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Wintry Winter 2021-22 Final Grades

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Ok… Meteorological Spring starts tomorrow. Let’s get the grades in on winter. I’m going with a solid B for my backyard. Will finish at 3.8 degrees above average, which isn’t overwhelming considering that December was the 3rd warmest on record. Snowfall finished at 4.9” which is 1.2 above average and the most for me since 2013-2014. Three straight weekends with accumulating snow in January will be remembered, although if just one of those had managed to put down 6” plus for me, I would have gone with an A.
 
Snowfall near average, 2 of 3 months AN, warm on Christmas, no real memorable snow event,
decent sustained cold in January, a few lows in the teens but nothing that remarkable. C+/B- basically what I would expect/was expected around here this year.
 
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C-, and that might be generous. We had a few decent weeks, but other than that this winter was a catastrophe. Another year below climo snowfall, made all the worse by areas within an hour’s driving distance racking up 150% of climo. Rough stuff. The only hope for salvation is Magic March to save the day with a moderate snowfall, but that looks unlikely at this point.
 
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I have some optimism for December and January but this far out that's dangerous. I just feel like we will be fighting the same demons as the last 5 or so winters and they haven't been overly generous minus a few short runs. Really hope the uk and euro are on to something with the weak pv early that would play right into our hands before the SER starts lurking. Right now I'm thinking December +1-3 Jan -1-+1 Feb +5-7 with 1 respectable well below normal run in December or Jan of 7-14 days
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Had the cold and mjo propagation timed wrong if things were 2 weeks faster the monthly breakdown turns out better but I'm happy with this call from July as an aggregate forecast of +1.6-3.6 @rdu with it falling at +2.9
 
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D- for metro ATL. We are in the middle of a bad stretch here. If not for the one incher in January it would have been a rock bottom F- December was an inferno, January was a series of rug pulls, and February was asystole (no heart rhythm at all, can’t even shock it).


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A, 3 straight weekends of snow. One big 7” storm. January was very cold. Even had a light glaze event as well. After the last few winters, this was about as good as it could’ve gotten here. Although December and half of February has been warm with periods of cold.
 
C One good storm. 6" Couple of flakes flying events. Cold for a few weeks in Jan. but nothing major, some mid teens as low as I got. To many missed chances for a better score.
 
We had about 1.5 inches of snow in January, a few snow showers/flurries here and there but nothing to really get excited about. We did have several cold days and many nights in the mid to low 20s but lack of snowfall is going to put this one at a C for me. I knew it was going to be hard to top last February 2021 this year and sure enough is was.
 
F+ I mean I had snow for about an hour and it was gone. The temps weren't nearly cold enough for me. I expected this considering it is my "last" southern winter! Congrats to those who got snow and enjoyed winter!
 
B
1. In January I had the coldest rain seen here in 4 years at 32.7! Rains that cold here are not common and thus are exciting.

2. January walking wx was absolutely awesome! Dewpoints were low almost all month after the first few days.

3. February had a good amount of fine walking wx with the best part near midmonth. I also laid out once IMBY late one afternoon and it felt so good!

4. December walking wx could have been better but I still got in some pretty good walking.

Aside: November walking wx was fantastic but I can’t count it for winter.
 
D…. Some cold days… but a huge letdown on the MLK weekend storm.. for once I was in s prime location!!! NE GA mountains… temps busted 10 degrees too warm!! My 3-5 turned into a trace… biggest letdown ever!!! Depressed me the rest of the winter.. and I can’t stand severe spring and this pollen is killing me!!!! Rant over?
 
Overall a C. Snowfall was an A, even though it was only 1 event here instead of the 3 or 4 small ones most got. Temps were a D, and that's being generous! CLT still had its 9th warmest winter ever. And the 2nd most 70 degree days in winter.

It was a weird winter. At GSP 23 out of 31 days in January were below average, but only finished -2 for the month. 16 out of 28 days in Feb were below average and still finished +1.1 for the month. This winter shows why it's so hard for the SE to average colder than average anymore. It's hard to overcome the blast furnace the SER brings anymore. It could be only one week of warmth followed by 3 weeks of cold and when it comes to averages that one week wipes out the negative departures. Thats why if you go above average here you're right 95% of the time. The good news is it can still snow, even down to CAE!
 
B-

Well, I felt like we actually had a winter this year thanks to January, so I'm going to give some extra credit here. Really should give it a C for average, but I was in the mountains for the first event in early January for a few cold non-melty inches, then I got a few inches of a really cold sleet fest in mid January; solid storm. That's a pretty good winter, I'll take that every year. Especially since the last several years have had diddly squat.

But December was the absolute worst (Seattle :mad:), the other minor threats in January did not work out IMBY so that was just a frustration. February was a whole lot of progressive crud over and over (year of the SE trend).

Considering we went most of the winter with a +AO and +NAO, only a pretty mild +PNA and we still got a decent winter month, I'll take it. Kinda like getting an 80 on an exam. it's not great, didn't do really good, but you can say "hey, gotta B!"
 
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