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The best part should hit us (Southside/NENC) between 11-3am. Atlantic and Gulf moisture is just beginning to get entrained into the system south near Wilmington.  That will enhance the coverage for a while before it starts sliding further east off the coast. The western precip push appears done and is retreating back southeast but it should slow around somewhere from the lower Peninsula through Hampton Roads for a few more hours. We're going to need some good rates to get to the higher end of those forecasts.

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Here's a few pics from outside. I have about 0.7" two miles SW of the W&M campus.

I dont think I'll reach an inch based on radar. It's a very fluffy snow and too bad I'm too far north and west of the main action. But always a beautiful site, especially at night. Seems like every accumulating event this winter has started around 7 or 8pm.

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30 minutes ago, Stormpc said:

The best part should hit us (Southside/NENC) between 11-3am. Atlantic and Gulf moisture is just beginning to get entrained into the system south near Wilmington.  That will enhance the coverage for a while before it starts sliding further east off the coast. The western precip push appears done and is retreating back southeast but it should slow around somewhere from the lower Peninsula through Hampton Roads for a few more hours. We're going to need some good rates to get to the higher end of those forecasts.

I hope that happens but it just feels like the window is closing earlier than it was supposed to looking at that NW edge

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6 minutes ago, chris624wx said:

I hope that happens but it just feels like the window is closing earlier than it was supposed to looking at that NW edge

Yeah that's looking scary. Next hour or 2 is time to cash in.

I got lucky and was in that initial band for about 2 hours. Before I went out, I thought there was probably only about an inch or 1.5. I was wrong. But I just looked at the updated NWS forecast and now they have my area at 2-4. I may be in a narrow jackpot area for now. 

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Just now, Stormpc said:

Yeah that's looking scary. Next hour or 2 is time to cash in.

I got lucky and was in that initial band for about 2 hours. Before I went out, I thought there was probably only about an inch or 1.5. I was wrong. But I just looked at the updated NWS forecast and now they have my area at 2-4. I may be in a narrow jackpot area for now. 

Yeah, I just came in from walking around. It looked like maybe 1.5'' here near Downtown Norfolk. 

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Nice enhanced band dropping South through the peninsula now. Might be the last hurrah up there but it's going to finish with a bang. Hoping the coastal moisture gets entrained to slow that crashing precip field a bit. Probably won't happen but we might see a few enhanced bands before it kicks off shore in a few hours.

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3 minutes ago, RIC Airport said:

Ending here now, finished with 0.8". But certainly more than I anticipated when I woke up this morning. 

Not bad at all. We take whatever we can get and enjoy it. That's the fun part. The beaches along the Outer Banks are going to have a fun few hours between now and 3:00 a.m.

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5 minutes ago, Stormpc said:

Nice enhanced band dropping South through the peninsula now. Might be the last hurrah up there but it's going to finish with a bang. Hoping the coastal moisture gets entrained to slow that crashing precip field a bit. Probably won't happen but we might see a few enhanced bands before it kicks off shore in a few hours.

Going to enjoy it as it moves through. Hard to be upset with it ending earlier than modeled when this was OTS 36 hours ago

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7 minutes ago, Stormpc said:

Not bad at all. We take whatever we can get and enjoy it. That's the fun part. The beaches along the Outer Banks are going to have a fun few hours between now and 3:00 a.m.

4 minutes ago, chris624wx said:

Going to enjoy it as it moves through. Hard to be upset with it ending earlier than modeled when this was OTS 36 hours ago

You guys enjoy the rest of this event. We remain below freezing for highs tomorrow so we get another day to enjoy what fell. 

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I have no idea what I ended up with. Went to bed with around 5 or 6 inches now most of it's gone. It blew away. There's so much drifting and bare ground it's hard to figure but I would suspect we got somewhere around six or seven inches. Just to my south in Grandy had a measurement of 7.5. It's snowed until around 5:00am.  Great event here. Just kind of wish the winds wouldn't have kicked it all around but that's what you get when you have this light fluffy powder.

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By all accounts it looks like a general five to eight inches fell across Currituck county. Around 5 to 5.5 up in Moyock by the Va border. Then its 6-8 inches depending upon where and who took the measurement. It's really impossible unless you had a snowboard and we're going out all the time. I have bare ground in many areas and 18 inches in others. By all accounts the storm may have slightly over performed or hit the higher end of the predicted range down here.

Euro led the way with its consistency. GFS late to the game. Nam's caught up. All of the mesos were generally good inside 24 hours. RGEM was pitiful

My location is right on Currituck sound so there's no buffer for the wind. I'm sure places just a mile or two inland had some lighter winds.

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2 hours ago, Stormpc said:

I have no idea what I ended up with. Went to bed with around 5 or 6 inches now most of it's gone. It blew away. There's so much drifting and bare ground it's hard to figure but I would suspect we got somewhere around six or seven inches. Just to my south in Grandy had a measurement of 7.5. It's snowed until around 5:00am.  Great event here. Just kind of wish the winds wouldn't have kicked it all around but that's what you get when you have this light fluffy powder.

1 hour ago, Stormpc said:

By all accounts it looks like a general five to eight inches fell across Currituck county. Around 5 to 5.5 up in Moyock by the Va border. Then its 6-8 inches depending upon where and who took the measurement. It's really impossible unless you had a snowboard and we're going out all the time. I have bare ground in many areas and 18 inches in others. By all accounts the storm may have slightly over performed or hit the higher end of the predicted range down here.

Euro led the way with its consistency. GFS late to the game. Nam's caught up. All of the mesos were generally good inside 24 hours. RGEM was pitiful

My location is right on Currituck sound so there's no buffer for the wind. I'm sure places just a mile or two inland had some lighter winds.

It looks like ORF finished with 3.8", and around 4" is as high as I've seen so far north of the border. There are quite a few 6-7" reports, just what I've seen across NE NC. The AKQ bot is still sending totals, and they will probably send a PNS statement later this morning when enough totals come in.

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Indeed, it was not a bad event. This was the fourth accumulation of snow I've had this month, which beats much of what we've seen in the last few years. Despite the blowing and drifting, I'm glad you could score with this @Stormpc and others on the southside. It was a nail biter all along on how far north this came. The GFS, albeit late, was the first model to get the western extent of the precip shield toward and then just west of Richmond, which was on par with reports.  Also, the models did a great job picking up the Chesapeake Bay Effect snow streamer.

 

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2 hours ago, Stormpc said:

By all accounts it looks like a general five to eight inches fell across Currituck county. Around 5 to 5.5 up in Moyock by the Va border. Then its 6-8 inches depending upon where and who took the measurement. It's really impossible unless you had a snowboard and we're going out all the time. I have bare ground in many areas and 18 inches in others. By all accounts the storm may have slightly over performed or hit the higher end of the predicted range down here.

Euro led the way with its consistency. GFS late to the game. Nam's caught up. All of the mesos were generally good inside 24 hours. RGEM was pitiful

My location is right on Currituck sound so there's no buffer for the wind. I'm sure places just a mile or two inland had some lighter winds.

RGEM consistently under performs along with HRRR

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Per wakefield. 

5.0-7.5 inches fell across CURRITUCK County/mainland.

I heard there was about five in Corolla but I don't know if there's any way to measure accurately given the winds.

Look at radar. It hung around across the southern Outer Banks which was a little unexpected. Great storm for the beaches. Just too damn windy. Ruined a little bit of the cozy snow covered landscape.

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Had around 2.1 inches near Ghent/Downtown Norfolk when I went to measure around 2 AM last night once the last band moved through. That was before the bay steamer developed though.

Definitely a nice event especially since we didn't have to worry about mixing issues. If we can get something else this winter, I'd be down!

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1 hour ago, chris624wx said:

Had around 2.1 inches near Ghent/Downtown Norfolk when I went to measure around 2 AM last night once the last band moved through. That was before the bay steamer developed though.

Definitely a nice event especially since we didn't have to worry about mixing issues. If we can get something else this winter, I'd be down!

1.5 here. 4 for the season

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