Alexander County is a beautiful place! I have family from there. If you know any Chapman's that's them. Little River.
Oh, and nice snow pic!
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Oh, and nice snow pic!
1927 must have been a hell of a good storm as so many counties in NC and SC show that to be the biggest. Especially Central and Eastern parts.
WolfpackHomer91
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Dear Lord 30-40" in Wilson? Can you imagine chaos that would cause today
Reminiscing is all we have anymore.
RDU got hosed. Ouch! ?
ragtop50
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My grandmother used to tell me we had snow so deep once she could not even walk outside. She was 5 years old in 1927, and I imagine at 24" she was right!
WolfpackHomer91
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Speaking of Reminiscing ..... I went back on AmericanWx and went way back to Feb14' to read the "Pattern discussion" Thread for the time of maybe 10/11 days before the big one showed up to see if anything matched our upcoming pettern, yes..... yes I am bored at work
I’m curious how many posters on here got to experience the Christmas 1989 Coastal Blizzard. My father and his brother were building contractors and they were working on the Grand Strand that winter repairing damaged condos from Hurricane Hugo. One of the property management companies set it up where contractors and their employees could bring their families down to spend Christmas with them… obviously they weren’t wanting to have repairs get behind because of the holidays. My mom, grandmother, sister and I got down to North Myrtle on the evening of the 22nd and the light snow started around 9pm that evening. Local forecasters were calling for 3-5” which would have been big enough for the Grand Strand. Of course it wouldn’t stop snowing until midday on Christmas Eve and all day on the 23rd had blizzard conditions and near whiteout at times. Temperatures were only around 20 so there was actually ocean spray freezing on the beach and building up like you see on the Great Lakes or New England coast. Even though the sun came out on the afternoon of the 24th, the roads were all but deserted as of course there wasn’t a single snow plow in the city of North Myrtle Beach.
znel52
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I was only 5 years old at the time but I remember a little bit about it. I was living in Atlantic Downeast Carteret County. I remember staying the night with my Granny and waking up the next day and looking out of the window. Winter Wonderland!
By far my all time favorite! Is it a once in a lifetime storm? Time will tell
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January 21, 2022, our last appreciable snowstorm here. It wasn’t a lot of snow, around 2-2.5”, but it was a cold snow and so it punched above its weight a bit, so to speak. Maybe one day again I can experience something like this. Maybe.
It felt like that one evaporated so quickly. I mean, we did end up with about 3" but it was gone before you knew it.
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We got a solid 8 or so inches on my side of Pitt Co in that storm...I was 17 so we did a lot of dumb things with ski ropes and trucks.
Actually 1989 was a great calander year for snow IMBY there was also the late Feb 1989 hit that was probably the second heaviest snow I have ever seen here after Mar 1980...that storm slips under the radar but it was a monster for us.
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I remember that February 1989 storm. It was the 2nd one in a week for CLT metro in a winter that had been very mild. This storm wasn’t expected to be a big deal in CLT the day before. Forecasts were for light snow with possibly around an inch of accumulation. Instead there was NW shift and it turned into 4-8”. This would be the last 1”+ snowfall at the airport until March 1993 storm
Downeastnc
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Yeah it was 80 degrees the day before the first wave hit...
Rip Stuart but listen to what he says about temps
ragtop50
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I remember this one very well. Due to it providing a white Christmas and the brutal cold leading up to it, December 1989 will always stand out to me. It wasn't supposed to even happen in my area (just far enough inland) but it was so cold that EVERY flake stuck around. I remember the snow blowing down the street like dust, a fine powder. It was in the teens for highs leading up to this event....in December!
The accents in that clip are also notable. With so many transplants around here these days, not too many people have much of a southern accent around here anymore! As someone who grew up in the ”metro South”, I don’t particularly, either, but interesting!
And for another interesting read about an April snowstorm in NC, see this write up about the April 19, 1983 snowstorm / cold snap that dropped 1.8” in Raleigh-Durham and more in the foothills and mountains. I imagine some of you all on here were probably around for this one? I’ve always been surprised it isn’t talked about more given the calendar date it happened on, but I came across this article while trying to find stuff for the whamby thread.
From Snow Cones to Snow Showers: April 1983’s Snow and Freeze - North Carolina State Climate Office
Thirty-three years ago this week amid a warm spring in 1983, an April shower brought a record-setting springtime snow, followed by several days of sub-freezing temperatures that wrecked havoc on the summertime fruit crop. Not unlike our recent winter, the winter of 1982-83 featured a strong El...
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