Unusual Wintry Weather Brings Snow to North Carolina
If early season weather is a predictor of what we’ll see in January and February, it’s going to be a bad winter. First, Buffalo, New York recorded record snowfall in October, and now a rogue storm is bringing pre-Thanksgiving snow to North Carolina and Virginia, while 10 degree below normal temperatures are making Atlanta feel like mid-January.
The nasty weather is being caused by a large low pressure system that sits stationary off of the Georgia coast (see below). Cut off from the jetstream, it is spinning around, bringing some of the coldest air of the season into our area, and causing rain, snow, and beach erosion along the coast. Temperatures in Atlanta have been 10 degrees below normal for the last two days.
Because the storm has not moved as quickly as earlier anticipated, our warmer weather has been delayed by a day or so, with the best day of the weekend now anticipated to be on Saturday. At least the storm is far enough east that the Atlanta area hasn’t been hit by the rain that is falling 1/4 inch per hour in Charlotte, with 40 MPH winds, or in Augusta, rain and sleet.
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