I don't have a weather station, just an indoor/outdoor set up. So I usually eyeball some local weather stations on Weather Underground when I am really curious on temps. This morning north of 40 in Iredell ranged from 33 to 38. I showed 38 too at home. The 33 station is very close by - looks like it is down in a valley where the S Yadkin cuts through. The point being location is huge difference maker on nights like last night as others were saying. The variance is pretty wild to us weather nerds I guess.
Lots of scattered frost this week, but looks like November again this year before we get a killing frost/freeze.
Back in late April, I thought we were headed to a big dry spell. We had just missed on rain here and the upcoming days looked dry. So far for May, I am at 3.95 inch of rain.
Nice turnaround, and everything is green and growing.
I was shocked to measure 1.5" on deck rail and car top. We did just a little better being to the east more I guess.
There was a dusting from the night before, but most from this morning.
My point and click NWS forecast says 90% chance of snow on Wednesday and could be heavy at times. Kind of surprised by that.
I expected it to temper back some if anything. Hopefully they see something us amateurs don't. Granted I am technically NW Piedmont but very close to foothills.
Looked outside about start of halftime of the game, and it is pouring snow and sleet. Head out with the dog again. We are playing ball in the snow. Labs don't care. I realize it's raining - freezing of course. Then as we come in, it's some type of sleet or pellets. Just wild. Measured about 1.5 inch of mix.
This reminds me of one of the old 1980's winter storms. We used to get a lot of little nickel and dime deals like this that would give you a little bit of everything precip wise.
Snow was pounding down during my walk, but just switched to mostly sleet. Probably a bust in terms of big snow amounts. But not a bust in terms of impact and just having a winter storm with very cold temperatures.