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Wintry February 19-21, 2020 Winter Storm

Webberweather53 said:
Looks like most folks area-wide either verified the low end of my forecast map or busted low, I think air temps being in the middle 30s, just above freezing coupled w/ warm ground temps and dendrites that weren't efficient at accumulating to begin with caused most of the issues wrt snow accumulations. I'm very curious to hear about what everyone received in their backyards when the final flakes fell.
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I measured the accumulation on a block of ice I set outside yesterday upon the first flakes - That should all but destroy the ground temps theory. the dendrites were never larger than a small peanut. We simply just didnt get the fat flakes + enough qpf.
 
Webberweather53 said:
Looks like most folks area-wide either verified the low end of my forecast map or busted low, I think air temps being in the middle 30s, just above freezing coupled w/ warm ground temps and dendrites that weren't efficient at accumulating to begin with caused most of the issues wrt snow accumulations. I'm very curious to hear about what everyone received in their backyards when the final flakes fell.
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Highest I measured was just under 4 inches but the compaction was pretty evident. My guess is at least 5 fell overall. It hit my litmus test though.....no grass showing
 
Webberweather53 said:
Looks like most folks area-wide either verified the low end of my forecast map or busted low, I think air temps being in the middle 30s, just above freezing coupled w/ warm ground temps and dendrites that weren't efficient at accumulating to begin with caused most of the issues wrt snow accumulations. I'm very curious to hear about what everyone received in their backyards when the final flakes fell.
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I just took a half dozen measurements, several locations in the yard, car top and deck everyone was 4.5 and car top just under 5. I was a little surprised, those tiny flakes kept piling up.
 
And just for any of you Missouri folk
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What a crazy week. From signals to the major globals abandoning ship. To the entry, exit and re-entry and exit again of the dreaded warm nose (shudders). To the weenie maps and the freak outs when 1 run of 1 op model drops the storm. The lead up to the storm is sometimes 80% of the fun. This community sure is great. The over analyzations and constant opinions is what makes weather so exciting.

Congrats to everyone who saw snow. It was only two weeks ago when a lot of us thought we would shoot a blank this winter.

On to Spring, or on to the next signal? See you all on the next thread.


Godspeed and good day!


-Pack Backer
 
Right about 2", maybe a tad below that. Ground temps actually we're an issue for me. Anywhere where the grass was thin and bare soil exposed, there is no snow.

Oh, and those little flakes sure did stick to the trees nicely.
 
Downeastnc said:
Gonna call it 5", lots of compaction, the yard is deep enough that my weeds are not visible so at least 4-5", totally melted on all pavement though...
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Me too covered up all grass and weeds, anytime can do that it's a good snow.
 
Webberweather53 said:
There are lots of peculiar, interesting mesoscale details w/ the snow accumulations from this storm.
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Agreed... in fact I was concerned my measurements would seem "suspicious" haha, but I did it twice all over this morning. Not really sure why this exact spot is an inch higher than others
 
superjames1992 said:
Looks like you made out a little better than it looked like you might mid-storm. Street sticker at all?
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Yeah covered my road last night but sun already doing work on that. Of course, remember I'm in the country on one of them there secondary roads, you know how they are Lol
 
One of my favorite storms...got 2", kids got to play in the snow. Was great to see the snow fall from about 3pm-11pm.

I thought NAM's did a great job, they were to aggressive but they were all over the storm from 84 hours out when the globals had nothing.
 
Hoping to get a few pics uploaded. On the pic of the bumper of my truck notice the bottom layer of snow and see if you can tell how much compaction occured.
 

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Ilovesnow28 said:
I measured 4 inches here in Elizabeth City outside the hotel around 4 am this morning
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Oh cool!! I know that we had more when I went to bed. Look like it compacted pretty good here at my place. I’m really glad you got to see a good snowfall. The plus is the roads are clear after 4”!! When are planning on heading out?
 
Webberweather53 said:
There are lots of peculiar, interesting mesoscale details w/ the snow accumulations from this storm.
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The amount of accumulation I had between the time I left to take my wife at 9:15 until 10:20 was impressive. I think it fooled me because the flakes were not big but it was like a flizzard on steroids. Those tiny flakes really piled up fast. Only thing I can come up with is that the 850s were crashing and our ratios went from 6:1 to the usual 10:1?
 
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