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4.40 inches since midnight here IMBY in Hickory. Rain cranking up again after a brief lull.

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Here's a couple short videos of Dry Falls too:

11 minutes ago, Phelps said:

Sucks for the ski resorts.  They had such good conditions last weekend.  They can deal with warm but 5 inches of rain is tough.   

Yeah.  Drove by Sapphire Valley yesterday on a tour of local waterfalls.  It was rather pathetic-looking.  There may not be any snow left at all after today's torrents.

Dry falls on the Cullasaja River was rip-rouring, though:

Archdale, NC my backyard 16 years ago tonight.

44 minutes ago, mercurydime said:

That looked like the train yard?

It was simply near a RR crossing.  Pulled into a volunteer FD right next to it.  Hopped out of the car and snapped a few pics near the tracks.  Here it is on Google Maps:

The other one was from the church parking lot in this Google image:

Just got home from CLT. Went north on 16. Nothing on ground until construction zone began. Then nothing in Conover either. Got home and still a good half inch here. Based on my wife's description, I think we had an inch several hours ago before the heaviest stuff ended.

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Got about an inch on the ground and still snowing here in northern Catawba County.

Snow pics from back home in NE Hickory courtesy of my wife.

Now, I'm in Charlotte with an ugly 38 and rain...

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Snow pics from in and around Bostic, NC. Great spot for snowfall this morning,@strongwxnc.

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Training got canceled early. In Forest City. Now have some time to kill. Maybe head back up 64 toward South Mts. Or maybe head east toward Gastonia. Higher radar returns are that way.

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Beautiful heavy snow at Isothermal CC. There for training right now.

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Honestly, I think since 2010, this has been one of my better decades for winter storms. Two 12" events, several 6"+ events, first white christmas. Anyone who thinks these last few winters have been bad didnt live through 1988-1989 until March 1993 around here. 

2 hours ago, Buckethead said:

Went up to the AT on Big Bald after work. Easily over 2" up there with huge flakes flying. It's been snowing for 24 hours now and still going.

Beautiful pics, Buckethead.  Thanks for sharing.  I'm quite jealous.

Saw a few flurries today at the intersection of I-40 and I-26, but that's the extent of my my winter weather observations so far for this winter.

At least someone's getting the snowstorm of a lifetime...

Newfoundland asks for military help

^Wow, Grit.  That is so sad.

21 minutes ago, Tacoma said:

Boy ,,,,Quite,,,, 

 

Quite what?

There remains lots of potential in the next several weeks.  The 06Z GFS has cool to seasonal temperatures in NC for the entirety of its run following Friday.  There is also lots of opportunities for precipitations.  The trick is matching the two together.  I like our chances.

Crazy little storm cell on the extreme NW of this rainfall passed right over my house this morning around 4:30 AM. Five brilliant strikes of lightning, each rolled by rumbles of thunder so loud that the house shook. Then, the rain. 0.51 inch in ten minutes! It seemed tropical in it's intensity. Then it was all over. No more rain for us overnight as the axis of precipitation seems oriented in a training fashion from SW to NE just to our south.

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45 minutes ago, SnoJoe said:

Today's forecast for Fairbanks, AK. Can you imagine.

Thursday

Patchy ice fog. Sunny, with a high near -41. Wind chill values as low as -65. Northeast wind around 5 mph.

Ice fog?!  Fortunately, it's only "patchy".  Can you drive through a fog of ice?  Does it hurt to walk into it?  Is it penetrable?

Just. Crazy. Cold. Amazing.

Edit:  I just checked their forecast on NWS too.  It adds the phrase, "Sunny".  Can you actually use that phrase when there are less than 5 hours of "daytime" and the sun will be very low on the horizon?  The ice fog may actually obscure it. 

Edit 2:  Reading their AFD is just unreal.  Check this out:  "For the Fairbanks areas, near power plants, some industrial flurries may occur as the atmosphere wrings out the moisture in the power plant plumes."  Industrial flurries!  I don't think you should make snow cream with that snow.

Unfortunately, GSP radar is down:

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MESSAGE DATE:  JAN 04 2020 11:20:03

KGSP RADAR IS DOWN DUE TO PEDESTAL ERRORS. RETURN TO SERVICE TIME IS UNKNOWN. PL
EASE USE NEIGHBORING KFFC, KMRX, KFCX, KCAE, AND TCLT RADARS UNTIL SERVICE CAN B
E RESTORED.

Beautiful pic,@bess. Unfortunately, it was pretty much a non-event here in Hickory. Not even a glistening when I looked out at the trees this morning. Temp rose overnight like@jburns was observing to my east.

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Thanks for updates. Any chance us poor folks in Southern NC can get in game. Looks huge for nothern N.C. and Southern Va

Was 36 now up to 39.4 with winds from the SE. 

Did not expect it to get cold so quickly. Usually we're watching every fraction of a degree til it finally nears freezing around daybreak. Not the case tonight. Already below freezing. 31.8/24 right now.

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Dewpoints are in low to mid 20s at precipitation onset in the latest 00Z NAM.

The 3K version prints out total ZR accumulations at about half that of the 12K version, but that is still rather significant when looking at two tenths or greater.