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Wintry Dec 8-10th Winter Storm

Horrendous luck. It really has been for your corner of Wake. Look at these near misses just to your SE over the past few winters. So it’s not just “climo”. The dam will bust soon and you will jack.

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Thanks! Yeah we have been on a cold streak. Or a hot streak, depending on how you look at it. Getting some sleet mixing back in with the rain with this heavy downpour now.
 
Soo.. what's next ? Torchmas then same story every year... a winter storm sometime between jan 3-10 ? Along with brutal cold ?
 
I think more than 50% of the SE will break snow total records this year.

There are some areas where I don't think this will happen because of Feb. 1973 but what I'm hoping (and possibly wishcasting some) is with the factors that could play in this year, to see a good ole' Miller A that gives everyone that's realistic to see it a shot at some pretty wet snow.
 
Well no snow but i did get some freezing rain which is the 3rd day I’ve had winter weather this week. Nothing big but hey it’s only December! Congrats to all those who scored big in North Carolina.

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I'll give some credit to the Farmers Almanac for almost nailing the dates for snowfall in NC. This was for the 4th region for their forecast area, which includes NC. Sometimes their outlooks are right. I mean, they got the timing right for the ULL that's going to dump additional snowfall.
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Tidbits snow 4-8” in mountains..lots of moisture east too but temps on nam don’t allow the clown maps to respond. I really don’t believe in rain as currently modeled.
 
There are some areas where I don't think this will happen because of Feb. 1973 but what I'm hoping (and possibly wishcasting some) is with the factors that could play in this year, to see a good ole' Miller A that gives everyone that's realistic to see it a shot at some pretty wet snow.
If I even saw half of the 16-18 inches that happened here in ‘73 this winter I would be the happiest person alive. Shoot if I saw a quarter of that I would be happy
 
This has been increasing on the hrrr, I'm really understanding this now but watch for more lift in the dgz, if you have that you will get a decent thump from the ULL
 

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Here's the NWS Raleigh Discussion: As of 350 PM Sunday...

Surface low has emerged off the SE Coast and will pull slowly east- northeast away from the NC coast as a series of shortwaves eject east through the base of mid/upper level trough trough in place across the SE US.

Per 18z/9 GSO sounding, the cold deep near freezing isothermal layer did indeed prevail across the far northern/northwestern Piedmont, in the heart of the cold air damming region in place east of the mountains. As of 20z, latest reports coming in across that region have a snowfall maximum of 14 to 14.5 inches across Forsyth and Person counties. However, impressive mid-level dry punch overspreading the area from the west signals the loss of saturation aloft and ice crystals aloft, which will largely end the production of accumulating snow and sleet, that is until the arrival arrival of the next shortwave later this evening and overnight. Thus, expect the snow/sleet across the far northern zones to change-over to light freezing rain/drizzle to occur within the next hour.

The approach of the upper wave late this evening and overnight will lead to re-saturation and cooling aloft. At the same time, weak cold dry air advection on the back-side of the surface low moving farther offshore, will result in near to sub-freezing temps across the the northern two-thirds of the forecast area. The re-introduction of lift and ice into the cloud will result in another period of light snow/sleet across spreading east across the area. Additional snowfall amounts are expected to be light, ranging between a half inch to 1 to 1.5 inches across the far northern zones. While the far SE counties could see some a mix wet snow and rain, above freezing temps in the mid 30s will result in little to accumulation.
 
Raleigh going to get in the action again tomorrow.... Would be nice if that backside snow would hit areas that didn't see anything during the main event. Buttttt yeh, i reckon it doesn't work like that.
 
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