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Wintry January 21-23 2025

WolfpackHomer91 said:
B-P mentioned this the other day and I Never thought about it this way, we didnt waste this pattern bc it never was our pattern. We have to ride the line here in NC Piedmont , if Cold is too strong then it suppresses , not enough then we mix. He said this pattern was more indicative to what it did in the end produce extreme southern snowfall. Ik more went into it but it makes sense we cant have some monster high sitting right above us and expect some weak 1020LP to not be squashed to Serve the gulf
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Nah, this could have been our pattern. It was just a matter of if the northern stream and southern we’re going to phase a little and amp. If it did, we would have had a monster storm, if it didn’t we had suppression. It didn’t and we had a coastal scrapper. Honestly it looked that way for days other than the Canadian.

Could have been our pattern except we keep getting positive tilt strung out waves. I guess our western ridges are the underlying issue there.
 
Stormsfury said:
The warm nose which started early at 5C at 900mb to 850mb rapidly cooled, then got stuck at 0.5C across portions of the Lowcountry of SC effectively cutting off chances of snowfall history.

Even Savannah, despite it all pulled off a 3" snow. Charleston, SC officially pulled off 2"
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Solid event. That’s a tough transfer to the Atlantic which is easy to fumble. Still a great event.
 
Many parts of the Southeast have received more snowfall this month than Anchorage, Alaska. ☃️


New Orleans shattered its modern all-time daily snowfall record on Tuesday, receiving 8 inches of snow, far surpassing the previous record of 2.7 inches. The city has recorded more snowfall this month than Anchorage, Alaska, which has seen nearly two inches in January. The Big Easy typically sees measurable snow only about once per decade.

Other Southern cities also broke long-standing snowfall records:

Mobile, Alabama, reported 7.5 inches, exceeding the previous 3.6-inch record from 1973.
Pensacola, Florida, recorded 7.6 inches, surpassing its 2.3-inch record from 1954.
Milton, Florida, had a preliminary total of 8.8 inches, potentially breaking the state-wide snow record.
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I know many wanted a west trend and for more snow in their backyards. I know many of us older weather guys remember the days of literally not knowing if it snowed overnight until you ran to the window and looked outside.........often times only to see wet bare ground.

To sit back and look at this event for a second. None of us got as much snow as we wanted......let's be honest we never will. I watched this morning as many young families were outside with their young kids for their first ever snowfall here in Wilmington. Kids along the gulf coast will NEVER forget this storm. Screenshot_20250122_112442_Chrome.jpgScreenshot_20250122_112419_Chrome.jpg
 
superjames1992 said:
Already got some bare grass in the super sunny areas. 1” of snow gone just like that, with temps below freezing all morning. The sun is that strong. And the high ratio fluff made it easier to melt, too.
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That's why I wish it was cloudy today. So much harder for the snow to melt when it's cloudy !
 
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Snow still falling around Cape Hatteras to Portsmouth Island and Cape Lookout National seashore after the noon hour


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I'm used to linking ones from the mountains.
 
Definitely been a lot of melting since the start of this hour (was some earlier, but not quite as noticeable). Sucks, but that's life in the south. If my work goes on a delay at minimum tomorrow, this storm gets an A+.

Think I've decided dry snow is better than wet snow since I don't play that much anymore (also wouldn't mind another January 2011 type storm). But I did get to hit my dad with a snowball while he was jogging and made a low effort snowman...lol.
 
26 at Econet sites around wake. RDU may break 30 but idk if those will.

Rah forecasting 11 tomorrow morning and the class cancellation runs to 15min before my first class tomorrow. Bundling
 
superjames1992 said:
I wish it was 55 and cloudy today instead of 30 and sunny. Although, I guess this at least allows the shaded areas to hang on. Big time sublimation going on with this dry snow, too.
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I think it was 2003 where I watched an inch of snow sublimate in a couple of hours with a temp of 17. Just crazy.
 
All time record low territory was reached for parts of Louisiana, the damage will become apparent once it warms up but they will have thousands and thousands of dead trees, bushes, and shrubs to take down... the gulf coast will look like Iowa now. How pretty.
 
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 have to say the only positive I took out of this event is that this event was even possible. I was becoming more and more convinced that big snows were a thing of the past. I would have to think that if this can still happen at the coast albeit rare, then surely we still have a few left in us as well. Will we see one this year?
 
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