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Okay, found the showers finally. Didn’t realize I just had to complain about it and it would happen.  

On 7/21/2020 at 8:44 PM, magpiemaniac said:

How’s everyone’s electric bill this month?  Mine is horrific.

Thru the damn roof.  Can’t buy a shower over this way. 

1 hour ago, kvegas-wx said:

Well I stand corrected.  There are indeed a few pellets mixed in here in the triad around downtown winston.  Doesnt really count, but they are there.

Edit!  And now flakes!!

Second edit - now 50/50 on I 40 east of winston!

Feels like it’s been years since we’ve had flakes.   Nice surprise here to end out January.  
 

Update:

some of the biggest flakes I’ve seen in my life and that’s no joke. Crazy.  

2 minutes ago, kvegas-wx said:

Literally everything is falling.  Rapidly switching to all snow here in Kernersville.

You are correct, got snow, rain and sleet all coming down at a decent clip. I could hear the sleet inside the house. 

Oak Ridge, NC has a nice glaze on everything this AM. Probably right at .25” glaze on trees. Power has flickered a few times but remains on.  Hearing some timber in the woods. Currently light drizzle, good news temp is right above 32.

8 minutes ago, knowledgeispwr said:

According to WFMY's Tim Buckley, it's the sleet line: https://twitter.com/TimBuckleyWX/status/1071829495575965696

I’m right above the sleet line and there’s a battle going on in my backyard between bigger snowflakes and sleet. Coming down hard. Haven’t measured in a couple hours, but I suspect we eclipsed the foot milestone a little while ago and still climbing. 

Wow!  Amazing storm. Wind is howling, sounds like rolling thunder almost. Snow blowing sideways. This is the hardest I’ve seen it snow in my life. Trees snapping in my neighbors backyard.. Incredible!!

Got around 11” avg around my property. Still all snow for the time being, and coming down pretty hard.   At times when the wind gusts it’s about as close to a blizzard as you get around here. 

19 minutes ago, superjames1992 said:

Seems to be doing a little better than I expected in GSO.  It will be interesting to see what the airport ends up reporting (close to where I used to live).  I’d expect INT to do better than GSO, as well.  It seems that the forecasted QPF has turned out to be fairly accurate.

My OBS: 64/OV. 

James- hate you’re missing this one brother. This is going to go down as an all timer for the Triad.  Incredibly heavy snow, has to be 1.5-2” per hour rates right now. Temp still holding at 26. 

Oh man, just incredible rates right now in Oak ridge. It’s raining snow if that makes any sense at all.   26 degrees and heading out to measurly shortly, but we’ve got to be nearing 9-10” if I had to guess 

Somewhere between 7-8” on the ground Forsyth/Guilford line, Temp is 27. Mod/heavy snow continues. At times visibility is under 1/4 mile. 

4 minutes ago, Poimen said:

Picked up another inch in the last hour. 5" here so far. Moderate snow. 

If we can keep these rates until noon, we’ll be well into double digits  

Wind driven snow continues dumping at an impressive clip on the Guilford/Forsyth county line between Kernersville and Oak Ridge. 

45 minutes ago, Poimen said:

Just measured 4" on the snow board here off Piney Grove. 

My 2” measurement was obviously a misplaced snow board, as I’m at 4-5” through out my yard. 

Just absolutely ripping outside, looks like a wall of white. Visibility greatly reduced and sitting on 30 degrees. Got about 2” on the ground and that number will increase rapidly with the rates we’re currently seeing. 

Temp falling fast, down to 33 now. Mod snow coming down. Starting to stick to grassy areas. 

Went from Flurries to wind whipping flakes everywhere in a hurry. 36 degrees Kernersville/Oak Ridge line. 

Can I just get a foot, please.  Every year I ask Santa for the same thing, just a foot of snow.  Dude has never come through before.  Maybe this is the one?    I smell a 6" snow topped off with some sleet and ZR.  Hope I'm wrong, which is usually the case.  

Incredible storm for N Florida and S Georgia and parts of the country that rarely see this type of weather. 

Can only hope it dumps it like no tomorrow for the kids and weenies living in those areas. 

The one and only thing that is giving me hope with this set up is knowing that Frosty lives to my west.  That has to give me some sort of chance of seeing snow in this setup

2 hours ago, packbacker said:

Flurries sounds good to me.  Or this might work out too...LOL.  If I get 2" out of this I will tattoo Mack rocks on my forehead.

Man, that cutoff in Forsyth County is eerily similar to the Carolina Crusher.  If I recall correctly, we got around 6" in Kernersville, and people in Clemmons got a an inch, and then people in Yadkin just saw some token flakes, making that map above pretty close, just need to shift west about 25 more miles and it'd be almost spot on.  Add in central east parts of SC catches a beating with this one, and it'd be one for the record books. 

I'm not going to lie, I'm expecting at least 6" now.    A couple days ago I would've been delighted if you told me I would get 2-4"... now I can already tell I'm going to be disappointed if this thing doesn't turn into a top 10 storm for my lifetime.  I've also never seen a foot snowfall here in Kernersville... I've seen Winston, Greensboro, 20 miles N and 20 miles S all get foot snowfalls.... .I don't think this is going to be the one, but the fact that I've let the thought slip into my mind means this should be a good storm.   

1 minute ago, No snow for you said:

I see you have played this game before. 

No doubt about it...  90% of the time that's just the way it goes.  It'd be damn nice for once, to just see a storm steam roll the deep south with cold in place, no mixing issues... BUT, it is what it is.  Those guys up North always win out one way or the other...    I hope this thing slides right off the coast and leaves them high and dry, but I doubt it. 

The first model to show DC getting a foot wins....  Them just the rules of the game folk.   18Z GFS gonna make it happen!

Damn, DC will find a way to get a foot out of this storm.  I know that for a fact, and I take solace in that.      End up being a rain/snow mix for most of everyone east or south of i85, and a little snow north and west of there, and then nova and DC get crushed.  Book it.    

Reverse psychology here folks...  It doesn't usually work, but when it does, I feel good about it. 

37 minutes ago, southernskimmer said:

I like where we are in GSO sitting NW of the bullseye to be honest. I have a good feeling about this one. 

I'm actually starting to think that we might be too far north this time.  Looks like there is pretty good consensus among the major models that this thing might not lift up in time to give us anything substantial.  The Euro has me hanging on though..    We just need this thing to get a little more amp'd up and that trough to sharpen up and we'll be golden.