Wintry February 19-21, 2020 Winter Storm

[FallsLake]

I'm over 2" and it's still coming down nicely. Not heavy but still accumulating. Looking at radar I might make 3".

Suppose to get into the 20s tonight overnight. Should stay in the 30s tomorrow and the Kids can do some sledding. One real day of winter...I'll take it.

 

[Downeastnc]

Need flake size to increase, rates are insane if I had quarter size flakes it would be much different storm.....

 

[Shaggy]

I'm at 1.5 compacted probably have had 2 inches fall. Ive tried to keep up as much measuring as possible but its been hard as melt is a problem.

 

[Brick Tamland]

After numerous model runs with that band running from RDU to Norfolk it seems to be forming from Fayetteville- la grange - Kinston along the Highway 70 corridor

Oh well. It is still snowing here. Would have been nice to get the heavy rates, but beggars can't be choosers. But it goes to show you we really don't know what is going to happen here with winter storms.

 

[Webberweather53]

Closing in on 0.5” here nice rates underneath this 30-35 dBz band, finally overcoming melting.

 

[Webberweather53]

I don’t have the accums folks in the Triangle area have but I definitely can’t complain about the rates I’ve had

 

[Oconeexman]

He called for 1-2 inches north of Greenville Pickens Walhalla. I don’t think anyone saw 1-2 inches on the ground


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I can confirm that above Walhalla had an inch maybe a little more. He did fine for the mountains of Oconee.
Zilch down from there but we got to see it snow at least. You'll find out it's really hard for us on the Lee side to get anything significant without cold air in place already like on 2/8. Or a significant Cad in place. The mountains hurt and help us..this case they hurt delaying the cold push. It can still happen but the timing has to be perfect.

 

[BIG FROSTY]

I'm ? this little disturbance coming in from the west some returns are showing up on radar. Hope to get another lucky dusting! lol

 

[Shaggy]

Oh well. It is still snowing here. Would have been nice to get the heavy rates, but beggars can't be choosers. But it goes to show you we really don't know what is going to happen here with winter storms.

Yeah for maybe the first time in my life I can say SE trend FTL

 

[Webberweather53]

I’ll gladly take it.

 

[superjames1992]

I might be hallucinating, but these seem like some of the heaviest rates I’ve seen since sundown right now here in SW Durham.

 

[Shaggy]

I'll end up closing in on my yearly average at a minimum and can't say that in a year this sucky that this is anything but awesome.

 

[BackThePack]

Welp. NWS nailed it. Kudos to them.

interesting storm. Looking forward to dissecting the results. In a sense to figure out “what went wrong”. All in all I made it out with 2 and possibly might cash out with 2.5 - right now it seems that is on the higher side for the RDU metro area. Haven’t seen many reports from NE NC yet.

very wet snow as expected.Poor ratios and not a lot of qpf

 

[BackThePack]

I'll end up closing in on my yearly average at a minimum and can't say that in a year this sucky that this is anything but awesome.

How much do you have out in Greenville?

 

[FallsLake]

I might be hallucinating, but these seem like some of the heaviest rates I’ve seen since sundown right now here in SW Durham.

Radar is back filling some (low taking over ???). Hopefully that gives us an additional half inch or so.

 

[SnowNiner]

I certainly underestimated that aspect.

Always matters. Definitely mattered today. High soil temps and temps above freezing completely killed accumulations.

 

[Oconeexman]

I'm just not a fan of people going after the mets especially after a storm like this. A lot of people were heralding the NAM for days and showing off it's clown maps. Not much they can do when nearly every model shows accumulation, then an area gets little to none.

Agreed! Theres such a drastic change in topography when you talk about the "Upstate". That's where you hear above 85 because in general that's the higher elevations of the upstate. You have down sloping, upsloping and other factors which affects each particular section of the upstate different. What we really need is a strong Cad in place to slow the gulf storm down and create some real over running and then let the coastal develop where it cant take the moisture away but enhance it and not fly through. Then you get several days of winter weather like back in th 80's...but those days dont seem like they'll ever happen again. Of course even then there will be areas that screwed over...like RDU and ENC..that's the nature of mother nature.

 

[Spurs up]

now im getting sleet just as the storm is ending. yay me

 

[Snowflowxxl]

Interesting that you all had issues with soil temps. In GA a little over a week ago we had the snow stick immediately, and it was 75 degrees three days earlier.

 

[Deleted member 1449]

Snow is tapering off. We finished somewhere just over 1”. Here’s a pic of my work place in downtown Kernersville.