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Wintry Feb. 19-20

I’m not sure of the storm/storms but in the past I know us Western NC/Charlotte area folks have had this transfer rob moisture before and we get skipped so it’s not unprecedented. It’s unfortunate but this seems to be the case again.
 
Went from a 1006 mb out to sea low to this:
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It’s just a violent transfer. It sucks every bit of the energy to the Atlantic and deepens rapidly. Leaves nothing. Somebody is getting well over a foot in NC/VA. Had this thing found a way to run up into the NE they’d probably be looking at some 36-48” stripes

Hoping for Feb 24 1989 redux....14" here. Need it to slow down a bit this would allow time for it to get more precip further west...need the block to a actually do it's job for once.

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Atlanta gonna Bull crap there way to another 2 inch snow while most of NC gets nearly blanked... Surely it can't happen again, right?
ActuaLLY In all honesty with this trajectory I could see upstate beating NC Piedmont too...yall get JUST ENOUGHT time with it before that absolutely wicked transfer to the Atlantic and we dont lol
 
Making an effort at a deform band back side. gets it up your way this run. Accums are paltry central ENC, suprisingly.

Spits out 0.6” QPF for Raleigh as mainly sleet. I’d take that QPF to the bank which is far improved from 06z and then see how the thermals play out.
 
QPF is .2" higher (for a total > .5") than 6z at RDU. But it looks like almost all sleet except for a little snow on the backside.
Yeah, I think the biggest difference is that the extreme precip cutoff is much further west than 06z. But like you said it’s mostly sleet. So verbatim it’s actually terrible for the Triangle. LR NAM, though…

Perhaps we are seeing something different in the 12z runs so far, though. Would certainly like to see more of this uptick in QPF.
 
JMO, but it's still too early to understand how this is going to evolve. There will be major winners and losers. The key today is just getting a stronger wave/stronger storm so we have more winners and less losers in general.

But the models are all over the place as to how this thing shapes up and who gets what and where.

The dreaded snow hole has shown up all over the place on the modeling. Could be my backyard, could be big frosty, could be charlotte, even a small chance it could be Raleigh though they look the most safe.
 
Still not a good bead on how strong this SLP gets in the Atlantic. 1012?, 1003?, 1001?
 
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