It surprises me that my pessimism for the Midlands of SC angers people who are in climatically favorable areas this time of the year.
Everything I say about the Midlands of SC, predominantly in the form of pessimism, is me trying to translate the actual picture for local members who are less knowledgeable and are subject to the hype that others post about how great things are looking. Not everyone who reads these forums knows how to read a 500MB Vorticity chart.
There's a lot of chaos with different data providers having maps that count all frozen as snow. When someone posts an ensemble mean with blue colors over the Midlands, yet the track of the low doesn't support it, along with a small number of ensemble members skewing the overall mean, I feel like it's my job to be realistic in all of the snow-pumping, over-hyping scenarios. While this applies to my area, which I mainly talk about, it doesn't apply outside of here.
When a storm looks great for the Upstate and into NC, more times than not, it's rain, freezing rain or a mix down this way. It's just how it is.
So with this said, I'm dipping out on the updates for the Midlands of SC area. If people want to over-hype the pattern, talking about how great things are for us down here because 10/51 members of an ensemble show a light event vs. 41 others not, that's fine. Clearly, the majority of people want to live in a dream world and think about all the great possibilities in fantasy land, while anyone who says something in contrast to that fantasy gets heat.
Everything I say about the Midlands of SC, predominantly in the form of pessimism, is me trying to translate the actual picture for local members who are less knowledgeable and are subject to the hype that others post about how great things are looking. Not everyone who reads these forums knows how to read a 500MB Vorticity chart.
There's a lot of chaos with different data providers having maps that count all frozen as snow. When someone posts an ensemble mean with blue colors over the Midlands, yet the track of the low doesn't support it, along with a small number of ensemble members skewing the overall mean, I feel like it's my job to be realistic in all of the snow-pumping, over-hyping scenarios. While this applies to my area, which I mainly talk about, it doesn't apply outside of here.
When a storm looks great for the Upstate and into NC, more times than not, it's rain, freezing rain or a mix down this way. It's just how it is.
So with this said, I'm dipping out on the updates for the Midlands of SC area. If people want to over-hype the pattern, talking about how great things are for us down here because 10/51 members of an ensemble show a light event vs. 41 others not, that's fine. Clearly, the majority of people want to live in a dream world and think about all the great possibilities in fantasy land, while anyone who says something in contrast to that fantasy gets heat.
No snow for you!! Ever!!
