My winterstorm....
Posted by Shalista on 1/31/2014, 7:22 pm
Was a joke....due to what is called Vigra, we did not see the significant snow fall that was even remotely predicted. From the NWS in Columbia, SC:

Event Synopsis...

At the surface, a strong arctic airmass moved into the region the morning of the 28th, with the cold front stalling off the Atlantic Coast. Aloft, upper level energy moved across the region from the early afternoon of the 28th through the early morning hours of the 29th. The first round of precipitation began as a mixture of rain and sleet for much of the area. This was mainly due to surface temperatures remaining just above freezing, and a warm nose of air a few thousand feet off the surface. This rain began to change over to a mixture of freezing rain and sleet across the eastern portions of the state...while western areas began to change over to snow during the late evening of the 28th. Snowfall totals averaged between 2 and 3 inches with some isolated higher amounts also reported. Ice totals of between a tenth of an inch, to as high as three quarters of an inch occurred across eastern portions of the NWS Columbia County Warning Area.






Sumter, SC:  1" of snow, and 1/2" of mixed precipitation.



A friend of mine in Elizabeth City, NC told me that he got 6" and another friend of mine in Norfolk, VA, told me she got 10".  Fred is there any idea of what you can speculate on why the snow totals for the deep south were not as high as anticipated and why the mid Atlantic states got dumped on?
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