First Snows, Ice, Sleet of Winter Hit North Carolina, Jan. 8, 1926

First Heavy Snow of Winter Covers Entire State Now. . . All Sections of State Feel Effects of the Snow and Sleet Which Began Falling Thursday Night. . . Asheville Feels the Storm the Most. . . Snow Is Said to be Piled Up in That City—Sleet Falls With Snow in All Parts of the State

Charlotte, Jan. 8 (AP)—All North Carolina today was blanketed under snow and ice. Marking the first white of the winter, the downfall began generally over the state early last night ad was still descending fitfully this morning.

Asheville was reported deepest in the slump, with snow piled up there. The mountain city had been visited by flurries earlier in the winter, but that of last night and today was the heaviest by far.

At Raleigh the capital grounds were covered with ice, and Fayetteville Street bore its burden of winter.

Winton-Salem, further north than its neighbors, also encountered the elements and was coated. Charlotte to the extreme south had the first snow and sleet of the season, but was buried under two inches deep today. Greensboro also had its share.

High Point, Concord, Salisbury, Gastonia, Kinston, Durham, New Bern and Goldsboro reported similar experiences during the night.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, Jan. 8, 1926

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