cold air damming is still pretty fierce down there and storm tracks are typically such that they get big warm layers overhead (hence freezing rain). You move north, the less likely you have such layers. You move south, and that wedge isn't as strong.
lol yes - sometimes i wonder what happened to posters WAYY back. I think it was a poster named "rainstorm" (source of the "angle of the cold" comment) who was horrible
yeah they are maybe more like big hills there - the Blue Ridge higher elevations you don't really start hitting until closer to I-64 and points south (5-6k feet in SW VA and W NC).
yeah - i also lived in NYC for most of the 2010s, and they have their own crop of crazy posters (and good ones). As far as I know, there are still some really solid posters from there (Don S, etc).
LOL I definitely relate to this. I mean sure I love it during the storm, and seeing my girls experience the snow was great. But it quickly becomes a serious nuisance to the point of being disruptive. I don't have much patience for the cold and snow anymore.
yeah I think this is a good point - that plus Twitter and other platforms (medium/substack etc) have created multiple avenues for mets to reach folks in a much broader way than on here. nothing beats this place during a storm though.
i haven't been on here as much (two kids + the fact we haven't had winter for a couple years lol), but who has stopped posting regularly in terms of professional mets? I don't see Wes. Does HM still post?