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Pattern February 2024

CaryWx said:
March will be too late except for some anomalous (dripping snow). Saw a decent one once when I was in Greenville, NC back in '83. Late Feb's a little better but last good one was Feb 2015(?) which happened on 23rd-25th--That's doable but getting rough late in the year.
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March 2009 , Maybe @BullCityWx or someone remembers that one it was a deform band that came thru I believe after Raining all day. It was a Sunday Night I was forecasted 6-8" in Concord and got like 4", but drove up to my then GF house in China Grove they had about 6". The next Saturday it was 72 degrees and over for that year
https://products.climate.ncsu.edu/weather/winter/event/?e=466
 
EastmanGAWX said:
For those of us in the Deep South, I think that we all would take a repeat of February 25-26 1914 and be not severely disappointed with no winter weather for the next year or two. The law of averages says that the entire region is well overdue for a classic late winter storm, I keep maintaining that this current snow drought is going to be broken in a big way when the time finally transpires for it to end.
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Or one of these.
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WolfpackHomer91 said:
March 2009 , Maybe @BullCityWx or someone remembers that one it was a deform band that came thru I believe after Raining all day. It was a Sunday Night I was forecasted 6-8" in Concord and got like 4", but drove up to my then GF house in China Grove they had about 6". The next Saturday it was 72 degrees and over for that year
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Yup, that was the one that really focused on the southern piedmont. We had rain at 4, heavy sleet by 5:30 and then eight hours of heavy wet snow. I ended up just around ten inches total. That storm was an absolute layup, easiest one I've ever tracked.
 
BullCityWx said:
Yup, that was the one that really focused on the southern piedmont. We had rain at 4, heavy sleet by 5:30 and then eight hours of heavy wet snow. I ended up just around ten inches total. That storm was an absolute layup, easiest one I've ever tracked.
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I have some video of thundersnow with that one. I need to digitize it so to speak…it was on a small camcorder
 
ForsythSnow said:
I really don't see how a SSWE this late in the season will benefit us at all. Didn't we have that within the last couple years and all we got was cold in spring and no snow?
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It’s different when it’s already rooted to the lower levels initially, H5 is blocked up. Same thing happened this past jan was a instant reaction because the lower levels rooted quickly
 
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I don't even think that these totals are exactly correct as I've encountered a confirmed report when researching this storm that Fitzgerald, GA received six inches of snow. However, this is a prime example of how it's extremely possible for a post February midpoint snow storm to produce potent snowfall amounts at very Southern latitudes in the region. One can also throw out the dates February 1901, February 1968, February 1979, March 1980, the March storm in 1983 that was referenced earlier, March 1993, the ULL on the first day of March 2009 as other examples in which winter made it's mark late in the season. One has to like the fact that the potential at least appears to be on the table in the second half of the month for something to occur.
 
Myfrotho704_ said:
It’s different when it’s already rooted to the lower levels initially, H5 is blocked up. Same thing happened this past jan was a instant reaction because the lower levels rooted quickly
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If that's the case, we'll just have to hope we can kick a goal with 1 second left on the clock since we're going to be cutting it very close on climo as it is. Of course if we happen to be sent into a relative freezer we would still be plenty cold for snow and it may even help us get a decent track.
 
LickWx said:
Name a winter where it didn’t hit 60s or 70s. I’ll wait
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Umm..., that has NOTHING to do with seasonal averages and patterns. Sure we'll have some of these days every winter but early Feb is still in the heart of winter. My point is I would much rather it wait to feel like spring when it actually IS spring. We'll have months of that type of weather (and way warmer) b/w mid March and mid Nov, we only get a little time with chances for cold and snow.
 
Iceagewhereartthou said:
Umm..., that has NOTHING to do with seasonal averages and patterns. Sure we'll have some of these days every winter but early Feb is still in the heart of winter. My point is I would much rather it wait to feel like spring when it actually IS spring. We'll have months of that type of weather (and way warmer) b/w mid March and mid Nov, we only get a little time with chances for cold and snow.
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Gotta move north then bro because it’s just not like that in the SE
 
Iceagewhereartthou said:
Our history and averages say it is. If you want today to be the norm in early Feb then you gotta move to FL.
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But what I’m saying and all I’m saying is, it’s normal to get a few warm days like today in Feb, averages and history days it’s normal to get days like today, in February
 
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