Today we're going to answer the question we get more than almost any other question.
Does it snow in Raleigh North Carolina?
Hi I'm Chris Morton - Real Estate Broker with eXp Realty in Raleigh North Carolina.
And today we answer the burning question.
Does it snow in Raleigh North Carolina.
And yes, the answer is yes it does.
However it probably doesn't snow quite like it snows where you're from if you're moving
here to our area.
Just to let you know, on average we get about 2 or 3 snows a year and they usually amount
to no more than about 2 inches at a time.
We usually get snow between December and February although occasionally we're going to get snow
in March, but that's very unlikely.
Generally by March 15th we're starting to see Spring here in the area.
The other thing you need to know about snow in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle area is we
don't have very many snowplows.
You're going to see the major roads plowed, but your neighborhood will not get plowed.
So it causes people when they think there's going to be a snow storm coming, it causes
people to panic and go buy the milk and the bread and all that sort of thing that they
may do where you're from.
But they do that because just in case we actually get a big storm, you're not going to be able
to get out because the snowplows aren't going to be there.
We just don't want to invest the money in hundred and hundreds of snowplows, since we
only get a little bit of snow every year.
So again we get snow, everything shuts down, everybody freaks out, and one of the reasons
why it should be concerning even if you have the experience, I have a lot of clients from
like Michigan, Minnesota, the Northern states where they get a lot of snow.
They think... a couple inches of snow.. it's no big deal.
Well it's different here, and I'll tell you why.
Because our weather is so warm, if we do get that nice fun, fluffy snow, it's going to
melt and get sloshy, and then at night it's going to freeze and become a nice sheet of
ice, and then maybe we get snow on top of it.
So this could happen while we're sleeping where it gets, where it snows as you're going
to bed, falls down, gets hard, ice, and then it snows on top of it, and everybody says
"yay, there's nothing to it, it's just a little bit of snow."
And the get out on the road and they don't realize they're basically driving on an ice
skating rink with fluffy snow on top.
Another fun fact to share with you, according to the Farmer's Almanac, if you get thunderstorms
in the Winter, about 7 days later you're going to see snow.
And some studies show about 70 percent of the time this is correct and it does indeed
snow, other studies show about only 20 percent of the time this is correct, but we as Southerners,
when we here that thunder, we panic, we know we're about to get snow and we go out and
prepare for it.
And I will leave you with Snowmaggeddon.
The largest snow we even had in recent memory was in December 2000, where we had 20 inches
of snow, and let me tell you, it was a disaster.
People weren't prepared for it.
It locked us down for about a week.
It was not fun.
And the problem we had with it was it happened at about 2 PM, I can remember I was having
lunch with a client and it started snowing, and it wasn't expected to start snowing that
early, it was like 6 or 7 at night that it was going to snow.
And we both decided that we better head home.
Well everybody got the idea and the roads got clogged, and it was a long time for people
to get home.
I was very lucky, I was one of the first few to come up with the bright idea to get home,
so it only took me on a normal 25 minute drive, it took maybe an hour to get home.
Other people were like stuck in their cars overnight.
So always heed the warnings.
It's not necessarily the nice little fluffy snow we have, it may be the ice, it may be
the general panic that causes trouble.
But yes, beware of the evil wicked snow when it comes to Raleigh.
That's what we got today.
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And with that being said, I'm Chris Morton, look forward to seeing you real soon.
Take care, bye bye.