Freeze

Snow finally reaching the ground here in Mooresville. Small, fine flakes.

Snowmaker, your link didn’t work

33..8 Driveway and street are now dusted over. NWS/local Met’s forecast was a bust for Mooresville. HRRR location of the snow flow for this area nailed it. 

Heaviest snowfall of the evening now. Quarter sized flakes creating a nice white coat over the lawn. Radar upstream seems to indicate that this will continue for another two to three hours. It’s beautiful out there. I’ll say it again, HRRR nailed this I-85 firehose. 

And now dime sized flakes inflated to quarter sized flakes are falling and the deck is getting a nice coat. Looking at radar, there is a river of snow flowing my way up the I-85 corridor. Congrats to the HRRR for nailing the location of that stream of snow from 12 hours out.

Temp is only 34.2 at my house but I have a dusting on car and grass tops as dime sized flakes continue to fall. 

It appears the HRR was dead-on with that snow band strip along I-85. Accumulations probably won’t verify but it nailed its location 12 or so hours out. 

3 minutes ago, avianman said:

Heavy snow in Hickory.  Sticking to the trees and cars and starting to lay on shaded areas of the parking lot.

You have shaded areas at 10:00 pm?

It’s now mostly snow in Mooresville. Nickel to quarter size flakes. 35.4 degrees

Big fat flakes starting to make up 60 percent of the precipitation falling at the moment. Edit to say it’s now 70/30 snow to rain  

36/35. Snow mix with rain. It’s all rate dependent

Snow has now mixed into the rain in Mooreaville 

12 hours ago, jburns said:

 

Take this trolling crap to the whining thread or tomorrow morning we will be asking “where’s FLweather”.

He’s been doing this every winter since he moved down to Florida.

Looking like Reidsville and north are going to be under heavy returns for a good while. 

Now I see a dry slot has developed from the state line above Roaring Gap down to Hickory. Hopefully that takes its time expanding. 

Big flakes now. Coming down at a decent rate. Currently the moisture in Mooresville is coming from the north. Looking at radar out of Greenville it looks like it will end in the next hour or so. However if you switch to Roanoke or Raleigh you can see there is much more moisture upstream flowing this way. Therefore I’m assuming this will end in my area, not from north to south but west to east when this backend stuff starts to move toward the coast. 

Flakes just arrived at my place about mile and a half east of downtown Mooresville.

3 minutes ago, tarheelwx said:

I thought RGEM was excellent for temps in CAD situations.  Anybody confirm?

TW

I can't speak for the temp profile but it is my understanding that the RGEM is good with PTYPE

6 minutes ago, SteveVa said:

That's fake news. Map from 6PM today shows barely 1" 

https://www.weather.gov/gsp/winter

5 minutes ago, mckinnonwg said:

This is the current link to the GSP site:

https://www.weather.gov/gsp/winter

Those are expected totals as of 7pm Saturday night. According to models, storm doesn't start cranking for another 9 to 12 hours