Misc General Banter Thread

[GaWx]

Kinda forgot how well we actually did last February.

Actually, Feb of ‘25 wasn’t cold the entire month. To the contrary, it averaged AN. The first 10 days averaged out to be the warmest Feb 1-10 since way back in 1957! It was 14 AN in CAE/GSP. Compare that to Feb 1-10 of 2026, the coldest since 2010 at 6.5 BN.

The only consistently cold part of Feb of ‘25 was 2/17-23, which happens to be the period covered by the 6-10 and most of the 8-14 that were shown in your post. Thus, those cold temperature verified well. Only 10 of the full 28 days were BN.

By the way the above avg precip signals in those 6-10 and 8-14 day forecasts were a big bust as there was barely any precip!

 

[Mitch West]

Actually, Feb of ‘25 wasn’t cold the entire month. To the contrary, it averaged AN. The first 10 days averaged out to be the warmest Feb 1-10 since way back in 1957! It was 14 AN in CAE/GSP. Compare that to Feb 1-10 of 2026, the coldest since 2010.

The only consistently cold part of Feb of ‘25 was 2/17-23, which happens to be the period covered by the 6-10 and most of the 8-14 that were shown in your post. Thus, those cold temperature verified well. Only 10 of the full 28 days were BN.

By the way the above avg precip signals in those 6-10 and 8-14 day forecasts were a big bust as there was barely any precip!

Got ya! Thanks! I definitely forgot about the moisture part.

 

[Brent]

I was gonna say as great as last February sounded we had a historic blizzard turn into 2 inches the moisture yeah dried up

And it was surrounded by warmth yeah

The last big storm here in February was 2022

 

[GaWx]

Got ya! Thanks! I definitely forgot about the moisture part.

It’s easy to forget the very warm parts of last Feb and that the month averaged 1-3 AN in places like GSO and RDU because they got a very nice snow (2-2.5”) on 2/19-20 though the liquid equivalent of .10-.25” associated with that snow was about the only precip for Feb 17-28 meaning it was very dry there, too. That part of last Feb. was kind of like a cold oasis in the middle of a desert.

 

[CyclonicFury]

Interestingly, since 2010, two of the only three 6"+ events at RDU came in December of all months (December 25-26, 2010, January 17-18, 2018 and December 9-10, 2018). This is in spite of the fact that most Decembers during that time had no measurable snow at all here.

RDU officially fell short of 6" in the February 12-13, 2014 storm, which I would say was the best February winter storm here in the last two decades. The February 25-26, 2015 storm had potential to be a big dog, but sleet really cut back on the totals. RDU hasn't seen 6" or more from a February winter storm since February 26-27, 2004.

 

[GeorgiaGirl]

A- for me on winter unless something wild happens.

It maybe should be an A as I'm just haggling about temps. The first time would've been gone even quicker than the powder, but we were VERY close to accumulating snow twice in January and I didn't get accumulating snow twice in the season in both of the banner winters of 09/10 - 10/11 (I saw what would be my 2nd favorite storm to 2/12/10 in GA's White Christmas out of town however if there weren't some sucky circumstances with that winter). Two ticks cooler would've done it, areas west and southwest of me got it and got a dusting to at least an inch of snow.

Thinking of 10/11 again, in regard to wintry weather for the southeast, I'm going to have to say that 3 week stretch in January this year matches that winter. I'll probably be talked into an A, but I'm not there right now.

But if you were in one of the dry slots for Jan 31st, I understand being disappointed as I was there in...either my first or second year doing this. Still remember the meteostar website as well, think it was slow so in the early part of this hobby (unless I had another site?), I was entirely reliant on seeing what others posted.

 

[CyclonicFury]

Currently I'd give this winter a C, but I'd probably rate it somewhat higher if not for getting dryslotted on the January 31 storm. It's hard to rate it any lower than that when December and January were BN, and we had the most sustained cold since 2017-18. RDU's current season snow total is 3.6", which isn't a bad total in isolation but considerably lower than much of the state.

I'm not sure what's worse: a winter with missed potential like this year, or a winter with no potential like 2023-24. I don't even think I checked Southernwx much that winter because it was so bleak. We didn't even have many fantasy storms.