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Same here. Im i it also. Starting to move SE now.

Sure does!!!

Heaviest of the day right now. Also very little wind, but Wind still coming generally from the east. .

21.4 .

I 85 wreck in the upstate of SC.. Dang

Been dumping since 10am. Small flakes with larger flakes mixed in. Awesome stuff. Feet are froze . LOL

Drifts over 12" in the yard. Going with 4ish" for now. Its cold!!

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Mesoscale Discussion 0067 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0942 AM CST Sat Jan 31 2026 Areas affected...Piedmont of Upstate South Carolina into North Carolina Concerning...Heavy snow Valid 311542Z - 311945Z SUMMARY...Heavy hourly snow rates around or in excess of 1 inch per hour may become increasingly common across the Carolina Piedmont vicinity through 1-4 PM EST. DISCUSSION...To this point, it appears that peak hourly snow rates within an area of snow spreading across and to the lee of the southern Appalachians have remained relatively modest. Precipitable water across the Piedmont is generally around or below .35 inches, with lower values to the west/northwest. Saturating temperature profiles are well below freezing, but temperatures conducive to dendritic ice crystal growth appear initially centered around 700 mb, somewhat low and perhaps not most optimal for larger dendritic ice crystal growth and aggregation. However, latest model output suggests that the deep, digging upstream short wave trough/elongated cyclonic circulation will gradually take on a more neutral orientation while pivoting across and southwest of the southern Appalachians through 18-21Z. Increasingly difluent and divergent mid/upper flow to the northeast of this feature is forecast to contribute to a period of strengthening upward vertical motion across the Carolina Piedmont. This may be enhanced by a band of strengthening frontogenetic forcing in the 800-700 mb layer, where forecast soundings indicate cooling profiles will contribute to further lowering, but deepening, of the dendritic growth zone. As this occurs, high resolution model output, among other guidance, suggests increasing potential for hourly snow rates in excess of 1 inch per hour, which may persist, at least on an off, through much of the afternoon. .

It’s just to my east south right now. Hoping it moves in. .

Heavy banding right now! Wow .

Flakes are getting bigger .

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Its cold. Just got back in from feeding all the animals (Horses, Chickens and such). 23 currently with small gusts of wind. should be at an 1" if not more. But its raking with below 1/2 mile vis

Yup. The end time has been pushed back several hours.

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`Solid 8" on the new RAP

We may never have in person school again.

On 40 just before 240. Covered.

Looks like the time has increased on when it is supposed to end.

Pumping. Vis down less than 1/2 mile with at least 1/4” so far. .

You can see banding working in . 850 frontogenesis below

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 116 AM EST Sat Jan 31 2026 The CAMs continue to suggest banded structures in the simulated reflectivity though this might not be a strong case for mesoscale banding. If that were to develop, there could be sharp stripes and gradients of snowfall. Either way, there will probably be at least one axis of heavier precip/snow where the better frontogenesis sets up on the north side of the 850 mb low. What is interesting is how several guidance sources want to place the best snow potential somewhere out in that triangle area bounded by GSP/CLT/CAE later today. Guidance also has been consistent with a stripe of better snow potential somewhere in northeast GA, but confidence in placement will be elusive until/unless we see it start to materialize. Note that if we have banding, some places will get less than expected. However, the air mass should be cold enough...generally in the low/mid 20s outside the mtns...and the rates high enough...upwards of 1/2 to 1 inch per hour...that even lower accums will result in significant challenges to transportation as the snow easily sticks to roadways. There could also be some blowing snow concerns through the event that could result in brief near-blizzard conditions in some spots, particularly during the daylight hours.