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Misc 2017 Banter/venting thread

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just absolutely amazingly weird

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pcbjr said:
Go Gators (temp wise)!!! :):D:p:cool:

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That's a beautiful map for Gainesville for 3PM, when Gainesville was only 64. Up here in the northland of SAV, it was 67 then. But what a beautiful day for a walk. Low dewpoints and PC skies made for a very pleasant walk. Oh, how I'll long for this once we get to May and beyond!
Raleigh was then at a whopping 72, which was 19 warmer than normal!

When I get a chance, I'm going to post about a very interesting wintry weather event from a deep southerner's standpoint from very late in one March. You won't want to miss it!
 
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GaWx said:
That's a beautiful map for Gainesville for 3PM, when Gainesville was only 64. Up here in the northland of SAV, it was 67 then. But what a beautiful day for a walk. Low dewpoints and PC skies made for a very pleasant walk. Oh, how I'll long for this once we get to May and beyond!
Raleigh was then at a whopping 72, which was 19 warmer than normal!
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I take a bottle out and let it fill with cool air on a day like today; then cork it and put it in the fridge; come July 4th when the fireworks start at Flavit, I uncork the bottle at 9:45 PM and remember - silly but a way to remember!
(Along with a cold Corona) ;)
 
GaWx said:
That's a beautiful map for Gainesville for 3PM, when Gainesville was only 64. Up here in the northland of SAV, it was 67 then. But what a beautiful day for a walk. Low dewpoints and PC skies made for a very pleasant walk. Oh, how I'll long for this once we get to May and beyond!
Raleigh was then at a whopping 72, which was 19 warmer than normal!

When I get a chance, I'm going to post about a very interesting wintry weather event from a deep southerner's standpoint from very late in one March. You won't want to miss it!
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Here's one for the books -
My Mom was driving from Chapel Hill to Wilmington NC to go home for Thanksgiving and her radiator froze; my Dad went quail hunting in Thomasville GA, leaving the house in short sleeves, and by the time the front came through, a mile from the house, they were blue and numb

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So is it about time for the marvelous March thread? Lol

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pcbjr said:
looking forward!
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On 3/26-27/1955, a very strong cold front propelled by a massive 1045 mb high in Montana moved SEward all of the way through FL. That front became stationary late on 3/27 over the FL Straits. On 3/28, a weak surface low formed along the front near S FL/NW Bahamas and caused precip. to break out to the NW into FL, S GA, and SE SC. Some of the precip. was in the form of sleet and/or snow mixed with rain. Also, New Orleans even got a trace of wintry! Keep in mind this was on 3/28, not 2/28 and not even mid March! Tallahassee got an incredible 0.4" of sleet/snow! Even Jacksonville got a trace! Gainesville had a high on 3/28/55 of a mere 42, which is amazingly cold for late March or anytime in March for that matter! Phil would be in ecstasy no doubt. I mean a high of 42 a full month earlier way up in Atlanta would be something of note. That's how out of kilter was late March of 1955 in the Deep South.

This is just one more example of why I don't like to count my winter chickens before the March lion has had its say.
 
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On 3/26-27/1955, a very strong cold front propelled by a massive 1045 mb high in Montana moved SEward all of the way through FL. That front became stationary late on 3/27 over the FL Straits. On 3/28, a weak surface low formed along the front near S FL/NW Bahamas and caused precip. to break out to the NW into FL, S GA, and SE SC. Some of the precip. was in the form of sleet and/or snow mixed with rain. Also, New Orleans even got a trace of wintry! Keep in mind this was on 3/28, not 2/28 and not even mid March! Tallahassee got an incredible 0.4" of sleet/snow! Even Jacksonville got a trace! Gainesville had a high on 3/28/55 of a mere 42, which is amazingly cold for late March or anytime in March for that matter! Phil would be in ecstasy no doubt. I mean a high of 42 a full month earlier way up in Atlanta would be something of note. That's how out of kilter was late March of 1955 in the Deep South.

This is just one more example of why I don't like to count my winter chickens before the March lion has had its say.
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Absolutely!!!

Though not "common", March freezes in Gainesville are not something we are not at least familiar with.
 
GaWx said:
On 3/26-27/1955, a very strong cold front propelled by a massive 1045 mb high in Montana moved SEward all of the way through FL. That front became stationary late on 3/27 over the FL Straits. On 3/28, a weak surface low formed along the front near S FL/NW Bahamas and caused precip. to break out to the NW into FL, S GA, and SE SC. Some of the precip. was in the form of sleet and/or snow mixed with rain. Also, New Orleans even got a trace of wintry! Keep in mind this was on 3/28, not 2/28 and not even mid March! Tallahassee got an incredible 0.4" of sleet/snow! Even Jacksonville got a trace! Gainesville had a high on 3/28/55 of a mere 42, which is amazingly cold for late March or anytime in March for that matter! Phil would be in ecstasy no doubt. I mean a high of 42 a full month earlier way up in Atlanta would be something of note. That's how out of kilter was late March of 1955 in the Deep South.

This is just one more example of why I don't like to count my winter chickens before the March lion has had its say.
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Not sure what source you use for historic weather, but if not this, here's another really handy tool -
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx
you need to enter the location and then go to the tab in the upper left (Local), do the drop down (Historic Averages), and choose your month and you'll have daily records and monthly info for whatever location ... ;)
 
Calling it quits for a while, as soon as my wife finishes grading exams, and headed out to enjoy early summer - but while waiting for her to finish, I added a few links in the "Weather Links" thread - hope those help/are of some use to some folks!
 
I'm really back in the swing of things now, I was with my grandma for the weekend. Not much to really say except this was a pretty day.
 
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I was trying to figure out whether or not that was the logo placed over another one or if it was maps you were working on LOL. It does look good so far. Perhaps a hint of what is to come?
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Pretty excited to get our logo on there. This will be one thing that we are working on

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pcbjr said:
anyone in to water skiing?

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SPF 50?
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Temps under 50, I'll take it! Carolinas should get used to this look for the next 2 months!
 
My time hop pictures are killing me everyday seeing the last two great winters only to walk outside into a February sauna. Here's a few pictures from two winters ago to the day of about 3 inches of snow,sleet and then a beautiful glaze on top from the freezing rain that was falling. It was an extremely rare thing to have snow on the ground and then get freezing rain which I thought would melt it. Apparently the sleet really helped because I still had snow on the ground for another week and right as the last bit melted I got another 5 inches the first week of March. Man this winter sucks!

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Freezing rain will melt and freeze snow. One of the most widespread deep south winter storms, January 2011, my end result was a white ice pack that was about 3-4 inches deep, with a glaze on top. This was almost glacier like. I do not remember if whether we had sleet, but we started with snow (perhaps sleet was mixed in but I don't know as I was asleep). I remember looking outside early in the morning and it was like a white rain was falling (snow is quiet, and this was not nearly as quiet but it wasn't loud enough to make me think it was sleet) and I think now that I was looking outside when we were changing over to freezing rain.

I think I almost slipped on the makeshift ramp going out of my house later this day and my dad did slip. It took over a week for this glacier like stuff to fully disappear. We never lost power despite this being a mixed bag storm. In the historic ice storm a few years later, my parents said they lost power for a week (as soon as my grandparents power was on, they left and stayed with them on the other side of town, they had lost power themselves but were in a better area and had Georgia Power, unlike home).
 
Another flashback that is both fun and not so fun for me is 12-25-10. Probably my first and last White Christmas, the first of two surprising snowstorms I saw in Northwest Georgia (where one inch of snow and a dusting was predicted for them, well "one inch of snow" and a "dusting" turned into 4 inches of snow on Christmas and then 4 inches of high ratio snow a little over 3 years later at that private college).
 
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