Depressing map. Grandfather mountain hanging on my the skin of its teeth
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Pattern December to Remember
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Webberweather53
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Webberweather53
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The one interesting thing about the intricate details of these maps is there lots (and I mean lots) of missing data most everywhere that skews the numbers a little lower than reality. Also fwiw, the average seasonal snow gradient between GSO & RDU is the largest it's ever been in the 2010s out of any decade since the beginning of the 20th century. Can likely say there have been more heartbreaks than ever before for folks in the Triangle area during the last 10 years or so.
Broken024
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Yea I got maybe 3 snowflakes
Well I should've said it's already ugly and of course IF we get rain things change, good grief
I remember and the 90s sucked lol
Webberweather53
Meteorologist
The updated bias corrected (bc) ECMWF MJO forecast is probably the most realistic one going forward. We're still stuck in the middle of phase 6 through mid-month w/ only ever-increasing amplitude. Maybe if we're lucky the pattern tries to flip during the last week of Dec, but I'm personally leaning towards early January for this to occur.
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Logan Is An Idiot 02
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Have to give credit to the GFS. it has been the most consistent with showing the strong South East Ridge. IMO It’s been kicking the euros booty this year. Of course it will probably be the worst model if it ever shows snow. But maybe this is the go to model for detecting warm and ridging.
Same I didn't know how bad that decade was until I saw the numbers last year. I guess when you are in elementary and middle school and school is closed it didn't matter if it was 1 inch or 10. I remember the Sleet bomb from the 90s and at the time I thought we were killing it with the 1 inch we got from the superstorm
NoSnowATL
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Yeah the memories fade quickly on the bad winters but you never forget the good ones. Kind of like 01-02 around here. Pretty terrible winter as a whole but I got a foot in early Jan so it was a winner to me
I never realized just how bad the 90s were for winter weather. Maybe I didn't care as much back then. Imangine Raleigh having snowfall averages on decade basis being compared to Wilmington snowfall averages once you take out the 1995/96 winter? I could imangine Columbia SC snowfall averages in the 90s was probably simlilar to that to Savannah snowfall averages back in the 90s. It's like climate was shifted much futher northwest in 90s from where it was before or to a lesser extent after that. Hopefully we see don't anything like that again anytime in the near future.
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This stat alone makes me laugh when people say it used to snow more back in the day. Like are you sure? When was back in the day?
For ATL, especially south metro/airport, there was also a major snow in January of 1992. KATL got 5”, their heaviest of the decade. I have a friend in Henry County who got 8”! But on the northside, the snow was much lighter and it melted very quickly due to marginal temps. So, for northern metro, it was easily forgettable. Also, that winter was mild.
@SD I believe @NickyBGuarantee could fill up the drought thread
NoSnowATL
Member
Yea I feel like we avg 1 good storm every 5-10 years. I can remember like 5-6 good one in my short 36 years.
I’m ready when y’all are
Webberweather53
Meteorologist
Unless you were around during the 1960s (even @metwannabe isn't that old) it really didn't snow that much more back in the day, well at least in the last 40-50 years or so.
Webberweather53
Meteorologist
Drought never ends here in the actual desert ?️