Late-March 1983: Half Foot of Spring Snow in Atlanta, Charlotte and Raleigh
Map of snowfall in North Carolina from the March 1983 storm. Image credit: NOAA
Winter wasn't done in the Southeast just after the spring equinox in March 1983.
An area of low pressure moved over the region with temperatures just cold enough to produce heavy, wet snow in the region on March 24, 1983.
Storm total snowfall amounts ranged from 10.3 inches in Charlotte to 7.9 inches in Atlanta and 7.3 inches in Raleigh. In Atlanta and Charlotte, these snowfall totals were the highest for a single calendar day so late in the season.
Snow was also reported all the way to the coast of North Carolina. A storm total of 2.9 inches was measured in the southeast North Carolina coastal city of Wilmington.
In all of these cities, the amount of snowfall received during this late-March snowstorm was greater than the annual average snowfall.
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