For my folks along I-95 from Florence to Rocky Mount and points east, hang this on the wall:
After 00Z Sunday is when the heaviest snow and most notable impacts
are expected as the low offshore deepens rapidly. This will pivot
winds to more N/NE across the region, and as a deformation axis
pivots west of the surface low and the cold conveyor sets up across
the Atlantic and into the eastern Carolinas, more intense ascent
and greater moisture should result in extreme (for this region)
snow rates. Cross-sections indicate a broad region of favorable
conditions for CSI, or even CI (thundersnow), and the HREF snow-
rate probabilities peak above 50% for 1"/hr suggesting at least a
potential for 2"/hr within a pivoting band somewhere in eastern NC
or SC, and this is additionally supported by the WPC prototype
snowband tool. These heavy snow rates will be accompanied by
strong winds that may gust 35-50 mph, higher at the coast and in
the mountains, suggesting near blizzard conditions in many areas.
While uncertainty remains into how dry air in the mid- level may
impact snow amounts on the broad scale, locally very significant
snowfall accumulations are likely, especially within these bands,
during D2. By Sunday afternoon the low will pull away bringing an
end to the snowfall and leaving just cold windy conditions in its
wake.