Still a lot of moisture to work with when the coastal ramps up and spills cold air south
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Wintry February 19-21, 2020 Winter Storm
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I'd caution the use off stock 10:1 accumulation maps, outside of elevation ratios will avg closer to 6-7:1. Heavy and wet, will stick to everything and potentially cause some power issues for areas that do see the high side of forecast.
JHS
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That's for highway 11 and north. 1-2 will probably fall there. A trace at best in the 2 big cities. If latest models are right Lancaster and Rock Hill get warning criteria snow while we get nothing. Just not our year in the GSP metro and southwest.
yessire
Flurries reported in Oconee and Pickens
Webberweather53
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Here's my final call map for this event. Based on this morning's CAM trends and lower than forecasted dew points, I lowered totals for the Triad & far western piedmont, however they increased in the coastal plain.
I expect a respectable band of >6" of snow to setup just east of Raleigh from roughly Wilson to Elizabeth City. Isolated amounts could certainly approach/exceed 8-10"
I expect a respectable band of >6" of snow to setup just east of Raleigh from roughly Wilson to Elizabeth City. Isolated amounts could certainly approach/exceed 8-10"
StormStalker
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Seeing several pictures from NW Alabama of people getting a dusting. We’ve mixed back with rain and sleet here but I see a few flakes as well.
Light sleet
ghost1
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Interesting... I'm probably only 10 miles N of you at the most and we are getting the heaviest snow we've had of the morning right now. Big flakes falling. Close to an inch on my truck roof accumulation
In general the wintry reports making their way further south
John1122
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1.75 inches and snowing very hard. Minimum flake size is quarters but half dollars have been common this morning.
Stormlover
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Been snowing very heavy here in North Alabama, near Huntsville. Some of the heaviest I've seen in a long time, yet the radar still thinks it's rain. Even had thundersnow!
iGrey_X
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Sleet and rain mixing well together now in near Wade Hampton
CHA was 41/35 as of 7:53, and 41/41 as of 11:21. So, we're actually warming here, despite universally modeled cooling thru the event. Maybe not the best sign for areas to our east...
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sleet reported near DT Greenville, SC
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Some of the rain here in N GA is really heavy so if that ever runs into the colder air further north/northeast, it could very well change someone to mostly snow pretty quickly.
8miles
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Starting to get some precip in statesville. Light rain right now
12z cmc pushing some 3” totals far north west into the western Triad/foothills. Some maps could bust on the low side up this way if it’s right.
-IP/-RN just started back, up to 45.3 and DP has dropped to 31.3. Feel pretty confident in the DP/RH readings as I have 3 sensors that monitor and all very closely aligned. I do not recall a time in memory here where we went from 45F at the surface to accumulating snow in 8hrs.
42/27 light rain maybe a few sleet pellets still mixed
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Brick Tamland
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It's 44 and 29 in Wake Forest. I'm a little worried about the temp, too. Hope the rates make it crash fast.
HRRR seems to be increasing each run for the western piedmont into the foothills. It went from blanking us to 2” maybe more once it’s done.
Looking at the crappy maps on Pivotal, it looks like the latest RAP has increased snow amounts in Raleigh from 2" to 3"(Kuchera). Not much but everything helps. Still looks like a snow hole for the folks in the Triad.
NewnanWetather
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Can confirm it’s snowing right outside of Knoxville Tenn on 75.
Probably not flipping to snow until the 4-6 pm time frame for us unless this starts banding up and goes crazy before
upstatescwx
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Snow starting to mix into the sleet now in northern gville county
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latest wrf and hrrr showing light precip thru 4pm or so for clt, likely won't switch to snow until then. qpf not verifying as heavy as some of the models were showing.
ChattaVOL
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This is so depressing for Chattanooga. Knoxville has now switched over to Snow.
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HRRR beefing up totals back into the upstate
Nothing up here yet in SW Durham. It's cold, though. Grabbing lunch now.
Downeastnc
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Saw literally 2 sleet pellets otw home
edit: rn/ip
edit: rn/ip
Cary_Snow95
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I think this will end up affecting Charlotte to Raleigh too. This won’t stop the snow accumulations but I think could keep things fairly light. 1-3” Raleigh and dusting to 1” Charlotte. 