SnowDeac

Any Atlanta/Athens folks gonna see a burst of snow here? Radar looks pretty juicy, but unsure on temps.

Yeah, the Raleigh metro has a bit more a variance based on storm track, particularly on the coastal lows. In Charlotte, I don't believe I've seen a single storm since I've been here (2010) where the southern (and possibly eastern) metro area exceeds the northern and western.

How much has compacted/washed away for you North Raleigh/Durham folks? Congrats, and stay safe on the roads once the refreezes start. I think the next two mornings will be the most dangerous part of the storm for you guys, and others.

Well, that was fun I guess. Down to flurries here. I don't think I've ever seen a radar dry up this fast.

Looks like the heavier banding is indeed setting up from the triangle through Mooresville/Davidson or so. Still snowing good outside my office off Billy Graham/Tyvola and flakes really whipping in the wind at times.

15 minutes ago, Shack said:

I'm guessing another hour or so, but the roads seem very passable in town.  My wife and daughter are itching to go shopping today and Park Road is on their agenda. They'll be headed out to whatever is open, so I'm guessing other folks will be too.

What type of shop does your fiancé have?

Yeah, main roads are completely fine, although my car thermometer dipped from 34 to 32 and flipped to 31 briefly, so things could go downhill if it keeps up.

She manages a luxury consignment store/boutique called JT Posh. Cool spot.

Do we have any updated idea on duration/intensity for Charlotte? Snowing pretty good near Park Road Shopping Center, but radar looks more impressive to SW/NE. Are a couple of the models showing 2-3 inches still to be believed? My fiance is trying to make a call on opening her store at noon or not at all.

ETA: of the short range models, the RGEM looks to be matching up the closest with actual radar returns. Hopefully others are seeing that too, and I'm not just wishcasting.

Radar looks awful for the Charlotte area. Starting to fill in nicely RDU, GSO, Asheboro. 2nd round cancel?!

Good night and good luck to everyone. Hope to wake up to decent sleet accumulation and not zr. Sad to have to basically punt until the backside of the storm. Such is life in CLT.

2 minutes ago, ryan1234 said:

I am south of you and it's still mostly still snow, maybe 80/20. And just because the CC moved away from Charlotte doesn't mean it won't retrograde back. 

 

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Good to hear! Typically, once the warm nose (assuming that's what this is) wins out, it's not giving up its ground. However, maybe it's based on heavier returns and we can swing this thing back south with more dbs and CAD.

Watch out Mooresville and Triad friends! The CC is heading your way! NAM rules again.

And just like that, snow almost stopped, now 85% sleet.

Just walked outside and flake size way down, but intensity still up. Small, lighter flakes, and wind really ripping. Hopefully the CAD working its magic, but CC has me pretty down at the moment.

2 minutes ago, WxKnurd said:

Link? Can’t remember where to find it at.

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=GSP-N0C-1-6

My least favorite link of the winter.

CC already back into Meck county. This heavy stuff isn't going to last long, unfortunately. It was fun while it, briefly, lasted.

Guys, not to be a downer, but the correlation coefficient radar seems to be flying back up towards Charlotte again.   

5 minutes ago, Queencitywx said:

ICON looks like at least another 2-3” on Monday 

All of NC, or primarily RDU area?

Brad P live video just passed my side street off Woodlawn. Even main roads getting covered already. Ripping.

I don't think I've ever used the term, "ripping fatties", but it's doing that south of uptown near Park Road Shopping Center. Anyone want to venture a guess how many hours of this we have???

40/35 and still just a steady light rain. DP up from 31 earlier. Need the winds to start pushing the CAD soon!

40 and a bit more steady rain near Park Road Shopping Center. Not much at all in the way of frozen here. Wasting some good QPF for sure, but the main event was never supposed to start until tonight, I guess.

Just got back from getting fitted for golf clubs (I'm crazy). Left my house near uptown to 46 and cloudy. At Providence/485 it was 40 with a light wintry mix of rain, sleet, and a few small flakes. Now back home to 45 and sprinkles. Pretty weird.

Temps busting high before a storm is brutal, and seems to have happened often in recent years. We're going to lose a lot of QPF before it changes over.

Lubbock now at 9 inches and still snowing. Going to be one of the largest 5-6 storms on record there. 2nd snowiest day ever in December. Vast majority from the ULL. Amarillo getting blanked. I'd say that's a positive for all of us, especially folks on the southern side.

I've also noticed a few local maximums showing, especially on the NAM, south and east of Charlotte. That's quite surprising, especially given where we were last night. I'm guessing it's either a heavier front end thump due to rates, or that ULL low rolling through at the end.

Brad P adjusting his totals SOUTH. Hinted earlier that he might have the metro more in the 4-8" range. Have not seen his new maps yet (on at 11), but I'm very curious as to what he's seeing. Hopefully not just too busy to have seen the recent (non-GFS) model suite.