Wintry February 19-21, 2020 Winter Storm

[RainlessSnowless & Grumpy]

I usually care less about soil temps, but surface temps below freezing is a must for me. I tend to forget that when I see pretty clown maps.

The combo though of surface temps + warm soil just made this a non event for the clt area imo.

Yeah the warm surface temps mostly in my opinion. Same problem in the northern upstate. Rates didn't get heavy enough to cool the BL enough for accumulation until the precip was ending.

 

[FallsLake]

Still coming down. As James said, it's as hard as anytime tonight. Calling it 3" right now. It's a solid (not fluffy) 3". Once we get the (forecasted) lows in the 20s, this will turn into a ice pack.

 

[Snownut]

Well for most of upstate this storm sucked! That transition line just never could make it far enough south

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

Incredible how fast that coastal took over. Precip vanished over a lot of SC

 

[cyclogent]

This thing is hauling tail. Backedge of the precip has gone from Chattanooga to about midway between Charlotte and Fayetteville in 5 hours flat.

 

[NCSNOW]

We needed a better exit angle on the coastal. To much east heading ots. More NE, turn would have helped western piedmont areas.

 

[RainlessSnowless & Grumpy]

Based on the timing, cold air chasing moisture, sun angle, warm ground temps, not below freezing, these were the things working against us that I knew we couldn’t overcome. Having said that, I’m moving to south Florida in two weeks for work, so it was wonderful to get a little taste of winter tonight.

I'm not sure I fully buy into the sun angle and ground temp thing. I've personally seen it 85 degrees in Denver at 3PM and snowing and accumulating at 3AM at 33 degrees. And that was in early May!

 

[Webberweather53]

Snowfall reports are generally really lacking south of Raleigh rn on NWS Raleigh's local storm report app, I definitely recommend tweeting at NWS Raleigh (or whichever NWS office is in your domain) to ensure your report is officially recorded, especially if you're in this area of central NC.

 

[KyloG]

1.5”. Solid event. Feel fortunate in such a hostile winter. Still light snow.

 

[Brick Tamland]

Either a transformer blew somewhere or I just had thundersnow. Heard a bang and a flash of light out the window.

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

We needed a better exit angle on the coastal. To much east heading ots. More NE, turn would have helped western piedmont areas.

BLOCKING

 

[Snowflowxxl]

I’m guessing you had some pretty insane rates, though? And were surface temps below freezing? Rates can certainly overcome, but those factors certainly don’t help. Maybe with mid 20s and cold soil temps you could’ve gotten 10”, for example. Here, we’re dealing with above freezing air and soil temps, so the snowpack is melting from the top and bottom as the snow falls.

The rates were definitely insane. My temp was at 34-35 for the duration.

 

[Myfrotho704_]

Here was some snow that fell as it was ending

 

[superjames1992]

Snow just picked up again. Big flakes.

Just took my third Jeb Walk. Walked to the Kia dealership next to my complex and under all the lights it’s freaking beautiful out there. Highly recommend viewing snow from a car dealership under the lights during moderate/heavy nighttime snow. I avoided the puddles this time and tried to ignore that the road was slushy/wet and had a better time, haha.

One plus of it not being very cold is that....well, it’s not very cold, so you can walk around in it pretty comfortably. ?

 

[Shaggy]

Just cleaned off the wifes car so I can drive her to work and it clearly accumulated well on the cars. Cleared off 3 inches which was kind of surprising.

 

[Ollie Williams]

This is the snow in my front yard. I’m thinking I got just over 2inches.

 

[Bannerdude]

Just under 2" in the front yard, probably finish around 2" with this last round coming up

 

[BackThePack]

A local TV Met bashing “social media” Mets tonight. Sad. I can’t recall any of the “better known” social media forecasters ever bash WRAL or TV Mets publicly. Sad to see someone use their platform and bring other down to raise themselves.

 

[Spurs up]

finally snowing here should be done very quickly though lol

 

[pcbjr]

Just pulled in from work and got back on line ... only 1 thing to say ... Congratulations and job well done Folks ... ❄