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Pattern Marvelous March

40 degrees and drizzle.... Love the power of the wedge that saves a lot of us, here in western NC, from the severe weather threat in the Spring. Climo says ours will come from mid-April through May.

Our downbursts in the summer are truly nasty aswell, i think we got the highest damaging wind climo of the country sometime in the summer due to severe pulse storms, there fun tho, don’t really got to worry about a nater with them
 
Larry,
Can we dispense with summer and this other God awful thing called Daylight Savings Time while we're at it ... o_O
Here! Here! I second the motion.....but...we don't get winter anymore, and we won't have summer...so what do we get?? Severe year round? No way I'll go along with that. So it's Endless Fall. Kind of like never getting past second base....nationfrustration.
 
Just looked up Atlanta’s biggest snow storms and was interested to find out that since 1950 3 of Atlanta’s top 10 biggest snow storms have happened after March 10th.
3/11/60- 4.0 inches
3/13/93- 4.2 inches
3/24/83- 7.9 inches
 
Early start to spring here we come.....nope nvm. If it were january the mjo would have motored right into 5 6 7
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The forecast just several days ago was for this event to enter the COD before even reaching phase 3, it's still hauling into the Maritime Continent, with little sign of actually entering the COD. MJO events initialized in/around phase 3 & 4 typically produce the worst forecasts of anywhere else on the globe due in large part to the highly varied topography of the Maritime Continent that interferes w/ the MJO's own circulation and is hard for models to parameterize.
 
GSP had a forecast of about 49-50F for a low last night, we actually reached 43F in Charlotte & we're supposed to reach the upper 60s-near 70F later today once this CAD wedge breaks. It's still 45F. Smfh do they ever learn
 
GSP had a forecast of about 49-50F for a low last night, we actually reached 43F in Charlotte & we're supposed to reach the upper 60s-near 70F later today once this CAD wedge breaks. It's still 45F. Smfh do they ever learn
Suns coming your way! Breaking through here right now. 70 will be easily achievable today
 
Last 3 runs of the 3km NAM here.
Wow! Totally didn't see this one coming!! An overperforming CAD wedge FTL.
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Already 60 here with some breaks in the clouds but I believe that those showers in Montgomery, Stanley and Randolph are going to screw me over. If that wasn't incoming Id think we had a shot at 75-80

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Already 60 here with some breaks in the clouds but I believe that those showers in Montgomery, Stanley and Randolph are going to screw me over. If that wasn't incoming Id think we had a shot at 75-80

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Nice! Yea I think that batch of showers helped to momentarily reinforce the CAD dome and may screw us out of getting well into the 70s. Most of the models unfortunately agree that the I-85 corridor between Greensboro & Charlotte is likely the last place where the CAD will break.
 
Nice! Yea I think that batch of showers helped to momentarily reinforce the CAD dome and may screw us out of getting well into the 70s. Most of the models unfortunately agree that the I-85 corridor between Greensboro & Charlotte is likely the last place where the CAD will break.
Moving to NW Harnett has sucked for winter weather but it has been nice in these dying cad scenarios its more similar to Fay/Gsb than RDU. Im becoming convinced there is something that causes wedges to really lose their influence once you get south of a Zebulon to Garner to Fuquay line.

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Holding strong in the mid 50s here so I doubt we hit 71. We briefly got up in 60s yesterday but it cooled off quick.
 
It’s 25% off after March 4th. Still nearly 80” powder and it refreezs each morning. Not sure if they keep making more this late tho.
 
It’s 25% off after March 4th. Still nearly 80” powder and it refreezs each morning. Not sure if they keep making more this late tho.
Temps need to be at least 28 to make snow..doesn’t look like that will happen til at least a week from today and I doubt they’ll try to pile snow on with 60’s and 70’s right around the corner with a ski season scheduled to end in early April anyway
 
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I would take it. A high that strong and low placement would crush everyone north or west of Charlotte.
 
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