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yeah it's definitely winding down....

This morning marks the third week of solid snow cover. Was the snow cover even around this long in 2010?

So many fake cold mornings.

We end winter

I’m up in blowing rock and just had a nice burst of snow

Mins are everywhere this morning. Low of 12° here but currently 20°.

If the radar looks like this and it’s 34 with heavy rain, I’ll be tilted a bit.

Some heavier precip on the 10z RAP

Wpc increasing qpf the Sunday particularly up here. 1.5+ just a question of ptype

Pretty boring upcoming strefch

Low of 12F here…As one who works out in this year long, I am tired of being cold and it has been fairly cold since Thanksgiving, so yes I am done and just want some 40F days, not being greedy looking for a torch

Yeah, super +EPO

If the new 0z EPS is correct, it’s going to get very mild from 2/22 into at least the 1st few days of March. The EPO goes ++

You need sleep my friend because we are above normal for the season lol

3F… we’ve had 27 days go below zero this winter, making a late run at it this morning. 12 days hit below zero this month so far.

If the new 0z EPS is correct, it’s going to get very mild from 2/22 into at least the 1st few days of March. The EPO goes ++

Yes, but the deep freeze afterwards solidified the entire profile into any icy mass.

Never good to wake up to Chuck posting by himself in the long range thread

I have to call it disappointing with only about 10 inches of snow total despite so much cold. It could have been so much better if not for that damn warm nose on Jan 25. Now on seven straight winters of way below normal snow and 11 years since a big (12-inch plus) storm. Terrible.

Per Wikipedia the CO2 Coalition is a climate denial organization funded by fossil fuel interests. The CEO is a former head of the American Petroleum Institute. Sure plant life thrived when CO2 was higher but natural temperatures change occurred slowly which allowed accommodation through evolution. The idea that CO2 is plant food is climate denial myth. High temperature and intensification of precipitation counteract CO2 benefits on plant growth. The plants that thrived under higher CO2 were not the same plants in the same locations as today. For instance, If warming continues the Amazon rain forest and Boreal forests will transition to grasslands releasing large amounts of CO2. The same with animals, cold-blooded reptiles were favored in warmer times. Mammals were all small to shed heat. The bottom 2 links cover past mass extinction events. Notice how many where caused by episodes of volcanic activity that released CO2 and other greenhouse gases. https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/is-co2-plant-food-why-are-we-still https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/10-mass-extinction-events-and-what-caused-them https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/19-mass-extinctions-had-co2-levels-were-now-veering-towards-study-warns

End of the 0z EPS is also giving us a +EPO-dominated pattern. +EPO is warmest of all the index patterns, runs the chance of having 7+ consecutive days with highs in the 50s or greater here locally.

@Ruin it's one thing if you're just simply saying you've never seen it. It's another one if you're trying to say it doesn't happen. . Every single spring and fall we have no shortage of air quality alerts on windy days, it's not a rare thing by any means. Air quality alerts in the winter is a little more rare but it's not unheard of either. Air quality alerts are frequently issued during windy conditions. While wind often disperses pollution, it can also transport smoke from distant wildfires or stir up dust, sand, and ash, causing AQI levels to spike into dangerous orange, red, or purple zones. High winds can transport pollutants across large distances, worsening air quality far from the source. Pollution and particulate matter (PM) generally travel, persist, and accumulate more in cold, dry air. Cold air is denser and sits closer to the ground, trapping pollutants, while low humidity prevents moisture from washing particles out of the atmosphere. Thermal inversions often occur, acting as a lid that keeps pollutants trapped. Humidity can help hold down pollen particles, but the overall effect on allergy symptoms is complex and often negative. While moisture can weigh down pollen grains and stop them from traveling far, high humidity often leads to increased mold and dust mite populations, which can exacerbate allergies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Lol it’s an inch of snow (maybe) that’s going to be gone by tomorrow afternoon when it gets into the 40’s