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Well looks like this was a score and monster and big hit for almost everyone! We set new records in GA, SC, and a lot of NC! This was a forum wide storm with so many winners and some very high totals! Congrats everyone and hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did and then some! What a long week of tracking! I need a break after the last 3 weeks. January has been brutally cold and absolutely wild and wintry all over! February looks to start calm and mild and by mid February looks like there could easily be another threat or two until the end of the month. But right now, I need to take a break from models and just breathe lol I’m sure yall do too! It’s been a great one and I enjoyed tracking with all of y’all and hope you had just as much fun! Go enjoy the snow, new records, and time with the family! Remember, the little moments are what makes life worth living every single day and don’t take it for granted! God bless to everyone in here and until next time, goodbye! [emoji3587][emoji119][emoji3063][emoji322][emoji120] .

That's how it is up on the Tug. Average highs this time of year is like 22. With sunny skies and no wind it feel like it's 50 but nothing is melting. Just a spectator place. Windy and cold here in the frozen lowlands.

Still snowing here. Don't worry though, I'm staying safe

Absolutely! I don’t think there have been many AN days since Thanksgiving; at this point a 40 degree day is going to feel like 60!

We finally got the Southern Stream to become active over the last 7 days. So it delivered our first KU Benchmark storm since 2022 with widespread 10”+ amounts across the Northeast. The benchmark track which is a prerequisite allowed several stations to finally have a 25” season before we even reached February. But since the Western ridge has been so overpowering this winter, the big storm last weekend occurred with a deep trough out West and a transient Southeast ridge. So we needed a relaxation of the ridge for our big storm. One of the December clippers also occurred with a trough out West and a transient Southeast ridge. But that event was Northern Stream dominant so there weren’t widespread 10”+ amounts since the Atlantic and Gulf moisture couldn’t get tapped. The ridge and trough axis was too far east today for the big ocean storm to come closer to the coast. So the Western ridge was just a little too overpowering this weekend. Same theme for much of the winter outside one of our December clippers and the big storm last weekend. The other thing is that getting two 10” events only 7 days apart has only happened once in our area since the 1990s. This was the rare twin 10”+ snowstorms only a few days apart in February 1994. Even during the phenomenal 2010-2018 snowfall run we needed at least several weeks to reload the 10”+ snowfall pattern. The best run from this period was the 60”+ in 33 days from December 2010 into January 2011. But the storms were spaced out at longer than 7 day intervals. Overpowering Western ridge relaxed for the clipper and benchmark storms Late January benchmark track Ridge and trough axis today just a little too far east

For some reason, TT didn't update the possibly more important Sea Surface Temp Anomaly maps. But, they did update world 2m temps, and it looks like the Niño warmth is close to a Modoki Enso 4 and 3.4.

That's a loaded question. Depends on where you live.

Seeing reports of 20-30" in Pamlico Co down to MHX/Emerald Isle/Swansboro I got anywhere from 13-16" in the flattest areas I could find IMBY

This winter seems much colder than last, right?

Why the LOL? It's a weather board, they tracked a meteorological bomb for six days or so, even though they knew the odds of it hitting were low for the last 4 days. They enjoyed it, it is the purpose of the board. You don't like tracking for that long, so you didn't. You each put in what you wanted to. There is no LOL for tracking a storm on a weather board...what is the purpose of the board, if not that?

Month dep EWR: -2.8 (30.1) / 2.28 LE / 16.1 snow

Bumping this thread to keep the weather side clean, but how do I keep my sanity without just leaving my wife, quitting my job, getting a divorce, and moving to a warm climate? Moving is what I need, because I'm very close to just flat out losing it. I simply cannot tolerate this level of cold for this long of a duration. And each winter my tolerance becomes less and less. I am also growing increasingly bitter, and resentment is growing at her flat out refusal to even consider moving and giving me the one thing that would help save my sanity.

I thought a lot of the whole freezing rain vs. sleet issue was more how various vendors (TT, Pivotal, etc.) displayed that, or whatever algorithm they used to differentiate the two. For instance, I know on TT for whatever reason, it just displays the ICON as "rain" even when it's clearly some other non-snow frozen/freezing precipl But maybe the actual Euro soundings indicated freezing rain as opposed to sleet, which would be a totally different thing of course.

It sucks but at least it’s deep winter .. If we can get a few more snowfalls before the pattern flips to mild you mentioned , most of us can be normal snow YTD

Day light: 10H07M gained about 52 minutes since the winter solstice and gaining more then 2minutes a day Rise: 7:06 Set: 5:14 I see the DST debate again increasing but as has been the case, it'll likely remain unchanged and DST will commence in 35 days.

Yeah that busted. Models did well. Looks like just OE now on south shore.

What’s worked is Southwest flow/over running type situations in the occasional clipper. They are more predictable and dependable. A great coastal can be awesome every once in a while, but they are a few and far between and very fickle. I think towards mid month we get into a much better pattern for snow specially with all the cold air around. I think we’re gonna have a good run.

Storms over. Suns out.

I put up a thread specifically for this, but it would help if it was pinned- sure everyone has some great pics

This little stretch of three weeks has been the most fun in quite a while here. Three weekends, three storms, with yesterday's being the exclamation point. Ya'll remember how warm it was on Christmas ? (81deg here in Macon) Little did we know.....

IMBY here in Jacksonville, I ended up with 14" with drifts in some spots 5' deep. Yesterday and today I sure did miss Skip. We would be emailing back and forth about this storm and he would be over the moon excited for everyone with all this snow.

Have to wait until the snow melts to get out of your house. https://www.emeraldisle-nc.org/AlertCenter.aspx?AID=Winter-Storm-Alert-3-Snowfall-Ending-But-17

Yea I think you got shafted quite a bit with the downsloping yesterday but at least it still netted you over 5. Probably a ton of recency bias but at least for mby, this tops 2022. Almost 7”, champagne powder, historic storm in the grand scheme of our forum and board. Probably the most fun I’ve had tracking since 2018.