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Feb 12, 2008 | 11:36 PM
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FRF UPDATE 2-12-2007..... INTERESTING, NOW THERE IS A WORD THAT WE THOUGHT MAY NOT BE SPOKEN AGAIN THIS YEAR! BUT YES! WE AT FRF HAVE BEEN MONITORING THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME WINTRY STUFF LATE THIS WEEKEND 2-17-2008 - 2-19-2008 THE MODELS HAVE BEEN FLIP FLOPPING BACK AND FORTH FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS FOR GETTING SOME WINTRY STUFF IN HERE DURING THAT TIME FRAME. RIGHT NOW THERE ARE SOME MODELS THAT HINT AT RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW AND ICE!!  WITH SOME ACCUMULATIONS IN OUR AREA. AT THIS TIME, THIS WILL HAVE TO BE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE WATCHED, AS WE ALL KNOW THE MODELS CAN AND DO CHANGE!!!!! ONCE AGAIN POTENTIAL FOR A VISIT FROM OL MAN WINTER LATE SUNDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. HARD TO SAY EXACT TIME, AMOUNTS, OR EXACT PRECIP.. WE AT FRF WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS DEVELPPING WEATHER SITUATION!!
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AmyRenee
Feb 13, 2008 | 4:10 PM

I am crossing my fingers!
Casey_32 read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 6:33 PM

SNow! At 6:20 snow flurries and sleet fell here just south-east of Hays,Wilkes County.Still some flurries.
northdavidsondad read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 8:35 PM

My wife is on her way on from work at the female prison in Troy. I am on the phone with her right now and she is coming up hwy.109. She said when she crossed hwy 49, she said the road was completely white. LET IT SNOW, OH LET IT SNOW!!!!
northdavidsondad read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 8:37 PM

IT'S SNOWING AT MY HOUSE IN SILVER VALLEY!!!!
ladyred2007 read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 9:10 PM

I am in Winston and we have over an inch of snow here. It started about 7pm and the flakes are as big as quarters at times. Everything is white and doesn't seem to be letting up. I am off Reynolda Road. With the temps getting to 26 tonight, I forsee some school delays in the morning, because the roads are white and wet...By the way...this morning on the news it mentioned NOTHING about snow tonight. What sucks is you watch the weather to plan your day, then all of a sudden..within a few hours..everything changes completely!! I don't think there was ever more inaccuracy with the weather before as there has been since the computer models have taken over! It seems everytime I watch the weather in the morning, by noon it is totally different...FRUSTRATING!
racejunkie view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 9:52 PM

About 3 inches have blanketed Wallburg NC! Could we see a snow-covered Valentine's Day tomorrow???
Fox_Room_Forecasters read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 10:13 PM

Ladyred2007,
We understand your frustration! Man do we feel it too. In both situations.. be it calling for snow and it be a bust, or calling for the possibility of flurries, and bang, 2 hours later you have 3 inches. So now we must look at what happened to cause this? why did it snow so hard, so quickly? Why weren't these amounts forecasted? Im going to try and sum this up as basic as i can, ill try not to use fancy weather terms LOL very tough sometimes though
Fox_Room_Forecasters read my blog view my photos
Feb 13, 2008 | 10:13 PM

1. We had 2 areas of low pressure, one in the upper levels.
2. The surface area of low pressure developed a bit further West than was expected, This fed more atlantic mouisture into the area of the upper level low that gave us our snow, That is what caused it to snow heavier!
3. Why wasnt this forecasted to be heavier. Well as with any low pressure system, it causes lift, which causes precip. Now we did know that some lift was coming through.. but, our winds were expected to be out of the West, When you have a west wind it tends to dry the atmosphere out, in turn killing any precip chances.
4. The precip developed further west than was expected, This came down to 30-40 miles of diffrence in where the mix was forecasted to fall. Any other questions.. please just ask! we will be glad to answer them
seaangelrainqueen read my blog view my photos
Feb 14, 2008 | 3:52 AM

In other words, that is why it is called "weather predictions" and "weather forecasting", because THIS IS NOT AN EXACT SCIENCE!!! Unless you have a direct line to our higher power, then you will have to rely on human's to predict what the weather will be. They will do the best they can, but NO ONE IS PERFECT!!! But, we still love our weatherman, VAN THE MAN!!!! He is the best, afterall!
AmyRenee
Feb 14, 2008 | 8:03 AM

The surprise snow was great!! We have a little over 2in. here in Wentworth. Do you have any updates on the Sunday system?
ladyred2007 read my blog view my photos
Feb 14, 2008 | 4:39 PM

Weather Guys---I surely don't blame you for what happened! I is NC afterall! I have lived in Winston Salem for 25 years and have learned to be expecting nothing and be expecting everything when it comes to the weather here. I have to say...the best snow in the world is the snow that doesn't make the roads so dangerous nobody can travel...and is deep enough for us to play in for a little while...and is absolutely gorgeous!!!
NCState_Weather_Fan
Feb 15, 2008 | 1:41 AM

I heard Van say that one model predicted the possibility of snow or a rain/snow mix for Wednesday night. Which model was it and what does this model say for sunday? It looks like the chances for wintry weather this weekend are small, but colder weather should move in behind the weekend system. What are the winter weather chances for next week?
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We are the Fox Room Forecasters. We are a group of weather enthusiest who love to put our minds together and look at Weather computer models and try to come up with our own forecast! Look for our post as, it will contain information on what we think will happen in our local weather.

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