Piedmont Triad Weather Blog

Damaging TS Force Winds Today!!! (Gusts Over 50mph Possible)

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:50:00 GMT

Regional Radar Loop:Current Infrared Satellite:Short Term / 5 Day / Triad Radar: (with storm cell info and watches/warnings enabled)__Current Estimated Snow Depth:Local Meteorologist Making Snow:Sometimes when mother nature rips you off, you have to take matters into your own hands! That's what one local Triad meteorologist (Van Denton on FOX 8) did at his house. Since it's been plenty cold enough, but not enough moisture from mother nature, he built a snow machine ...
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Storm Summary

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:24:00 GMT

Winter Storm Forecast:Updated - January 29 2010 6:20PMFor January 29 - 30, 2010:This is my revised forecast map. Once again, it's pretty self-explanatory. In general, I've decided to push some of the higher snowfall totals a bit further south, and now have included >1' amounts towards the foothills and mountains. Ice accumulations in the southern Piedmont may add up to a bit more as well. Since this event is imminent, and actually has already begun for much of the T...
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Rainfall Summary

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 02:25:00 GMT

Triad Rainfall Map:Updated - January 14 2010 12:40PMFor January 17, 2010:A fairly robust GOM storm will make its way up through the Carolinas this weekend, bringing with it lots of rich Gulf moisture, though this time there will NOT be a threat of any frozen precip (not enough CAD here east of the Mountains). Interesting... if we DID have sufficient CAD for snow, this system would have the potential to give the Triad nearly a foot or more of snow (going by the 10:1 ...
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Ripped Off, But Not For Lack of Moisture...

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:04:00 GMT

Snow Forecast Map For the Triad:Updated - January 6 2010 12:30PMFor Overnight January 7 - 8, 2010:Unless I see some drastic changes on the models, I'm going to stick with this forecast, which calls for very little in the way of moisture, thus snowfall amounts across the area will be very light.Interestingly enough, this time it appears that instead of the more climatologically favored northwest section of the Triad seeing the most snow, the southeast section looks t...
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2010 Has Arrived!!!

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:54:00 GMT

Regional Radar:Short Term / 5 Day / Triad Radar: (with storm cell info and watches/warnings enabled)__Center City Park Live Cam - Downtown Greensboro:(this cam is facing north-northeast)Forecast Models:These models are provided by NOAA NCEP. All times listed below are EST. NAM 00z - Midnight to 6AM (starts updating around 9PM)NAM 06z - 6AM to Noon (starts updating around 3AM)NAM 12z - Noon to 6PM (starts updating around 9AM)NAM 18z - 6PM to Midnight (starts updating...
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