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17 hours ago, wncsnow said:

Give me heat and humidity I dont care as long as it slows this virus down

No real signs of that.

FYI If you want to discuss all the things going on with the virus but understandably do not want to go over to the political board there is a kinder gentler thread running now in our off topic section. 

Unusual occurrence here just now.  Very windy with a few small snowflakes.  Not grapple because several landed on my black grill cover while I was watching and they had the structure of crystal snowflakes.  The unusual part is my temperature is sitting at 49.1º.  Might be the warmest temp I have ever seen real snow. Obvious to me that the strong gusty wind was primarily a downdraft and drove the flakes from the colder upper air to  the ground before they could melt.  Weather always has the ability to surprise.

I give this winter a solid D-.  I reserve the grade of F exclusively for my least favorite type of winter.  Very cold, very windy but no snow.  The older I get the more I hate that combination.

23 minutes ago, ST21 said:

Not sure how high elevation I am honestly

1217’ is the elevation listed for Cumming.

I ended up with 4.48” here but the most impressive thing was the wind early this morning. It woke me up and that is hard to do.  My weather station recorded a peak gust of 59.3 mph.  I’m pretty sure that is the highest I’ve measured and more impressive because my anemometer is only 6 feet above ground level.

I went to bed In what I thought was a warm February and woke up in the middle of April. Amazing day.

Archdale, NC my backyard 16 years ago tonight.

On 1/31/2020 at 12:15 PM, RT1980 said:

Not gonna happen.  Winter was over on Dec 21st!  No wintry precipitation for anyone! Oh I’m sorry I haven’t been here 20 years and I can’t have an opinion.

What the hell is your problem? I’ve about had enough of your crap because Is no reason for it.  Starting now you don’t need to worry about your opinions.  You need to be concerned with my opinion of you. 

I post this without comment.

1 minute ago, Buckfever2 said:

 

Who was that meant for I'm not understanding?

It wasn’t meant for you.  I deleted the posts in question.

Keep the BS in the banter thread.

21 hours ago, SnoJoe said:

Seems like "hoping" is all we've been doing this winter. I'm getting irritated.

 I usually avoid posting in the mountain thread since it has been years since I lived up there. However, today I got a piece of inside information about an ominous sign sent directly from the old man of the mountain himself.  My daughter has been a keeper at the Grandfather Mountain Wildlife Center for several years. She paid me a visit today and told me that for the first time since she has been there the bears have not gone into anything resembling hibernation even though they have cut their food allowance greatly to encourage it. 

7 minutes ago, Iceagewhereartthou said:

The top image reminds me a lot of the Feb 14 map the Euro spit out the day before for me and Mack. That was supposed to be a generational storm (actually had amounts about 50% higher); had the mets going big dog, and the stinking WAA went off the charts and sleeted us to death. That was a crusher. Again, great to see potential, but hour 360? Might as well be hour 23,304. Going to be fun to have some things to watch going forward for sure though! 

It is hard to take any model seriously when each and every week they print out single storm totals that no person alive has ever seen.

1 minute ago, Iceagewhereartthou said:

Man that's a classic (the movie and the mower), they'll run forever. 

That's what I thought too. I bought one and it only lasted four years. It was a cutting monster while it lasted.  I got my current Deere in 04.

1 minute ago, Iceagewhereartthou said:

I hear you. I think I still have yet to mow Dec, Jan, Feb, mostly because I refuse to, and also b/c I don't have a true lawn and can get away with it. So many trees keep me from having to mow a ton anyway. We didn't have peak leaf season this year until nearly Thanksgiving, by far the latest I've ever seen. If this keeps up our trees won't have to drop leaves anymore and (while tragic) at least we'll get out of raking! 

I stopped raking years ago. A mulching attachment on my Deere. Just mow as normal and presto, a clean yard.  In fact I mulch 100% of the time now. I don't get those irritating rows of grass cuttings when I wait a bit to long to mow.

7 hours ago, yotaman said:

Had to mow my backyard today. Thanks winter. Thought I could have  at least 3 to 4 months off from that!

I'm 72 years old(don't say a damn thing) and 10 years ago I had never mowed my yard in November, December, January or February.  Now January is the only non-mowing month I have left. I will not mow in January no matter what.

In other news I have daffodils six inches tall with visible buds. A few more warm days and they will bloom.

32 minutes ago, frazdaddy said:

Could be, we shall see

Many here wouldn't even notice it. They would be too busy downloading and posting 340 hour maps.

42 minutes ago, mackerel_sky said:

Yeah, low 70s in mid January, is joyous! My Japanese maple is leading out!:(

How about 73º today.  IN BOSTON!!   Broke the previous record for today by 12º.    Boston has had a total of four 70º days in January since 1872.  Two of them this weekend.

It's kind of funny to read the comments in the long range discussion wondering  where all the 10 day plus cold air and moisture went. The answer is simple and the same every time. They returned to the faulty algorithms that spawned them.

73.5º  Hell of a way to run a winter.

1 minute ago, AsheCounty48 said:

This may be a huge shock to some, but the boone mall parking lot is flooded.

That floods when a toilet in the mall backs up.

5 minutes ago, Extreme NEGA said:

I hate the GFS. Wish it only went out to 240 like the Canadian and Euro.

Simple fix. Don't look at it.

Today is bottom temperature day in Greensboro.  Tomorrow the average high moves up a tenth of a degree and begins the march to July.

5 hours ago, Queencitywx said:

Used to be we would ban people who constantly posted day 10+ GFS images and/or whined when the OP showed nothing that far out.

Ah yes, the good old days.