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[SD]

Awakened by thunder and lightning around 3:00 a.m. this morning,. Got in to the fun everyone else has had 35ﾟ thunderstorms. Can't get good thunderstorms like that at night in the summer time anymore haha

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I feel like I am the only person on the board that hasn't had a thunderstorm this winter.

 

[Brick Tamland]

I'm calling it. NC gets another big winter storm the first 7 days of March to close out winter, just like we got a big one the first week of December to start winter. Go ahead and book the bookend storms.

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

I have the biggest puddles of the winter!! Atleast I can bullseye with T storms in mid February! They will be missing my house by half mile in August!View attachment 16126

That was honestly more fun than the one hour of sleet/snow I got in December. I’ve got the fever now. Bring on more T-storms! I hope winter is over

Edit: not that it ever started to begin with

 

[deltadog03]

For the 3rd time in 10 days, snow is falling in Las Vegas, and about 0.5" of snow has accumulated on the Vegas strip as of a few hours ago, the last accumulating snow in Vegas was in Dec 2008. To put things into perspective, the snowfall climatology in Las Vegas is virtually the same as in Macon, GA @deltadog03. Yea, this is a big deal...

Damn

 

[Metwannabe]

I feel like I am the only person on the board that hasn't had a thunderstorm this winter.

Sorry man.... yeah kind of weird, I checked radar and the lightning was concentrated in that one cell up this way

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[Webberweather53]

Awakened by thunder and lightning around 3:00 a.m. this morning,. Got in to the fun everyone else has had 35ﾟ thunderstorms. Can't get good thunderstorms like that at night in the summer time anymore haha

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I was also awakened by thunder, it was neat to hear it progressively move from one side to the other of my place.

 

[ForsythSnow]

I'm calling it. NC gets another big winter storm the first 7 days of March to close out winter, just like we got a big one the first week of December to start winter. Go ahead and book the bookend storms.

Well there goes the "We only ever get one big storm in NC per year" idea you had a week ago. I'm going to say this instead. We all scream when a MA snowstorm hits them and the rest of us throw the towel in.

 

[Webberweather53]

I'm calling it. NC gets another big winter storm the first 7 days of March to close out winter, just like we got a big one the first week of December to start winter. Go ahead and book the bookend storms.

Few modern winters pull of the bookend storm evolution better than 1971-72

 

[Stump]

For the 3rd time in 10 days, snow is falling in Las Vegas, and about 0.5" of snow has accumulated on the Vegas strip as of a few hours ago, the last accumulating snow in Vegas was in Dec 2008. To put things into perspective, the snowfall climatology in Las Vegas is virtually the same as in Macon, GA @deltadog03. Yea, this is a big deal...

It also snowed New Years in Vegas of 2010/11. I was there on my honeymoon on the top floor of Mandalay Bay watching it. I'm pretty sure there was not enough for an accumulation but it was a sight to see.

 

[snowlover91]

Why should we even believe March is gonna be better I'm still waiting for Fabulous February

I'm still waiting for Jammin January to produce.

 

[Jon]

Well there goes the "We only ever get one big storm in NC per year" idea you had a week ago. I'm going to say this instead. We all scream when a MA snowstorm hits them and the rest of us throw the towel in.

He’s right, although only for RDU specifically. So other areas in NC easily have two 4”+ events per winter.

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[SoutheastRidge]

For the 3rd time in 10 days, snow is falling in Las Vegas, and about 0.5" of snow has accumulated on the Vegas strip as of a few hours ago, the last accumulating snow in Vegas was in Dec 2008. To put things into perspective, the snowfall climatology in Las Vegas is virtually the same as in Macon, GA @deltadog03. Yea, this is a big deal...

That actually surprises me considering Vegas is at the same latitude as Nashville and is about 2,000' in elevation.

 

[Metwannabe]

That actually surprises me considering Vegas is at the same latitude as Nashville and is about 2,000' in elevation.

You know that's not how that works right?

 

[Webberweather53]

He’s right, although only for RDU specifically. So other areas in NC easily have two 4”+ events per winter.

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1935-36 took the notion of central NC only getting one maybe big dogs per year and smashed the living piss out of it.

2 4" snows in a winter? That's cute, in 1935-36 there were SIX, yes SIX snows of 4 or more inches in Enfield in southern Halifax county whose snowfall climo is pretty close to RDU.

 

[Brick Tamland]

He’s right, although only for RDU specifically. So other areas in NC easily have two 4”+ events per winter.

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I guess we're due, but the odds are still against it since the one in December was so big. I think we have a better shot than usual, though, the first week of March.

 

[Metwannabe]

Before anybody asks, I moved all the Vegas/West Coast snow stuff in here just to clear up the March thread..... I started to delete it b/c I'm mad their getting our snow Lol

 

[Webberweather53]

1935-36 took the notion of central NC only getting one maybe big dogs per year and smashed the living piss out of it.

2 4" snows in a winter? That's cute, in 1935-36 there were SIX, yes SIX snows of 4 or more inches in Enfield in southern Halifax county whose snowfall climo is pretty close to RDU.

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The statewide mean in 1935-36 is somewhere in the ballpark of 25", if you think about the best winter you've ever seen in your lifetime down here in NC, 1935-36 is just another order of magnitude above it many don't think is/was possible.

 

[Metwannabe]

1935-36 took the notion of central NC only getting one maybe big dogs per year and smashed the living piss out of it.

2 4" snows in a winter? That's cute, in 1935-36 there were SIX, yes SIX snows of 4 or more inches in Enfield in southern Halifax county whose snowfall climo is pretty close to RDU.

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No wonder, none of my family had moved here yet..... lol

 

[Webberweather53]

No wonder, none of my family had moved here yet..... lol

Lol that explains a lot! It's really amazing tbh how 1935-36 was able to produce so many moderate-large sized events, when we see a big winter around here it's usually due to 1 maybe 2 big events, very rarely 3. To see it spread out over every single month of the winter in 5-6 storms really sets 1935-36 apart from all the rest, plus it gave us a white Christmas & New Years.

 

[Metwannabe]

On top of this inversion, these storms develop off MUcape or MU parcels, area at 850 hPa and above is favorable for convection, reason for loud thunder is becuase sound gets trapped under the inversion and sound is enhanced under the inversion View attachment 16106

Man I suck at soundings I need some good YouTube videos. I’m a visual learner. I tried to learn years ago but was impatient bc 99/100 I’m reading rain soundings around here so what’s the point ?

Anybody want to throw up a little thread explaining soundings? Post some examples, give details of what each item means... @Myfrotho704_ I like your explanations, the images you use. I can read soundings to some degree but would love to know more.. @Webberweather53 @SD @Rain Cold or anyone else? All I ask is we don't clutter it up with useless info, learn from it... what y'all think?