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Did anyone hear it official if RDU set the record for coolest high temp today?

53 with mist. Raw out there.

Even worse in Wilson, managed to thread the needle and got goose eggs.

At 0.93 for the month. What a difference from this winter.

An unimpressive 0.10 today.

Yesterday was a straight up mid-January day. Low of 28 F at my house this morning.

Heavy hail last hour in SW Alamance county.

Some sort of frozen... something...fell at my house for a few seconds just a minute ago. Not sure if it was hail or sleet or what. 51 F in my backyard.

Low if 26.2 this morning. Perhaps last hard frost this year?

What is Mt PSU at now? I am rooting for it to hit 60".

Its actually hard to find median data.

Yeah but I think our median is much lower.

No, we confirmed that there was no reverse jinx. We didn't rule out the existence of a jinx.

Not wind chill, but just bone-numbing cold. https://news.agu.org/press-release/coldest-place-on-earth-is-colder-than-scientists-thought/

Playing hard to get?

Wow. Spring has pretty much sprung in SE, so I haven't been checking in much. I just peeked in the banter today and...things got...dark.

10" for Mt PSU?

What is your median again?

My wife went to McDowell. Graduated in 2001.

March 1960 would be an acceptable alternative.

My wife lived in Old Fort at the time. She still has fond memories of loosing power for two weeks and having to basically camp inside part of their house. I don;t have any memories from it in Fayetteville, so I am assuming it was just rain there.

Yes, but I was under the impression that the shortening of wavelengths allows a tendency for -NAOs to be especially potent even without Pacific help.

I get joy out of frost on the ground. I am a cryophile.

Sad that the -NAO is running out of gas right when it could be most useful and not be so dependent on the Pacific to help.

The Atlantic bathtub certainly can't help, but I will be personally focusing on the Pacific next winter at least for a first evaluation. If and only if it cooperates will I worry about what the HL/Atlantic are doing. Actually I would like to ask you guys about this: when exactly was the last time we had a "good Pacific"? I know the last three years it has ranged from sub-mediocre to horrible. I remember that two week period at the end of 2017, beginning of 2018 which brought extreme cold to the east. It doesn't seem to be too fondly remembered up here because it was just cold/dry, but it was fun for my neck of the woods so I am calling that "good". Other than that when was the last good Pacific period? 2013 - 14? I don't really remember it being particularly good or bad in 2014-15. 2016-17 was a very bad winter for me because I had that December torch but I didn't have the Jan 2016 event to sweeten it. I associated the problems with that year being from the super-duper-hyper el nino though. Not sure if that is the same kind of "bad Pacific" we usually mean. I think the Pacific was mostly bad in 2016-17 as well. So two weeks of "good Pacific in the last six years? is that accurate?