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The storm I will always remember is 2/18/1979. (President's day storm 1). I was a freshman at Catawba College in Salisbury. Storm was on a Sunday. We had a stout NE wind even on Saturday and very cold temps for that time of the year. Storm was way underforecast in amounts. When I woke up Sunday morning, we had heavy snow already (arrived before forecast) and temps in the 20's. We had heavy snow until mid-afternoon on the 18th and by noon temps were already in the low teens and the wind stayed strong from the NE all day. Just incredible cold temps, wind, and snow for that time of year. We ended up with 9 inches but of course DC and BALT areas got way more than that. We had a stout warmup the following week so that most of the snow was gone by Friday. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/109/7/1520-0493_1981_109_1542_tpdsof_2_0_co_2.xml#:~:text=On 18–19 February 1979,the intensity of the event. https://www.inquirer.com/news/blizzard-presidents-day-philadelphia-washington-atlantic-city-20190218.html

Snow rain mix in Lewisville. Wont last long

you all should do pretty good up there.

I remind everyone that Feb 1993 was much the same way. Winter had been written off. We had several spring like days in Feb and it had been a ho-hum winter over all. Only to see a bomb go off on 3/12-3/13. I'll never forget it. Even though it was not a huge deal at my location, the met aspects of it were truly amazing. Yeah, it probably over....but we have to keep our eyes open.

31 and zr here in Lewisville. Numerous reports of accidents

Agree 100%

Wow not even 1/2 inch here in Lewisville

actually had 4 at my location. 1/3, 1/16, 1/21, 1/28. Of course 2 of those very small/minor

We ended up with a quarter to half inch dusting. 30 degrees

Snow mixing in Lewisville

Snow mixing in Lewisville

41 light rain

that is quite a trough.

36, cloudy skies

True, but looking like sunshine will be at a minimum at my location. RAH is already lowering daytime highs in the north. Looks like low 40s max where I am.

Noticing the same thing. Flip to snow earlier? I think I am in a good spot where I am.

Yes, I fully expect somewhere in NC to overperform with this. Selfishing, I am hoping I77 corridor but Raleigh is not out of the game either.

Should we create an obs thread for this event or just go with the obs thread already there?

32 with snowy look to the sky. Nowcast time.

GSP in their afternoon AFD sound more promising for the piedmont. All in all still a guessing game

Correct. We rarely score with these setups back where we are.

NAM has to be considered at outlier at this point unfortunately.

Yep. Signal still there

Nary a flake here by the Yadkin river.

Problem is there will be a screwzone on the NW side of the precip due to dry air intrusion. It will be somewhere in the western piedmont I believe.