White Sulphur Springs 18.Figure 2: Example of the Sentinel 3A and B SRAL Significant Wave Height product (image credit: EUMETSAT) Galax Water Plant 15.0 in 0700 AM 12/10 COOPĥ NW Buena Vista City 14.8 in 0700 AM 12/10 COOPģ ENE Forest 12.4 in 0700 AM 12/10 COCORAHSġ WSW Lynchburg City 11.7 in 0800 AM 12/10 Broadcast Media Thanks to allĢ NE Deep Gap 18.0 in 0700 AM 12/10 COCORAHSĢ SW Ashland 16.0 in 0930 AM 12/10 COCORAHS Not all reports submitted were included since there were manyĭuplicates, some were quality controlled out, and others wereīelieved to have been reported before snow had ended. The following are storm total snow reports from the winter stormīeginning late on December 8th and ending early on December 10th.
Thanks to everyone who supplied their reports Widespread 12"+ and many locations with 18-24", especially from the High Country of North Carolina to Floyd County, Virginia. At Danville this was the most snow measured in an event since February 1948. At our primary climate locations (see table below) this was either the 2nd or 3rd largest December snowfall on record for any event (records go back to different years at each site), and was the earliest in the season that this much snow had fallen at each of those locations. The resultant snowfall was significant across our entire forecast area (most areas over a foot, and a few locations around 2 feet), and had enough weight in some places to result in power outages, and made for extremely hazardous travel for those who had to venture out on a Sunday when most of the snow fell, or early Monday. The cold layer in place was deep enough for mainly snow, with brief periods of sleet and very light freezing rain across the southern Piedmont of Virginia into North Carolina near the end of the event. and strengthened in response to an upper low digging out of Plains and pulled significant moisture from Gulf and Atlantic into the southern Appalachian region, spreading over top of deep cold air from a strong surface ridge and cold air damming scenario. Low pressure tracked across the southern U.S. Significant Snowstorm of December 9-10th, 2018
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