December 8-10 Winter Storm Obs

[airborneheel]

Flakes in Raleigh near Leesville Rd and 540

[SnowDeac]

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.

[Freeze]

Temperature has dropped 2 degrees since snow began. 37.5 to 35.5 in 25 minutes

[drfranklin]

32.8/32, sleet storm with some tiny snow flakes

[SouthWake33]

Small flakes in Cary, NC

[FranknRaleigh]

Now snowing lightly in NE Raleigh 

[Wow]

5 minutes ago, Freeze said:

Haven't seen sleet on my side of town. All snow and coming down good

The heavy band did fire off a good bit of sleet for a few min, now mostly snow and coating everything quickly. Temps crashing hard.

[Regan]

Ummm. Snowing hard Raleigh near Millbrook and Glenwood. Quite windy. 

[KyleEverett]

Rain mixing with sleet in Lesslie, SC

[Freeze]

Losing a lot of accumulation potential with the surface temp at 37.5 at the start and only down to 35.1 30 minutes later with moderate to almost heavy snowfall

[wxdawg10]

snowing now in east raleigh

[SnowDeac]

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

[Bryan63]

Has definitely gotten gustier, snows becoming more steady as well, Raleigh/Garner line. 

[SnowDeac]

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

[southernskimmer]

Snow is pouring in Matthews. It’s beautiful 

[Jebman]

You all are just getting started tonight. You have yet to get cold smoked by that western deform.

You WILL all get cold smoked by that western deform!

[seawolf14]

Sleeting hard here in South Wake Co (Fuquay-Varina)


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[Tarheel17]

Snow/sleet mix in Uptown Charlotte. A lot of pingers on my window now.

[JoshWeather]

Rain mixing with snow in stallings

[ryan1234]

4 minutes ago, SnowDeac said:

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

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. 

 

[NEGa]

This obs thread is awesome! It’s great so many of us are getting clobbered and those lucky ones to witness thundersnow (I can count on one hand how many I have seen lol). The heavier bands here are snow/sleet. The moderate ones are freezing rain - getting a glaze and icicles on the trees now. What a great storm lol

[smdriver]

S nowing in Wilson.

[clt_25]

Mostly rain with some sleet in Waxhaw, 33 degrees. Tiny dusting of sleet in some spots. 

[WxKnurd]

8 minutes ago, SnowDeac said:

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

Yep, laying here trying to go to bed and it just started hitting the wind on that NE wind.  4-5” of slop again incoming I’m sure, maybe backside on Monday will drop a couple inches of fluffiness.  Although part of me thinks it’s rate driven just like earlier tonight for me...

[DopplerWx]

1 minute 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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Hrrr shows it coming north like itnit now before moving south a bit thru morning. Setting my alarm for 430 and hope to wake up to flakes and a few inches on the ground 

[Wow]

With initial precip in Mooresville for the past 30 min, it's been sleet/snow as the sfc temps are crashing with this hvy band.  It's whitened up the ground quickly.  Expected to transition to all snow soon as the column is completely cooled.  In fact, I hear less sleet and see bigger flakes mixing in now.  This is going to be a big hit.

34.3/31

[sarcean]

Driving in Boone is a little sketchy right now

4 to 5 inches of wet heavy snow on the road 

[blinx615]

Light snow just starting up in Raleigh near Crabtree

[SnowDeac]

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.

[Freeze]

In my opinion, Its really going to have to snow heavily for 10 to 12 hours in order to get the accumulations that have been shown on the models and the local weather bureau's snow maps due to the warm surface temperatures. And as I type this the temperature has now fallen 3 degrees to 34.5 since the first snow flakes started falling 45 minutes ago.