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Misc General Banter Thread

CyclonicFury said:
This was the first storm that made me jealous of Roxboro. It was the last day of school before Winter Break (I was 11 at the time). At the time, I hadn't ever seen significant accumulating snow before Christmas (there was a minor event in November 2008 before Thanksgiving, but barely a dusting). It snowed for about an hour while I was still in schoool, and Wake County Schools closed an hour early. Immediately after that, we had cold rain. WRAL kept showing footage of the 6-7 inches in Roxboro and I got tired of seeing it. This was when I realized how painful following winter storms was going to be around here, as I was too young to remember the December 2000 event.

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Heartbreak is watching this glorious surprise event and not see a flake out of it. Then Raleigh gets a foot Jan 2002. I move to Raleigh Fall 02-06 for NCSU... nothing of significance. I drove home in Feb 04 to get that one.

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CyclonicFury said:
This was the first storm that made me jealous of Roxboro. It was the last day of school before Winter Break (I was 11 at the time). At the time, I hadn't ever seen significant accumulating snow before Christmas (there was a minor event in November 2008 before Thanksgiving, but barely a dusting). It snowed for about an hour while I was still in schoool, and Wake County Schools closed an hour early. Immediately after that, we had cold rain. WRAL kept showing footage of the 6-7 inches in Roxboro and I got tired of seeing it. This was when I realized how painful following winter storms was going to be around here, as I was too young to remember the December 2000 event.

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That one was brutal, we sort of made do in the Triad and still did okay, but we changed over to sleet and freezing rain way before forecasted. Of course, that one shifted away from us intothe first of not one, not two, but three Snowmaggedon storms for DC that winter. They also did well (6-12”) with our January storm in 2010. I think some light snow even made its way up there from the V-day storm that pummeled South Carolina, LOL.
 
CyclonicFury said:
This was the first storm that made me jealous of Roxboro. It was the last day of school before Winter Break (I was 11 at the time). At the time, I hadn't ever seen significant accumulating snow before Christmas (there was a minor event in November 2008 before Thanksgiving, but barely a dusting). It snowed for about an hour while I was still in schoool, and Wake County Schools closed an hour early. Immediately after that, we had cold rain. WRAL kept showing footage of the 6-7 inches in Roxboro and I got tired of seeing it. This was when I realized how painful following winter storms was going to be around here, as I was too young to remember the December 2000 event.

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Man try growing up down around CLT and having to see the foothill and mountain districts *always* closed in the winter
 
BullCityWx said:
Man try growing up down around CLT and having to see the foothill and mountain districts *always* closed in the winter
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Hell yea I used to wake up and turn on WBTV with Paul Cameron and see Ashe…..Avery…..Burke ……Caldwell and seeing They skipped Cabarrus I’d be heated.

“Steve Onesorge live from Hickory where we picked up 6” overnight” while I got Cold Rain


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RSG said:
February is gonna February! I really kinda wish this past weekend snow would have held off just 24 hrs so we could say we had a big one in Feb for a change. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers and February still sucks!
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Well I guess technically in some areas it was still snowing after Midnight on February 1st !
 
LongRanger said:
46 days till spring, Feb will add 50mins of Daylight, Sun Angle Change. You can just about kiss winter goodbye now. But we've had our Snow fix and a good one at that. Now let's warm up
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Yea, every year it gets warm and stays warm in February, I knew when it switched to warm that was it. Trees and grass will be going full speed in a couple of weeks.
 
Counting last weekends Sleet

Jan 24th - 2.5”
Jan 31st -13.5”

16” season so far…. But now I really want 4” I want a 20” season that’s Mid Atlantic Climo or atleast like Harrisonburg VA or something


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BIG FROSTY said:
What the deuce is going on? Wake up to this mess.
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EDIT: I miss golfing, need this mess gone asap. Where is my 60s, I thought February was a spring month anymore? You know, with all the "warming" and stuff, it can't possibly snow in the SE in February, right?

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February is indeed a Spring month in the south.

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Mitch West said:
I know my Raleigh family in here probably won’t agree with this, but I stand by it.

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These are all good points. Also, it's one thing to get shafted in Raleigh with our snow climo. It's another thing to get shafted in CAE, where you guys average like ~1-1.5" of snow per year. It could be years before you all get a shot at redeeming yourselves, whereas here we usually get snow every winter, aside from the snowless hells that were the 2023 and 2024 winters.
 
superjames1992 said:
These are all good points. Also, it's one thing to get shafted in Raleigh with our snow climo. It's another thing to get shafted in CAE, where you guys average like ~1-1.5" of snow per year. It could be years before you all get a shot at redeeming yourselves, whereas here we usually get snow every winter, aside from the snowless hells that were the 2023 and 2024 winters.
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Yep.. People will argue "well at least it snowed, it never snows down there" or "you got more than you average a Winter" But in reality, the set up was top tier for us. Just like last years set up was when we only got 0.9 & people South of us scored. CAE don't get many opportunities like this so this one will always leave a sour taste in my mouth.

Glad to hear someone from that area agree.
 
Mitch West said:
Yep.. People will argue "well at least it snowed, it never snows down there" or "you got more than you average a Winter" But in reality, the set up was top tier for us. Just like last years set up was when we only got 0.9 & people South of us scored. CAE don't get many opportunities like this so this one will always leave a sour taste in my mouth.

Glad to hear someone from that area agree.
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Context always matters when analyzing how much of a "bust" a winter storm was. This setup could've been a big dog for both of us, but we both came out on the lower end of the potential with this setup.

I hope CAE can finally score a big dog soon, too. I thought RDU not having 10" of snowfall in a winter since 2003-04 was bad, but according to official CAE records, that hasn't happened there since 1972-73! Granted, CAE climo is significantly worse than RDU.
 
Mitch West said:
Yep.. People will argue "well at least it snowed, it never snows down there" or "you got more than you average a Winter" But in reality, the set up was top tier for us. Just like last years set up was when we only got 0.9 & people South of us scored. CAE don't get many opportunities like this so this one will always leave a sour taste in my mouth.

Glad to hear someone from that area agree.
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In bold: Agree. I'm not in the crowd of "at least it snowed" or "it never snows here." Now, I did receive a "good snow" in my neck of the woods (5" or so), so it wasn't a total fail by any means. But when you're on the cusp of a much larger snowstorm (anywhere from 6"-12" was being thrown out) then I can understand a slight bit of exasperation.
 
Mitch West said:
I know my Raleigh family in here probably won’t agree with this, but I stand by it.

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Despite the CAE bust vs model consensus, they still got their heaviest snowstorm since the 3.0” of 1/10/2011 whereas RDU, which has averaged 4 times as much snow as CAE (per either 1991-2025 or entire record), got their heaviest only back to 12/9-10/2018:

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So, strictly in relation to climo as opposed to degree of model bust (models aren’t reality and have major flaws), CAE’s 2.9” was far better than RDU’s 2.9”. There have been ~3.5 times as many months with 3”+ of snow in RDU since 1886-7 (112) vs that at CAE (only 31).

RDU snow data source: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=rah

CAE snow data source:
 
GaWx said:
Despite the CAE bust vs model consensus, they still got their heaviest snowstorm since the 3.0” of 1/10/2011 whereas RDU, which has averaged 4 times as much snow as CAE (per either 1991-2025 or entire record), got their heaviest only back to 12/9-10/2018:

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So, strictly in relation to climo as opposed to degree of model bust (models aren’t reality and have major flaws), CAE’s 2.9” was far better than RDU’s 2.9”. There have been ~3.5 times as many months with 3”+ of snow in RDU since 1886-7 (112) vs that at CAE (only 31).

RDU snow data source: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=rah

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I am not basing this off climo. I am basing this off model data leading up to the storm.
 
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