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Also see https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/new/ for some insane videos.

Check out the NYC metro sub and especially https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/new/ to see the insanity of what is happening now.

 

 

Near Miami and 70, just now. 

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/vLCkgAo

 

Had to drive from NE Durham down to work right near RDU for a power outage related emergency (off Page rd). Do not recommend. Traffic lights were at least working all the way there, but rotten visibility. 

Back home now, flakes still falling but it sounds like rain in there too.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/WxSouth/posts/?ref=page_internal

34.9 in slightly rural NE Durham. Hobbyist weather station.

4 minutes ago, mackerel_sky said:

If there is one, the NAM will nail it. Back in 14, the Euro was spitting out 20” totals , and every one was giddy, then about 12 hours out, people said, watch out, the NAM is showing a warm nose, and there will be a lot of sleet! I got 1” of sleet

Hmm. In another thread I asked what time our hopes usually get crushed and you said “yesterday”.

On topic: Durham county schools closed tomorrow per WRAL. Wake starts 3 hours late.

Relurks

It's been a while for me. When is the time it usually all falls apart for us? Is it the late night runs tonight?

Just now, hazwoper said:

Which is the better experience?

Totally depends on what type of people you feel more comfortable around. Which will lead me into regional and demographic stereotypes, and no good will come of that.

I preferred the Escape out of Manhattan over the Breakaway out of NOLA in all aspects (ship, port, fellow passengers). But it seems like I got lucky and my commute from LGA to the port was pretty painless, so that helped. 

 

2 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

I must be pretty low than. Because I love cruising. And it is still the best value in a vacation you can get.

Also depends on your departure port. A cruise out of Manhattan (even on a mainstream line like NCL) gets you a different crowd than, say, NOLA. (And yes I’ve done both, recently.)

Just a lurker. I noticed there aren’t many RDU posters for this event. Did we pretty much bust already? I see a lot of conflicting maps so no idea what’s going on at this point.

1 minute ago, SLAMSTORM22 said:

New to the forum... Is GSO Greensboro? 

Yes. If it's not an airport code, it's usually a weather office. RDU = airport, RAH = weather. 

10 minutes ago, superjames1992 said:

The Greensboro/High Point /Winston-Salem CSA isn't all that much smaller than the Raleigh or Charlotte CSAs, though (2.5 vs 2.1 vs 1.7 million).

My bad. I'm a transplant (although going on 11 years now), but Greensboro still tends to be "that one little town that gets the good stadium rock concerts" to me.  

12 minutes ago, magpiemaniac said:

TWC has Reynolds Wolf and Scott Newell in Raleigh and Mike Seidel in Charlotte. Great job, guys!    Greensboro?  Where's that?  Our weather pros have never heard of it.  Haha!  Fools.

I don't know anything about how television weather networks work, but I assume in edge cases like this they prioritize large viewership metros over anything else. Whatever it takes to keep the most people watching. But maybe I am overly cynical.

Just gonna say I don't think this hobby is entirely healthy for some folks. 

I am stunned...I really never considered us to get this much rain, or really any rain.  I have big puddles everywhere.  Nothing had this.  Tracking snow sucks, LOL.

I opened the back door in Durham/Southpoint a little while ago and got a blast of *wet* coldish air in the face. So weird. It didn't even feel that cold, although it's supposedly just above 32 around here.

Random time-killing question, do a lot/many of you guys have home weather stations? I always wonder when people are reporting obvs. 

3 minutes ago, gwlee7 said:

Yep.  And, I remember you from last year's Feb dud.  We could have used an Arkham on this board last year for that cluster for sure. 

Haha, I don't remember that one, must have blanked it out of my memory. But I do have a document I keep for the holidays, for random info from one year to the next (like grocery store hours, what dishes I cooked for Thanksgiving that people ate/didn't eat, shopping lists, etc). When I opened it this year I read at the very top:

"STOP FOLLOWING SNOWSTORMS IT JUST MAKES YOU SAD".

I don't remember typing that but maybe it was because of this Feb thing you mention.

 

3 minutes ago, gwlee7 said:

Ditto:  Even with the same number of posts

=D

I haven't followed a TON of storms here so what I'm about to say may be gibberish, but it feels like there are more areas in play for this event than usual, so there is a wider range of IMBY requests from town names I don't recognize many states away.

I'm a non-met layman snow weenie lurker, and even I'm getting tired of the IMBY forecast requests. 

(Word of the day: "concerned")

Newb question:

If this NW trend is very predictable by humans, why isn't it predictable by models?

Thanks for responses. I've mentioned it before, but even in my ignorance, the people who only post negative posts stand out just as much as the people who only post positive ones, and I tend to be more invested in the ones who are clearly taking a more rounded approach. Not that anyone cares what I'm invested in, I'm just always interested in how the cultures of different message board forums work. (Although this is literally the only one I'm on where I have nothing to contribute other than random meta commentary, or "yep no power near Southpoint mall" during Matthew.)

(P.s., mackerel_sky, I particularly like the way you're always cheerful even when it's bad news, and I'm glad the tornado didn't cause you major problems.)

(Oh, and man, meteorology hobby culture is such a crazy mix of science and superstition! It reminds me of the brief time I spent on some vegas gambling forums! I totally understand why it's like that, especially in this area. I've seen the snow shield in action.)


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It's hilarious how offended Brick gets when anyone brings up possible temp issues or precip issues or track issues.

Legit question from the uninformed, does the "BL temps suck!" guy have a valid point? I can't tell (due to met ignorance) but my long-honed message board spidey sense says troll?


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1 hour ago, Cold Rain said:

Yes indeed.  Those are my two favorites.  Did you like Rogue One?

No one asked me, but I loved it. For western Triangle peeps, tomorrow (Thu) looks to be the last night it's playing at the Silverspot. Going for an encore.