Iceagewhereartthou

Well, I enjoyed my winter the past 3 days. Would've been nice to see some snow but a 3 day window doesn't give much opportunity. Back to above average and then spring in 3 weeks baby. I love the upstate!

Made it to 20.1, so close!

28 currently. Hoping I can go below 20 for the first time. It would be the highlight of the winter! Wow; that's pathetic.

Yeah between a breeze and clouds all night the upstate stayed warmer than just about anywhere else. Only got down to 28 myself.

Since January 2017, AVL has seen only two snows over 2.1 in. Dec 2017 and Dec 2018. Outside those two storms AVL has seen only 5.4 in total in 3 years.

My temp is not dropping this evening, I think it's too breezy. Was hoping to go below 20 but I cant even get below freezing. 32.7

I used to be a big golfer before kids, so I can understand this, BUT, its been plenty warm enough for golf. In fact cool weather is way better for golf in my book. The problem the past couple winters has been rain, not cold. And there'll be plenty of heat later on. I say bring on as much cold as we can get and hopefully some frozen please. In years past I would say we have until the first week of March but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Still hoping to see a better pattern emerge for Feb.

I hope all my SC peeps are enjoying our half week of winter here. No snow at all, but a few days of below average may be the best we get this year.

Saw that too. Must be nice!

Very interesting. I wonder if the everlasting summer with mega heat into October had something to do with it, maybe they thought the season was never going to change?

And as a South Carolina fan I can tell you that hope really has a tremendous effect on reality! ...

Many know that GSP recorded no snow (not even a trace) for the first (and only) time in recorded history (going back to 1892) for the 2011-12 season. There have also been 15 seasons (which is surprising to me though 9 of them were between 1931 and 1956) where GSP recorded just a trace: 1902-03, 1908-09, 1924-25, 1931-32, 1937-38, 1938-39, 1940-41, 1942-43, 1944-45, 1949-50, 1953-54, 1956-57, 1975-76, 1991-92, 2005-06 There have also been 7 seasons where GSP only saw less than .5 in of snow but was at least .1 (so very little snow, basically a dusting or less). 1897-98, 1927-28, 1933-34, 1952-53, 1955-56, 1973-74, 1994-95 So through 127 years of records, GSP had less than a half inch for 23 of those years. However, 12 of those came in the years between 1931-32 and 1956-57, which must have been very depressing stretch for upstate snowfall! GSP received at least 10 inches semi-regularly (every 3-5 years) up unitl 1992-93 (Superstorm) and has not seen 10 inches in a season since.

Why, oh why, can't that low be off the the coast of N Orleans?

Welp, we all thought it couldn't get worse than 2011-2012 and last year, but so far it has been. Here is a GSP, CAE, and AVL summary so far: GSP: Including fall and winter, GSP has seen just 17 mornings where the temp has fallen to freezing or below. The overall low has been just 22 and that was back on Nov 13. There has not been a trace of frozen precip reported. Through Jan 16, the monthly temp average has been +9 degrees with just 5 nights of 32 or below and a low of just 28. GSP has seen just one day this month that averaged below normal (-1 on Jan 5). The past 7 days the temp departure has been plus 10, 17, 18, 16, 18, 20, and 14, with 5 days in a row not falling below 50 degrees. CAE: Including fall and winter, CAE has seen just 13 mornings fall to 32 or below. The overall low was just 28 back on Nov 13. There has not been a trace of snow reported. Through Jan 16, the monthly temp has averaged + 12.6 with just 2 nights falling to 32 or below and a low of just 29. CAE has not had a single day this month below average. The past 7 days have seen temps average plus 14, 22, 23, 24, 25, 23, and 19 (with a plus 20 and 12 earlier in the month for good measure) with 4 nights in a row not falling below 60. 6 days this month have reached 70+, with 4 reaching 75+. AVL: Including fall and winter AVL has seen just 34 nights with the temp reaching 32 or lower. The overall low has been 18 set back on Nov 13. Only a trace of snow has been recorded. Through Jan 16, the monthly temp has averaged +11.3, with just 5 nights falling to 32 or below and a low of just 26. AVL has not had a single day below average this month, and the past 7 days have seen temps average plus 16, 23, 21, 17, 20, 22, and 12, with 6 days in a row not falling below 45.

Well CAE finally fell below 60 at 8pm this evening for the first time in nearly 5 and a half days. Wait, what month is this again?

Dew point has plummeted over the past hour. Was in the 50s, now down to 31. Front is coming through, its finally going to get cold again!!!

Man, that's just painful to look at.

Better go ahead and order one online now then.

To be fair not all of us even cash in on the nwfs. I'm quite jealous of bucket, moto and snowjoe because they all seem to do quite well. Best I've seen just south of Boone all season is a half inch at most so far. Pretty telling when Boone has gotten so little snow! I think even those other guys have only seen nickle events. While they would have been significant events for me they were just tease events for them.

I understand, that's incredible agreement for that lead time. The Euro and GFS are normally like Republicans and Democrats, they can't agree on anything! This whole 24th-30th week should be a good period to watch going forward.

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

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!

I don't do much myself given my lawn situation; just a little right up around the house. I used to just chop them with my mower but I've been pushing the last few years after my rider pooped out on me. My little boy loves to rake leaves (God Bless him!) so I'll take advantage of that while I can.

So a double low and that high is TOTALLY different. Make that 1032 and we've got something. It's fantasy land anyway but fun to look at and analyze.

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!