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Misc 2021 Spring/Summer Whamby Thread

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Im ready for beach, LIT, mojito, and bahama mammas as much as anyone. I also know we will have 7 months of unbearable heat and humidity. Lets hope for cool rainy as much as possible while we can still get it. Trust me, those reds are coming on the map, and when they do, you cant get rid of them.
 
Sleet City USA said:
Replicating what @smast16 came up with for the GSP CWA. Columns are
County name--total number of svr storms 1986-2020--average number of svr storms/yr--county square mileage--avg divided by county sq mileage x 100
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I would love to know why on earth Polk county NC has the highest percent here lol
 
Avalanche said:
Im ready for beach, LIT, mojito, and bahama mammas as much as anyone. I also know we will have 7 months of unbearable heat and humidity. Lets hope for cool rainy as much as possible while we can still get it. Trust me, those reds are coming on the map, and when they do, you cant get rid of them.
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7 months is an exaggeration don't you think ? I imagine it's unbearable for maybe 2 months out of the year in Chapel Hill.
 
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I'm wondering if the western part of the county or just west is the initiation point of the mountain convection
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That’s one of the counties that borders mine to the north, and the far northern part of Spartanburg County seems to do better storm wise. I was thinking about using that same tool I’ve been using but doing point-click and breaking down counties. Because we know microclimates for thunderstorms are real
 
Sleet City USA said:
That’s one of the counties that borders mine to the north, and the far northern part of Spartanburg County seems to do better storm wise. I was thinking about using that same tool I’ve been using but doing point-click and breaking down counties. Because we know microclimates for thunderstorms are real
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It would be interesting to see where the higher concentration is. Given the storm life cycle you'd think the higher concentration of warnings would be near or just east of the main initiation points with a tapering as you go east until you hit the typical piedmont trough

It'd be even cooler to use the mslp maps from summer and overlap that with tstorm initiation to get were the climo mesoscale features like the piedmont trough/mountain/sandhill/sea breeze features reside and how they move month to month and with different 500mb flows
 
SD said:
It would be interesting to see where the higher concentration is. Given the storm life cycle you'd think the higher concentration of warnings would be near or just east of the main initiation points with a tapering as you go east until you hit the typical piedmont trough
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I’m not sure how I’d break the county down. I could just split it into four “squares” NW NE SW SE, but even then I’m not sure that’s specific enough
 
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Sleet City USA said:
I’m not sure how I’d break the county down. I could just split it into four “squares” NW NE SW SE, but even then I’m not sure that’s specific enough
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That's probably going to be your best option and it would be driven by county size and make up. A larger county like Wake might need to be broken down a little more versus a rural county especially since UHIs can help convection
 
CyclonicFury said:
I consider summer like weather to begin in the second half of May and end at the end of September. Sometimes recently the heat has pushed into early October.
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I've always considered summer heat to start around May 25 and last until Sept 15. Late Sept can often be very pleasant.
 
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