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Wintry January 21-23 2025
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Amazing photos from a place that rarely sees substantial snow courtesy of https://lsusports.net/news/2025/01/21/gallery-top-snow-photos/ :
Avalanche
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Yeah, plus many people like my Aunt moved to Florida from Statesville NC in hopes of never seeing snow again. Most people in Florida and Gulf Coast don’t want the snow.
Meanwhile we have many people in NC who welcome the snow when we can get it.
iGRXY
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We live in a favorable snow climate until post 2018. Sure we may not get big storms every year but you could almost guarantee to see something every year and a nice size storm every 3 years on avg. Even the Northeast can't find snow anymore. It's typically been all out west. Nobody is uprooting their families to go thousands of miles away for snow. That's not reasonable. But people who live in the CAD regions expect to see snow at least once a year and outside of Jan 2022, we haven't hardly seen anything in 6 years. Even when you finally get a legit winter, we still can't get more than a nuisance event that melted in 12 hours. This isn't a rant about those to my south seeing snow. I am happy for them. THis is more of a rant about the fact that I live in a place that should see some form of measurable snowfall every year and especially in a pattern like we've had this year and we still can't seem to do it.
Drizzle Snizzle
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Actually a lot of people move to NC to get away from the snow too lol. Lots of snowbirds in NC.
Avalanche
Member
Looks like they made a wise move lol
Avalanche
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Looking forward to seeing Webb’s map after it’s finished
Makeitsnow
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About an inch...maybe 1.25 if one is generous. That's not a lot but considering how the models were bone dry for quite a while, not bad. Although i can't help but regret it wasn't more and especially considering how much south ga got. However 2 snows in 1 season much less 2 weeks has to be considered a win. Already wanting the next one even though I'm exhausted from tracking and model watching
WxBlue
Meteorologist
Very slight miss with Columbia and Hatteras... but #nailedit otherwise. Was one of my better snowfall forecasts ever.lexxnchloe
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Inghamusic
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Stormsfury
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Yeah. Got 3 to 4" here in Goose Creek also. Hard packed cement. Figured the best place to take a picture outside of work. The snow compacted hard on the parking spots/road but piled up nicely on grassy
rburrel2
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My inlaws sent me pics from there house on Tybee Island this morning, The landscape is encased in 4 inches of sleet this morning with around 3/8's ice accretion. Absolutely insane. Also a morning low temp of 24 degrees, that's the coldest they've gotten in at least the last 5 years, but maybe much further back than that.
Also, I'm 99.9% sure this is highest "snow depth" measurement on tybee island in recorded history. I can't find anything else that says otherwise.
Also, I'm 99.9% sure this is highest "snow depth" measurement on tybee island in recorded history. I can't find anything else that says otherwise.
chapelhillwx
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You have a history of snow every year and will see 20x more over your lifetime than they will, so yes. get one yourself
I remember as a kid getting a snow where it only got to around 20 degrees the next day, but was sunny . I was so traumatized by how much melting went on. The snow zapped a lot of the snow snow in the sunny areas despite like 2” on the ground.
I think you’re better off having a cloudy day that gets to 50 degrees than a sunny day that gets to 25 at this point.
The high ratio snow doesn’t help, either. I believe it melts at a rate equal to the liquid equivalent.
Steven_1974
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Nice thing is you can take a leaf blower to clean stuff off. However the residue left freezes up instantly in the shade leaving you a hard coat of ice.
WolfpackHomer91
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B-P mentioned this the other day and I Never thought about it this way, we didnt waste this pattern bc it never was our pattern. We have to ride the line here in NC Piedmont , if Cold is too strong then it suppresses , not enough then we mix. He said this pattern was more indicative to what it did in the end produce extreme southern snowfall. Ik more went into it but it makes sense we cant have some monster high sitting right above us and expect some weak 1020LP to not be squashed to Serve the gulf
I didn’t expect Hatteras to do so well. I thought they would’ve mixed more. They may be pushing two one-foot snowstorms since I’ve last seen double digit inches.
I mean to be fair the CMC had more of a clue than a lot of the modeling there, which had no storm at all at times. As it turns out there was a generational storm, just not for the same areas it painted. Of course, the CMC actually kind of sucked in the final day or two with it too suppressed.
Pretty sure the AI model was way too suppressed in the 3-5 day range.
It’s just a beautiful day. 25/8 wind chill of 14. Trying to think of places to mess around town before it’s all gone
Satisfactory I think
Yeah I was a little worried we had too much of a good thing (cold), too. This has to be one of the coldest Januaries in recent memory. Usually, we don’t get big snows when it’s super cold for good reason.
I did think the warm nose would overperform along the Carolina coast but I didn’t give Myrtle beach to Wilmington enough credit. What did they end up with?
weather bubba
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I got about 1.25 inches here at my home near Lake Wheeler in Raleigh. It is powdery which was expected considering the ultra cold temperatures that were in place. It's been a while since I've seen a powdery snow like this. Most of the snow events here have snow falling and the temperature right at freezing or slightly above. All in all, although I wish my area had more moisture to work with but it fulfilled my expectations. I also get the added bonus of working from home today. Maybe February will bring some more snow but after two years of seeing zilch, I am happy with what I got.
But it was a gangbusters storm. We had double digit snowfall in Louisiana, Florida doubling their all-time snowfall record, etc. Objectively, this might be the most memorable Southeastern winter storm in decades, if not longer.
Avalanche
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Can’t imagine being in New Orleans walking out to get a beignet and coffee
You are right...I deleted my posts. The CMC rocked.
feb 2010, jan 2011, jan 2018, the area has had a few of these 3-5 inch highlight events but can't seem to break that 6 inch seal. Phone lock code (122389) remains unchanged
WxBlue
Meteorologist
Mostly 3-6" range.
really unlucky for the 85 (would a better name be carolinian, after the amtrak line) corridor last few weeks. i've been lucky in richmond to receive a couple of 3 inchers, but even these feel a little half-hearted when you factor in "what could have been". fortunately don't think we've seen the last of winter yet, wouldn't mind a warmup though
I don’t think it rocked but I just don’t think a lot of the other modeling that showed no storm at times was good, either. The UKMET was completely squashing the storm until the last second.
WxBlue
Meteorologist
Yeah crazy. I had to double check when I saw 8" report out of Hatteras.
This might be the hardest it has snowed all storm. Visibility down to 1/2 mile
That’s where I vacation every July. KDH. Kind of hard to picture it that way
SouthSideYankee
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Ended with about 1” of snow in south Durham. Was great to see some moderate rates last night for a few hours. Haven’t seen snow fall like that in a few years.
lexxnchloe
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Very good call
Stormsfury
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The warm nose which started early at 5C at 900mb to 850mb rapidly cooled, then got stuck at 0.5C across portions of the Lowcountry of SC effectively cutting off chances of snowfall history.
Even Savannah, despite it all pulled off a 3" snow. Charleston, SC officially pulled off 2"