Ended up with just a dusting in Concord.
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Wintry February 19-21, 2020 Winter Storm
- Thread starter Six Mile Wx
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Took a drive around the area since I wanted to try my new WRX in the snow. There's definitely a lot of slushy spots out there in the areas where there's no running water and shady areas where the pavement didn't get a lot of radiation this afternoon. Also, there's some power outages up near Duke and some trees are bending down hanging over the roadway blocking some of the roads because of the heavy wet snow. They actually had one of the roads near Duke closed down.
Light snow continues, but it seems to be tapering off now.
Light snow continues, but it seems to be tapering off now.
STI or no? I had the 2002 WRX (I think that was the first year) and then had to trade it in for a CR-V when my son was born. WRX was fun to drive!
Oh, and still snowing pretty good. Around 2".
I'm about 25 miles south of Emporia and measured 3", probably a little more now, so that certainly seems accurate.Might get away with saying this now that things are calming down but you need to work less and play moreOn topic, Wakefield said Emporia area had 3-4 so I bet some in NE NC did well.
Nah, no STI. I cheaped out on paying the extra $10k for that, haha. The regular WRX is still a lot of fun to drive, though, and gets a little better gas mileage. And I like the WRX is a pretty practical car (4 doors, etc.) compared to most “sporty” cars out there. It’s my only car, so it needs to check a lot of boxes.
The HRRR’s depiction of the snow hanging around until around 10 looks about right. The 0.4” QPF may be about right, too. We certainly didn’t get 4” of snow, but we are also dealing with continuous melting, compaction, and likely subpar ratios (5:1?).
I forgot to mention this. Each of these 2 snowstorms will have happened (per GEFS AO forecast) exactly two days before the only two days on record (since 1950) with an AO of over +6! (Forecast has it exceeding +6 again on 2/22. It was over +6 for the first time ever on 2/10.)
4.5” Beech MTN, Watauga. 3” just west of Boone, NC. 1” Alleghany County NC. Dusting to half inch spots in Wilkes/Surry/Yadkin/Iredell with locally more in southern Wilkes on the brushy mtns.
Check out how it even accumulated on the wire of the fence imby. So cool to me
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Webberweather53
Meteorologist
Snow tapering off here in SW Cumberland County, final total was just under 2/3rds of an inch (0.6”)
NCCWOP9077
Member
About 2 1/4 inches of snow here 3 mi north of Lucama, NC. Roads have a slushy buildup. Certainly a wet, gloppy snow but it sure is pretty. How sweet it is!
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Measured some areas with 2 inches and some with 3 inches ... overall this was probably the wettest snow I’ve seen in a while.. stuck to literally everything in sight and you could pick it up and squish it a bit and an immediate snowball .. for this crappy winter this was an A+ event for me ... truly love seeing and tracking winter weather and it’s what got me into weather in the first place .. that’s why my inner weenie comes out a lot when tracking this type of stuff
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Sctvman
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You can see how quickly the precip has eroded here.
Dang, I thought you would do better there.
Flurries/-SN here, but our accumulating snow is basically over. I would estimate around 2-2.5” here. I may try to measure later, but it’s kind of hard given how wet and variable it is from surface to surface.
Downeastnc
Member
Finally got some decent flake size and its straight ripping out there right now.....if it was colder I would have 6" by now easy......if I can somehow sustain the current band for a few hrs I will end up at 6 or better anyways its coming down hard....
Video doesnt do it justice....
Video doesnt do it justice....
Webberweather53
Meteorologist
Dang, I thought you would do better there.
Flurries/-SN here, but our accumulating snow is basically over. I would estimate around 2-2.5” here. I may try to measure later, but it’s kind of hard given how wet and variable it is from surface to surface.
Warmer temps definitely hurt us, spent so much time getting rained on and air temps in the mid 30s don't help.
Webberweather53
Meteorologist
Yeah, those back end flakes myrtle beach was suppose to get dried up fast. Looks like the 792 snowless streak continues
Downeastnc
Member
hard to say, on the vehicles probably 4-5", in the yard 3-4" but its also packing down....looking at radar its tough to tell how much longer this will last...there appears to be some enhancement between RDU and Goldsboro that is moving into my area this may be what has caused my flake size to improve....the real question is how long does this last....if somehow we can squeeze 2-3 hrs of this kind of rate and flake size in then I think we got a legit chance at 6"+....just hard to say how how it plays out at this point, earlier the HRRR had the best rates etc from 10-2 so maybe thats what we are seeing....
WxBlue
Meteorologist
3.5" on my car. The snow is super wet and is compacting on itself.