Heavy Snow in Lee, South Carolina

Heavy Snow January 3, 2018 · Lee, South Carolina

What the National Weather Service wrote

Lee Co Emergency Management reported a total snow amount of 5 inches in Bishopville.

The wider storm

A surface low off the Florida coast moved NE off the GA/SC/NC coast while intensifying rapidly, spreading moisture northward into a very cold air mass anchored over the Mid Atlantic and SE US. As moisture combined with the cold air, snow fell over the southern and eastern Midlands of South Carolina during the afternoon and early evening of January 3rd, with snowfall amounts ranging from a trace to up to 7 inches.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 726359. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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