Big Nor’easters like to roll through in that month. Usually mid 50’s to low 60’s for highs. Lows into the 40’s. Pretty rainy.
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Misc 2020/21 Fall and Winter Whamby Thread
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Big Nor’easters like to roll through in that month. Usually mid 50’s to low 60’s for highs. Lows into the 40’s. Pretty rainy.
Me too
The posts to fantasy snow ratio right now is disturbingly high.
Some places are getting real snow
You checked the flizzard thread?
Hey remember we are a regional board lolThis is true, but if it’s not snowing IMBY it doesn’t count, c’mon!
Brent
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I always shake my head when Alabama gets snow before Dallas lol
It seems like AL gets more "flizzard" events than here in central NC, especially early in the winter.
Webberweather53
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After taking a year and a half hiatus (aside from real-time events), finally starting to get back into the swing of continuing to build my massive winter storm archive for NC, certainly feel a little rusty not having done one of these in a while (which is also a testament to how much we have sucked lately lol)
The mountains rob us of a lot of those, unfortunately. But then they benefit us in other ways.
Snowflowxxl
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Welp saw a couple flakes, thats enough winter for me this year.
Seeing a map like this one you made seems like a fantasy now. Pretty sure RDU or CLT has not had 12"+ in an entire winter since 2003-04.
Webberweather53
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Yeah, 2003-04 was definitely the last winter where both Charlotte & Raleigh were in double figures.
Interesting fact here regarding March 1927, aside from producing more than double (~15") the average amount of snow (~7") in an entire winter in NC, and being the largest winter storm to impact NC likely since at least Jan 1857, Mar 1927 was the only snowstorm on record to produce at least one foot of snow in Greensboro, Raleigh, Charlotte, & Fayetteville, and 1926-27 is the only winter to produce 2 one foot+ storms in Greensboro.
It's hard to believe this is what Goldsboro, NC actually looked like in the aftermath of the Mar 1927 blizzard.
After coming on the heels of what was the warmest February on record until a few years ago, that blizzard in 1927 had to be a massive shock to everyone at the time expecting the faux spring to continue on into March.
Someday, I'd love to run a high resolution, nested WRF simulation of this event, trying to reconstruct what the evolution of surface temperatures, radar, etc. may have actually looked like in a storm like this.
I swear I'll be jumping with Joy if ERA-5 ever extends their reanalysis back to 1900.
Webberweather53
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1926-27 was the definition of an opportunistic winter, in the top 10% of warmest winters on record in the SE US, yet one of the snowiest ever in NC, only behind truly legendary winters like 1935-36, 1959-60, & 1979-80. A whopping 33" on the season in Greensboro & for @SD are seasonal snowfall records for both locations, as is the 28" in Fayetteville.
If I actually made this seasonal snowfall map as a function of seasonal snowfall rank instead of snowfall amount (which I may do at some point), the entire NWS Raleigh county warning area would have a top 5 snowiest winter on record (or better).
NoSnowATL
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Damn mountains
Give me this season and I wouldn't complain for at least a year
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