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Wintry Machine Learning Mauler 1/30-2/1

I am curious how much melting is going to happen today. On the one hand, we may not top 30 degrees, but on the other we are going to have wall-to-wall sunshine. It would be amazing to make it through the day with full grass coverage, but given how powerful the sun is and how with the wind some areas of grass have as little as ~4" of snow there, I am not holding my breath.
 
superjames1992 said:
I am curious how much melting is going to happen today. On the one hand, we may not top 30 degrees, but on the other we are going to have wall-to-wall sunshine. It would be amazing to make it through the day with full grass coverage, but given how powerful the sun is and how with the wind some areas of grass have as little as ~4" of snow there, I am not holding my breath.
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A ton is simply going to evaporate. February sun should help the roads a lot.
 
superjames1992 said:
I am curious how much melting is going to happen today. On the one hand, we may not top 30 degrees, but on the other we are going to have wall-to-wall sunshine. It would be amazing to make it through the day with full grass coverage, but given how powerful the sun is and how with the wind some areas of grass have as little as ~4" of snow there, I am not holding my breath.
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We are still at 27 but we have lost a significant amount of the snow already. Someone posted yeaterday that the high ratio snow goes away alot faster abd that seems to be accurate
 
chase223322 said:
We are still at 27 but we have lost a significant amount of the snow already. Someone posted yeaterday that the high ratio snow goes away alot faster abd that seems to be accurate
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The benefit we have is that the ground itself is cold, so at least we shouldn’t see much, if any, melting from underneath, like we sometimes do.
 
griteater said:
11.0 at Charlotte is 9th highest storm total of all-time, back to 1878. 3rd highest in my lifetime. 1st highest for this style of storm per re-analysis maps of upper wave dropping SE out of Canada (those types are highlighted in yellow)

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Interesting that Charlotte has more one-footers than Greensboro, although not particularly surprising with how each place gets their storms. Just not what you would expect on a quick glance at the snowfall averages.
 
superjames1992 said:
I am curious how much melting is going to happen today. On the one hand, we may not top 30 degrees, but on the other we are going to have wall-to-wall sunshine. It would be amazing to make it through the day with full grass coverage, but given how powerful the sun is and how with the wind some areas of grass have as little as ~4" of snow there, I am not holding my breath.
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I just told my family to expect the snow in the sun to rapidly disappear. Probably more from evaporation than melting. Which will not help our drought conditions.
 
superjames1992 said:
Interesting that Charlotte has more one-footers than Greensboro, although not particularly surprising with how each place gets their storms. Just not what you would expect on a quick glance at the snowfall averages.
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Gso over the years will inevitably get those 2-3”
Storms that Raleigh and Charlotte will be too warm for, and it throws the avg. CLT and RDU are honestly both in better spots to get big dog storms; at least during my lifetime based on patterns of storms.

Great storm for most of us. Glad Raleigh got in on some action. Had radars been reversed and I had to sit 10 hours and watch guys 50-75 miles away get dumped on, would’ve felt like home honestly. I used to get so mad as a kid when that happened, now I’m just glad people around here are getting snow.
 
Derekrsmith87 said:
The heavier radar returns near Goldsboro and north west are moving northwest. I have been under the band for roughly 2 hours. Measured 1" over last hour with a total of 4" having started here ~ 1800. Any one else live under these training returns? I believe I recall seeing someone from Lucama on this thread. Going to end with more than I anticipated after being in the dry area most of the day.View attachment 193016View attachment 193017View attachment 193020
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Ended up totaling 6" here in Selma, NC( 25 miles ESE of Raleigh)based on 10 measurements ranging from 5.5-6.5(roughly).
 
griteater said:
11.0 at Charlotte is 9th highest storm total of all-time, back to 1878. 3rd highest in my lifetime. 1st highest for this style of storm per re-analysis maps of upper wave dropping SE out of Canada (those types are highlighted in yellow)

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Lots of mid to late Februarys on that list.
 
chase223322 said:
We are still at 27 but we have lost a significant amount of the snow already. Someone posted yeaterday that the high ratio snow goes away alot faster abd that seems to be accurate
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It also settles a lot..I saw dry snow can settle up to 3 inches per foot just at night. Sure enough I think I lost about 2 inches overnight from that. I went out this morning and i was like wtf..it looked less and I measured and it was mostly 4 to 5.
 
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