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Misc Reminiscing Thread

1. January 1988 snowfall
2. January 2003 snowfall
3. Blizzard of 1996
4. Hurricane Hugo
5. December 2002 ice storm
6. December 2018 snowfall
7. January 2018 snowfall
8. Hurricane Florence, Monday Morning
9. Blizzard of 93
10. March 1st 2009
 
BullCityWx said:
1. January 1988 snowfall
2. January 2003 snowfall
3. Blizzard of 1996
4. Hurricane Hugo
5. December 2002 ice storm
6. December 2018 snowfall
7. January 2018 snowfall
8. Hurricane Florence, Monday Morning
9. Blizzard of 93
10. March 1st 2009
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If a lot of people do this it'll be interesting to see how the lists change by location.
 
1. December 2018
2. Mid-January 2018 Snowstorm
3. December 2017 Snowstorm
4. Early-January 2018 Snowstorm
5. Hurricane Michael
6. February 2014
7. Hurricane Florence
8. January 2017
9. February 2015
10. January 2022
 
BullCityWx said:
1. January 1988 snowfall
2. January 2003 snowfall
3. Blizzard of 1996
4. Hurricane Hugo
5. December 2002 ice storm
6. December 2018 snowfall
7. January 2018 snowfall
8. Hurricane Florence, Monday Morning
9. Blizzard of 93
10. March 1st 2009
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Being from the CLT area, the two that I would replace on this list are the Blizzard of ‘93 and January 2018.

‘93 Blizzard was fun to watch the reports coming from further west in the foothills and mountains and I did end up with 6” in Concord after the changeover, but other than actually being under a Blizzard Warning, it wasn’t anything unprecedented in the metro area.

January 2018 was a good storm but it wasn’t as big for CLT as it ended up being for the Triangle.

The two I would replace these with is February 1996 Ice/Sleet Storm and Cold and February 2004.

February 1996 was had that awesome thunder sleet that just dumped sleet in buckets for a couple hours. Then was followed by highs in the upper teens the next day with a steady light snow throughout out the day and night.

February 2004 is obviously my favorite to experience in the Charlotte area. Got a solid 7.5” during the day from overrunning and then was fortunate to be under the heaviest band during the upper low that night. When I measured the next morning, it was at 19.3” but I’m pretty sure it had packed down some with how wet the snow was.
 
Ehh, why not. Thought about telling this story again recently (again because I probably told it a few years ago):

January 2000, Carolina Crusher. I'm not actually in the Carolinas, but this was likely my first snow with me being old enough to appreciate it. I have a LOT of trouble with recall with memories from several years ago, but one of what I think my earliest memories is, is simply a picture of where I used to go to dance class with it in the snow (now that I come to think of it, while I have recalled this a lot before in the relative recent past, I'm having trouble doing so now with me typing it out). We had gone there (this is what I've been told by my parents, not something I remember) for dance, and it was cancelled because it was snowing.

My dad has told me the rest of this a few times (including the above):

We came home from going to dance class and the snow was getting fairly deep. I was excited since it was your first snow, but since it was getting late, I figured that it would be better to wait to play it in the morning. Sadly, when we woke up the next morning, the only thing that was left was ice (I've gone back and looked previously, and Bush Field was reporting snow for several hours on Carolina Crusher day, but it warmed up and switched to rain overnight). I was disappointed, and you were upset and cried.
 
1. February 2010 Snowstorm
2. Hurricane Michael
3. March 1, 2009 ULL (I was a student at UGA and Athens got pounded)
4. December 1993 Snowstorm
5. Hurricane Opal ( I think that this was the catalyst that sparked my interest in weather as a young child)
6. December 2022 cold
7. Hurricane Irma
8. April 2011 Tornado Outbreak (I wasn't direclty affected, but monitoring the hype that day was something that I will never forget)
9. April 15,1999 Tornado (this was the only day that we ever had a "real" tornado drill whenever I was in school, the same cell that passed over my home town had produced an EF3 twister in Vienna, GA)
10. Hurricane Frances
 
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The top picture is of downtown Americus, GA on February 26,1914 and the bottom picture is downtown Dublin, GA while the same storm was happening. In my general area, the only storm that tops this system is February 9, 1973 and the 1914 storm actually produced documented higher amounts in some locations in South Georgia than in 1973. This same storm produced very high amounts of snow in both South Carolina/North Carolina, I feel like that the region as a whole is due for a big thumping to end this drought very soon.
 
EastmanGAWX said:
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The top picture is of downtown Americus, GA on February 26,1914 and the bottom picture is downtown Dublin, GA while the same storm was happening. In my general area, the only storm that tops this system is February 9, 1973 and the 1914 storm actually produced documented higher amounts in some locations in South Georgia than in 1973. This same storm produced very high amounts of snow in both South Carolina/North Carolina, I feel like that the region as a whole is due for a big thumping to end this drought very soon.
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I've stayed at that building on the top. It's the Windsor Hotel.
 
Here’s a couple:
June 6,2019(tornadoes and flooding)
August 12-13,2016(flooding)
Hurricane Ida
Hurricane Laura/Delta
Hurricane Zeta
March 22,2022, Nola Tor event
June 10,2022, Lake Ponchatrain waterspout
Feb 7 2017, impressive SE LA supercells
April 27,2015. Bow echo went through SE LA, strong straightline winds
December 8,2017 snow(3.5” at BTR)
Feb 13-16,2021 Ice/sleet storm
 
1 January 15th ish ( Iowa) 28” inches of snow in 5 days. 2 double digit storms and a 3” clipper in between
2 Jan 88
3 Hugo ( in Gastonia)
4 2002 December ice storm
5 the 2016 November tornado EF-1 ( 110mph) through my backyard and neighborhood
6 lots of good 6-8 inch snows in the 80s! When things used to bust in our favor! Remember one storm the weather man said 8-10 flakes could mix in with the rain and woke up to 6-8” of snow!⛄️
 
1. February 2004 - measured 16 inches the day after the storm and remember riding around with my dad in his Isuzu Trooper when the ULL was pivoting through Charlotte.
2. January 2003
3. February 2014 - another ULL that really over performed
4. January 2000
5. January 2009 (Raleigh) - was at State during the MLK coastal. Walked around campus at 4 am in the morning in the snow
6. April 2011 (Raleigh) - remember watching WRAL met telling everyone at the station to go to the basement. My roommates were playing Call of Duty and didn’t believe me when I said a tornado was going to pass nearby.
7. January 30, 2010 (Raleigh) - rode in a straight drive Honda civic with my roommate to the State- VTech game. Roads were horrible.
8. February 2013 - convective snowfall event started out as heavy graupel. Snowed about 3 inches in a matter of a couple hours with some thunder.
9. January 17, 2018
10. June 2019 downburst in south Charlotte - very localized event but knocked down several trees in my parents yard, almost hitting their house
Honorable Mentions - Christmas/ Boxing Day 2010 and December 2002 ice storm
 
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