My Parents live just outside of Wilmington, NC, and my Mom said that they
got about 2 inches this morning. She woke up around 4:30 am to see why the
sensor light in the back yard was on--she thought the deer were back
munching on my Dad's new grass. She peeked out the window and said that it
was snowing to beat 60. She said that it tapered off around 9:30 this
morning.
Here in DC, it is lightly flurrying as I type. The flakes are small--almost
microscopic--not even a dusting on the cars (yet). Of course, the school
kids were disappointed because they wanted a snow day today (as did the
Federal Government workers!)!!
At my WX station in Lanham, MD, I had a morning low of 15 degrees.
Yesterday, my high temp reached 26 degrees, with sub-zero wind chills. Our
local meteorologists think we set a record yesterday with a record low dew
point/relative humidity. Our dew point yesterday was -12 degrees, and the
rh was 20%. It doesn't usually get that dry (more like arid) here. Some of
our "snowfall" has been verga because of the dry atmosphere.
Sharon Kimbleton
Lanham, MD (an eastern suburb of Washington, DC)
kimbleton_s{at}bls.gov
-OR-
skakim{at}mindspring.com
URL: http://polaris.umuc.edu/~skimblet/
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> From: Presrvtnst{at}aol.com[SMTP:Presrvtnst{at}aol.com]
> Reply To: stormreports{at}casi-internal
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 1:19 PM
> To: stormreports{at}casi-internal
> Subject: [CASI-SR] Suprise in North Carolina!
>
> Suprise in North Carolina! We were predicted to have recieved a dusting of
>
> snow, topped with some sleet and freezing rain today. Instead, by three
> o'clock this morning we already had 2 inches on the gound and moderate
> snow.
> Accumulation is pretty much over with now, and I have about 5-6 inches on
> the
> ground in High Point, NC. Unlike most wet southern snowfalls, this is very
>
> powdery and dry. Six inches of snow has pretty much shut the Piedmont
> Triad
> down, schools and government closed as are several businesses. At 10 am
> main
> roads are still slush covered here, and it remains cloudy and in the
> twenties.
> Last measurable snow here in the Triad was December of 1997 (4.5 in). More
>
> expected this weekend?
> Very nice suprise for us here in Carolina! Goes to show how difficult our
> snow forecasting can be...
>
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