Gefs just randomly popped a -NAO this run 
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Tarheel1
I TOLD YALL IT WASN’T GOING TO SNOW
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Looks good and terrifying on paper, but reality I’m at +13-14 above average. That means my highs would be 42-43
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If it’s quick i wouldn’t really call it a “Pattern” Webb mentioned a true pattern should happen in February and it would have some staying power to it.
Long live the wedge 
Been a long time since we’ve seen the cold centered in the northeast like that. That’s when we shine. Raging mixed bag CAD storm while the mid south sits in the 50’s. I miss those days
*firewood printer goes brrrr*
My goodness that run almost pinched that energy off. The coastal front was pretty excited
At least we're not staring into the face of a never-ending -PNA. So +1 for that.
Dig this back toward central MS/AL and there's a discussion to have
I think this is what @Webberweather53 means when you have the mean ridge in Canada Vs a rooted subtropical ridge, stuff like this happens. Overall on modeling, wavelengths have seemingly gotten shorter 
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Fliring with at least getting some flurries with this. I guess this should have gone into her January thread
Fliring with at least getting some flurries with this. I guess this should have gone into her January thread
I'm sure we'll get cold again in February after the warm up this week. I just don't think we'll have any precip to go along with it when it's cold enough for snow. It's been the same thing the last few winters. Cold and dry, warms up and rains, drys out in time for it to get cold again. Until that doesn't happen I don't see any reason to believe it's going to be any different in regards to snow chances in NC outside the mountains, and especially for the Triangle and east.
Pretty wild to see some 40+ degree spreads in the gefs since that suite is usually ride or die together and not as dispersed as the eps
Woah woah woah Brick. We are rockin with positive vibes today kind sir. Please get that mess outta here.
Cary_Snow95
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Cold air is dry and warm air is moist. It’s basic stuff here and nothing that is any different from the past. Thats how it is and always will be.. you need mechanisms to drive moisture into cold air. Energy didn’t dig like it needed to these last few storms so we got no precip. But to simply say when it’s cold it’s dry and that’s how it is nowadays is just silly and adds nothing to the conversation. Making a claim like that without any reasoning is pointless.
My only reason for posting this is to give you some assurance,
We all need that push from time to time.
This is your calling.
There's others here too,
That I feel have a true calling to be in a meteorology career.
In some fashion.
There's at least 10-15 ppl when reading these models that I pay close attention too.
Your one of the top.
Along with fill in the name.
We all know who they are...
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NoSnowATL
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The reasoning is that's how it's been the past three years, so no reason to think it's going to be any different until it actually does something different.
rburrel2
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That's a super strong wedge signal for such a long lead time on the CMCE. Seems like February 5-15 should be a great time to score a winter storm east of the apps. I've personally always been a fan of a warm Canada. The -30C arctic cold dropping down in to the great plains from Southern Canada rarely works out for us now.
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Avalanche
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It is that way now it seems. Broad troughs that reach way south seem more and more a thing of the past.
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Oh yes the Cad of old right there...screaming ne winds and sleet storms...ill take!
Flotown
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any example of sensible weather round here on feb 87?..dont remember
Those are the kind you can step outside and just feel the ne wind pressing into the area and zr turning to sleet and then mixing with snow.
J1C1111
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Spot on right there.
1980s Winter Storms (NC)
*Please note that clicking on any of the underlined hyperlinks to individual storms, seasons, and decades alike (except for the first decade (1890s)) will all direct you to a different snow and...
www.webberweather.com
Any good upstate sc storms in 87? I wasn’t born lol
JHS
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Lots of sleet in the Carolinas and a northwest NC ice and snowstorm right at the end of the month. I'm about certain Alabama missed both of these events.
I’ve got a picture of me on a sled in 87 (could be 88) or with 10-12 inches of snow in north Georgia. Not sure the month.
JHS
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We got sleet in Feb 1987, but that was mostly from Greenville and east. This was a monster CAD event which was actually a forecast bust since it was supposed to be rain here. All of upstate SC got a decent snow event in Jan 1987, especially from Greenville to Gaffney and north. We actually came close to getting a major snowstorm in April too, but that ended up staying in the NC mountains. That event nailed Birmingham AL though with 6+ inches of snow.
JHS
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Probably either Jan 1987 or Jan 1988. You may have been far enough north to get the April 1987 event too.
87 seemed like a pretty good year, particularly for northern and western sections.
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In all honesty, I think we’re moving the pieces in place the first five-ish days of February for us to have a run through the end of the month and maybe into March.
Didn’t one of those February ‘87 storms give Raleigh something like 6-8” of sleet?
Yes there it is on the 16th and 17th. 8” of mostly sleet near RDU. The most I’ve ever seen of pure sleet was January 1996 at 3.5”… I can’t imagine what that ‘87 storm was like
1987 was a banner year for GVL North.
I know Anderson got a good snow in Jan.
GVL got a foot..
We had a big sleet storm in Feb.
First time we got snow in April in my life that year also.
85 N got an Inch the closer you got to the NC border in GVL county the totals went up drastically..
Parts of the NC mountains got 2-3 feet.
I'm very surprised at the lack of video or even pictures from any of the storms of 1987.
Mt Pisgah had WLOS transmitter on top,
Got over 30 inches if memory serves in that April storm.
The Spring Snowstorm of April 2-5, 1987
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The surprise snowstorm of April 1987
In April 1987 a surprise winter weather hit North Carolina.
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ColdAMO
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Yea that sleet storm in 87 was a monster. It was like walking in beach sand. The sleet was around for weeks too.
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If I recall correctly, wasn’t that a cold event up here? I only know what I’ve been told as I grew up on the opposite end of the state.