Winter Weather in Greater Burke, North Carolina

A slow moving low pressure system combined with weak cold air damming to produce an extended period of light freezing rain along the eastern Blue Ridge escarpment, as well as the northern foothills and Piedmont of North Carolina. Precipitation developed around daybreak of the 17th and continued to fall lightly for most of the day, occasionally mixing with sleet and snow. By evening, most areas reported between 0.10 and 0.20 inch of ice accretion, with a few locations reporting additional light snow/sleet accumulations. Sporadic power outages and multiple vehicle accidents were reported. Ice accretion dropped off considerably farther west toward the French Broad Valley in the southern/central Mountains and toward the Tennessee border in the northern mountains. The freezing rain tapered off to freezing drizzle during the evening of the 17th, but even this continued through the night in some areas.