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Misc Cold Season Complaining

Winter threats plus 7 days…

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JQPublic said:
lol wut?
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Lol jk, a former member, Corey Tucker. He was a legend with off the wall comments but was entertaining haha. He'd always comment about bird behavior as related to incoming weather
 
Metwannabe said:
Lol jk, a former member, Corey Tucker. He was a legend with off the wall comments but was entertaining haha. He'd always comment about bird behavior as related to incoming weather
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I guess that was pretty random, lol. i'm just a rule follower and didn't wanna post in the blanton's heating and air thread lol
 
Hey Guys,,
I am 74 years old, a young 74 at that. I am a native Atlantan and have seen a lot of unbelievable weather in my lifetime, not only here in Georgia/ Atlanta but worldwide. I am a former Lawyer and have prosecuted some of the worst people on the planet. But, I digress. I am very disappointed, in a weird way, from what the models were honking a few days ago, to nothing extreme currently. At many points, we had highs in the single numbers even for Atlanta, to now maybe 32-35. To some of you seasoned experienced map mets here, WTF happened? Where is the collapsed Polar Vortex?
 
ITUSETOSNOW said:
Hey Guys,,
I am 74 years old, a young 74 at that. I am a native Atlantan and have seen a lot of unbelievable weather in my lifetime, not only here in Georgia/ Atlanta but worldwide. I am a former Lawyer and have prosecuted some of the worst people on the planet. But, I digress. I am very disappointed, in a weird way, from what the models were honking a few days ago, to nothing extreme currently. At many points, we had highs in the single numbers even for Atlanta, to now maybe 32-35. To some of you seasoned experienced map mets here, WTF happened? Where is the collapsed Polar Vortex?
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Just can't trust the models outside 7 days, and really anything beyond 5 days might be a stretch.
 
ITUSETOSNOW said:
Hey Guys,,
I am 74 years old, a young 74 at that. I am a native Atlantan and have seen a lot of unbelievable weather in my lifetime, not only here in Georgia/ Atlanta but worldwide. I am a former Lawyer and have prosecuted some of the worst people on the planet. But, I digress. I am very disappointed, in a weird way, from what the models were honking a few days ago, to nothing extreme currently. At many points, we had highs in the single numbers even for Atlanta, to now maybe 32-35. To some of you seasoned experienced map mets here, WTF happened? Where is the collapsed Polar Vortex?
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Not sure if serious, but I’ll bite. I’m not a Met so take with a grain of salt, but in general when models are stretching to peer into the distant (7+ day) future they are just giving us the overarching idea of what direction we are going, not the specifics. So actually, there has been a lot of agreement regarding the cold, and a good cold shot at that, but the briefly modeled absolute historic cold, that was always to be questioned that far out.
 
ontherocks said:
Not sure if serious, but I’ll bite. I’m not a Met so take with a grain of salt, but in general when models are stretching to peer into the distant (7+ day) future they are just giving us the overarching idea of what direction we are going, not the specifics. So actually, there has been a lot of agreement regarding the cold, and a good cold shot at that, but the briefly modeled absolute historic cold, that was always to be questioned that far out.
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I think it's just hard for the models to get the specifics right when it comes to snow in this area because it just doesn't happen often, and it usually takes a bunch of things going right for it to happen. I remember Greg Fishel when he was a met here at WRAL said forecasting snow in central NC was probably the hardest part of the country to forecast snow for because of our proximity to the mountains and the coast, and our lattitude and longitude.
 
severestorm said:
I'm fine with it not being cold! Asheville doesn't need anymore water outages especially after the months long one after Helene.
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Yeah, it does not have to be below zero for snow. My biggest storm with 12 inches of snow in 2000 came with a temp of 32-33. For some reason though some people on here really want to see the single digit highs and -10-15 lows. I certainly do not.
 

I like Brad and no way is this meant to bash him, but I have to wonder how he can speak on such absolutes so far out. He's says single digits aren't possible without snowpack. GSP hit 7 degrees in Dec 2022. And I'm almost certain there was no snowpack considering it hasn't freaking snowed there since Jan 2022
 
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