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I’ll be honest at about 5:00 yesterday afternoon I didn’t think there was a snowballs chance in hell we’d see drone pics of Raleigh with snow cover today but man those are beautiful

I put as much stock in the day 16 GFS as I put in a preseason college football ranking… That being said there is a signal for a warmup that week but with MJO stuck in phase 8 I would be shocked if it was anything but a brief warmup before a front. We will see

GFS says get the sunscreen out and enjoy your 70s on Christmas

Still just below 32 at 11:15, 31.8

Some places in southern Va have hit their climo average before December 10

Saturday has been a crazy flip! Here the GFS went from a projected high around freezing here on the 6z run Sunday to a high of near 60 on today’s 6z!!!

That would explain the slightly higher totals Raleigh through Franklin county. Raleigh proper definitely got more than the airport and lake

It’s possible it was a little more last night but I didn’t measure. Most everything non paved is covered so it’s really pretty regardless

Definitely over estimated the amount of snow on the ground last night. Measured just 0.30” this morning, I’ll blame first snow excitement lol. 26.8 out and very pretty regardless. Southern Va got a serious jackpot, swath of 6-8” from the mountains to the coast. Great storm gor them

We’ve seen headfakes regarding modeled warmth several times this fall, but Christmas week seems to be trending warmer and warmer across ensembles, ops, everything. Hopium can only get you so far! I think the pattern relaxation occurs that week but how long it lasts is tbd. With no southern stream energy flying around and a continued parade of Canadian clippers a reset might not be the worse thing bc no one’s scoring a big storm in this current regime without the motherload of luck (looking at you southern VA folks)

Id be willing to say Louisburg has at least an inch judging by my trail cams. Possibly more…

Yes- eyeballing. Here’s a video I took

Still snowing. Looks close to 0.5” here. Great comeback from where we were at about 5:00. Beautiful out, just took a walk enjoying the cold, snow and Christmas lights around the neighborhood. Roads icing up, going to be terrible in morning. Like I said, still snowing at the moment and looks like continuing light snow for a while

Grass is coated. That was my baseline expectation for this storm. Accumulating snow before Christmas with the lights out great start

I think it’s a good call. Roads are going to be awful with black ice. No drying and most of the county is already below freezing. Cancelling today was easily a dumb decision

You can tell we’re below freezing now, there’s a crunch when you walk on grass. Steady light snow, 31.8 most surfaces covered besides streets and tall grass. Has met expectations

NWS Wakefield reporting 6.1” at their office and still going

It’s coming down good now and temps have crashed to freezing. Doubt we get much but good chance of waking up to whitish now

Officially a dusting here! Best rates of day. Roofs/cars/mulch white

Coating+ at farm in Louisburg. Pretty good rates there on cam. So close but so far away

We might get a small accumulation after all. Car top turning white

NE NC looks like a good bet for some good totals with the temps and sun getting right. Wouldn’t shock me to see 3-4” around Roanoke rapids looking at radar

For what it’s worth snow has actually picked up here last few min and temps are getting close to 32

The good news is I never expected much from this but I was hopeful for coating. Did think someone in wake would see 1/2” to 1” based on CAMs but they pulled the rug mostly on that yesterday

Per trail cams it is accumulating in Louisburg finally. Cousin reports in Richmond they have 3” with plenty more to come. Not a bust there like I thought