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Misc 2022-23 Fall/Winter Whamby Thread

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Chazwin said:
Wow… I wonder if there was some sort of microclimate reasoning that caused your accumulations to be so much lower. Pretty much all of the local reports from the Gaston County had more than 4” with 6-8” common in the northern part of the county. I found this in a copy of the Charlotte Observer I saved from the day after. Even the 1.6” at CLT airport was low compared to other parts of the the immediate city…. all 3 local news stations had greater than 3” with WSOC having 4.6 at their studios. Over my way in Concord I remember the changeover was just before noon and it was almost instantaneous… heavy rain and then heavy snow blowing sideways a minute later… the ground was covered in about 15 minutes
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You got to remember Mack is like 10 feet tall. 10 inches to us is like 5 inches to him!
 
J1C1111 said:
I would be almost willing to bet the change over was so late in the storm in that area of Gaston county that cut the accumulations way down. It was a crazy gradient in that storm. From what I remember. East to west and north to south in the county. Mecklenburg 1-6. Gaston 4-8. Cleveland 6-12. Rutherford 14-24. Polk 18-32 and more the farther west you went into wnc. Not counting drifts. It was crazy the variance in the accumulations from Mecklenburg county back west to the foothills and the mountains in that storm. You could tell who changed over sooner rather than later by the accumulations. Good stuff. Love talking about that storm.
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Also I did get in on a good period of thundersnow for a time that afternoon. It wasn’t as intense as the upper low in February 2004 was, but it definitely increased the rates.
 
Chazwin said:
Wow… I wonder if there was some sort of microclimate reasoning that caused your accumulations to be so much lower. Pretty much all of the local reports from the Gaston County had more than 4” with 6-8” common in the northern part of the county. I found this in a copy of the Charlotte Observer I saved from the day after. Even the 1.6” at CLT airport was low compared to other parts of the the immediate city…. all 3 local news stations had greater than 3” with WSOC having 4.6 at their studios. Over my way in Concord I remember the changeover was just before noon and it was almost instantaneous… heavy rain and then heavy snow blowing sideways a minute later… the ground was covered in about 15 minutes
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I lived about 15 min from the CLT airport. I guess more south than the city proper of Gastonia. The Cramerton, Lowell, Belmont , side of town.
So 1.6” at the airport, is very much about how it shook out for me. It also took forever to changeover to snow, about 1-2 pm, if I remember correctly, did hear a rumble of thunder while outside playing in it
 
Tarheel1 said:
I lived about 15 min from the CLT airport. I guess more south than the city proper of Gastonia. The Cramerton, Lowell, Belmont , side of town.
So 1.6” at the airport, is very much about how it shook out for me. It also took forever to changeover to snow, about 1-2 pm, if I remember correctly, did hear a rumble of thunder while outside playing in it
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That’s so odd, because obviously I was northeast of you and changed over much earlier. Amazing how much difference there can be over a short area. I do remember how quickly everything started freezing up when the temperature dropped in the 20s… you would expect with a mid March sun angle
 
Chazwin said:
Also I did get in on a good period of thundersnow for a time that afternoon. It wasn’t as intense as the upper low in February 2004 was, but it definitely increased the rates.
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That's awesome. I got thundersnow out of the blizzard also during the peak of the storm. Missed out on the heaviest snow in Feb 04 as the heaviest bands set up east of me down your way that evening. I could tell y'all were getting hammered down there. Ended up with 9 inches out of that one. It's still one my favorite storms. It was all snow from the first flake to the last in that storm which is very rare for us in the southeast as you know.
 
J1C1111 said:
That's awesome. I got thundersnow out of the blizzard also during the peak of the storm. Missed out on the heaviest snow in Feb 04 as the heaviest bands set up east of me down your way that evening. I could tell y'all were getting hammered down there. Ended up with 9 inches out of that one. It's still one my favorite storms. It was all snow from the first flake to the last in that storm which is very rare for us in the southeast as you know.
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February 2004 was so awesome to experience. I was fortunate enough that I was in on the heaviest snow from the overrunning part during the day and got into that absolute dumping during the evening. That storm was the only time that I’ve actually seen lightning strike while it was snowing.
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
2014 was stupid cold for a stretch. That’s the pinnacle for modern cold goobers. Those mornings where you wake up and it’s 6 degrees and the sky just looks different. Cold haze. Then you wake up the next morning and it’s 8 degrees. Everybody talks about how they hate dry cold but I don’t. Those mornings hit different.
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Nothing better than your boogers freezing when you step outside.... but just for a few days a year.
 
griteater said:
Early Jan 2018 is the one that stands out to me. There were some places like Greenville, NC that recorded it's coldest 12 day stretch or so of any winter period ever, dating back to the late 1800's. People were skating on ponds and creeks. Hard to imagine we will ever see those kinds of things again, but who knows. I made sure to take pictures / videos during that stretch of stuff frozen everywhere
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Even here kids were riding their bikes on the frozen ponds. It wasn't as cold as out there though. Lots of bikes at bottom of ponds now.
 
Chazwin said:
Don’t forget that playoff game in New England one year when Titans coach Jeff Fisher literally had snot frozen on his mustache on national tv during a 2 degree Foxboro evening
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Remember, if you stick you tongue to a light pole and if you can't move it, make sure you pour scolding hot water on it and it should work out for you after??
 
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