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Wintry January 21-23 2025

iGRXY said:
Still amazing to me that we’ve had as about as good of a pattern and winter as you could draw up in December and January and I only ended up with 2” of snow a 0.25” of ZR. Man idk what it’s going to take for us to finally get legit snow storms in the CAD regions where it should honestly be the easiest outside of the mountains in the entire southeast. You’ve got alligators in the bayou with 10” of snow sitting on their heads right now and we can’t even get jack diddly here anymore. Just frustrating at this point. It’s always never enough cold air and then when we finally get the cold air established, then it’s too much. Happy for those in the Deep South and gulf coast for getting to see snow but there’s never a world where they should be getting snow and we can’t up here.
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Good patterns aren’t everything. Sometimes you need luck. And sometimes we score good storms in patterns that aren’t very good, either. Good patterns make it more likely, of course, but we’ve wasted plenty of great patterns in the past.
 
superjames1992 said:
Good patterns aren’t everything. Sometimes you need luck. And sometimes we score good storms in patterns that aren’t very good, either. Good patterns make it more likely, of course, but we’ve wasted plenty of great patterns in the past.
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We’ve had great patterns that have shown up for about a week at a time at most the last 6 years. That hasn’t been the case this year. We’ve been in a much better situation vs prior years to getting consistent threats and snow and it still can’t or won’t do anything for those of us who live in places that should see at least 1 legit storm a year. If this would’ve been like any of the previous years where we get about 7-10 days max to score, then okay. We’ve had multiple weeks of below avg temps with an H5 long range pattern conducive to have snow storms in the south and we still manage to screw it up somehow.
 
superjames1992 said:
I have these walking stones in my side / backyard that retain heat like I’ve never seen before. They’re already melted and in a couple of them they never got snow on them in the first place.

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Did you buy them from China? I'd test them for depleted uranium deposits. JK.
 
iGRXY said:
Still amazing to me that we’ve had as about as good of a pattern and winter as you could draw up in December and January and I only ended up with 2” of snow a 0.25” of ZR. Man idk what it’s going to take for us to finally get legit snow storms in the CAD regions where it should honestly be the easiest outside of the mountains in the entire southeast. You’ve got alligators in the bayou with 10” of snow sitting on their heads right now and we can’t even get jack diddly here anymore. Just frustrating at this point. It’s always never enough cold air and then when we finally get the cold air established, then it’s too much. Happy for those in the Deep South and gulf coast for getting to see snow but there’s never a world where they should be getting snow and we can’t up here.
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To be fair, the places on the Gulf Coast just got a once in a hundred year storm. There's quite a good chance we won't see anything like that down there in our lifetimes again, meanwhile, I'm sure your backyard will see plenty of 8+ inchers before your life has to come to an end. I kind of don't like that argument that people make "Well those places that almost never get snow got tons of snow while I didn't and it doesn't make sense". It's not exactly like any of us in the Southeast are in a snowy climate. I get your frustrations(I went 14 years before I saw another 3+ inch snow two weeks ago), but none of us are guaranteed snow every year. There are places in the Dakotas right now that have only seen 4-6 inches of snow, well below their winter average in a La Nina pattern. It just happens.
 
LovingGulfLows said:
To be fair, the places on the Gulf Coast just got a once in a hundred year storm. There's quite a good chance we won't see anything like that down there in our lifetimes again, meanwhile, I'm sure your backyard will see plenty of 8+ inchers before your life has to come to an end. I kind of don't like that argument that people make "Well those places that almost never get snow got tons of snow while I didn't and it doesn't make sense". It's not exactly like any of us in the Southeast are in a snowy climate. I get your frustrations(I went 14 years before I saw another 3+ inch snow two weeks ago), but none of us are guaranteed snow every year. There are places in the Dakotas right now that have only seen 4-6 inches of snow, well below their winter average in a La Nina pattern. It just happens.
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You never see people living in Pensacola whining on weather forums that they didn't get snow every time NC/SC get snow
 
Tough to do much with this kind of dry snow, but it was so much fun shooting for a bit after I had some breakfast. Free day off work too and I really can't imagine making an attempt to leave my side road until probably after lunch tomorrow.




I wish I could tell you an exact measurement, but I can just say that it looks like about two inches if your thumb is two inches. That ending band definitely did some work here.
 
Drizzle Snizzle said:
They probably whine when AL and MS get snow since that's closest to them.
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Or they don't really whine at all because they don't expect snow down there in any given year. It's Florida lol. This was a freak storm for their area. Freak storms happen. It doesn't mean they're a snowier place just because they had a big storm in a year where a person who averages more annual snow didn't. Same thing with Hurricane Helene. We don't see hurricane force winds from a tropical cyclone move all the way to the mountains very often.
 
LovingGulfLows said:
Or they don't really whine at all because they don't expect snow down there in any given year. It's Florida lol. This was a freak storm for their area. Freak storms happen. It doesn't mean they're a snowier place just because they had a big storm in a year where a person who averages more annual snow didn't. Same thing with Hurricane Helene. We don't see hurricane force winds from a tropical cyclone move all the way to the mountains very often.
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When I lived in Tallahassee I certainly wasn’t whining that you all were taking all my snow every time a system moved through, haha. It’s just a part of living in Florida. You don’t get snow. Except in 2025, apparently. It did hurt a little bit when my parents’ house got some great storms while I was in Florida, though.
 
I measured 3.75 inches on top of my mailbox which looks to be the only flat spot in my yard. Someone else who lives close to me said they measured almost 6 inches, so I would think the official measurement is probably somewhere around 5 inches for our area. I'll be curious to see what the NWS final totals end up being.
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We can’t be mad at the Canadian model. It showed bombs like this when every other model was trying to scrape or whiff with light accumulations. It’s built for dealing with anomalous cold air masses. Even when the setup would change unfavorably at H5 it was still showing nukes. I’m not sure the gulf coast had a way to miss here even if they tried. I think we just witnessed not only the rarest winter storm in the past 500 years but probably the rarest weather event in the last 1,000
 
chapelhillwx said:
You never see people living in Pensacola whining on weather forums that they didn't get snow every time NC/SC get snow
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I'd imagine this has much more to do with expectations than being good patrons.
If I lived in any part of Florida & the CAD regions or the mountains of the Carolinas got snow and I didn't,
I wouldn't be whining or complaining bc I wouldn't have expected it!
 
iGRXY said:
Still amazing to me that we’ve had as about as good of a pattern and winter as you could draw up in December and January and I only ended up with 2” of snow a 0.25” of ZR. Man idk what it’s going to take for us to finally get legit snow storms in the CAD regions where it should honestly be the easiest outside of the mountains in the entire southeast. You’ve got alligators in the bayou with 10” of snow sitting on their heads right now and we can’t even get jack diddly here anymore. Just frustrating at this point. It’s always never enough cold air and then when we finally get the cold air established, then it’s too much. Happy for those in the Deep South and gulf coast for getting to see snow but there’s never a world where they should be getting snow and we can’t up here.
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I get your frustration. It’s like, not only do these areas never see snow, but when they did, they scored big. Although easier said than done, maybe moving to a more favorable snow climate is an option or traveling to areas before a snow storm hits?
 
Billypg70 said:
Btw it's amazing what the sun can do even when your 10 or more degrees below freezing.
It's 20° here currently,
Once the sun hit the coating we had in my neighborhood.
It's gone!
Amazing when we got down to the low to mid teens and the temp is still at or below 20°.
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Yeah I thought the hard freeze would have hardened the snow and made it harder for it to melt.
 
I ended up with a little over an inch it's snowed for about 11 hours I would have gotten so much more if it wouldn't have been tiny little dandruff flakes
 
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