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Misc General Banter Thread

Mitch West said:
Kinda forgot how well we actually did last February.
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Actually, Feb of ‘25 wasn’t cold the entire month. To the contrary, it averaged AN. The first 10 days averaged out to be the warmest Feb 1-10 since way back in 1957! It was 14 AN in CAE/GSP. Compare that to Feb 1-10 of 2026, the coldest since 2010 at 6.5 BN.

The only consistently cold part of Feb of ‘25 was 2/17-23, which happens to be the period covered by the 6-10 and most of the 8-14 that were shown in your post. Thus, those cold temperature verified well. Only 10 of the full 28 days were BN.

By the way the above avg precip signals in those 6-10 and 8-14 day forecasts were a big bust as there was barely any precip!
 
GaWx said:
Actually, Feb of ‘25 wasn’t cold the entire month. To the contrary, it averaged AN. The first 10 days averaged out to be the warmest Feb 1-10 since way back in 1957! It was 14 AN in CAE/GSP. Compare that to Feb 1-10 of 2026, the coldest since 2010.

The only consistently cold part of Feb of ‘25 was 2/17-23, which happens to be the period covered by the 6-10 and most of the 8-14 that were shown in your post. Thus, those cold temperature verified well. Only 10 of the full 28 days were BN.

By the way the above avg precip signals in those 6-10 and 8-14 day forecasts were a big bust as there was barely any precip!
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Got ya! Thanks! I definitely forgot about the moisture part.
 
I was gonna say as great as last February sounded we had a historic blizzard turn into 2 inches 😜 the moisture yeah dried up

And it was surrounded by warmth yeah

The last big storm here in February was 2022
 
Mitch West said:
Got ya! Thanks! I definitely forgot about the moisture part.
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It’s easy to forget the very warm parts of last Feb and that the month averaged 1-3 AN in places like GSO and RDU because they got a very nice snow (2-2.5”) on 2/19-20 though the liquid equivalent of .10-.25” associated with that snow was about the only precip for Feb 17-28 meaning it was very dry there, too. That part of last Feb. was kind of like a cold oasis in the middle of a desert.
 
Interestingly, since 2010, two of the only three 6"+ events at RDU came in December of all months (December 25-26, 2010, January 17-18, 2018 and December 9-10, 2018). This is in spite of the fact that most Decembers during that time had no measurable snow at all here.

RDU officially fell short of 6" in the February 12-13, 2014 storm, which I would say was the best February winter storm here in the last two decades. The February 25-26, 2015 storm had potential to be a big dog, but sleet really cut back on the totals. RDU hasn't seen 6" or more from a February winter storm since February 26-27, 2004.
 
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A- for me on winter unless something wild happens.

It maybe should be an A as I'm just haggling about temps. The first time would've been gone even quicker than the powder, but we were VERY close to accumulating snow twice in January and I didn't get accumulating snow twice in the season in both of the banner winters of 09/10 - 10/11 (I saw what would be my 2nd favorite storm to 2/12/10 in GA's White Christmas out of town however if there weren't some sucky circumstances with that trip). Two ticks cooler would've done it, areas west and southwest of me got it and got a dusting to at least an inch of snow.

Thinking of 10/11 again, in regard to wintry weather for the southeast, I'm going to have to say that 3 week stretch in January this year matches that winter. I'll probably be talked into an A, but I'm not there right now.

But if you were in one of the dry slots for Jan 31st, I understand being disappointed as I was there in...either my first or second year doing this. Still remember the meteostar website as well, think it was slow so in the early part of this hobby (unless I had another site?), I was entirely reliant on seeing what others posted.
 
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Currently I'd give this winter a C, but I'd probably rate it somewhat higher if not for getting dryslotted on the January 31 storm. It's hard to rate it any lower than that when December and January were BN, and we had the most sustained cold since 2017-18. RDU's current season snow total is 3.6", which isn't a bad total in isolation but considerably lower than much of the state.

I'm not sure what's worse: a winter with missed potential like this year, or a winter with no potential like 2023-24. I don't even think I checked Southernwx much that winter because it was so bleak. We didn't even have many fantasy storms.
 
For the purpose of clearing my roof of leaves to preserve the longevity of the roof without having to get on a ladder, I was looking at a device that has a brush that attaches to various combos of pole extensions that can get up to as long as 21 feet. So, this would allow one to clean their roof from the ground.

Has anyone used a device like this? How well did it work? TIA
 
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Stormsfury said:
A little unrelated, but the Middleton Fault Chain in the Summerville, SC region has been dusting off. Yet, another earthquake has hit 2.6M, around 9pm this evening. This is the 4th registered earthquake since last week Tuesday (3rd). 2.3M, 2.9M last Saturday, 1.6M Monday and 2.6M tonight (2/11).
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Been watching that. Hopefully, just letting off a little steam before going back to sleep.
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
The way Charlotte finished January is borderline legendary. That month had no business closing in the negative after that start. And on the contrary, February could easily swing back positive from here View attachment 194072
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Probably a similar story for everyone. I'm just using highs, but the official station close to my work swung from +8 for the first 11 days to below average for January with there being only a couple 60 degree days after it hit 80 early in the month. 100% legendary.

I'm absolutely going to talk myself into an A, aren't I. Still would like to see February do February things again, there really is just one minor event I remember with last year.
 
This whole argument on twitter between Chris Justus and These local Startup weather dudes is hilarious. Like dudes in the weather community are so sensitive why care what that man forecast? It has less than ZERO effect on you and your gig or your day. If Justus wants to go on air and say 6 feet of snow it’s his right to do so. Just hilarious to me, like he’s on TV and gets paid to do it, and yall make YouTube videos … you’re not the same partner. I feel like Justus should just hit these people with the Brian Scalabrine “I may be for an NBA player but I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me”


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WolfpackHomer91 said:
This whole argument on twitter between Chris Justus and These local Startup weather dudes is hilarious. Like dudes in the weather community are so sensitive why care what that man forecast? It has less than ZERO effect on you and your gig or your day. If Justus wants to go on air and say 6 feet of snow it’s his right to do so. Just hilarious to me, like he’s on TV and gets paid to do it, and yall make YouTube videos … you’re not the same partner.


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Some of those people probably get paid more than CJ. In any event, I agree with your premise. It's mostly ego.
 
I just saw the following map today:

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I’m not doubting the general accuracy of this. For example, this shows NO record lows at KATL vs 37 record highs since 2020. The last record low there including ties was way back on 9/7/2017! So, the zero record lows is confirmed.

However, a better representation of the SE US to minimize the warming effects of UHI as well as warming from increased traffic on airport runways (big problem at ATL for example) would be to use a rural station like the far N GA small town of Blairsville, GA, which has a pretty long record (back to 1931):

Per my counting (hoping I didn’t miscount…if I did it should be only minimally off):

Since 2020 including ties, it has had 24 different days with record highs and 7 days with record lows.

Since 2010, 65 with highs and 25 with lows

Since 2000: 87 with highs and 42 with lows

So, of course GW is real. But large cities’ records can sometimes cause some exaggeration of the degree of warming. So, it’s important to separate out UHI/airport effects as much as possible.
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Daily records from here:

 
In addition to the 2010 storm, today is the also the anniversary of Snowmaggedon 2014.
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While this storm ended up being a mixed bag for the Raleigh area, we were able to score several inches of snow from a powerful front-end thump. The snowfall rates from this storm were among the heaviest I have ever seen. It snowed for about 5 hours during the middle of the day, before changing over to IP/ZR in the evening.

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Happy 2014 Snowmageddon Anniversary!!
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NBAcentel said:
Love the early summer LPs to, seems like yall get those easier up there off the mountains View attachment 194082
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Yeah I'd say we get a couple of springtime storms that have supercell structures every spring. Not as many as you'd think.
 
CyclonicFury said:
In addition to the 2010 storm, today is the also the anniversary of Snowmaggedon 2014.
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While this storm ended up being a mixed bag for the Raleigh area, we were able to score several inches of snow from a powerful front-end thump. The snowfall rates from this storm where among the heaviest I have ever seen. It snowed for about 5 hours during the middle of the day, before changing over to IP/ZR in the evening.

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That was one hell of an event. I was in Fort Mill SC at the time and we had half a foot by mid day. We missed the deform band on the next day but still, amazing event.
 
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CyclonicFury said:
Although all snow/sleet is gone IMBY, I'm still seeing a few isolated sleet? (presumably from the January 24-25 event) piles in parking lots. Sleet is resilient, even after two days of high temperatures of 65-70
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No doubt it’s resilient, I just took a picture of this pile at Finley GC(Chapel Hill).
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WolfpackHomer91 said:
This is depressing not a soul in here, two weeks ago there was like 410 people online tracking and freaking out one way or another some whining, fighting ect but still those are the best
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Yeah, just looked at the forecast for next week and wish I hadn't. Days of mid 70s/mid50s. Good grief; let's just go straight to late April. :(
Feb is a total neutered joke of a month.
 
Iceagewhereartthou said:
Yeah, just looked at the forecast for next week and wish I hadn't. Days of mid 70s/mid50s. Good grief; let's just go straight to late April. :(
Feb is a total neutered joke of a month.
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As a kid I used to perk up in Feb bc that’s “When the big dogs come” lol


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