March in like a Lion… I’d say so!

Picture from Air Star 36 over Gaston County, NC

What a  wild Sunday and start to the turbulent month of March. March is often a crazy month and this storm should leave no doubt. I working on compiling all the totals and data and hope to post something later today or tonight. Depends on how busy I get back in the Storm Center.

Here are some amazing facts about the storm, in the first time I have seen this Charlotte set both a record rainfall for the day and a record snowfall for March 1st.

Rainfall 2.18”    (old record 2.17 2007)

Snowfall 4.0”    (old record 3.0” 1969)

All this happened in a 24 hour period on March 1, 2009!

Here’s a quick satellite showing the swath of

snow from space.

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