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Naughty November

Raysweather said Wilkes got 0” officially last winter. But I had a few events near 1”.
 
Pretty pitiful that Atlanta couldn't manage to get below 37 the last 2 mornings. I guess the heat island only applies to Atlanta and not Nashville, Charlotte, or Raleigh.
 
Dewpoint Dan said:
Pretty pitiful that Atlanta couldn't manage to get below 37 the last 2 mornings. I guess the heat island only applies to Atlanta and not Nashville, Charlotte, or Raleigh.
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Well for one RDU airport isn't in as much of a UHI spot as Atlantas airport, I think Nashville's station, however, has just as much UHI as Atlanta. Charlottes airport is next to a river, don't know how that plays in.
 
Lickwx said:
Well for one RDU airport isn't in as much of a UHI spot as Atlantas airport, I think Nashville's station, however, has just as much UHI as Atlanta. Charlottes airport is next to a river, don't know how that plays in.
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I don't know much about Atlanta's layout, but a lot of Charlotte at least on the north side of town is not very urbanized, like a lot of my part of Charlotte looks more like a small town than a neighborhood in a large city.
 
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I'm not sure if being further south has much to do with it, since LaGrange was 31 this morning which is way south of you.
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There are other factors in play on clear cold nights. I've only managed 32 last night which is the coldest this year. I'm not really in a UHI. Parts of Columbia SC got colder than me last night as is the case most of the time with these setups. But I'd much rather be here than Columbia or LaGrange when a winterstorm comes. They can have their clear cold radiational cooling, I'll take my sleet!
 
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Dewpoint Dan said:
Pretty pitiful that Atlanta couldn't manage to get below 37 the last 2 mornings. I guess the heat island only applies to Atlanta and not Nashville, Charlotte, or Raleigh.
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With the airport sitting on a ridge at around 1000', completely surrounded by three large interstates, and being so close to the main part of the city, the UBI effect is just that more exponential. Lower areas that are farther out like La Grange and Newnan area always colder at night. The coldest I got was 34F at 1140' when all the lower areas a hundred or two feet lower hit freezing. I was driving back through western North Carolina last night and when I was going over a ridge top the temp was at least 5 degrees warmer than the valleys.
 
Idk what the euro did last night but hey at least we’re looking at a better pattern that has a small shot at producing vs a all agreeing and hope crushing SER C3781E4E-DCE4-41DB-B0F5-B82DDC694436.png
 
Dewpoint Dan said:
Pretty pitiful that Atlanta couldn't manage to get below 37 the last 2 mornings. I guess the heat island only applies to Atlanta and not Nashville, Charlotte, or Raleigh.
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I couldn't belive how warm we were in Bham this morning compared to surrounding areas
 

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Goose88 said:
I couldn't belive how warm we were in Bham this morning compared to surrounding areas
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Crazy how even a small city like Birmingham can have such a huge heat island. Is the area Birmingham's airport is in even very urban ? I was thinking it was pretty forested and relatively rural over there.
 
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Dewpoint Dan said:
Crazy how even a small city like Birmingham can have such a huge heat island. Is the area Birmingham's airport is in even very urban ? I was thinking it was pretty forested and relatively rural over there.
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Its hit & miss around the airport as far as residential .To the north you have of it there are decent sized neighborhoods once you go Northeast alot has been torn down. Downtown Birmingham isn't far from the airport so that plays a major part
 
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