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I enjoyed the snow, best snow in years. Likely aroud 3-4 inches of accumulations here. Spent a solid half hour outside in shorts and a jacket before it got dark! Also was barefoot on the snow for 5 minutes! Snow is very fluffy, due to temps being above freezing most of day and now a bit under freezing the ground is an absolute mud fest
Yeah it looks like its about to end for you guys, just some scattered backside snow showers lingering through the evening. . Will post radar in a bit..
I was looking for some interesting snow stats I found this..
Shreveport, Louisiana has 1.8" of snow this month (and for the season). That's the most for the month of January since 1982. Been 36 yrs since seeing this much in January. 16th most on record.
I enjoyed the snow, best snow in years. Likely aroud 3-4 inches of accumulations here. Spent a solid half hour outside in shorts and a jacket before it got dark! Also was barefoot on the snow for 5 minutes! Snow is very fluffy, due to temps being above freezing most of day and now a bit under freezing the ground is an absolute mud fest
That’s incredible, I never realized a relatively moderate storm such as this was that much of a rarity for you. 3-4 inch storms have become a rarity here, now it’s always a go big (blizzard or high end storm) or go home (rain) event, our snow totals have been out of wack.
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That’s incredible, I never realized a relatively moderate storm such as this was that much of a rarity for you. 3-4 inch storms have become a rarity here, now it’s always a go big (blizzard or high end storm) or go home (rain) event, our snow totals have been out of wack.
It has been harder to come by... last year was sleet, year before same thing... have to go back to 2014 to see some legit accumulating snow in my neck of the woods and 2010 to see anything of this scale here. We get a few storms this big every now and then so its not too rare. Our average snowfall past 2 decade have certainly dropped big time however.
Id imagine snowfall data for my part of the county would look even more dismal than RDU... often time RDU is the cutoff line between big snowstorms as can be seen on cams map... most times that cutoff is sharper with even less on the east side like what happened last year with my half an inch of sleet...
Reason snowfall has been way it is this decade likely has to do with the constantly positive NAO. A positive NAO if im not mistaken supports a western atlantic ridge therefore more amped storms but warmer temps. Being as far east as i am the 850 freezing line is west of me during most storms. This is likely the reason you either get thumped or not.
That’s incredible, I never realized a relatively moderate storm such as this was that much of a rarity for you. 3-4 inch storms have become a rarity here, now it’s always a go big (blizzard or high end storm) or go home (rain) event, our snow totals have been out of wack.
I didn't realize that, either. Being east as the reason make sense; feel like I've heard news of bigger North Carolina storms, which must have been further west.
Brownsville: Trace (might of been sleet, sleet counts as snow)
Alexandria: 0.8"
Hattiesburg, MS: 1.5"
Pine Bluff, AR: 3.5"
New Orleans doesn't report snow? They did get some. Hmmm. Actually just saw, its missing. I hope they fix it.
Looks like AEX reported the same amount that I measured. I wonder what Baton Rouge got also. They may have received more than I got.
Some snow accumulation still remains, though a good bit melted in unshaded areas. It got briefly above freezing this afternoon reaching 34F with full sun.
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