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Ostrich December

Dewpoint Dan said:
There is absolutely no way Rome got 25" and Atlanta got 7". I refuse to believe such a snow gradient can exist.
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I just provided about the most absolute proof you’re going to get. It was a tight gradient likely because there was little or no sleet just a little further north and there could have been heavier precip further north.
 
GaWx said:
I just provided about the most absolute proof you’re going to get. It was a tight gradient likely because there was little or no sleet just a little further north and there could have been heavier precip further north.
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And yet somehow the SC coast got more than Atlanta. Very unusual for a heavy snow event in GA and AL to dump more snow in Charleston than Atlanta.
 
GaWx said:
I just provided about the most absolute proof you’re going to get. It was a tight gradient likely because there was little or no sleet just a little further north and there could have been heavier precip further north.
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Not to mention elevation differences too w/ perhaps some modest upslope for areas just north of Atlanta. These kinds of snow gradients have been seen in other storms around here in NC too like Jan 2000 & Mar 1927 for example where 2 feet fell in Fayetteville, while Lumberton one county south had closer to 7-8" & Red Springs about 15-20 miles SW of town only had 14"
 
Dewpoint Dan said:
And yet somehow the SC coast got more than Atlanta. Very unusual for a heavy snow event in GA and AL to dump more snow in Charleston than Atlanta.
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The accuracy of the map is already in question based on ATL. I mean they even have 17” SOUTH of ATL, which of course didn’t happen. So, the 6-8”
they show for southern coastal SC may have happened but it can’t at all be trusted. I can tell you that nearby SAV got no measurable sleet or snow although they may have had some ZR if I recall correctly.
 
cyclogent said:
Today is the 134 year anniversary of the mother of all early season winter storms in the south.

Snowstorms in the South: An Historical Perspective | Weather Extremes (wunderground.com)
"An early season heavy wet snowstorm hammered all of Alabama and the higher elevations of Georgia and North Carolina December 3-6, 1886 with 12-16” of snowfall in central Alabama (Montgomery had a record 11.0”), 17-20” in the northern parts of Alabama, and up to 25” in northern Georgia (as was measured in Rome). But it was in the mountains of North Carolina that the most extraordinary accumulations were reported with 36-42” at places like Hot House, North Carolina and Ducktown, Tennessee. Asheville, North Carolina reported 33” of snow

Some other cities not listed in that article...
Knoxville -15 inches
Chattanooga - 12 inches
Charlotte - 7 inches
Nashville - 2 inches
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1886 had three major winter events in the region. In January 1886 snow swept across the Southeast. It snowed all the way to Savannah and it was frigid in it's wake, the coldest day in Nashville history followed that storm. In February 1886 a major Tennessee snowstorm hit. 16 inches at Nashville, 18-28 along the Kentucky border. Chattanooga got screwzoned on that one. It's crazy how that much cold and that many big storms used to be able to come to pass in a calendar year.
 
John1122 said:
1886 had three major winter events in the region. In January 1886 snow swept across the Southeast. It snowed all the way to Savannah and it was frigid in it's wake, the coldest day in Nashville history followed that storm. In February 1886 a major Tennessee snowstorm hit. 16 inches at Nashville, 18-28 along the Kentucky border. Chattanooga got screwzoned on that one. It's crazy how that much cold and that many big storms used to be able to come to pass in a calendar year.
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Yeah where lucky to get one every few years nowadays.


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