Congratulations On Your Snow...Winter Wrap up.

I'm afraid our air temperatures at the surface will hold right around 33, give or take a degree, for most everybody who is at our elevation. You have to be up around 1500 feet and higher to get to 32 degrees. All the surface observations look like 33 or so for the official airport readings this midday, from Atlanta to Greenville, Charlotte, Forest City, Shelby, Hickory , Morganton and Winston Salem. Only the higher elevations like Asheville and Boone are below 32 for this storm.

So that fact, plus its a daytime snowfall, should preclude snow accumulations for the low landers, however it doesn't take away from the fact this is a GORGEOUS snowfall--at times the flakes are 50 cent piece in southern Cleveland County, and its during those bands we can get a slushy accumulation (which melts quickly once it ends).

At any rate, the upper low is approaching Macon, Georgia now, and will continue to spiral bands of snow along our region, even perhaps a clap of thunder or 2, with some intense bands of snow for someone. Overall, the big winners of the heaviest accumulations look like the mountains of northern Georgia, and western North Carolina.

This makes about 4 Winter storms for the Shelby area.. 1 snow to sleet to freezing rain/sleet storm in December, then we had Two 3" inch snowfalls, and now this non- accumulating snowstorm.  There have been atleast 2, maybe 3 very minor instances of some snow falling in betwixt all this. When you add into this the fact that this is the coldest Winter since 1978, then all you have to agree, this has been one amazing Winter!  And for our mountains and points in northern and northwest North Carolina to the Mid Atlantic and Northeast, A total Whopper , record-breaking Winter! 

Spring can't come soon enough.  I hope everyone has enjoyed following all the storms with me this season--its not too often we have cold air outbreaks, heavy flooding rains, and numerous snow and sleet situations to follow as frequently as has occurred this season, atleast around Cleveland County, and who knows, this may be a trend back to colder/wetter Winters, but I have certainly enjoyed following each event.

If something pops up later in the Month of March (and I wouldn't rule out something wierd even in April for parts of Rutherford or Cleveland), then I'll make an update here. Otherwise, I'll be spending less time on the computer and more time outdoors, enjoying a nice, beautiful GREEN Spring time for once!

Congratulations to all my readers from around the Southeast, in Georgia and both Carolinas, for an awesome Winter, and for following a truly Wild Winter this time.  Hope we can do it all over again next season!

Robert