1/10-11 super awesome winter SE OBS thread

[KrummWx]

I have friends outside of LR, Arkansas and am pissed bc they got a solid couple inches over ther course of a few hours gawd i need to get a wfh job and move north lmao. it's no precip falling at all rn

[CentralNC]

Moderate snow in Lewisville - even though radar looks like trash.

[StantonParkHoya]

6 minutes ago, KrummWx said:

I have friends outside of LR, Arkansas and am pissed bc they got a solid couple inches over ther course of a few hours gawd i need to get a wfh job and move north lmao. it's no precip falling at all rn

Weren’t they supposed to get like a foot though? Been there, would rather bust not expecting much to begin with.

[lilj4425]

19 minutes ago, msuwx said:

As a weather nerd, I always find it fascinating watching the various processes at work in the atmosphere causing varying precipitation types and the changes between them. 

Why do we have such issues with warm noses? I don’t get it. Like why it can’t it just snow six+ inches for once like it used to back in the old days without all of these mixing issues? And how Atlanta got more snow than I did is absolutely baffling. 

[Brick Tamland]

1 minute ago, lilj4425 said:

Why do we have such issues with warm noses? I don’t get it. Like why it can’t it just snow six+ inches for once like it used to back in the old days? 

Climate change. And being close enough to the ocean seems to always put the Triangle on the edge.

[StantonParkHoya]

Just now, Brick Tamland said:

Climate change. And being close enough to the ocean seems to always put the Triangle on the edge.

For RDU, this track was never hallmark and was always going to present problems. We need a low 50 miles off the coast, not on it. Sure, climate change alters the background state and makes a pure snow outcome less likely on the aggregate, but this was a flawed set up — even in 1960.

[CoolBreeze]

Light snow falling here wtih that narrow band going by...

[Buddy1987]

25 and moderate to at times heavier snow with bigger dendrites. Absolutely beautiful outside! Snow is like a powdery flour or sugar. 

[ForsythWx]

Something is falling at a reasonable pace in Winston Salem. Seems like sleet and snow. About 2 inches as of right now 

[Leesville Wx Hawk]

25 and moderate to at times heavier snow with bigger dendrites. Absolutely beautiful outside! Snow is like a powdery flour or sugar. 

Where are you Buddy?


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[Buddy1987]

Just now, Leesville Wx Hawk said:

Where are you Buddy?


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About 10 miles west northwest of Roanoke VA.

[msuwx]

13 minutes ago, lilj4425 said:

Why do we have such issues with warm noses? I don’t get it. Like why it can’t it just snow six+ inches for once like it used to back in the old days without all of these mixing issues? And how Atlanta got more snow than I did is absolutely baffling. 

Don’t have a great scientific answer for you about the warm noses. It’s just been very difficult of late to get an old school true Miller A type of system. 
 

Regarding Atlanta, they got lucky that the forcing set up where it did. Good for them. Just absolute luck of the draw with how this system unfolded.

 

[CentralNC]

Very intrigued by that final band back in the foothills racing NE...

[strongwxnc]

2 minutes ago, CentralNC said:

Very intrigued by that final band back in the foothills racing NE...

Just had a small victory. Best rates of the day for about 10 mintues!

All snow

[Leesville Wx Hawk]

Don’t have a great scientific answer for you about the warm noses. It’s just been very difficult of late to get an old school true Miller A type of system. 
 
Regarding Atlanta, they got lucky that the forcing set up where it did. Good for them. Just absolute luck of the draw with how this system unfolded.
 

I agree.


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[btownheel]

I’ll be darned. Got moderate snow again. Didn’t expect that.


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[Leesville Wx Hawk]

Miller A systems are not a lock for RDU especially without a decently placed HP.

RDU sometimes scores in different ways like CAD events and sometimes upper level devils that over perform.


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[Leesville Wx Hawk]

I’ll be darned. Got moderate snow again. Didn’t expect that.


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Where are you?


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[btownheel]

Where are you?


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Gibsonville/Elon.


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[BornAgain13]

This was earlier when we were headed to a call. 

[ForsythWx]

Moderate sized wet flakes mixing in with the frz rain / sleet mix now in WS 

[btownheel]

One more decent looking band(s) pushing out of the southern foothills north of Charlotte and headed this way. Come on, back build a little and give us one more good 45 minute shot.


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[jtgus]

Getting freezing rain and sleet in Gibsonville right now. Was pretty intense for a little while too

[ForsythWx]

It’s comin’ down out there! W-S, 2.3 inches on the ground. Burst of all snow it seems. 

[btownheel]

Nice banding coming up 85. Presenting as about 80/20 sleet/snow right now.


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[LakeNormanStormin]

Sleetfest in Cornelius the past hour and a half or so.

Today was a snow, sleet, freezing rain, and sleet sandwich.

It is crunchy out there.

[hickory]

Moderate snow 27 degrees currently in Brown Summit.

[CoolBreeze]

Still getting flurries, even though the radar shows nothing here.

[Tullioz]

Just shy of 4" just west of Eden. It's still snowing at a light to occasionally moderate clip, but I'm not expecting much more in the way of accumulation with the back edge rapidly approaching. I didn't notice any mixing at my location during the entire event. 

25.5°/25.0°

 

[LakeNormanStormin]

Scenes from the crunchy, frozen tundra of Cornelius, NC: