Well, region wide we did well with most places seeing between 4-7 inches of snow and sleet last night and today. For those in the Lynchburg vicinity, we broke out of our two year long snow drought.
Wednesday night and Thursday ended being an official 2.1 inch snow. I was a little worried when it was raining in Roanoke and 41 degrees here, but the "sounding" of the LYH was literally cold enough for snow, except for the surface. Sure enough, a few sprits of drizzle then snow.
Last night and today was a bit of a challenge but one thing I said is that the 2 short term models that didn't have a decent snow were too slow bringing in the precipitation. Sure enough, that's exactly what happened. Round 1 was a half inch to an inch, we had a lull and fired up quickly, region wide as snow. Everyone had a little ice on top and now we sit at my house at 31.5 degrees.
The Lynchburg seasonal total is officially 7.3 as measured by WSET while my house with 2 smaller events sits at 7.8 inches.
We seemed destined for a week warm up and by the time the snow melts off the warm up may be only a couple of days. A late week storm will cut up into the Great Lakes regions. VERY cold air will filter in behind the storm Friday and some data suggests another storm forms and approaches the area Sunday. IF we get the snow and the cold, we will go in the ice box for a few days with multiple days possible below freezing. Here is a temperature map 2 days after the storm, at 1pm with temps in the TEENS across the region. Even if it is 10 degrees too cold, we are in the upper 20's early afternoon.
So, road conditions will slowly improve tomorrow, we get a break from winter weather then we wait for the fine details of late weekend. Could end up being just a blog that I post later isn't an option or we are forced to keep tracking it.
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