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Pattern August is the worst month of the year and it's not even close thread

Shaheen said:
Let's use New Bern, NC as an example.

January is brutally cold, with only some nice days. Even in those nice days nights are often cold.

August (2nd hottest month) is mostly pleasant, though a few days can be too warm.
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There are a lot of pleasant days in the Southeast in January. Highs in the 60s and 70s are not uncommon in January for most areas.
 
Shaheen said:
šŸ’© than ----.

August is easily the worst month of the year in Qatar. Imagine a combination of Phoenix temps + dew points higher than Florida and US Gulf coast when onshore winds blow. At least June has mostly dry offshore winds. August has a mix of both but mostly onshore.

I like it warm, but not Arabian Peninsula levels of warm. Miami for example is perfect
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Shaheen said:
Let's use New Bern, NC as an example.

January is brutally cold, with only some nice days. Even in those nice days nights are often cold.

August (2nd hottest month) is mostly pleasant, though a few days can be too warm.
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I think it's safe to say temperature/weather is always relative to what you're used to. With that in mind, most of us wouldn't consider Miami to be perfect, nor New Bern to be brutally cold in January.

Years back, I read about a golf tournament in Scotland where the high temps reached 80, and there were reports of spectators suffering heat exhaustion, which I found shocking at the time, but apparently most had never been outside at that temp in their lifetimes.
 
YetAnotherRDUGuy said:
I think it's safe to say temperature/weather is always relative to what you're used to. With that in mind, most of us wouldn't consider Miami to be perfect, nor New Bern to be brutally cold in January.

Years back, I read about a golf tournament in Scotland where the high temps reached 80, and there were reports of spectators suffering heat exhaustion, which I found shocking at the time, but apparently most had never been outside at that temp in their lifetimes.
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Yeah, weather is what you make of it. I couldnā€™t do Qatar and Iā€™ve honestly been dragging from a relatively normal summer here. August seems like itā€™ll be normal this time instead of that mega wedge, so until thereā€™s a fall like front, add another summer period.

Goodness I canā€™t believe weā€™re in August. Two weeks from Friday, Iā€™ll be in NW GA (would be 3 to line up with my sadlyā€¦as of this year, late auntā€™s birthday, but work circumstances made me move up the trip period), and 4 weeks from Saturday.

3.70ā€ in the first two days for me precip wise BTW. Based on how wet my road was, good chance it was 3 days and 4 inches.
 
egg said:
new bern has an avg high of 55 in january and an avg low of 36. nothing brutally cold about that in fact itā€™s very mild compared to much of the country
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Problem of Southeast US is the extreme variability.

The 55/34Ā°F January average is too chilly for any sort of comfort, but tolerable. Problem is when extreme cold snaps bring extended periods of subfreezing air.

Looking at New Bern wikibox again, it's less bad than I thought in winter. But still bad.

My definition of perfect climate is one where 1. Annual precipitation is >60 inches 2. All months have >59Ā°F means 3. All months have <85Ā°F means. Lowering precipitation requirements to 50, and winter temp requirements also to 50Ā°F gives a good climate (even though it's not perfect).

Only the windward side of Hawaii, and the thin sliver of Southeast US provides such requirements

My low latitude body simply finds temps below 60Ā°F annoying.
 
Im just hoping we follow the super El ninos from before my time at this point

A lot of these people online are not gonna believe if we torch 2 winters in a row

I don't even think people remember it did snow one weekend because its been in the 80s and 90s pretty much since
 
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WXinCanton said:
ATL is getting worked already and storms are barely moving with LP directly overhead, won't be surprised to see reports of flooding soon.
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Yeah definitely gonna be some flooding. Fascinating to watch all storm interactions and you can see the ā€œtwistā€ on radar
 
Here we ------- go again. HEAVY RAINFALL... POWER OUTAGES POSSIBLE
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Nothing is falling here in Cary where I work and the home front looks like it is getting blanked too according to radar. The rain shields are up and in full effect in most of Wake County. This event has been a forecast bust at RDU so far today. At least the temperatures have been comfortable and look to remain tolerable before things start to warm up to above normal numbers early next week.
 
JHS said:
Not a drop here and not looking for any.
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Both Union Co.'s have not even had a single thunderstorm or any resemblance of rain- although it was to your north right on the county line earlier. It seems to not matter one bit which direction the flow is from, the result is the same. Until we get a tropical drought buster - we will continue to underperform - the feedback loops are in full force and the models cant seem to get that.
 
SuperNET said:
Both Union Co.'s have not even had a single thunderstorm or any resemblance of rain- although it was to your north right on the county line earlier. It seems to not matter one bit which direction the flow is from, the result is the same. Until we get a tropical drought buster - we will continue to underperform - the feedback loops are in full force and the models cant seem to get that.
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Did you know that every SE state has a Union County?
 
Missed it here as well, two different worlds five miles apart.
 
SuperNET said:
Having lived in Virginia - there is no Union Co. in VA - and if I remember correctly neither does the state of Alabama. In LA - its called 'Union Parish' :)
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Thanks for the corrections:
1. Yes, I was wrong about AL though I know thereā€™s a town of Union.

2. Good point about LA having parishes instead of counties. My bad.

3. Is VA in the SE?
 
GaWx said:
Thanks for the corrections:
1. Yes, I was wrong about AL though I know thereā€™s a town of Union.

2. Good point about LA having parishes instead of counties. My bad.

3. Is VA in the SE?

I think so - maybe the upper half into DC is more mid-Atlantic - but south central VA east/west is SE
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SuperNET said:
Both Union Co.'s have not even had a single thunderstorm or any resemblance of rain- although it was to your north right on the county line earlier. It seems to not matter one bit which direction the flow is from, the result is the same. Until we get a tropical drought buster - we will continue to underperform - the feedback loops are in full force and the models cant seem to get that.
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Meanwhile parts of York and Cherokee are getting their 2nd round today, while anything coming my way just dries up. And the immediate Charlotte area ALWAYS gets their rain no matter what the pattern looks like. That city just can't miss.
 
JHS said:
Meanwhile parts of York and Cherokee are getting their 2nd round today, while anything coming my way just dries up. And the immediate Charlotte area ALWAYS gets their rain no matter what the pattern looks like. That city just can't miss.
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Trying to watch the leagues cup Charlotte FC and delayed 1:10 to start and the radar looks like another long delay if it holds near 2nd half
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