A quick-hitting blast of winter weather left several inches of snow blanketing parts of the Southeast, before spreading into the mid-Atlantic, where it shut down much of the nation's capital. A dramatic weather pattern change marked the first.
Western North Carolina had completely saturated after consecutive days of torrential rain brought by Tropical Storm Fred. Fred's remnants left the town of Candler, North Carolina 'completely underwater', although the town is 500 miles northeast of where Fred made landfall in Cape San Blas, Florida. The storm struck the town just as much as Southeast with formed tornadoes, power outages, and flood.