Eastern NC Snow

[Mark Sudduth]

It indeed snowed in eastern NC today- a rare event as of the last few years. These pics were taken along I-40 near Warsaw, NC with about 3-5 inches on the ground. Several, and I mean several, accidents took place as people apparently did not realize it was prudent to slow down when it is snowing where it rarely does. Dan Robinson sees a lot of this kind of thing in much more dramatic fashion where he lives/shoots. Strange thing- people there should know better...anyway, here are some photos of today's snow:

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/photos/s3.jpg

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/photos/s1.jpg

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/photos/s12.jpg

And one of my vehicle:

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/photos/s10.jpg

 

[Brandi Davison]

I am in Virginia Beach and we were predicted to get quite a bit here too (doesn't happen often either). They even called school off for the day. We didn't get one darn snowflake. Seems the dew point was not helping matters?

 

[Dan Robinson]

Mark, great shots - looks like a scene from the midwest. Raleigh's snow event yesterday (5-6 inches) was bigger than any we've seen here in Charleston WV for the past 3 years. We've had many 1-3" events but have yet to see a 5+ event since the '06-07 season. Wish I could have been there!

My brother and his wife live inside the beltline in Raleigh, here are some of their photos:

http://raleighskyline.com/content/2009/01/20/raleigh-snowfall-of-january-20-2009/
http://bethcrobinson.blogspot.com/

Check out the Hatteras webcam - that's a scene you won't see for many years:

http://pinpoint.ecu.edu/cameras/hatcam.jpg

 

[Mark Sudduth]

Jesse Bass was telling me about the non-event in VA Beach area. He said his college, where he works, TCC, was the ONLY one not to close the campus! We had good snows down along the SE coast of NC too with snow on the beach at Wrightsville. It has been a while since the last snow event- I would assume that global warming has something to do with that. I grew up here and remember it snowed more than once every year- and we had regular big snows. That was the 70s and 80s. Since then, very little snow falls in the eastern part of North Carolina.

 

[Brad Nelson]

What was interesting about this event is that the models really had no clue what to do with that developing low until about 24 hours before the actual event. I was forecasting the day before for this area and I do remember how little QPF the GFS and NAM were painting across the Carolinas, probably due to the fact that it was developing the low off the coast instead of over GA, which is what really happened. Not too often that you see this much snow in the Carolinas but it does happen every couple of years. Usually it's more of an icing event though.