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Misc Cold Season Complaining

atlwx said:
yes. and betting a similar story here in Atlanta/north Georgia. Would be interesting to see those oscillations. I know they don't have a "pattern". But would be cool to see it put together in a way that lets you see it easily. I may or may not ever get around to that, but I'll definitely post it if I ever do.

But this all fits with my lifetime of experience here (Atlanta born, raised and lived all my life aside from a year in the UK). We broke a 7 year drought (on more than a meager dusting), and it seemed an unusually long time. Previously, it seemed like the longest was somewhere around 3 years. And you could almost count on not going more than 1 or 2 years without snow. And definitely felt like you could always count on some flurries every year (even that seems rare). And it seems like y'all up in NC ALWAYS had something going on every winter. So much so, I considered moving there numerous times 10+ years ago (back in the TW glory days).

Hoping this year was not the odd one out (for Atlanta). Would be nice to go into another one of those oscillations. Think it's totally reasonable to believe the shorter term fluctuations will continue despite a long term downward trend. But only time will tell.

Honestly, I went into this winter expecting that 7 year drought to continue and become 8. It did seem a reasonable thing to think (as some others continue to think who haven't been as lucky). But wow. That assumption was wrong. Maybe not as much snow as hoped, but it still wound up being 4.75" I never expected. But outside of maybe piling on one or two times where everyone just lost their cool in frustration, I don't just say "winter is canceled" cuz a storm didn't go my way.
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I'm not even that far north of you in northeastern Cobb County, and we had 12" in 17-18, 2.5" in 19-20, 2" in 21-22, now 3" this year. I'm glad areas south of us finally got it a couple of time this year, especially middle Georgia.
 
Stevo24 said:
I know some don’t want to hear it, but until proven otherwise winter is over for most of us outside of the mountains. And I mean that as it pertains to winter weather. I’m sure there will be some cold spells. But I’d be willing to bet we don’t even see anymore fantasy snows on the Euro or GFS from here on out.
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This is not aging well.... good thing you didn't put any money on it.
 
Stevo24 said:
Nothing has changed lol
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Really???? guess you haven't been watching. Run-to-run changes have been huge and I don't think it's done. There is even some fantasy winter weather that you said we would not see on the models the rest of winter. What do you mean by nothing has chaged?
 
Cad Wedge NC said:
Really???? guess you haven't been watching. Run-to-run changes have been huge and I don't think it's done. There is even some fantasy winter weather that you said we would not see on the models the rest of winter. What do you mean by nothing has chaged?
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I said Euro and Gfs. Which they haven’t. Unless your counting something like Virginia. As far as cold I said it would still be cold.
 
Avalanche said:
Most of the cold is behind us now. Let’s just get through 2 more weeks then the annual warmup begins.
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Yes, it does seem likely that the worst of the cold is behind us. We will still have some cold nights, and days, sprinkled in, especially in the CAD regions. 60's are nice this time of year. I'm not ready for the upper 70's low 80's that the GFS printed up for 2/11, though. We get plenty of those in March and April.
 
SD said:
Just got my power bill immediately turned the heat and all the lights off
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It's really some bs down here with Blue Ridge Electric. Peak hour rates have nearly tripled. Never have i ever had a power bill in winter of $450. People are raising hell every day down here over this crap. They answer to no one and have chosen to start ripping everyone off. I've had the same power company for over 20 years and have never seen anything like what we are experiencing.
 
As far as the cold vs warm debate goes..im ready for a warm up personally. But not completely tossing winter weather out the window. This winter just feels different. We've been below normal for a long period of time and could use a snap back to above normal for a week or 2. (Golf tournament this weekend and fishing tournaments start the weekend after that) I'm just over playing on frozen greens and fairways every dam weekend! That hasn't happened in a long long time for this amount of time. And the lake is as cold as it's been in a decade or more. The last half of Feb and early March may be banging but the warm ups in between will keep our averages normal id expect. Sloshing the tub, letting the skies heal or the rubber band effect or whatever you wanna call it...lol
I do agree theres no denying the double digit snows just don't happen around here anymore..not sure if they'll come back or not..I sure hope so. As most of the guys I work with weren't even born by 1988. They sure need to experience it!
 
Oconeexman said:
It's really some bs down here with Blue Ridge Electric. Peak hour rates have nearly tripled. Never have i ever had a power bill in winter of $450. People are raising hell every day down here over this crap. They answer to no one and have chosen to start ripping everyone off. I've had the same power company for over 20 years and have never seen anything like what we are experiencing.
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We on Blue Ridge and ours was 254 this month. It's simple just bump your heat down where it don't run much during those hours and If you cook on stove or wash or dry clothes during that time Turn the heat off till you get done. I never run the heat if I'm using something else during that time that pulls a lot of power. I don't agree with it at all but you can do things to keep the bill down
 
Someone should really do a scientific study on this group in here one day. It’s very interesting to see grown men trying to use reverse psychology on weather by pretending they want warm weather lol
 
As someone who likes all things heat and summer, surely I'm a substantial minority on this board, I am ready for winter to end.

Been a novelty to see a notable snow event and single-digit-F lows not far from where I am, but at this point I'm done with freezing to death every morning. Hopefully the SE ridge can really rear its head sometime next month.
 
CumulonimbusIncus said:
As someone who likes all things heat and summer, surely I'm a substantial minority on this board, I am ready for winter to end.

Been a novelty to see a notable snow event and single-digit-F lows not far from where I am, but at this point I'm done with freezing to death every morning. Hopefully the SE ridge can really rear its head sometime next month.
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agreed, i want to track one more thread the needle qpf bomb in feb and then move on to 60s. haven't played golf since nyd
 
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