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30.7° at 10 am is just flat out impressive for this time of year

It’s impressive how bad the gfs performed coming into winter, then it woke up from coma swinging with brass knuckles.

The line just moved through my neck of the woods. No lightning, heavy rain and maybe a few gusts to around 30mph. It’s definitely getting its act together as it marches east though. A lot of Charlotte cams showing the same clearing I saw earlier. What are you folks seeing further east?

Yall are going to get smoked later! Enjoy fellas.

Not even a clap of thunder! We’re lucky it’s moving through in the morning though, it’s impressive how well it became organized when it hit higher dews east of the escarpment. It’s going to be a rough day for the piedmont.

Those are clear skies an hour after that first line and not a long distance from the main line here in the foothills. That can’t bode well for folks down east. .

Today is sneaky. I think for those along and west of I-77, it’s worth not getting lulled to sleep and distracted by Monday’s headlines.

Yep. The poor radar coverage a few years ago caused a tornado to go unwarned in Catawba County and multiple people died.

All of the short range models are starting to slow that front down. Any more ticks west with time and even more folks in the Carolinas and Virginia are going to be under the gun.

1/25 - 2.5” of mostly sleet 1/31 - 7” of champagne powder 2/5 - 1” of icing on the cake to freshen up my champagne powder Season total: 10.5” Notable: Several cold periods with rare staying power. I went about 3 weeks with some sort of ice/snow coverage on the ground. Complaints? Few. Wish Christmas would’ve been cold but it felt like a winter of old. Final grade: A+ This winter reminded me so much of when I was a kid in the foothills. Multiple storms, including one good slop fest, a true snow and sneak-up event that was minor. It’s hard to be mad at this past season. I really hope this is the start of a better long term pattern, and even if it’s not, it was good to see we’re capable of going above average in snow/sleet accumulation not entirely dependent on one event.

You guys got shafted on that 1/31 storm but at least it still beat warning criteria for sure. This winter ranked high in the excitement category. I still can’t believe we had almost a full month of wall to wall tracking. I absolutely can’t remember the last time that happened.

Wrapping up this winter: 1/25 - 2.5” of mostly sleet 1/31 - 7” of champagne powder 2/5 - 1” of icing on the cake to freshen up my champagne powder Season total: 10.5” Notable: Several cold periods with rare staying power. I went about 3 weeks with some sort of ice/snow coverage on the ground. Complaints? Few. Wish Christmas would’ve been cold but it felt like a winter of old. Final grade: A+ This winter reminded me so much of when I was a kid. Multiple storms, including one good slop fest, a true snow and sneak-up event that was minor. It’s hard to be mad at this past season. I really hope this is the start of a better long term pattern, and even if it’s not, it was good to see we’re capable of going above average in snow/sleet accumulation not entirely dependent on one event.

Monday is looking interesting. We’re going to be in the warm sector of an incredibly dynamic storm system. Would not be shocked for the severe weather outlook to continue its uptick in the coming days.

Hit 30 this morning with a surprisingly heavy frost for that temp. Next week may zap some of the early tree growth.

Been a hell of a year for Virginia

Hard to believe we had snowpack not too many weeks ago. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear it’s June.

My only beef with March and April variability is that my sinuses can’t take the delayed, slow drag through pollen season. If it were warm this next week and into the extended range, we’d rip the bandaid off.

It’s joked but actually pretty accurate in western NC that the opening day for trout is usually miserably cold. In fact, anecdotally, I can’t think of one time where I’ve been warm on that day.

AIFS setting up spring fever followed by the bottom dropping out as the Canadian cold sink empties in mid March.

Perfectly fine rolling into thunderstorm season. I spent too much time outside this past weekend to long for arctic cold anymore.

Amazing amount of moisture upstream

What bourbon is everyone drinking tonight?

Could be an evening of containment breaking

You guys don’t have sweet tea or Bojangles up there. It’s a non starter lol. Enjoy my friend! That low is starting to crank off of Hatteras - north west flow already ensuing a few miles to my west.

This storm is going to be fun to watch even if we’re not involved. It’s been a hell of a year for the east coast. Not everyone has scored but collectively the best winter in a long time.