eyewall

The signal is consistent which is good. We are in the game for the moment. We will see over the next few days.

1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said:

Love the pastel colors of the houses

Yeah there is a lot of that in that neighborhood. I was telling people how close this was to a Vermont snow in how dry it was.

Your arctic cold helped us pull off what was a warning level snow for these parts (about 3-3.5 inches). Greetings from the Banana Belt! (It remained in the 20's the entire event was pure powder):
 

A couple of aerials:

Well I have been granted a full release from the sanitarium. Anything we get after this is a bonus.

1 minute ago, WinstonSalemArlington said:

Are those palm trees in Raleigh?

Yeah a few people have them in the Oakwood Neighborhood.

Sunrise this morning:

24 minutes ago, CntrTim85 said:

7" here in Moyock. RGEM absolutely nailed it. 

Nice!

More later but this is a quick phone shot this morning

29 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Woke up to a beautiful winter scene outside. Measured 3.2” average though there was more variability than normal, I’m guessing due to powder and winds. Probably lost a few tenths to compaction overnight but we hit warning criteria and I can tell you every bit of it is on the roads too. Deep winter! 

That is about what we had also

Nailed it!

Nice dendrites in this band! This is that high ratio stuff we want.

Just now, wncsnow said:

@eyewall Guess you were wrong about the Raleigh shutout this year!

Yep eating crow with my snow cream

Just now, NorthHillsWx said:

Beautiful, same here. Warning criteria is a formality at this point. Great storm, 23 degrees and snowing hard, you guys kidding me? When it was 75 a month ago I did not think this was possible 

Yeah it was 80 on New Years. It is a beautiful storm. 

That band west of Raleigh is the real deal.

Coming up on 2 inches here.

Ask and you shall receive. Picking up now

At this rate it is going to be tough making the low end of the forecast amounts. We will build an inch evey 5 hours or so with the current growth.

Growth is still lacking a bit but looking better. Definitely a real powder out there, something rare for NC outside the mountains/foothills.

Raleigh at 7:30pm

Dusting in Raleigh so far with steady light snow. Need some better snow growth to really start building accumulation.

14 minutes ago, PackGrad05 said:

The main banding is definitely setting up along I-95 area.  

Some of that is mixing with IP/ZR

1 minute ago, wake4est said:

Flurries in Holly Springs, NC but the flakes are giant

Dendrites given the temps I would think.

Flurries in Raleigh which means the column has saturated enough for now.