Getting some wet snow with maybe a little rain mixed in. Temp is 33.
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Pattern Freezing Ferocious February
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Brent
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Everything is white near Central Park
Brent
Member
Winter wonderland on the Upper West Side Central Park already reporting an inch
Sideways getting slushy
Sideways getting slushy
Nomanslandva
Member
How ya doing up there Brent?
Brent
Member
Haha what a crazy storm... Several inches at Central Park where I went i come south 17 blocks!!! near Times Square and almost zero evidence of accumulation shocking
The lows forecast for this upcoming long warm spell in CHA are just incredible for Feb. Can't see how we don't finish in the top ten warmest Febs since records kept. 
cd2play
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Oh well. I don't like Vinny Minnies anyways
trees lock in the cold... haha (no idea what I'm saying..)
Brent
Member
^sweet, I always wanted to get mugged in a beautiful snowy Central Park setting....
Yeah, a large portion of the SE will flip to warmer than normal over these final 11 days of met. winter. Form example, KATL:
Dec was +1.5, Jan was -2.9, and Feb is projected to be +9.6. So, DJF would end up +2.7.
The persistence of this warmth is just incredible. It may not get below 50 at night in Atlanta the next 2 weeks. Even here, after this morning there are no more freezes in the forecast the next 2 weeks according to weather.com
:/
BPATL
Member
This is probably the worst FEB we could have even imagined...SMFH..
cd2play
Member
Now... do you get credit for this snow, thus avoiding a no snow winter? Or does it have to be in your own yard for it to count?
ForsythSnow
Moderator
Drought took a big hit from all this rain.
gawxnative
Member
Well a thought/question... If we remember the Late Dec thru Jan mostly stayed cold... so with the overall patterns, is this the "normal" for weak years? I cannot remember one that once it got cold..it stayed cold, and looking like the same with warmth
olhausen
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Good to see you got some snow Brent. It’s not as fun as in your own backyard but it’s still always nice to see snow. In February of 2009 my wife and I took a weekend trip to Cleveland Ohio to see snow since it was a dud season here. It was really cool seeing the Great Lakes and the giant ice blocks. The lake wasn’t frozen over due to a warmer winter so after the initial snow moved through we got to experience lake effect snow the next day. It was crazy how some areas had only a few inches of snow while a few miles away had 8-10 inches of it.
Things are still very much on track for KATL to have its warmest Feb on record beating the current warmest of 2017, which is 56.1. Now the question is whether or not they can beat the warmest Dec on record, which is 2016's 57.6 and would mean the warmest month of met winter on record. I don't at all think that's out of the realm of reasonable possibilities. We're also looking at the very real possibility of the warming from 1/18 to 2/18 being the strongest on record for any Jan to Feb. We may hate the warmth, but at least we get to track history. Exciting times from a strictly wx history standpoint keeping it from being too boring!
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