Carrollton. Rome didnt get much of anything I dont think.
I got just over 4 inches from that storm. Automatic favorite because it’s the only storm I’ve witnessed thunder snow since. I loved that storm. The one that followed a year later in March 2010 sucked. Hours of moderate snow only to get a sloppy 1/2 inch or less that melted quickly.
This is probably the storm that my grandmother told us about when I was growing up. It’s the time period it would have been. She said that the 13 inches that was on the ground in Concord was just like hardened concrete because of all the sleet and ice that fell with it. It stayed cold after the storm right on through Christmas and very little of it melted before Christmas Day.
You must be toon young to remember this heartbreaker too
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This storm was a horrible bust for CLT metro. The forecast was for widespread 8-12” and literally there wasn’t a flake.
Thank you. I remember for those of us in the CLT metro area, we had a few inches of snow fall on Saturday afternoon and evening followed by a a light freezing rain most of the day on Sunday so schools and a lot of businesses were already closing for Monday. I remember the first mention of any precipitation for Monday that I had seen was on the 6pm Sunday newscast and WBTV had added a chance of light snow showers on Monday afternoon for areas S/E of I-85. Then on the 11pm they said that there could be up to an inch accumulation in those areas, but it wouldn’t be a huge deal because those were areas that already had several inches on the ground. I got to sleep in the next morning and when I woke up just after 8am, the NWS has just issued a WSW for 2-4 inches of snow but at that point I looked outside and could tell that we already had at least an inch. I was living in southeast Cabarrus County at the time near the Rocky River and Stanly County line, so I was right on the northwest fringe of the 10-14 inch totals... 10 miles southeast of me had 18-20 inches and 10 miles northwest of me had only 3-4
The most memorable thing about that storm was when the first band of snow moved in from the SW moving NE along the I-20 corridor. Half of my snow came from that one band. I got a quick 3 inches in less than 2 hrs from that, it was so heavy I could barely see the houses across the street from me.
This storm was also one of the few times that there was no worries about the temps the day going into it. The day before in CLT, the high was right around 30 and you could just tell by the way the clouds looked as the rolled in throughout the afternoon that a good snow was coming. That first band hit us right about 4:00am and within 15 minutes of the first flakes, everything was covered white
