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Wintry 1/20 - 1/23 Winter Storm

The RGEM is basically a 3-6” storm from CAEish up through just S of CLT to just east of GSO up through SE VA, including FAY, Wilson, RDU, PGV, Rockingham, etc., with a 6-10” pocket in extreme NE NC/SE VA. Damn. It even gets snow back into ENE GA (Augusta area).
 
Wow:

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Gonna be surprised if I'm not at least under a WWA tomorrow.
 
BullCityWx said:
Been a long time since 2014. I’m pulling for y’all.
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2014 was an upper level low that was very localized. Then the other was predominately sleet/zr. The last widespread snow deal in the midlands I can remember with appreciable amounts was a whopping 12 years ago in Feb of 2010.
 
Shawn said:
2014 was an upper level low that was very localized. Then the other was predominately sleet/zr. The last widespread snow deal in the midlands I can remember with appreciable amounts was a whopping 12 years ago in Feb of 2010.
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I was in cola for that one! Grad school at Carolina. I knew things got crazy here when it snowed but Cola was on a different level.
 
If yall noticed the clowns for a few days all have that ice cream cone shape to them. The base of that cone is now all the way back into GA,then it opens up NE wider the futher out you get. See if it keeps trending futher sw.
 
Yeah don't mean to be a buzzkill but RGEM is a historic ice storm for the immediate coast. There are a lot of coastal folks (aka my PARENTS) that think that they're good for an ice storm since they made it through floyd and florence and fran. Wilmington may be ok since they got smacked in 2014, my old neighborhood had like a half inch of ice and things got crippled. My neighbor's oak tree collapsed and it ended up in the local paper. RGEM has 0.5-0.6 in Wilmington and unlike other situations I think a high percentage of that will accrue. That cold air source is coming in hard and unwavering, no latent heat release safeguards here. This is upper end stuff but any accumulation along the immediate coast over 0.5 inches immediately gets placed in historic territory.
 
ILMRoss said:
Yeah don't mean to be a buzzkill but RGEM is a historic ice storm for the immediate coast. There are a lot of coastal folks (aka my PARENTS) that think that they're good for an ice storm since they made it through floyd and florence and fran. Wilmington may be ok since they got smacked in 2014, my old neighborhood had like a half inch of ice and things got crippled. My neighbor's oak tree collapsed and it ended up in the local paper. RGEM has 0.5-0.6 in Wilmington and unlike other situations I think a high percentage of that will accrue. That cold air source is coming in hard and unwavering, no latent heat release safeguards here. This is upper end stuff but any accumulation along the immediate coast over 0.5 inches immediately gets placed in historic territory.
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Not a buzzkill at all. The ice threat is real and through all the excitement, we need to be watching out for those members too. A lot of older people retire closer to the coasts and while hurricanes are just or even more devastating, ice isn't "evacuated" for etc. I hope the local offices are on top, I haven't read many discussions. @GaWx and @Stormsfury have been ominously quiet lately. Same with a lot of NC posters in the coastal area.
 
ILMRoss said:
Yeah don't mean to be a buzzkill but RGEM is a historic ice storm for the immediate coast. There are a lot of coastal folks (aka my PARENTS) that think that they're good for an ice storm since they made it through floyd and florence and fran. Wilmington may be ok since they got smacked in 2014, my old neighborhood had like a half inch of ice and things got crippled. My neighbor's oak tree collapsed and it ended up in the local paper. RGEM has 0.5-0.6 in Wilmington and unlike other situations I think a high percentage of that will accrue. That cold air source is coming in hard and unwavering, no latent heat release safeguards here. This is upper end stuff but any accumulation along the immediate coast over 0.5 inches immediately gets placed in historic territory.
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That doesnt sound good. Will power outages be widespread?
 
ILMRoss said:
Yeah don't mean to be a buzzkill but RGEM is a historic ice storm for the immediate coast. There are a lot of coastal folks (aka my PARENTS) that think that they're good for an ice storm since they made it through floyd and florence and fran. Wilmington may be ok since they got smacked in 2014, my old neighborhood had like a half inch of ice and things got crippled. My neighbor's oak tree collapsed and it ended up in the local paper. RGEM has 0.5-0.6 in Wilmington and unlike other situations I think a high percentage of that will accrue. That cold air source is coming in hard and unwavering, no latent heat release safeguards here. This is upper end stuff but any accumulation along the immediate coast over 0.5 inches immediately gets placed in historic territory.
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My in-laws are there Ross. You think Wilmy proper will get that much ice?
 
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