Tigerchick224

Up to 4” now in Travelers Rest! This was good for the soul.


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We got smacked in Travelers Rest. We had a tree fall in MBY and more back down in the woods on my property. To be honest, I am surprised there weren’t more because I have NEVER seen the trees bend like they did this morning. There were loads of trees and transformers downs in our surrounding neighborhoods and throughout the county, and at one point I saw where Greenville County had about 65k power outages.

I remember having a few tropical storms come our way over the past few years, but today’s definitely took the cake.


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There saying possible tornado touchdown off wade Hampton and pleasantburg drive in Greenville lot of trees down can anyone confirm?


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Sitting right on top of the boundary here in TR and waiting on the third. The first cell gave us the most action so far; lots of rotation and very visible updrafts. Pea sized hail too.


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Multiple homes destroyed in Seneca, SC. I am afraid to see what damage we will see in a few hours. I read where debris was lofted at least 18k feet. Not good at all.


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I'm close to the spinx here in TR.

Got fortunate here where I'm at in Travelers Rest. Worst of it went just south and just north of me. 

FYI I’m 2 miles northeast of downtown clemson 

Stratospheric gravity wave evident on 1 min G16 imagery inducing trop folding event across North Georgia.  Big potential developing.
 

Up to "dusting" status already. Grass whitening up quickly.  Heavy wet snow.

North of Travelers Rest 33/Mostly snow, some rain mixing in.


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Back to a mod/heavy rain now..wtf

Why??? It’s just rain.

Baby flakes mixing in here in Blue Ridge, SC.


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Where in upstate?  All rain here despite cold 850s and 925s.

Robert just posted on FB what I already suspected.  Downslope screw zone here.

Already sleet/rain mix in Blue Ridge, SC. Coming down at a good clip. At work so can’t check temp, but air has clearly gotten colder.


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Yeesh. Lots of wrecks starting to pop!


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Microscopic flakes falling slightly NE of Travelers Rest!


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Greenville Co, where I teach, is “monitoring forecasts and roads.” No early dismissal yet. I hope this won’t bite us in the butt, even if road temps are above freezing. I heard Oconee is dismissing early.


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Starting to stick in Blue Ridge, SC! My students and I of course had to go out and play. What are the odds this thing stays snow? Praying for a miracle


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Nope, 3 inches of slop in 93, and a little under 3 inches in 96.
Oddly enough the 2nd biggest snowfall I have ever measured was 4 inches on the nose and it was a dinky clipper system that hit at daybreak in the late 90's. I got maxima'd under a little band for a couple hours and picked up 4 inches while most other places in the upstate got an inch or two. I was living in Walhalla at the time for this storm, Clemson only got an inch or so.
For that event, I can name you 20 events where we have gotten absolutely screwed. The two classic examples of places due South of here getting way more snow than I've ever seen would be February 2004, March 1, 2009, and Feb 2010.  
February 2004 probably stung the worst of them all.  I got a freaking DUSTING from that storm...

I grew up in the lower part of the Upstate (Clinton, Laurens, Greenwood) and I remember growing up and getting shafted compared to the Northern counties. Now I live in the northern Upstate (Taylors) and though we definitely get more measurable snow events, since living up here I’ve seen counties to our north and east rack up (not so much to our west, because the western Upstate has some sort of all consuming snow pit where snow goes to die). I know I should be grateful for what we get, but at the same time I’m so salty about it.

About 4 inches of sleet/snow near Taylors Mill; Taylors, SC. Still sleeping buckets. 32 degrees


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Actually thermal issues are a hallmark of many large snow events wherever even up to New England.  The fundamental fact is that cold air tends to be dry and wet air tends to be warm.  So big snows tend to happen on the front lines of a battle between cold dry air and warm dry air, which means the thermals will generally tend to be unstable.