In an individual shapefile, you get a well-detailed network of roads for 150 miles from a certain radar site somewhere in Central United States. I've changed outlines for counties/states, tweaked my color tables for various products, and downloaded Open Street Map shapefiles from Iowa State University's meteorology website for every single radar sites between Rockies and Appalachians. ![]() Over the past few months, I've been busy overhauling my GR2Analyst, an expensive radar program to track weather events across this country. I've already given up on models watching for any hint of major snowstorm in state of North Carolina and moved onto my favorite time of the year: severe weather season. That's how you know this winter was a big phony. In fact, Lexington has seen more snow than anybody in North Carolina outside Blue Ridge mountains and the only time they saw flakes was the day after Halloween. Most of that snow actually came from a freak upper level low event on the first day of November that gave widespread snow to I-26 cities from Sams Gap, NC/TN all the way down to Lexington, SC. ![]() ![]() Asheville typically average around 13 inches of snow per winter, but we only managed 5.5" inches so far here on UNC-Asheville campus. ![]() Things has been so boring this winter that I've already resigned to the fact this winter is a complete, utter failure for us snow lovers in North Carolina. Well, there isn't much going on to talk about weather-wise.
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