7 years ago today (I'm sure those in NC remember)

[Jim Cantore]

[hcaeb]

Is this the big storm we got in 2000 with a foot of snow/ice that no one predicted and stalled the state for a week? Are we looking at this coming our way this soon?

[Extremeweatherguy]

I remember this storm well. I recieved 24" in Raleigh, NC in less than 16 hours and drifts reached 4-5 feet in spots. This storm shut the city down for many days. This was (so far) the heaviest snowstorm that I have ever personally experienced. Hard to believe it happened 7 years ago already..

[Jim Cantore]

we got popped by it too. Almost a foot here.

[PTPatrick]

I got snowed in a little town near Rocky Mount, NC on our way back to college at FSU from wash. D.C. That night we hit snow in Richmond and my the time we got the NC/VA border we were driving on 6 inch thick ice and snow pack with zero visibility. We pulled over in Rocky mount at a gas stoation and saw a state trooper. Us all being Southerners and not having seen a weather report in 3 days(we were too busy having fun and had NO idea a storm was coming) we were suprised when the trooper said not even to bother getting on the hwy again because it was the worst snowstorm in eastern NC in like 100 years. We pulled into the notel motel and got a nights rest and woke up to 20 inches of snow and a drift against the door. That was more snow than I saw in the superstorm of 93 in atlanta, and the most I ever saw until the 26' storm here in Denver back in December. Ahh, fond memories. We miraculously got out of there the next afternoon because the interstate was the first thing to get plowed, and fortunately the hotel was like, right at the exit.

[JQ Public]

RAH finally completed their event summary on the event. You can even download a radar loop of the storm to look at on those hot humid NC summers or warm snowless 33 and rain winters! http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/20000125/

[Lowpressure]

Great read, thanks. What a radar loop!!

[JQ Public]

Oh so pretty

[lester]

Oh man i remember that storm well...we got 14 inches in Baltimore and school was closed for a while...

[emagine]

Ahh yes, back when I was watching hurricanes and not in Canada waiting on snow. I remember this. It was amazing how it shut everything down for a while. We southerners do not fair well when it comes to managing in the snow. Now here in Toronto, they are out all the time sanding/salting and plowing. Even 3 in the morning.

[pwrdog]

I lived just west of wake forest at the time and spent many days walking out to highway 98 wondering if the snow plows would ever show?

Thanks to the people of Ohio, Penn and NY for coming to our rescue..

Anyone with a plow on their truck showed up from all over to clear snow...

The sleet before the snow started was an amazing site... I've never seen it sleet that hard.... No sleet and you could add another 6-8 inches of snow... That would have put me over 30 inches just ne of Raleigh...

While living in Raleigh from Jan 2nd 1997 to march 2001 I saw one of the wettest winters ever followed by one of the worst droughts ever, then the worst flood and heaviest snow ever recorded.

[jimvb]

This storm put 9.3 inches in Chester where I live and 14 inches in Petersburg. It shut down my workplace for 2 days. The snow stayed around a long time, freezing and melting over and over again in 40s/20s weather causing a lot of potholes to form on the roads. This is a URL for the Virginia totals:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/akq/snowtot.htm

And the map (unfortunately I see no tags or other way of shrinking this image. Sorry for the huge size.)

[hcaeb]

With all the remembering can anyone read the future of this winter and see if we can forecast something similar to this coming our way in the next month or a half. I remember in the 80's the strong storm on March 15th that layed several inches of snow unexpectedly.
Any forecast expert I am willing to listen.
Thanks

[JBG]

RAH finally completed their event summary on the event. You can even download a radar loop of the storm to look at on those hot humid NC summers or warm snowless 33 and rain winters! http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/20000125/

Great read. One thing I remember was that the period was a strong La Nina. I thought, generally, ridging in the Southeast suppresses such activity northward. I had always associated El Ninos with southern blizzards, such as in January 1973.