Using the shaded relief map ( WNC_map ) of Western North Carolina, mark with a small X five locations that you suspect received maximum snowfall from this event.  Which areas likely received greater/smaller amounts of accumulation and why?

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for February 11, 2016. You will see that over this period a cold front moved through western North Carolina. On Monday, February 8 at 7am the center of the low pressure system was north of Lake Erie and the counterclockwise rotation around the low sent moisture into North Carolina with a dominant wind direction of northwesterly (blowing NW to SE) Using the shaded relief map ( WNC_map ) of Western North Carolina, mark with a small X five locations that you suspect received maximum snowfall from this event. 

Which areas likely received greater/smaller amounts of accumulation and why?

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