 If I came on here and said "Wow, this sure has been an crappy blizzard.", would I be wrong? The media has badly overused the word "blizzard" when describing this storm. Maybe in NC, there was no blizzard, but Washington D.C., Baltimore to through NYC has been getting hit VERY hard. Some of the rates in the early morning hours were insane for those areas, not to mention the winds up there are bad. Near whiteout conditions. I wouldn't really say this storm has been overblown. It's a full blown blizzard for those areas. NYC is getting more snowed than they were progged just a day or two ago. The storm just tilted in their favor more than it tilted in ours. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 All said and done we ended up with .75" here. I believe .7" was locally forecast. I'd lowered my expectations to 0", so can't complain! Thoughts on next week? Looks too warm for us. Warm, but idea on the table from ensembles. Need better cold though, I don't like these marginal events. The last good event many of us around I-20 had was in Feb. of 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thess Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 What did you end up with out in Sanford? Have some friends up there and wife went up a few days ago as well to visit. Now she's trying to decide if she should come home this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon. We live just south of CLT so it's a long drive. 421 to 85 up by you to get here, then 485 down here. Anyone in the Greensboro, High Point, Salisbury, Kannapolis, and north CLT near University area as well with any input on road conditions would be great since all those places got varying amounts and types. I'm guessing by this afternoon things might be ok, but it's 153 miles. So any accident or bad conditions could make that a very long drive. Try googling "(city name) traffic cams", I was able to get to within a mile of my house, although I am admittedly in the triangle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasonsoflove Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Warm, but idea on the table from ensembles. Need better cold though, I don't like these marginal events. The last good event many of us around I-20 had was in Feb. of 2010. We all remember Feb 2010! I was in Illinois at the time. One word: thundersnow. And about 14 inches with it. Probably should have parked the car at the end of the driveway for that one rather than in the garage behind the house. Edit: or was that Feb 2011... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepPounding Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Try googling "(city name) traffic cams", I was able to get to within a mile of my house, although I am admittedly in the triangle. Yea I've looked and found some good areas and bad. But looking up 153 miles worth of traffic cams might take a while haha! Was hoping a few would chime in with what they've seen or heard for their areas. It won't take much for her to stay put. I would be fine driving right now if I had to but she won't risk it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwlee7 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Yea I've looked and found some good areas and bad. But looking up 153 miles worth of traffic cams might take a while haha! Was hoping a few would chime in with what they've seen or heard for their areas. It won't take much for her to stay put. I would be fine driving right now if I had to but she won't risk it. Maybe try the "waze" app. It's Google maps but with a social media component where people report on conditions as they are traveling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepPounding Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Maybe try the "waze" app. It's Google maps but with a social media component where people report on conditions as they are traveling. Didn't even think of that. Doh. Also just saw all Greensboro I-85 traffic cams and most others are down because of a severed fiber cable. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandonInSC Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Congrats to my fellow sc watchers who saw something, it looks like Orangeburg may gotten some good stuff looking at the radar. All I saw were 3 flakes that were so small they looked like bugs lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 This is actually the second time I've seen snow on my birthday in Charleston. In 2003 we had about 1" of snow on the ground. Weird, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Poor DT....he has to bust along with the rest of us. Dont get me wrong, I am cool with my 4-5" of whatever it is in the triad. But thats a long way from a foot and all the hype leading up to this event. We've all been here before and had those crushing last minute defeats (I'm a Bengals fan folks, I can take it) but I sure would like to know why the short range models as well as the Euro and GFS didnt seem to pick up on the strength and duration of the warm nose. NAM scored the win from 48-72 out IMO. Looking forward to learning from the post event insights. And we're on to next week! Yeah, and some are going to say we were hugging the snowiest model or whatever, but RAH had forecasted 6-10"+ immediately before the storm, too. It is what it is, though. It was fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerel_sky Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 I think snowstorm2011 or please snow for Marta , or whatever, got more snow than most around RAH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilj4425 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 It's melting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Stream Rider Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 This is actually the second time I've seen snow on my birthday in Charleston. In 2003 we had about 1" of snow on the ground. Weird, huh? Wow! It was a good event to get snow flying in lots of coastal areas too. Yeah, and are going to say we were hugging the snowiest model or whatever, but RAH had forecasted 6-10"+ immediately before the storm, too. It is what it is, though. It was fun. I was surprised by that as well. Huge hit midatlantic and even s New England. Maybe needs some analysis in the discussion thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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