This Week’s Potential Winter Storm

We still have a long way to go to get a good grasp of this weekend storm, but I have a better idea today on what we might see. Still looks like a decent shot of light snow across the piedmont but very light unless something changes. The heavy stuff will be just to the east of I-85 then really getting heavy near I-95. So here are my thoughts as of about 1pm Sunday 1/23/2014 along with some images of the data so far.

WPC 1” snow chances:

GFS Model Wednesday 7am:

GFS Model Snow Depth:

NAM Model Snow Depth:

ECMWF Model Snowfall (Courtesy of WeatherBell):

SREF Ensembles snow totals for Charlotte:

There is some precedent for a storm like this though still very rare. This was the 1973 storm.