superjames1992 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I noticed this amount on Allan Huffman's web site. Does anyone have any info on this storm? It's fascinating to me how somewhere like Raleigh could get so much snow in April. I know Raleigh also got a couple inches of snow in mid-April 1983, but 10" of snow is a whole different story. http://raleighwx.ame...opRDUSnows.html Raleigh ended up with 17.8" of snow total in 1914-1915, so the majority of Raleigh's snow that year fell in April, which is phenomenal. The pattern must have been wild to set something like this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherNC Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I noticed this amount on Allan Huffman's web site. Does anyone have any info on this storm? It's fascinating to me how somewhere like Raleigh could get so much snow on April. I know Raleigh also got a couple inches of snow in mid-April 1983, but 10" of snow is a whole different story. http://raleighwx.ame...opRDUSnows.html Raleigh ended up with 17.8" of snow total in 1914-1915, so the majority of Raleigh's snow that year fell in April, which is phenomenal. The pattern must have been wild to set something like this up. Not much, but a picture of it... I will keep looking and update this post if I find anything else. http://www.newraleigh.com/articles/archive/tuesdays-snow-was-nothing/ Finding some more stuff, widespread damage to utilities with this event... Snow and Station 3, 1915This picture from the North Carolina State Archives (N66.2.47) was made in April 1915, after the city's worst blizzard on record. It was taken from the corner of Blount and Hargett streets, and shows old Station 3 on the right. It's also a rare view of the station's cupola, which is rarely shown in other photos. In one of two close-ups, the firefighters are standing on what looks like a fallen telephone pole. http://www.legeros.com/ralwake/photos/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=3920 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Poimen Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I'm thinking cutoff low right over central NC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 This storm also brought 19" to Philadelphia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 Thanks for the links/info, guys! Wow, I didn't realize it was a legitimate blizzard! That newspaper is pretty neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgertime Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I remember that storm well, Mother punished me for using the word spit in public. I had just vulcanized the tires on my new Model T horseless carriage when I got stuck in the snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rankin5150 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 This is so amazing, with the storm itself, and even more amazing to look at the writing styes in the paper. GREAT THREAD!!! Oh and LMAO Jonathan. I bet you would have had a "low rider" carriage back in the day. LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherNC Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I am going to bump this, would like Allan and Robert's insight on what happened, as well as other members and mets. Reading the article (and sorry the bottom half of the page is missing), this was a heavy wet snow with ratios on the order of 6:1. Several clues are given, "trains coming from New Bern and Goldsboro were not SN covered," that tells you it was a west of 95 event, as we know the interstate today. Second is the fact it started out as RN in the triangle, as referenced from the article. Not a H5 cutoff imo, as there would have been impacts over a larger geographic region. This was likely a coastal storm with favorable deep UL trough axis support giving the eastern carolinas +RN, while areas near and around the triangle were just supportive of very wet SN, around 1.5" of QPF worth. "for it was the presence of a great amount of moisture in the snow that made it so heavy." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaleighWx Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 A very interesting storm. I have attached an April 1915 USDA monthly summary which has a special section on this storm on the last page. I also wrote an examiner article on it back in the spring http://www.examiner.com/x-4053-Raleigh-Weather-Examiner~y2010m3d23-Memorable-late-season-southeast-snowstorms-major-snowstorm-of-4243-1915 Apr1915.PDF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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