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Misc 2020/21 Fall and Winter Whamby Thread

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Myfrotho704_ said:
Why do I feel like we get a SER late feb then after the vortex gets stuck to our NE, the SER retrogrades to the CUS and we get shortwave handoffs from the western US trough since wavelengths are shorter, and we basically are back to winter
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KyloG said:
Shreveport avg less than 1" snow a year... :rolleyes:

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It still is depressing how RDU had at least 10" of snow in roughly 1 in 3 winters between 1886 and 2004, and not once since. The statistical probability of such an event is near 0.1%. Though you could argue RDU may have reached 10" in the 2017-18 winter, the 5.9" reported from the January 17 snow that year was a bit lower than surrounding areas, including my backyard.
 
CyclonicFury said:
It still is depressing how RDU had at least 10" of snow in roughly 1 in 3 winters between 1886 and 2004, and not once since. The statistical probability of such an event is near 0.1%. Though you could argue RDU may have reached 10" in the 2017-18 winter, the 5.9" reported from the January 17 snow that year was a bit lower than surrounding areas, including my backyard.
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Nobody else on this planet seems to have trouble getting extreme winter storms...except us. We had blocking essentially from start to finish, well AN precip and nada...
 
Only 53.3” of snow so far! 20.4 above average so far!
 
Wtf @SD ! How you gon do me like that! Taking my pfp ! Also went for a nice walk at knightdale station park. Ended up turning it into 4 laps and 160 push ups. 10 push-ups at each bend in the track. That could have been me and you enjoying that park but nah you left knightdale !
 
Tarheel1 said:
It was rampant in Greenville before I moved! Mostly a fad amongst high school kids ! As stupid as truck nuts! Which I bet LickWx still has, on his Toyota T100
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I actually drive a little boxy car lol. Though I want a truck one day, or even better an old jeep that I can turn into the one from Jurassic Park!
 
While I'm happy to miss the big ice in a couple days, this has been the most maddening winter weather period I can remember in a long, long time. Watching the rest of the southern part of the country, all the way to NE Bama get buried by multiple systems and get record cold for a week plus while SC gets cold rain and haven't seen freezing temps since 2/8 (until this evening) is about more than my weather brain can handle. This has been weather torture.
 
Fountain inn, more like fountain win, missing out on a terrible ice event
 
CyclonicFury said:
It still is depressing how RDU had at least 10" of snow in roughly 1 in 3 winters between 1886 and 2004, and not once since. The statistical probability of such an event is near 0.1%. Though you could argue RDU may have reached 10" in the 2017-18 winter, the 5.9" reported from the January 17 snow that year was a bit lower than surrounding areas, including my backyard.
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Atleast your area is still capable of getting snow/ice in the first place. The Midlands of SC hasn't gotten significant winter weather since 2014(except for the far northern areas from the 2017 event). It's so bad for us that even areas like Charleston and Savannah had gotten snow/ice in a much more recent period compared to the Midlands of SC.I used to remember Columbia getting snow/ice every two or three winters in the 1970s and 1980s growing up. Also heard from family who lived in Fayetteville saying that they used to snow/ice basically every winter. They say that winters there are not same anymore. Fayetteville are lucky to even get more than dusting/light snow/ice events these days.
 
Faco Thomas said:
Atleast your area is still capable of getting snow/ice in the first place. The Midlands of SC hasn't gotten significant winter weather since 2014(except for the far northern areas from the 2017 event). It's so bad for us that even areas like Charleston and Savannah had gotten snow/ice in a much more recent period compared to the Midlands of SC.I used to remember Columbia getting snow/ice every two or three winters in the 1970s and 1980s growing up. Also heard from family who lived in Fayetteville saying that they used to snow/ice basically every winter. They say that winters there are not same anymore. Fayetteville are lucky to even get more than dusting/light snow/ice events these days.
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To be fair, I think people remember things differently than they actually happened. It’s natural to remember all the big snowstorms and forget all the other winters that were complete crap (which, let’s be honest, most winters in the SC midlands have been for hundreds of years, it’s just a marginal snow climate). I don’t doubt that it used to snow somewhat more in CAE, FAY, etc., but these were never places with regular significant wintertime snowfalls, at least not in the last couple hundred years. It’s not like FAY or CAE had even the snow climo of 2021 CLT a hundred years ago.

It’s similar to how people talk about how it just doesn’t snow as much as it used to when in fact the 2010s were almost certainly much snowier across the Carolinas compared to the awful 1990s, which everyone seems to forget for some reason.
 
superjames1992 said:
To be fair, I think people remember things differently than they actually happened. It’s natural to remember all the big snowstorms and forget all the other winters that were complete crap (which, let’s be honest, most winters in the SC midlands have been for hundreds of years, it’s just a marginal snow climate). I don’t doubt that it used to snow somewhat more in CAE, FAY, etc., but these were never places with regular significant wintertime snowfalls, at least not in the last couple hundred years. It’s not like FAY or CAE had even the snow climo of 2021 CLT a hundred years ago.

It’s similar to how people talk about how it just doesn’t snow as much as it used to when in fact the 2010s were almost certainly much snowier across the Carolinas compared to the awful 1990s, which everyone seems to forget for some reason.
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I agree the 90's sucked for the most part in this area (outside of a couple of "okay" storms in the early 90's), and maybe most of the Carolinas for the most part. The Midlands area of SC isn't a snow haven, no doubt. But I definitely recall snowstorms in the 80's, and it snowed every year of the 80's outside of two winters ('80-'81 and '85-'86). Whether we had a significant storm, snowed but didn't stick, or flurries.

I will admit it seems we get our storms in spurts. It's occurred quite a few times to my recollection.
 
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