jburns

Good advice.

Just for fun let me tell you the average snowfall for Antartica is less than Greensboro, NC.

math, math, math, math, math.

You guys are too young to remember the good old days before the interstates were finished. Storms were free to move around the SE as they wished resulting in more frequent and more evenly distributed snowfall. No sudden turns to follow the twin concrete ribbons to mess up a forecast back then. You could live wherever you wanted to and have a decent chance at snow. A simpler slower moving time where storms resulted in a couple of days off work to play in the snow instead of a state of emergency.* *This message sponsored by the Ghost of Snowstorms Past.

You know it has been a disaster of a winter when you haven't even had any virga storms to speak of.

Or late this afternoon. 77º and rising.

We are basically in a spring pattern now. Wide swings in temperature over a several day period. Rinse and repeat with each being a bit warmer as the weeks go by.

Simple. 2017, the new normal.

Not anymore. A black bear wandered into my yard while I was shoveling the driveway. Luckily, I had my pocket knife with me and after a twenty-minute battle I managed to kill it. I then skinned it and I'm using the skin as a coat. Sliced some thick steaks from the hind quarter so I'll have something for dinner. Still, it isn't right to not check on a helpless old man during and after a snowstorm.

The hell with all of you. You all talk nice but when it comes down to doing something you’re nowhere to be found. The hell with you! 7” of snow, temps last night in the single digits with zero possible tonight and nothing, Not a peep. Selfish ***holes. Have you learned anything about winter weather procedures? I don’t think so. Don’t try and tell me you didn’t know, it is on TV multiple times every year. You just ignored it and left a sick fragile old man alone as the snow piled up and temps plummeted. The hell with all of you. CHECK ON THE ELDERLY. Is that so freaking hard to do? I could have died. Selfish ***holes.

I've been quietly sitting here all week deleting posts and waiting for the predicted heavy snow to move NW to its usual location and give me my stationary chase. Well what do you know, It happened again.:) I'm guessing I will get 10" which is my benchmark for a good storm. I grew up in NW NJ and went to school in Boone so I haven't adopted the, "if the ground is covered its a major storm" mantra of the non mountain SE. Doubt I ever will at this point. In any case, except for this once again falling at night making it harder to fully appreciate it should be fun. Also, when I post some obs later don't look for words like pounding, hammering, ripping or blasting. Intermittent, light, medium and heavy is as far as I go.

Yep. Even the sorry ass flea bitten ones we have in the SE would help a bit.

We are. 0 x 1.5 =

I'm really too busy to deal with this now but you have been a member here for over 6 years. If you really wanted to learn you would already have done so. What you want is for someone to spoon feed you. Drop this now or my next response will include a time out.

Don't you love it when they volunteer to be watched closely so a mistake isn't made?

We have deleted over 100 posts. That doesn't mean we got them all or didn't get some that should not have been.

Being as this is said at some point with almost every winter storm possibility, I would say it is more normal than crazy.

For those of you that have trouble with weather terminology, in layman's terms that would be a punch to the nads.

It is not nice to pick on the elderly but I won't get mad. In fact, I'll even wish you a long and happy life. May the last thing you hear be the sound of my voice.

Let me tell you something else that will help. As a new poster asking if signatures can be turned off is better than attacking another poster. That goes for anything else that ruffles your delicate feathers.

True but sometimes even if a coup is scored it isn't nearly enough to live up to the hype. As evidence, I offer this little gem from the "serious" thread. It was posted as the 12Z GFS rolled in. The poster shall remain nameless. "Complete destruction at 132-138 as low explodes off the CHS coast and rides north northeast. WOW!" Now correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't this mean that if there is a single building or piece of infrastructure remaining it is a bust low. In other words, Armageddon or Bust!!

I wonder who this guy is talking about. Can't be anyone in this thread. StormScapeLIVE.TV 37 mins · Southern weather weenies continue to post maps of the GFS showing a big snow and ice storm for Dixie. It's funny though, I have yet to see them post or even talk much about the ECMWF (sometimes mistakenly called the Euro). Why is that? It's because the ECMWF has been consistently dry and cold for the South. Boring! Nobody wants to see that! LOL However, wishcasters hate it that statistics show the ECMWF is a more accurate medium range model than the GFS. So, my friends, we continue to have a bit of a pickle when it comes to snow and Ice chances across MS, AL, GA, TN, NC and SC this Friday and Saturday. This is nearly an impossible pattern to forecast more than three days out. The shortwaves in the northern and southern stream are moving very fast. The ones that the GFS shows phasing somewhat and bringing a storm aren't even being sampled yet with actual real instruments. At this point it is all guesswork on the part of the forecast models, and humans. No one knows. Like I said yesterday, I will not even think about honking about a winter storm or calling it dead until Wednesday at the earliest and probably not even until Thursday. At this point what you need to know is there is a chance of anything from sunny, dry and cold weather Friday and Saturday, to major snow and ice. Just remain weather-aware and keep up on the latest, especially after about Wednesday when we will have a better handle on the situation.

This is not the cliff diving thread. This is the Realistic Expectations Based on Climo thread.

Not it wouldn't and no.

My NWS Raleigh forecast has me on alert. Friday Partly sunny, with a high near 39. Friday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Saturday Partly sunny, with a high near 38. Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 22. Sunday Mostly sunny, with a high near 42.