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Snow Sweeps Across North Carolina

February 21, 2020
UPDATED By WeatherBug's Brandon Bush
While much of the East has been spared winter’s wrath this season, a few spots are getting a helping hand from Old Man Winter tonight.
 
A quick round of snow passed through eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina today and dropped a few inches along the way. The storm is making its final delivery across central and eastern North Carolina and southeast Virginia tonight before it pushes offshore by an advancing Arctic front.
 
One to two inches of snow have fallen across the North Carolina Piedmont, including Asheville, Boone. Andrews and Hickory, N.C. Similar totals have spread across North Carolina into Raleigh, Sanford and Fayetteville, N.C. Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Warnings continue from far northern Georgia to southeast Virginia, including Raleigh, N.C., and Virginia Beach, Va. A general swath of 2 to 3 inches are expected, but up to 4 inches will coat spots like Norfolk and Franklin, Va., and Windsor, Greenville and New Bern, N.C.
 
The winter storm will leave a chilly parting gift in the form of early morning low temperatures below freezing. Motorists in the southern Mid-Atlantic and North Carolina are advised to watch out for slippery spots Friday morning that may appear to look wet but will actually be icy due to temperatures dropping into the 20s on the heels of the storm. Much of the snow will melt by Friday afternoon thanks to sunshine and temperatures warming well-above freezing. Only shaded spots will have patchy snow lingering into Saturday.
 
North Carolina is getting almost a month's worth of snow from this one storm alone. Raleigh averages 1.9 inches of snow in February and will likely end up with just that much by the time the storm ends early Friday morning. On the opposite end of the state, Asheville typically gets 2.2 inches of snow in February and received almost one inch today.