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Pattern November Knock-Out

metwannabe said:
GEFS concurs, looks like a potentially cold Thanksgiving....
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Hey!
Surface temps are a bit cool, as well ...

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... and FWIW, the NAO and PNA are not looking shabby leading in to Turkey Day ...

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We'll see ... :rolleyes:
 
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SoutheastRidge said:
I like brief bouts of cold weather. I would imagine that living in a place where it stays cold for months at a time would eventually wear on you and make you hate the cold.
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I think somewhere like Indianapolis, Cincinnati or Columbus Ohio would be perfect to live. You get a decent amount of snow but not to much. By the time winter is over you’d actually look forward to summer. I just can’t stand the summers in the south.
 
olhausen said:
I think somewhere like Indianapolis, Cincinnati or Columbus Ohio would be perfect to live. You get a decent amount of snow but not to much. By the time winter is over you’d actually look forward to summer. I just can’t stand the summers in the south.
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I'm normally ready for summer as I'm worn out from tracking winter storms that fail
 
pcbjr said:
Hey!
Surface temps are a bit cool, as well ...

gfs-ens_T2m_us_fh360-360.gif


:eek:

... and FWIW, the NAO and PNA are not looking shabby leading in to Turkey Day ...

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We'll see ... :rolleyes:
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If anything it will feel like the season, Thanksgiving in shorts sucks

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SoutheastRidge said:
I like brief bouts of cold weather. I would imagine that living in a place where it stays cold for months at a time would eventually wear on you and make you hate the cold.
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Which is probably why my wife, who grew up in Montana, hates the cold and snow. The opposite is true for me. I lived in Florida for so long it made me hate the heat and humidity.
 
olhausen said:
I think somewhere like Indianapolis, Cincinnati or Columbus Ohio would be perfect to live. You get a decent amount of snow but not to much. By the time winter is over you’d actually look forward to summer. I just can’t stand the summers in the south.
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The older I get the more I hate summers in the south. I just can't stand how long it lasts. It takes a toll. People who enjoy summers in the south need to have their head examined.
 
SoutheastRidge said:
The older I get the more I hate summers in the south. I just can't stand how long it lasts. It takes a toll. People who enjoy summers in the south need to have their head examined.
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That's why God gave us the intellect and capacity to invent A/C ... :eek:
 
SoutheastRidge said:
Seriously.... How did you survive before A/C ?
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Seriously, growing up I knew no better (and I lived in Jax, on the river, so there was always a good breeze, and houses were built differently - very high ceilings and lots of windows for cross ventilation ...); no way a place like Gainesville would be habitable without A/C from May to September (and it wasn't - even the Courthouse was shut during those months until A/C arrived in the mid-1960's).

Don't wanna start posting IMBY stuff, but this kind of gives a good overview ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainesville,_Florida#Climate
 
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It's 53 in Birmingham, 59 in Atlanta, and 50 in Athens. Not sure whether the cold air is coming from the Northeast, Northwest, East, West, or North.
 
SoutheastRidge said:
The older I get the more I hate summers in the south. I just can't stand how long it lasts. It takes a toll. People who enjoy summers in the south need to have their head examined.
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I'm beginning to dislike summer as well. It's fun until about July 4th then it's just misery.

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pcbjr said:
Right ... just hope it doesn't fade away by 12/1 and decide once is enough ... o_O
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That's my biggest concern about this winter. I get the vibe this will be one of those years where we are cold to start then do the quick flip to locked warm. I think the overall amount of high latitude blocking is encouraging but I would like to see some disruption of the strat vortex. Maybe we can do that from the bottom up over eurasia.

Looks like RDU will set a record low max for the date so that's impressive

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SD said:
That's my biggest concern about this winter. I get the vibe this will be one of those years where we are cold to start then do the quick flip to locked warm. I think the overall amount of high latitude blocking is encouraging but I would like to see some disruption of the strat vortex. Maybe we can do that from the bottom up over eurasia.

Looks like RDU will set a record low max for the date so that's impressive

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Like the old timers used to say down here (being Wilmington to Jax) - cold before Christmas, spring in January; cold at and after Christmas, azaleas bloom in March. Been around that block so many times, I know they knew what they were talking about (1977-78 notwithstanding).
 
SD said:
That's my biggest concern about this winter. I get the vibe this will be one of those years where we are cold to start then do the quick flip to locked warm. I think the overall amount of high latitude blocking is encouraging but I would like to see some disruption of the strat vortex. Maybe we can do that from the bottom up over eurasia.

Looks like RDU will set a record low max for the date so that's impressive

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Something like 1989-90 maybe? Dec was frigid, with a big snowstorm right before Christmas that everyone west of I-95 missed. Then the rest of winter was warm.
 
JHS said:
Something like 1989-90 maybe? Dec was frigid, with a big snowstorm right before Christmas that everyone west of I-95 missed. Then the rest of winter was warm.
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89-90, 01-02, 05-06 are some years that resemble what I'm thinking as far as we get winter early then meh.

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SoutheastRidge said:
The older I get the more I hate summers in the south. I just can't stand how long it lasts. It takes a toll. People who enjoy summers in the south need to have their head examined.
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that's just my problem with Texas, yall think its long over there, but we can be hot well into October and even November(as evidenced by this year)

Thats what I cant stand really...

The winters being sucky I mean I'm used to it lol I remember many years in a row in Alabama it never snowed when I was younger. Been here 3 winters and only one was actually snowless so far

Somehow it snowed last winter even though it was the warmest winter on record here, lol
 
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SD said:
I'm beginning to dislike summer as well. It's fun until about July 4th then it's just misery.

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High on a West facing slope in the NC mountains, seems like it would be ideal!!
 
Brent said:
that's just my problem with Texas, yall think its long over there, but we can be hot well into October and even November(as evidenced by this year)

Thats what I cant stand really...

The winters being sucky I mean I'm used to it lol I remember many years in a row in Alabama it never snowed when I was younger. Been here 3 winters and only one was actually snowless so far

Somehow it snowed last winter even though it was the warmest winter on record here, lol
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I'm worried with the climate warming that summers will only get worse. It already seems like summers last way longer than they used to. Maybe there will be a great migration to the north in the next 50 years.
 
EastAtlwx said:
reminds me of.... View attachment 1517
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That was a hell of a great snowstorm. I actually didn't realize snow fell and accumulated that far south into GA or that far NW GA got screwed completely or maybe I did and just forgot because it's been so long ago. I was 9 back then, I remember the snow started on that Wednesday because I was out of school that day and the remainder of the week. That was the only time I could remember being out of school for more than 1 day for snow at that time. This storm and January 9-10, 2011 are definitely in my top 2. *sighs* Mother Nature doesn't make snowstorms like she used to.:(

EDIT: I would love to have another winter like 2001-02 if it meant being patient for a big one like this again. Heck, I'll take my chances on any winter from the early 2000s (2000-2005) all of them produced something whether it was snow or ice or both.
 
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High imby was 45 today, low 43. .05 rain

Nice wedge day. Gonna stay below normal for the next 7 days atleast. Nov on a path to avg below normal at Greensboro pti if what I'm seeing on models verefies late Nov.
 
I would take a mild winter if we also got a good snowstorm like the 01-02 winter. I loved that Jan 02 storm. We had some very heavy snow at the tail end of that storm around 6 or 7am. Then i remember a couple of weeks later it was very warm. Well into the 70s.
 
Wow!! What a very cold run for the southeast, and it stays a while
 
In a hurry, cant post image but someone will be very happy in the southeast end of month if this trend continues
 
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