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Misc 2019 Banter & Friendly Conservation

Sleet City USA said:
Y'all.
Is it always this bad? This is the first winter I've really followed weather this hard.
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2010 was the last wall to wall winter I can remember that produced. We are coming up on a decade, and bound to hit another good one soon.
 
Shawn said:
2010 was the last wall to wall winter I can remember that produced. We are coming up on a decade, and bound to hit another good one soon.
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Nah, I consider 13/14 to be that last true widespread winter, but I do insist that I would have hated 13/14 if I was at home because of what my parents told me about what happened for them surrounding 2/12/14 (did not get their power back for days, now then again maybe I wouldn't have as I love my grandparents and they bailed up to that house once they realized that they had power). I think 1/28/14 is being forgotten some here, my parents told me that they measured 2" of snow on the morning after. (maybe that did not really produce in Columbia because I remember thinking that eastern areas got slotted some?)

Edit: Check that, it was all snow after a period of freezing rain that was brief compared to what happened 15 days later.
 
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1/28/14 is my second favorite snow storm of my lifetime. The impacts it had on Atlanta were unreal. Also the development of the storm in our tracking. It was forecasted to be a south GA/AL/SC hit all the way until 72 hours and then it trended NW hard. What a storm!
 
1/28/14 wasn't my favorite type of snow, but everything that happened surrounding it was positively insane, so that was my favorite winter storm. I remember hoping for a dusting and ended up getting at least 2 inches of snow in Rome.

About an hour after it started, I was trying to figure out why the snow wasn't accumulating much in the grass yet, then after lunch when I went out walking initially, I slipped and fell where there was a short incline in the road and struggled to get up. I had to get on my hands and knees and crawl to the grass. Then when the snow had covered the road, I went out again more comfortably and stayed outside for at least 30-45 minutes.

Then the next morning, for a few minutes I watched the dry snow blow a little, then watched a truck struggle on the icy road. I pretty much couldn't even walk on it, if I had picked up my feet, I would have been on my butt. I shuffled down to my car for a bit, then slowly went back up to the dorms.
 
Webberweather53 said:
If this big vortex keeps sliding towards the Rockies for March 3-4, we're going to find ourselves in a similar situation to this past week w/ copious amounts of cold rain over the mid-upper south. Spring pls hurry...
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GFS took a step that way for sure:

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Snowflowxxl said:
1/28/14 is my second favorite snow storm of my lifetime. The impacts it had on Atlanta were unreal. Also the development of the storm in our tracking. It was forecasted to be a south GA/AL/SC hit all the way until 72 hours and then it trended NW hard. What a storm!
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It was a good storm but oh what could have been for Fayetteville (where I lived at the time). Forecasted to get 4-8"+ and we ended up w/ 3-4" of half sleet & snow mix. Stoopid IP ruins everything
 
It's pretty obvious these storm threats are going down the toilet, everyone on the main thread is reaching the proverbial stage of denial right before panic & extreme heartbreak sets in!
Statements like these are telltale signs of denial:

Oh it's just one run!
Oh look, we still have "x" number of members with snow!
Lots of time to change!
*Literally everything else is going the wrong way* "Oh, but hey look at "x", is "trending" in the right direction, we still have a chance!
But, but, but the fv3 did well w/ the December storm!
Oh whale, nothing is on that run, but I'm interested to see what the next run shows (i.e. we're screwed)
 
Webberweather53 said:
It's pretty obvious these storm threats are going down the toilet, everyone on the main thread is reaching the proverbial stage of denial right before panic & extreme heartbreak sets in!
Statements like these are telltale signs of denial:

Oh it's just one run!
Oh look, we still have "x" number of members with snow!
Lots of time to change!
*Literally everything else is going the wrong way* "Oh, but hey look at "x", is "trending" in the right direction, we still have a chance!
But, but, but the fv3 did well w/ the December storm!
Oh whale, nothing is on that run, but I'm interested to see what the next run shows (i.e. we're screwed)
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There is a fine line, and for most people, it's impossible to stay balanced on it. You got your negative people (probably me) who have been disappointed and or let down with the weather. Whether that be a Winter weather or non weather related.
And you got the people who just are forever optimistic about everything, ESPECIALLY if it's something that favors them. Which in the weather world, we like to call that "wishcasting".

Both types of people have their issues for sure. As the negative people can just kill the vibe of everyone and the overly positive people can just sound like a broken record. We should try and get better at learning instead of just assuming the worst or the best every time.
 
Webberweather53 said:
It's pretty obvious these storm threats are going down the toilet, everyone on the main thread is reaching the proverbial stage of denial right before panic & extreme heartbreak sets in!
Statements like these are telltale signs of denial:

Oh it's just one run!
Oh look, we still have "x" number of members with snow!
Lots of time to change!
*Literally everything else is going the wrong way* "Oh, but hey look at "x", is "trending" in the right direction, we still have a chance!
But, but, but the fv3 did well w/ the December storm!
Oh whale, nothing is on that run, but I'm interested to see what the next run shows (i.e. we're screwed)
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Quick death was nice atleast. Though I am sure the usual suspects will go down the ship on this one.
 
Shawn said:
2010 was the last wall to wall winter I can remember that produced. We are coming up on a decade, and bound to hit another good one soon.
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We will eventually, but it want be next year, save a well timed event like what happened for a lucky few earlier this year. Next winter is heavily favored mod-strong el nino. So it will be an almost carbon copy of this one unfortunately.
 
Wish i could have my towel back so i could throw it in again. So deflating hearing our local met say that the snow showers he said was possible near the VA border has dissipated. Oh well, wont be long and we can enjoy the sunshine and warmth. Oh wait, ive got the AC on now. It is warm.
 
accu35 said:
Not excited at all about this snow "potential " bring on the hurricane season.
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After 06z, the “potential” talk will be dead. There’s just no way to sugarcoat it. Hopefully the mountains can get a little something to close out ski season with a bang. It just doesn’t like to snow ‘here’ the way it used to. Surely next year will deliver..
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
After 06z, the “potential” talk will be dead. There’s just no way to sugarcoat it. Hopefully the mountains can get a little something to close out ski season with a bang. It just doesn’t like to snow ‘here’ the way it used to. Surely next year will deliver..
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You left out the most important thing.... plenty of rain.
 
Sleet City USA said:
Y'all.
Is it always this bad? This is the first winter I've really followed weather this hard.
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More often then not this is how it is. I think people forget we live in one of the least snowiest parts of the country. I believe the average snowfall for the U.S as a whole is around 25 inches. Most on this board average 6 inches or less of snow a year which isn’t even close to half of what the average U.S City gets each winter. I know we joke about how we can screw up the best of patterns but the old saying of every single thing needs to go right in order to get a southern snowstorm is 100% fact. The few times we do get a good snow is purely luck as everything times up perfectly. Even though models aren’t looking good for late this week / early next week I’m plenty happy that we even have a chance in early March to possibly see snow. If it doesn’t happen then I’ll enjoy the cold as I’m not someone wishing to bring on the heat if we can’t get snow. We get plenty of heat for at least half the year or more so I’ll enjoy the bug killing cold and non sticky weather for as long as possible.
 
This would have been a real bummer had this been in Jan/Feb. But looking forward to some legit spring weather on the horizon for mid-month, sans the rain.
 
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