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Euro is more of a mountains/foothills event. Mack would actually get a little sleet before things shifted northward into the higher elevations of NC and VA. Of course we would like to see the FV3 verify but I would put my bets on the euro.

I'm surprised Orangeburg is not all over this. 12z FV3 snow depth at hour 168:

Man, this place is hot! We do have some frost/freezes coming for tomorrow night: SHORT TERM /TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT/... As of 355 PM Monday... 1030-1035 mb continental Polar high pressure will build from the Great Lakes to the nrn middle Atlantic states, while ridging swd in the lee of the Appalachians, Tue-Tue night. This high will be led swd by a secondary surface cold front, analyzed at 19Z from Long Island wwd across nrn NJ and s-cntl PA, forecast to cross cntl NC Tue morning. Related CAA and nely breeze/low level flow will yield unseasonably cool temperatures mainly in the lwr-mid 50s, despite a mostly sunny afternoon that will follow north to south clearing of the preceding post-frontal band of stratocumulus. A shortwave trough will dig from the cntl High Plains this afternoon, sewd and offshore the GA/FL coast by Wed morning, with associated cloudiness that will remain south of cntl NC. Skies will consequently remain clear; and given the presence of the aforementioned strong surface ridge, strong radiational cooling will result. Freezing temperatures are consequently likely throughout cntl NC overnight (26-32 degrees), down a few degrees from previous forecasts. This will likely necessitate a progression of Freeze Watches/Warnings in subsequent forecast issuances where the growing season has officially begun, relative to the climatological median date of the last Spring freeze (ie. the ern Coastal Plain and Sandhills).

I saw that...We do have a little time for this to trend better.

Hard freeze coming Saturday night: RAH: A hard freeze is expected over portions of the Piedmont Saturday night, with a frost and light freeze in the SE zones that have begun the Frost/Freeze program. This will likely lead to Freeze Warnings in these areas. Clear skies, calm winds, and exceptional radiational cooling under the Continental Polar air mass will lead to lows in the 27-30 degree range over the Piedmont, with lower 30s in the SE.

Yeah, we can still track freeze/frost potentials.

Well c'est la vie..... Our storm is gone. As happened many times this winter, once it got to the day 5 mark the models lose it. You can say the models are now better closer to events; or I think they've become worse in the medium range. A lesson (or rule) for next winter; storms have to be modeled less than day 5 before taken seriously.

RAH: Monday through Wednesday, low confidence as model spread continues. We will carry a good chance of showers late Monday into Tuesday. However the storm track and timing are still in debate, along with the strength. For now, a low pressure track from the TN valley east across SC or far southern NC is favored, with cold high pressure to the north acting as a block from a more northward track. Most likely the temperatures will remain fairly cool, except possibly in the SE zones (if the warm sector can advance into that region). QPF could be significant again (1+ inch), but too early to pin this down. Much more on this potential system in the coming days.

Yeah it's just fun tracking something. I wont lose sleep if/when this thing disappears.

Or to make more folks happy, expand the coverage.

Snow depth:

12z FV3 back to showing a big event. Has RDU with a foot (10:1). Do I believe it?....No, but it's interesting to track.

Yep, officially at 5:58 pm. But it will feel more like winter. Lots of areas will stay in the 40s with rain.

6z GFS has backed off some but still shows frozen precip over northeastern NC into SE VA. The FV3 has less but is showing more potential then previous runs. My take looking at the current models, we could see some change over to snow for north-central NC eastwards into the north-central coastal plain then up into SE VA. But I wouldn't expect much accumulations.

18z GFS still has the storm. We know it's got to be right, it has the Wake County split....

From RAH: The next wx system will come during the first half of next week. It`s an interesting system with models depicting a closed H5 low dropping SEWD from the Central Plains to across the Carolinas. Thermo profiles would suggest perhaps a late-season p-type concern across the Piedmont, but given that this system is so late in the forecast period, inevitably the details will change below now and then. Will continue to monitor model trends, and for now will show increasing PoPs during this time.

This would be nice...

The 12 GFS continues to show the storm, but the FV3 pushed the low through too quick which didn't allow the high to the north push down in time to change rain over to snow. But that's just details. Players are on the field; just don't know how good they are....

Yeah until this year, a storm showing at this range would really peak the interest. We've even created storm threads for day 7 storms. But this year, I'm not sure when to take storm threats seriously.

Just looked at the euro and it's showing something too. Time to reel us in one last time and then crush our dreams --

I love it. The models (6z FV3 and GFS) wants to give us the middle finger for one last time this season with a day 7 fantasy storm. 6z FV3:

RDU got down to 32 this morning. We usually get freeze chances up into the first part of April, but we are getting far enough along that at any date (where we get down to freezing) could be the last for the season. **As others have noted; long range models do continue to show a cool pattern until the end of the month.

Light snow! Edit: flurry....a few flakes still coming down here and there now

Well we're past met winter and into met spring. Looking at the LR models there's really no immediate winter storm threats. At this point, I think we can assume we'll be looking at 2019/2020 for our next winter storm. Of course the mountains are still in play, but for the larger population areas it's probably over. So what about a grade. There's three groups of people on this board: Got snow from the December storm, didn't get snow from the December storm, and mountain folks. There was also small events that affected areas across the board, so they can locally affect how folks feel about this winter (i.e. Jacksonville getting 3" a couple days back, January ice storm in NW NC, other small events like the sleet flizzard in N NC in February, etc.). Personally, I'm giving this winter a D+. I was very disappointed in how January and February turned out but that December storm was great; and I did get a couple of additional small events to keep my interest going. If I was strictly looking at snow amounts, I would have to give it a C+ or B-. I was over my average. Even at RDU they received around 9". But again that was all from the December storm.

The thing that hurt so much this year was the amount of fantasy storms at day 7; which none worked out (..except the Dec storm). In years past something showing at day 7 had a decent chance for at least somebody getting something.