@ChrisJacksonSC@stormchasernick As someone who only eats BBQ north of the NC border, your BBQ posts have got me interested in trying SC BBQ for once lol
@PettusWX In 2017, my car was totaled while storm chasing because traffic on a 75mph interstate was completely stopped under an overpass. I stopped no problem, but the pick up truck behind me did not
Narrowly missed blizzard criteria at MHX. Other areas likely hit the <1/4 mile visibility criteria. MHX has never issued a blizzard warning π #ncwx
Here is a glimpse of our office during the peak of the winter storm overnight. Observed snow depth was 10 inches as of midnight, measured in a wooded area protected by the wind, but drifts in the parking lot are over two feet high!
This weekend's powerful nor'easter will bring moderate-to-major winter weather impacts to around 35 million people across the Southeast, southern Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic.
Extreme impacts are anticipated in a small stretch of far eastern North Carolina.
@EthanClarkWX@backinblack_wx Feel like this is a major caviot of most ensemble visualizations. The mean might be one of the most pointless ensemble statistics. Like where are the percentiles, standard deviations, medians, etc. Most sites gloss over that stuff like it's nothing
One thing that would give me pause if I was a snow weenie in say Raleigh this wknd is you can sometimes get sneaky "dry slots" in setups like these that develop over Central NC b/t the Upstate SC mesolow & coastal low (e.g.: Jan 2003)
Here, I used the GFS as a hand-wavy example:
@WeatherNut27@StephanieAbrams This is how it goes in the south. In NC, you're lucky to have a secondary road plowed and salted. The tertiary roads, you can just forget about it.