Atlanta snow
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I'm in Little Elm sir. Always a few degrees off from you Tarrant County folks.
I live in Cumming as well. Pretty much has snowed here all day. It was warm enough early that none of it was sticking, but that started to change after lunch. There was a brief lull of nothing, then some rain/sleet, but it's back to all snow now. Big and fat snow. If the temps had been below freezing at the start of the day, we'd have been looking at a very large snowfall amount.
About 6-8" inches here and snow through the night. We live on a ridge and roads are dicey. Staying put and drinking whiskey. 
It continued to snow all day and I measured 7 inches both at work as later at the house. The highway home was just wet with no problems and kudos to the road crews for doing a great job. Off the big road, it was a little challenging as the plows had not hit our area yet.
It is supposed to continue snowing on thru noon tomorrow and this could really jump start the local ski areas, but the ground was not frozen before this storm hit. Therefore, the snow will melt from below even as the snow insulates the ground from the coming sub freezing temps we are supposed to get.
Yay, winter finally gets here, even if just for a few days.
It is supposed to continue snowing on thru noon tomorrow and this could really jump start the local ski areas, but the ground was not frozen before this storm hit. Therefore, the snow will melt from below even as the snow insulates the ground from the coming sub freezing temps we are supposed to get.
Yay, winter finally gets here, even if just for a few days.
Thunderstorm here in Marietta, NW of ATL about 6" snow depth with up to 8 in Powder Springs west of ATL
In Dacula, NE of Atlanta, we got about 3"; roads are a little slick when they have sharp turns, but otherwise not too bad. Just drive slow, and avoid the yahoos who say, "Hold my beer" or "Watch this!"
My son was supposed to fly out of Panama City to Detroit with a connector in Atlanta tomorrow but his flight has been cancelled. Is the Hartsfield shut down?
His flight wasn't scheduled to leave PC until 2:00 tomorrow. Hard to believe they won't have everything up and operating by then.
It's a way to differentiate himself from the plebes in DeKalb County and College Park/East Point who are technically inside of I-285, but don't come close to his level of hipness.
Glad you got some!
It sure is pretty but I'm over it. I'm going to have a hard time removing all the pine tree branches that snapped. Almost got hit by one.
My neighbor drove to the airport this morning and back; said side roads still slushy by drivable. 85 a good ride with hardly any traffic. I'd think planes shouldn't have any problems unless they're delayed for salting the runways first.
7" here in east Marietta, with 10-12" in north and west Cobb....
Epic 10 foot snowman:
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Epic 10 foot snowman:
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More pics:
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Yeah, I measured 7 inches at my house about 4 miles west of the City of Marietta. Power went out around 4:30am, came back on 12 hours later. The gas fireplace kept us warm enough.
Edit: I've lived in the Atlanta area for 28 years and this is the most snow I've seen except for maybe the blizzard of 1993. Seen a lot of 3 or 4 inch amounts, but don't remember amounts up to 8" some have reported. My wife's cousin in Ellijay (about 80 mile N. of Atlanta) had 10" on her deck this morning.
So I was to fly out of Huntsville to Atlanta Friday afternoon then night as things got pushed back. Finally shortly before boarding, they shut it all down. My flight into Toronto was to arrive at 9pm. They rescheduled it to arrive at 3am then cancelled everything. I'm now rescheduled to try it all over again tonight.
They did wind up getting stuck and I met them in Locust Grove (they ubered there from Hapeville) and got them yesterday.
NW of you in North Paulding County, I stuck a ruler in the snow on my patio table and the tip of it was barely visible. Taking forever to melt!
