WXNewton Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago March 1st of 09, was one of my favorites as well, first time seeing thunder snow. Was a quick hitting upper low pivoting up from ATL and crushed parts of Catawba County with nearly 8"+ of heavy wet snow. All fell from 5-6 pm and was done by 11 pm. Trees were absolutely beautiful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 8 minutes ago, WXNewton said: March 1st of 09, was one of my favorites as well, first time seeing thunder snow. Was a quick hitting upper low pivoting up from ATL and crushed parts of Catawba County with nearly 8"+ of heavy wet snow. All fell from 5-6 pm and was done by 11 pm. Trees were absolutely beautiful. That was a disaster here with down sloping. We didn't even get an inch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXNewton Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 1 minute ago, wncsnow said: That was a disaster here with down sloping. We didn't even get an inch. I remember the lee-side drought on that one, I apologize for bringing it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 19 minutes ago, WXNewton said: The radar of that upper level energy pivoting through was something else! Definitely the best two part system of recent memory. I lived in Maiden at the time and we only had 4-5 inches out of day one, turned to sleet that night and the next morning we picked up 6"+ out of the upper low in about 4-5 hrs. Great storm! Another great 2 part storm was Feb. 2004. I was in high school but I remember it snowed on and off for 2 or 3 days. And we had about 12 inches after all was said and done. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Just now, WXNewton said: I remember the lee-side drought on that one, I apologize for bringing it up. Definitely a painful one. I drove to Morganton and they had 4-6 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooneWX Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago We got the hot light to appear by fantasizing about past storms - this crew is built different. True winter storm weenies. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXNewton Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Another great storm that was totally overlooked on all the local news stations was back in Jan 22-23 of 2003. Anyone else remember this one? I remember that we only had advisory's posted for 1-2" and then the storm formed a lee-side trough and snowfall was greatly enhanced in the western part of the state. The classic radar on the Weather Channel " Local on the eights" just seemed to stall the moisture over us, I remember Eric Thomas ending the late night news by saying folks, we have some updated models that just came in and these 1-2 inches totals are more than likely going to be much greater than we originally expected. Not long after that Winter Storm Warnings were post for 6-10." Was a cold storm too, temps in low 20s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 2 minutes ago, WXNewton said: Another great storm that was totally overlooked on all the local news stations was back in Jan 22-23 of 2003. Anyone else remember this one? I remember that we only had advisory's posted for 1-2" and then the storm formed a lee-side trough and snowfall was greatly enhanced in the western part of the state. The classic radar on the Weather Channel " Local on the eights" just seemed to stall the moisture over us, I remember Eric Thomas ending the late night news by saying folks, we have some updated models that just came in and these 1-2 inches totals are more than likely going to be much greater than we originally expected. Not longer after that Winter Storm Warnings were post for 6-10." Was a cold storm too, temps in low 20s. Yep a different unique storm for us leeside folks. Never been one like it since. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooneWX Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago When was the last time we had a Lee side trough? It’s been a long time I believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXNewton Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 1 minute ago, BooneWX said: When was the last time we had a Lee side trough? It’s been a long time I believe I might be wrong here, but I feel like the Dec 2018 storm definitely had some enhanced right around the escarpment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strongwxnc Posted 1 hour ago Author Share Posted 1 hour ago 21 minutes ago, wncsnow said: Another great 2 part storm was Feb. 2004. I was in high school but I remember it snowed on and off for 2 or 3 days. And we had about 12 inches after all was said and done. Was at App for this one. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted 58 minutes ago Share Posted 58 minutes ago 7 minutes ago, WXNewton said: I might be wrong here, but I feel like the Dec 2018 storm definitely had some enhanced right around the escarpment. That was more due to orographical uplift I think. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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