Paul’s locally accurate and lovely weekend slideshow “One minute of winter” in Charlotte, NC would have been a little different if done west or north or west of his location. :-)
Here in Salisbury, about 35-40 mile northeast of the Charlotte there was between 3-4 inches of snow — much of which still covers the ground. The main roads, while very slick on Friday night due to freezing ice at the beginning of the storm were mostly clear by late Saturday morning. My daughter who lives in Asheville, NC. (120 miles west) said there was at least 12 inches of snow there and she was without power from early Friday night until Saturday afternoon.
It wasn’t as bad as the forecast due to the storm moving faster then expected. It was actually pretty and enjoyable here. Not so much for western NC and further north.
A couple of simple snapshots from our front porch on Saturday morning — our iced-over bird feeder, and a neighbors house.
I’m glad your snow storm was less severe than anticipated. I like the bird feeder. I have sunflower bits out and available all winter here. Nice Christmasy looking house picture too.
Well, it was perfect for me. Being a road warrior, I want the roads as clean possible! I’m glad that I didn’t have to drive to Salisbury or else I might have ended up a bit short of home! Slip slidin’ away … slip slidin’ a-way-hay!
Indeed it has been more elsewhere. North America and Europe seem to have been partly synched regarding the late days snowing. We got some 18-20″ in two days, which means massive problems in infrastructure for South Swedes who are not used to these amounts of snow. Fortunately, we didn’t get much wind, because when that happens, the situation gets very ugly, very fast.
Wow, that’s a lot of snow. Everything would come to a complete standstill here if we got that much snow. Yea, with wind comes huge snowdrifts and blinding conditions–not good.
I’m afraid it’s incoming now. :-) Class 1 (meaning, stay in) warning has been issued here now, we can expect more snow and this time also hard wind, tonight. Thing is that there are hardly no trees here so the snowdrifts always get serious. You’ll need bandwagons to supply people outside the villages and towns. My family live in a town, so it doesn’t affect us that much.
False alarm. Not a single snow flake fell. No wind of matter, either. Meteorology…
It seems the “science” of weather prediction is inconsistent (or perhaps consistently wrong) world-wide. :-)
I was in Charlotte friday evening when it all started to hit, then we were in Richmond on Saturday evening. I do enjoy a snowfall, not the driving or shoveling afterwards. We did have time on Saturday evening to eat at a Thai place and watch it snow. They had plenty up in Richmond. Flying on Sunday was a mess. We spent a lot of time waiting, some of that on the tarmac. They canceled our last two flights of the day and had us fly home which is a loss of income for us. I too enjoyed Paul’s slideshow.