Xlhunter3
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Heaviest of the snow tapering off in Northern Durham. Measured 0.2 inches. After how bleak it looked a few hours ago, I'll take it.
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12/8/2025 Event - Repeat of Last Week?
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NorthHillsWx
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Truly the new Roxboro.
Tsappfrog20
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Shout out to [mention]Webberweather53 [/mention] you were exactly right about the HRRR and that band setting up!!
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C-Money
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Ground is covered and it's still coming down pretty good here.
CNCsnwfan1210
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Snow continues to fall and sticking more to the tree limbs now and also a dusting on the grass, 31.3
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For the record regarding the main indices for today’s wintry event:
- The prior -PNA rose to the more favorable neutral PNA (-0.1)
- AO -1.9, one day after a short-term minimum of -2.2 was hit
- NAO -1.2, one day after a short-term minimum of -1.3 was hit
- MJO likely was inside the circle phase 8 (probably won’t know for sure for a couple of days)
- +EPO
- -WPO
- The prior -PNA rose to the more favorable neutral PNA (-0.1)
- AO -1.9, one day after a short-term minimum of -2.2 was hit
- NAO -1.2, one day after a short-term minimum of -1.3 was hit
- MJO likely was inside the circle phase 8 (probably won’t know for sure for a couple of days)
- +EPO
- -WPO
like 3ish inches here
not measuring because my knee scooter wheels dont have chains
not measuring because my knee scooter wheels dont have chains
Tsappfrog20
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Best snow of the night so far in Youngsville I’ve measured 1/2 an inch and still coming down!!
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Hmm we actually do have a slight dusting on some surfaces now. -SN/FL continues.
mx3gsr92
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In my 40 years, I really can't remember a time when we saw measurable snow in the immediate coastal areas of southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina prior to Christmas. Amazing to see the Christmas lights in the snow. Really brightens the spirit that I have been lacking lately!
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Tsappfrog20
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Looks like a lot of folks RDU east rallied nicely. It exceeded my expectations in the high country, with generally 4-6” and some 7-8”!
We are having on and off showers of looks like drizzle but if you let it hit your coat, it bounces like sleet, but it’s the size of drizzle. I guess you call it tiny sleet? lol
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Tsappfrog20
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Sorry if I have been annoying with all the photos and posts tonight, I’ve just been really excited!
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I'm very close to your location and can confirm what you just posted. It is sticking on exposed metallic surfaces and it just beginning to coat the leaves and grass in my yard. If that Arctic front had arrived sooner to feed the precipitation that fell as rain, we might have been talking about a couple of inches at least. It's nice to see the snow and to see it this early in the winter season.
Not often we get December snow around here, so have fun with it!
Nomanslandva
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Looked at stuff for Roa and looks like we had .64 liquid for the event. the first .1 was pure rain. Like Luke over in BBurg I struggled with 33 until about 3 when it started cooling off. It was still another beautiful snow paste job! Agree with others that Christmas lights in snow are just amazing! 
Am I dreaming or is the precipitation shield that is now over Wake County expanding south and west? That's the way it appears on radar. If this were to keep up, my neck of the woods might get more than just a coating.
Nomanslandva
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Snizzle?
Sounds good to me. I don’t know what the correct name for it is.
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Starting to get a little accumulation cars abs roofs turning white
lexxnchloe
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Just 1 of many with this obsession, lol
Tsappfrog20
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It just doesn’t want to stop these cell just keep back building!!
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No problem at all. You ought to see the grin on my face right now. There's nothing like a snowstorm to bring out the kid in us who love winter weather. I'm 61 and feel like I'm 21 right now. If we get enough, a tradition of mine is to go walk up the driveway barefooted in the snow. It sounds crazy, but we all have eccentric things that we like to do.
lexxnchloe
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I hope so
Yep! You’re in a more central/desirable spot for this banding than me, as I’m on the very back edge of it — but I’m still reaping some benefits! It stopped snowing 30+ mins ago but then just a few mins ago ramped back up some light snow showers on the northeastern part of Durham county. Keep it cominIt just doesn’t want to stop these cell just keep back building!!
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LukeBarrette
im north of 90% of people on here so yeah
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Final recap from Blacksburg, VA.
All in all we picked up somewhere between 3.5-4 inches of snow. Really was fun with snow falling all day. Can’t complain at all about that fact and I especially cannot complain about how this winter has started in VA. Truly grateful as a winter weather fan to have two early and awesome snow dropping storms!
Will say that this could have been much more of a significant system for us. We hovered around 32-33 for most of the storm which made for some melting of the snow at times. If this had been an all snow system with adequate temps this could have been a 6-8 inch storm. Didn’t help we did not get the greatest rates either. But like I said I cannot really complain from my perspective just wanted to state what went wrong…
We did get the secondary roads covered as night fell so will be slick in the morning!
Happy to see we did get some winners out there in NC!!!
UNCSC
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about 5 inches in the grass in south chesterfield VA. Very satisfying, ready for cold beer and 70 degrees now.
CNCsnwfan1210
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This is what I got so far folks for ground accumulation, but it’s a win! Still looks like a snow globe out here at 9:30pm 12/8.
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C-Money
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Yeah, still getting light snow.It just doesn’t want to stop these cell just keep back building!!
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C-Money
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Looks like the GFS did a pretty good job with this one.
Bigedd09
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The blind squirrel may have found its acorn. It was the first model to hint something might happen and it stuck to showing something happening when most of the other models had backed off.
I just got back from the gym in south Durham. It was putting down fairly decently there (still light but it wasn't paltry rates) and they had a much heavier dusting, maybe veering towards a coating. I'm back in Chapel Hill now and it's just a scattered dusting here with ongoing flurries / borderline light snow with pixie dust flakes. Definitely ended up on the wrong end of the line with this one (of course, another few miles from here and there's not even a dusting at all).
Some pics I took coming back from my Stats final that ended at 9 pm.
Didn't believe this was even possible at first but after watching radar for a couple hours if one more backend occurs it just might.
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