00:00Dr. Reid Timmer is now in the Carolinas this morning, and he's joining us with what he's seeing as this winter storm and the dangerous cold continues.
00:10Dr. Reid, see some wet roads, but the snow's falling in the upstate of South Carolina.
00:16Yeah, I finally ran into the snow just a little bit west of the Greenville, South Carolina area.
00:21The dendrites are definitely increasing in size out here.
00:24You can see some accumulation on the sidewalks, grassy surfaces.
00:27They did a good job treating the roads. So far, they're a little bit wet, but the snowfall rates have just started to intensify.
00:34There's a nice band just off to my northeast. I'm about to intercept right after this.
00:39I'm about to head right up 85 towards Charlotte. Looks like they're about to get pounded.
00:43I am working the upper level low so far. I'm seeing a couple of different modes of snow.
00:48The upper level low here to the west, upstate North Carolina, up to the Carolina Piedmont.
00:52And then that coastal low is going to ramp up. And I'm keeping that within range as well to get into some of that wind.
00:58But this is a southern U.S. snowstorm here. So definitely conditions are about to deteriorate on the roads.
01:05The drivers, lots of them, have some bald tires. So definitely do not hit the road out here in the upstate South Carolina.
01:12You can see some heavier snow starting to move in here right in the core of the upper level low.
01:17So we've got some pretty good wind down here as well, a stiff breeze in Greenville, South Carolina.
01:23So, Reed, how are you going to play this? I know there's kind of a debate between the coastal impacts or the interior.
01:28Both are going to be areas greatly impacted by this.
01:32Yeah, I was just talking to Bernie just before this, trying to decide between the upper level low and the coast.
01:37And whenever you're faced with a couple of decisions like that in storm chasing, you've got to cover both of them.
01:42So I'm going to work the upper level low first through the afternoon and then drop down to the coast as that cyclone starts to intensify just offshore North Carolina.
01:51That should tighten the pressure gradient and get those winds dusting well above 40 miles an hour, much higher than that, where it's able to come off the water.
01:58But my plan is to work all facets of this storm, the upper level low and then head toward the coastal low along Coastal Carolina, maybe even Myrtle Beach area.
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