Cadets fan. It's a huge difference between a "possibility" of frozen precipitation and an actual accumulation of 4 or more inches, unpredicted and on the ground. The last predicted snowfall, DOT trucks were out putting salt on the highways and nothing happened except for the weather service being wrong, again.

I had to drive south from Virginia through Winston-Salem through Greensboro back to Raleigh last night in that mess. "A beautiful Valentine gift" was definitely not what I had in mind watching drivers forget even the most basic driving rules and getting buried under a spray of slush by the caravans of big rigs.

No snow in parts of Southwestern Durham County neither. Only a sprinkle fell onto Chapel Hill overnight. But to the northern section of the Triangle like Roxboro,Hillsborough,and Northern Durham,and Granville Counties got pounded!!! And this clowns thought we're getting a basket full. I saw the snow precipation around the Triad area and they got hammered!!!

Duke didn't close/delay because there was just a dusting of snow here, and the roads were dry. If they had, people would have laughed at them for overreacting to no snow. I live in Person County and we did have 3 inches. It's up to each of us to decide if we want to go out in it and stop blaming the employer. We have to take a vacation day if we stay home anyway, even if Duke closes.

Panther. As far as day-to-day forecasters go, it's really only the top broadcast meteorologists in the big markets that make 6 digits. Weather service operational forecasters start out under 30k.

When they predicted 3-5 we hit the low end at 3.1 at 1700 UTC when tallies are in. Does make it look great after a month of nothing.

You can't blame the persons on the TV who try to use the computers and their programs to forecast the weather. Reality is 48, maybe 72 hours for honing an accurate window. Long range give them a lot of slack. Fronts can pick up speed, drop precip with the mountains, change speed and direction, even just fizzle and dry out. A lot can happen in a few days.

Try plotting it so it was compatible within a 3-6 hour window or so for the upper level of the front. We had to change from the west side of the mississippi valley to the eastern side when flying north. I was given a call asked for the nearest landing strip in Missouri with fuel. Worked out. They made it to Iowa for the night.

Jannita Your just jealous that you did not pick Meteorology or an occupation. As I told my new neighbor on day being a weather man is the only job I know that you can be wrong 80% of the time and still make a 6 digit salary! He hasn’t spoken to me sense. How was I to know that he was a meteorologist! Some day’s you just can’t win.

I miss the snow :-( but want it for only like one month. Nothing more beautiful than fresh falling snow and the ground covered.

gnew46, if the increased snowfall occurred because of an underprediction of precipitation, then a 2-3-inches-of-snow underprediction is only about a 0.2-0.3-inches-of-liquid underprediction, so I think missing the precip amount by a couple tenths would be forgivable if that happened. If, on the other hand, the snow was underpredicted because of temperatures, I think any reasonable person would have thought the snow would mostly not stick because it's been rather warm the past few days...and the atmosphere 'got lucky' that it was able to just make it to freezing from just-above-the-surface to the clouds. The weather service was mentioning the possibility of snow mix since late Tuesday or early Wednesday.

Let's give the meteorologists a break. Tuesday night they predicted the central corridor of the state would get the most rain and that's exactly what happened during the day Wednesday. They almost always get it right!

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