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Really random local banter... McCall's BBQ in Clayton has closed it's doors! http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/restaurants/article192881694.html

What are the chances of the event being over before the snow hole fills in?

WRAL Noon News just said that Niagara Falls stretches from the Texas border to the Canadian border!

Ditto!

Most of us have our location in our profile - under our avatar.

RAH Disco The next s/w projected to lift newd out of the l/w trough late Thursday, crossing our region by Fri morning. After the relative lull in precip Thursday, expect areas of precip to regenerate across our region, especially overnight Thu night into early Fri. Precip will initially start out as rain, but could see a transition to a rain/snow mix after midnight over the NW Piedmont as the column aloft continues to cool, and lift becomes stronger in the favored dendrite growth zone. Where heavier precip rates occur, could see a brief burst of snow, though warm ground temperatures will cause any snow that accumulates to quickly melt. Appears the rain/snow mix will remain confined primarily across the NW Piedmont through mid morning Friday, afterwhich the boundary layer may warm enough to cause the mixture to go back to all rain. As night approaches Friday, and the s/w begins to exit our region, another surge of low level cold air will overtake the region. This will lead to a rain/snow mix to overspread central NC Friday night, with the precip ending as a little light snow across the Piedmont. Precip rates at this time appear too light and the ground temperatures relatively too warm to support nothing more than a dusting, if that. Across the coastal plain, light rain may end as a rain/snow mix late Friday night. High temps Friday will only warm to near 40-lower 40s. It's possible some locations across the Piedmont may stay in the 30s.

Had some light snow in central NC Dec 4, 2010 WRAL Slideshow... http://www.wral.com/weather/image_gallery/8726144/

Cha-ching. It's in the forecast...bank on it!!! Friday Night A chance of rain before 1am, then a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

First hummingbird of the year showed up here this afternoon.

Saw the first fireflies of the year just now! Also, after sitting empty for nearly 1i years, the bats have finally found the bat house I built and mounted to the garage wall! In the past, we've had 2 or 3 sleeping in the louvered vent at the top of the garage roof, but tonight, I saw 5 of them emerging from their house! Don't know if there were more before I went outside. Kind of exciting.

Blooming azaleas are mush. Rhododendrons are toast. Budded azaleas are freezer burnt. Fortunately, we do have some late season varieties. That's terrible about the peach crop in SC.

Just broke a sweat mowing the winter weeds, pine straw, and the now breaking dormancy zoysia! 81° out there!

Found 2 peach trees in full bloom today. Didn't even know we had any Must be their first year blooming. There used to be a squirrel nest above where they grew - they must have dropped a couple pits. Yep - one of them is growing in an old seed spreader!!! Like CommentShare

That'll never change, no matter what season!

totals dropped again... now 1/2"-3/4". Temp lowered as well. Calling for 51 now.

Our 1"-2" overnight has been reduced to 3/4"-1". Previous low temp of 64 is now 55 - the current temp.

6:00PM --- Fishel said if there's a good snowpack and clear skies Sunday night, we could see ZERO degrees Monday morning. Brrrrrr!

Is this really likely? Meteostar (18z 1/4/17) is showing a high of 8° on Monday and a low of 3° for KJNX (Johnston County(NC) Airport). Is the airmass realy going to be that cold with the expected snowpack? http://wxweb.meteostar.com/sample/sample.shtml?text=KJNX

Deja vu... Monday night/Tuesday Convection over the Gulf Coast and Southeast States could impact the total qpf, something tough to discern this far out.

That's like really awesome, yanno!

Lynne and I on Christmas Day. Notice - she doesn't have her walker or Rollator for assistance!

Great pic!

Here's my latest selfie

Thanks, Marietta! It's strange.... it posted fine on FB for me. Other photos posted here have been fine as well. Oh well --- life's too short. So is the wife

LOL