For the second straight weekend, we had winter weather gracing us with its presence, but unlike the previous week, it was ice in a wintry mix. This week was all snow, and we had one anomaly in the Raleigh area. Oh, let’s talk about all of this with state assistant climatologist Corey Davis. Corey, I guess snowmageddon. We have survived it. Who got what around the Carolinas?
“And we made it, Kyle, the big snow event of the year. I feel fairly confident saying that. And for most areas, this was the biggest snow event they’ve seen in several years, even in decades, for parts of eastern North Carolina, and that’s a good place to start. Those were the highest totals of more than a foot across a pretty broad area from Jacksonville up toward Kinston and Greenville, and really all the way out toward the coastline. In fact, some of the highest totals were right along the coastline, down along the Crystal Coast, in parts of Onslow and Carteret counties. They got upwards of 20 inches of snow from this event, so the biggest snow those areas had seen since the 1980s, such a rare event that especially in that part of the state, we just don’t see a lot of snow at all, especially in that amount.
“As we headed further inland and especially across the western part of the state, we also saw places that saw a foot out there, right along I-85 just north of Charlotte, up through about Greensboro, about a foot on the ground. Some of our high-elevation mountain areas also saw a foot. And even down in South Carolina, we saw six to seven inches out in the Greenville and Spartanburg areas, really a solid snow all the way to the coast in South Carolina.…