Winter Storm Jasper brought snow and ice to parts of the Carolinas to Virginia, as well as parts of Deep South Texas and the northern Gulf Coast, including far west Florida.
This system was been named Winter Storm Jasper by The Weather Channel.
Jasper was a series of atmospheric disturbances that rode along slowly-progressing cold front that draped across the Gulf and Atlantic coasts in late January.
Jasper began as a mixture of snow, freezing rain and sleet fell in central and south Texas, including in the San Antonio and Austin metro areas, on Jan. 20. Sleet was reported near Corpus Christi and in the Houston metro area.
A glaze of ice in trees was even reported just north of Brownsville, Texas, Friday morning, less than 48 hours after locations in the Rio Grande Valley soared to 90 degrees, the hottest anywhere in the nation on Jan 19.
Light icing was reported on elevated surfaces in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, parts of the Mobile, Alabama, metro area, early on Jan. 21. A brief period of sleet mixed with rain in Crestview, in the far western Florida Panhandle.
A half-inch of ice accreted in Newport, North Carolina, causing several thousand power outages.
Wilmington, Jacksonville and Morehead City, North Carolina, have all received at least 0.10 inch of ice. A glaze of ice was reported as far south as Charleston, South Carolina.
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Jasper brought 2-6 inches of snow to inland portions of the Carolinas, and in southeastern Virginia, some picked up as much as 7 inches. Virginia Beach picked up around 7 inches of new snow, which made dogs in the area happy.
Columbia, South Carolina, and Fayetteville and Charlotte, North Carolina, picked up 2-4 inches of snow on Jan. 22. People were seen sledding in the new snow in Raleigh after the sun came up.
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