North Carolina is getting some snow... is that normal?

[tenderfoot]

I've been to the coastal regions (Kitty Hawk, Wilmington) and am aware there are mountains in the west but heavy snow isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the state.

Edited to add:

Thank you in advance. I was just worried another Texas deep freeze was going to happen and would be upset if people froze to death due to energy company hubris.

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[Tickle]

1. I think it is normal

every once in a while states like NC, TX and others get a few inches and then it melts very quickly.

[Abnredleg]

2. In live in the Central Piedmont of NC

and we get measurable snow a two or three times a year. Every now and then we'll get a particularly snowy winter but it's not that common.

[NutmegYankee]

3. It is not unheard of.

It doesn’t happen most years, but it has happened before.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. My friend in Charlotte

is getting more ice than snow, and he is not happy about it.

[onenote]

5. Not unusual

This site gives the highest one day snow totals for Charlotte for the last 100+ years
https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/NC/Charlotte/extreme-annual-charlotte-snowfall.php

[BlackSkimmer]

11. Thanks for this! I remember the 2003 snow. It was actually a thunder snow, which until then I'd

only experienced in Germany.

I still have pics of my parents, my dog, and me playing in it. Parents and dog gone now, but we had fun that week.

[BlackSkimmer]

6. We're having a very nasty ice storm here just east of Charlotte.

Very worried for my trees.

[moose65]

7. Not so unusual in the mountains

Where I live, we average about 50 inches of snow a year.

[dsc]

8. It is a thing here

I live east of I 95 but not coastal and we usually have at least one small, but measurable, snow fall a year. Today it is rain which has frozen on surfaces. The big problem, in terms of power, is thick ice storms. Those can make it so an area doesn't have power for a week or more (by falling trees and lines)

[sarcasmo]

9. When I was at Ft.Bragg in the late 80's, we had 3 inches of snow (Fayetville, NC)

3 inches of snow shut the base down for a week.

[SouthernIrish]

10. Very normal

Western NC has really good skiing and snowboarding facilities too. I live about 1 hour west of there. It is beautiful.

[moonscape]

12. I grew up sledding, and later skiing, in

Western NC. It snowed so much when I was a kid that we often had the school year extended because we had used up all the academic snow days, and if I recall were gyped of Easter holiday week. Actually the later was the norm, days built in that we never ever got.

It snows so much less now though.

[Lucinda]

13. Huge winter storm in the East right now

https://weather.com/