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I’d like to complain about the change from 80s turned into 60s for daytime highs in Florida during this pattern. We’re having to use the heater again and it’s uncomfortably cool for my taste. We don’t get snow, so there’s no reason to champion chilly patterns here. It’s just uncomfortable and it’s unlikely many people on this sub are going to get real snow out of this. 
 

We had like 2 weeks of 80s up until this week and I had been mistaken that we were home free from using the heater anymore

4 hours ago, Jmoon said:

Starting to sleet pretty good in Danieltown. Should be starting to head your way strongwxnc.

I was checking to see what Danieltown was and Wikipedia says it’s an unincorporated town in Brunswick county VA. And that is all that the entire article says. Very mysterious, sounds like it has to be some tiny cozy mountain town.

I am in Florida so there is never going to be any snow here any time soon but I will say it’s been annoying that for almost this entire winter, the cold fronts that bring cold weather down here ALWAYS happen on Friday night or Saturday… whereas it’s 80 degrees Monday thru Thursday. 

Up until this year I was a snow weenie in Connecticut and was part of the thriving New England threads but not much happens down here. Maybe summer storm season?

22 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

Houses with crawl spaces are notorious for pipes freezing in this cold weather, actually had it happen to a rental house I owned, ended up insulating more and wrapped the pipes with a heating cord.

Are there lots of weird and creepy spiders down there during the warmer months?

I guess until you get up into the high elevations of Maryland and North Carolina this region is not a good place to sit and wish for snow. It never snows at all where I am.
 

But I do look forward to spring. The sun is already going down 20 minutes later than it did in early December. I look forward to Mid February because my belief is that that is when it starts becoming spring like warm in the southeast especially below 1000 feet.

You guys need the luck of Reno, Nevada. Yesterday into last night a cold Tonopah Low mixed with an atmospheric river. This isn’t too common as atmospheric rivers usually bring warmer temperatures and higher snow levels.

Snow Levels hovered around 4000 feet yesterday and Reno area received 6 to 12 inches of snow in town, with much heavier amounts in the mountains. 

Snow in Reno is pretty common, but 6-12 inches is a once every 2-3 years event.

The oceanic climate of the blue ridge mountains sounds beautiful, although I didn’t envy the cold we also got a taste of earlier in the week when Gainesville got down to 21 degrees.

Kind of a paltry SNE year so far I can see from afar.

Of note… Today Reno NV and surrounding area is receiving quite a dump with a colder than average atmospheric river type storm which has no trouble getting over the Sierra crest. The snowfall has started getting lighter this past hour, but Reno proper has received some 6 to 12 inches of snow in town so far and may get a few more inches before it’s done.

No snow here ever. But we still have thunderstorm season to look forward to.

Looks like you guys might be in for a potentially exciting period up that way. Nothing guaranteed but some chances at something at least 

We just shifted into deep winter here in Gainesville. No more 77 degree afternoons we had been getting every day. Looks to be mostly low 60s for foreseeable future.

Heading into deep winter down here in Gainesville. The upper 70s afternoons have dipped into the 60s and sometimes 50s for foreseeable days ahead. Occasional fronts with rain as Nrn Fl gets. 

On 12/2/2022 at 9:54 PM, NorthHillsWx said:

Smells like La Niña to me 

I would imagine a triple dip La Niña would be very La Niña-ey. Plenty of time for it’s pattern to set into place.

I am down in Gainesville. I came to Florida to escape winter cold and though I didn’t go quite far enough south to ensure constant warmth, I do appreciate the long string of 77 degree days here. Longer days are great too. 
 

Not that I want to diminish any snow lovers on here who live up north in Georgia or anything.

Hi

I left Willimantic in October and now I’m in Gainesville FL.

I knew it does not stay super warm here deep into winter but until this week it was pretty reliably around 80 degrees each day.

Not anymore. Now we are seeing a string of 60 degree days. I’m afraid that will be the rule rather than the exception. Next time move to Homestead. At least it’s not brutal in any way. But I will miss those big snowstorms a little on the other hand. The final frontier for a snowstorm to ever impact is the panhandle west. That’s the absolute last place snow gets down to.

 It does not happen here. That’s kind of why we came here.

I am watching out for a blocking pattern which could lead to a true cold snap and while I don’t see it on our doorstep yet I’m not looking forward to that. For now, highs 60s low in 40s.

I wont clutter this sub too often with my foreign posts but i will miss being part of the local banter during snow season 

On 10/2/2022 at 2:50 PM, powderfreak said:

Oh it’s coming.  It’ll probably be 60s in early November or something.  It’s not like it won’t mild up again.

I’ll take 80s and sunset at 8:34pm

Perhaps it’s all psychological…. But I feel like it got cool abruptly this year with no Indian summer. I remember many years in the past it would be warm well into October. Not this time. It messes with my head. I am going to Florida anyway so.

3 hours ago, Cold Miser said:

Are any of the fall allergy prone people here having more serious than normal allergies over the past week or so? I am.

 

I will have to consult the dead sea scrolls and see what this means for winter. 

My mom has had terrible allergies.

This time of year is when summer gets “stale”. 
 

On one hand you’re more guaranteed to have warm weather now than in early June… but the days are quite a bit shorter. The leaves is where you can tell a difference beginning. Pretty much everything is still green, but there’s more of a mix of dark greens and hints of orange or grey about the greenery… suggesting the foliage is “aging” for the season. This is in contrast to late May and June, where you see tons of bright greens, and the air is bustling with the vibrations of life.
 

I’ve had a good time chatting with you all the last two years but it turns out that in a couple months I’m moving to Valdosta or Jacksonville area with mom. We have decided we want to escape the brutal winters and be near my sister. But boy, you get some big thunderstorms down there!

The signs of summer aging are disturbing to me since summer is my favorite season, but we will be leaving before all the leaves are gone! And at least the weather in SNE remains pleasant well into Autumn. It’s not Iowa, which on the north side can see an abrupt shift into winter by October.

I will miss our winter fun we have here but I’ll check in when the big storms come there, or if there’s a tornado event where I am.

8 hours ago, kdxken said:

It's been a great summer for clouds.

Look at that wood!

38 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I got attacked by white-faced hornets my senior year of high school. Was outside at lunch playing frisbee and I reached into the bushes to grab it. All of a sudden I felt  tremendous pain in my arm like a stick punctured my skin. So I yelled and said I think a stick went through my arm…then I felt another pain…and another. It hurt so bad that I took off my shirt and was running around screaming. Meanwhile everyone outside is laughing and people inside the cafe (b/c the cafe had windows). Finally everything stopped and I think people realized something was wrong…of course my brother was joking. Their were big welts in me and I started to feel sick so they sent me to the nurse. It was a few days later they told me it was white-faced hornets and they said I was very lucky not to have been attacked worse than I was. 

Horrifying

What a juicy day. The sky was just packed with tall cumulus by noon. There was no doubt about it!

This storm was the fullest of full storm experiences as far as traditional thunderstorms go. Lasted 40 minutes. 
 

‘twas a rockin’ storm.

19 hours ago, Torch Tiger said:

Maybe, maybe not.  Please don't forget those who died in Dec. 1992 (17), or 1993 superstorm (270 died, not all were winter wx related of course)...and on, and on.  It's not hyperbole

I guess my point is that "fun" isn't a good word for more extreme weather; exciting and "awesome" though, yeah.  

I want to say too that winter-related fatal crashes might have fallen in recent years and here is why I theorize this:

Higher speed crashes still kill as efficiently as ever. Today’s marvelous safety designs in automobiles cannot offset laws of physics on the human body when you come to an immediate stop from 70mph, and increased distracted and reckless driving has also offset safety advances.

But in winter storms most people are traveling 20 to 45 miles per hour. And it is at these velocities that if you crash, modern cars’ designs save your life when compared to the extreme hazards of steel tanks from the mid 20th century, which had razor-thin sides and doors btw, which direct all of the energy of the crash into the human body with no airbags, no side airbags, or crumple zones to slow the deceleration.

In summary, crashes at 25 to 40mph used to kill people regularly in older cars. Since the 2000s, new vehicles have made crashes at these speeds much more survivable especially when side airbags and well engineered bodies entered the picture. 
 

Since modern vehicles are so good at saving lives in moderate speed crashes but still so ineffective in high speed ones, I have been known to promote some of the most unpopular ideas in the world involving reducing legal speeds by 15 per cent on two lane roads and 10 per cent on interstates just on account of how many lives would be saved if you just shaved off 20 per cent of the impact energy in higher speed crashes. No one will ever go for this. Because freedom.

The storm is here! And it’s DOA.

6 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Those storms in CT got absolutely smoked by that left split ripping up from LI Sound

We may get hit by the spin-off cell from the Hartford one. Otherwise, is this it? In general, is there more energy behind this line that can fire up additional storms into the evening? 
 

I know less about convective events than winter ones, but I sense these cells are along a partly invisible line or boundary of sorts. I can’t suss out how much of this is diurnal heating driven or how much is Strictly dependent on a wave or line of energy.

I know a lot more about Nevada convection events than Midwest or New England ones.

Spin off cell developed which is now looking to head this way.

What’s that mark!

3 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

Don't think so bulk of movement is ene

That’s good. I don’t want anyone in my family to get uncle Vince-d out on the roads.

That being said, I still can’t quite make out if the cell will pass to our north at IJD, or if it will hit us on its south flank, or if it does not, the convective area will pass by with us in the clear and that’s that. Either way, safety is most important.