I always have loved crazy temperature differences over short distances. This map is centered on Lyles, Tn. 25 miles and 20-25 degree temperature change .
Let me know if you and whomever else is local ever wants to meet at the cork n fork downtown on a Friday fir happy hour. I usually bartend there til 4pm on Fridays and easily get a table and some deals for a group .
What’s amazing is when you start talking to people who love to rant on and on about how winters were back when they were kids. A large percentage of them were young kids back in the 60s .
It actually very well might have been both. The 1960s was such a ridiculous decade for snow here. Nothing in the previous 100 years before ever gave any indication that a decade like that was even possible. I think by 1971 that decade had 6 or 7 of the top 10 winters in terms of snowfall. I pity the child who grew up in the 1960s and has that decade as a baseline memory of how winters should be. If he’s a snow weenie the last 50 years probably turned him in a nihilist .
I think it was the winter of 1963-1964 that harrisburg had 1” or more of snow on the ground from December 9th till April 5th. They had 12” or more for over a month with like 2weeks of 18”+ .
Speaking about ice storms, I think I remember the 2000-2010 era full of some pretty major ice storms. When’s the last time the LSV had an epic one with major power outages and multiple days of mass closures? .
There seems to be a sentiment in here that any model run that shows a hit will definitely change for the negative while any run that shows a miss is a lock; while the only truth this winter seems the models will change wildly outside even 24 hours at times. .
I have the weather mate iOS app and use the 15 day outlook mostly as a judge of patterns upcoming and i can’t ever recall a 15 day window that had forecasted snow occurring on 10 days, with a snowfall total of 17.2” on 2.06” qpf. Wow .
I’m perfectly ok with that if it sends a 970 L triple phaser up the Chesapeake bay with a direct connect to the artic cold and 20 hours plus of high wind and snow .