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Dropped to a surprising 29 this morning.

5 hours ago, Tullioz said:

I had a very mild morning low of 45.9° after a high yesterday of 66.2°. This morning was the first since January 14th that the temperature didn't fall below freezing overnight in my backyard. Yesterday was a big snowmelt day and in its wake, I have noticed a few patches of snow mold. 

 

Never heard of that. We had a low of 54 and ended with .17" of rain. Nothing left but dirty piles of snow in parking lots.

12 hours ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Winter is over for the piedmont 

And coastal areas by the looks of it.

Low of 27, high of 74. A little too warm but still very dry out there. Snow piles are melting fast.

High 46, low 20. Looks like no more real cold nights here for awhile.

High of 37, low of 22. Currently 27/7. I am tired of being shocked constantly.

6 minutes ago, WinstonSalemArlington said:

Dewpoints around zero in the Triad

Ours are in the single digits. Driest air yet for us. We dropped to 3 at one point. Humidity in the house is at 26% with the humidifier going full speed.

On 2/7/2026 at 12:16 AM, Coach McGuirk said:

How much snow did you get?

18" according to the NWS.

Low of 22, high of 51. Lots of melting. Back in the freezer tomorrow.

Low of 31, high of 35. .05" of rain after midnight. We had a major melting last night from the rain. Lots of snow still but grass showing too. Roads all clear. Had a few snow showers a few hours ago amounting to nothing.

Solid A+++ here. 18" of snow plus a very cold January, that's 2 years in a row for cold and snow ( 5" last year ) and February off to a cold start.

36 and light rain here. .42" in the bucket so far.

Low of 33, high 47. So far we have picked up .42". Temp sitting at 36 and light rain.

Low of 33 this morning. Snow is melting slowly.

We have had filtered sun all day and it only hit 45 so far but the snow is melting fast. Our street gets full sun and it is very slushy with some bare spots now. Bottomed at 17 this morning. I finally cleared most of my double car driveway except for 1 mound where I had no place to put the snow.

2 hours ago, WinstonSalemArlington said:

We crushed our prior record.

1 hour ago, Tullioz said:

My morning low just west of Eden was 4.1°. There were several other locations in Rockingham County that were colder. The coldest temperatures I could find were in the Madison area, where two personal weather stations, KNCMADIS60 and KNCMADIS38 dropped to -4.5° and -3.5°, respectively. KSIF dropped to 2.3° at 7:35am.

Both the Dan and Smith rivers are frozen over in several locations. The first picture is of the Dan taken from the Hwy 87 bridge, and the second, the Smith taken in North Spray.

I've only seen this much ice on the rivers a handful of times over the years. In January 1985 Eden saw temperatures fall well below zero a couple of nights, and highs only reached the mid-teens during the day. This is also when I recorded the lowest temperature in Eden since I first began keeping records in 1981. I had a morning low of -11° on the 21st and -6° on the 22nd.

I was much younger and foolish back then, and my friends and I walked across the Smith River during that cold spell. The pictures below were taken on January 23, 1985 and are of me standing in the middle of the river and my friend Robert as he was walking across.

That was an epic cold spell. I lived in Virginia Beach and we dropped to -4. It was the coldest ever recorded there. Record still holds I believe.

High 42, low 11. Didn't seem like much melting going on, just evaporating. Crazy.

We enjoyed watching it fall and rapidly pull up. I did not enjoy shoveling my driveway and patio rooftop that had 2 feet pulled up from the drifting with a flat blade shovel.

It will be a long time before this past snowstorm is beaten except for maybe the Raleigh folks.

We hit 11 this morning. I do believe this is the coldest since I moved into this house in 2004. No frozen pipes. Woohoo. Not looking forward to the electric bill.

Temp dropping faster than forecasted. Already down to 21.

There is a February Obs thread. Just waiting for it to be pinned.

8 minutes ago, Fantom X said:

My neighbors are using garden shovels, plywood, cookie sheets to shovel the snow. luckily, I brought my snow shovel down from LI when I moved to NC - it was popular item today in the neighborhood

I have lived here since 1996 and until today, never needed one.

Post your February Obs here.

We easily picked up an additional 8 inches after midnight. That gave us a storm total of 18". That is the most for this area since 1980. High is our current temp of 31. Low was 17.