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Misc General Banter Thread

superjames1992 said:
On an unrelated note, as a wintry weather lover I think I’d rather live somewhere where snow is more or less impossible (peninsular Florida, etc.) than somewhere like CAE. In peninsular Florida, you just basically don’t pay attention to snow and know you have no shot at it, but in somewhere like CAE (and I suppose this applies to a lot of the Deep South, as well), you are far enough north where you have a shot but it’s so rare for those shots to convert into anything good. I think that would drive me mad. But we have plenty of Deep South winter lovers here, so perhaps I would adjust. I know even experiencing that dusting of snow in Tallahassee was more thrilling on some level than a lot of much larger snowfalls up this way, given the novelty and rarity of it. I would’ve given up a lot to experience the Gulf Coast Blizzard in Pensacola or New Orleans, for example.
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The problem with Columbia is that it's fighting geography just as much as climatology. Too far inland for the coastal lows, highest mountains in the Appalachian chain perfectly in line modifying NW flow cold air advecting in during winter, downsloping, and sitting in the middle of a gigantic river valley. I'd love to know how much Lake Murray affects winter conditions in that area. We already know it causes a local maximum of sunshine hours due to suppressing cloud development in spring and summer until the lake waters turn over later in summer. How many times have we seen storms hit that lake from the west and die immediately?

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AJ1013 said:
I still can’t believe we actually got a frost. I saw one once as a kid (in 2010). Didn’t know it was still possible haha. No matter what February/March brings this winter is a major success for us down here in the tropics.
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Any idea on what that may have done to the sugarcane crops around Lake Okeechobee?
 
Bigedd09 said:
You know that saying. “All it takes is one”. I’m a believer now


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Weirdly enough, this event made me more optimistic. It's hard for Raleigh to do worse than the way we got snow-holed last weekend. Even though it probably won't be this winter, our time for a big dog will come.
 
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