YetAnotherRDUGuy

You were certainly close. If only you had said cat 2... But keep your head up! Maybe you'll call the next one right.

This whole sharpie-Alabama-forecast thing. I swear, it's like reading an article straight from The Onion.

Can ya'll imagine if Greg Fishel made an account on here one day, and suddenly started posting on here with a met tag? Lord have mercy--some of us would just melt down and lose our minds. Greg--if you're lurking here, DO IT! PLEASE! IT WOULD BE SO EPIC! Course, some of ya'll would be skeptical that it's really him. But not me. I would believe.

Are you MAD?? It's still Summer. TOO EARLY TO BRING THE MOJO FOR A SNOWACANE. (even for you) Wait to bring that S#!& in Dec at least. Not NOW. This ain't Canada.

It's all your fault. All the cool kids were here until you showed up.

me sowwy

I actually LOL'ed at this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar We have ways of mapping terrain even when completely covered by clouds. Apparently they used the same thing when mapping out Venus, which is completely covered by clouds. Science is neat!

Nah sir. I was quoting SENC in an earlier post. I was kidding.

A whole can of worms opened up there. Some valid and some suspect. Too much to address in just one post. You're right about SENC being one big swamp. Part of the reason it's never really been developed too much. Well, until recent years.

Alright SENC, it's all starting to fit. Big time skepticism of flood maps. Some allusions to this storm only being a cat 3. Prior skepticism of Michael's intensity last year. And now a joking reference to storm chasing, and spouting the "False Hoax" of AGW. (which I had to look up, but apparently refers to global warming) How far down the rabbit hole does the conspiracy go?

Yea, I grew up in a neighborhood off Skeet Club Rd. N High Point is pretty similar to the rest of Greensboro climo wise (from what I remember). We'll see what happens.. Weren't you in Tallahassee before? and now you're in Durham? That means you'll be in the game for at least half of the winter threats this year.

Sooooooo, could be moving to Greensboro in August. Would be signing a 1 year lease if I take the opportunity. Can I change my name to YetAnotherGSOGuy?

I didn't mean it.

LOL@ having at least 50% chance of rain at RDU from 5am Wed morning until about 5pm Sat evening. 84 hours. Remember when we had to worry about droughts around here? I think the last one was back in the 90's, but I'm sure someone in here will post some data in the past 5 years to prove me wrong.

Rant begin: Right now is supposed to be the middle of winter which means in theory the coldest of the cold should be happening right now and I know we just had the polar vortex in the Midwest but it didn't really get down here and my NWS forecast shows 60's for highs for the next 7 days and I'm so depressed and when that happens I start not caring about run-on sentences and punctuation and how about I just turn off my heat for a week so I don't have a high power bill because we might as well have some damn benefit to this torch pattern and how about I start looking for job openings in FL if I wanted 60 F&%'in degrees in winter for a whole week. Rant ended (thank you for your time).

Yea, but just how accurate is the CMC at day 18??? I feel like it tends to dig too much at that range and we lose the storm around day 16. But that's just me. On the other hand, if it shows a storm at day 15, you might as well start the thread now.

The discussion thread just threw out a term I don't think I've ever heard/read before. What the heck does 'anafontal' mean?

You picked the perfect avator BTW.

Some of ya'll are a little too good at this.

Here to pile on. That might be one of the worst(if not THE worst) non calls in a pivotal part of a playoff game I've ever seen. I honestly think the Saints would have won if the refs hadn't blown it. On another note, not nearly as cold at KC as they were thinking earlier last week. Instead of single digits, it's just in the teens. Still not too shabby, but nothing like the epic cold it could have been there.

#fakesnow

Can't wait to see what happens Sunday. Starting to see some articles about the weather in Kansas City for the game. NWS currently calling a high of 11, and low of 5. Game starts at 6:40pm, which means single digits are likely. I'm sure Brady and the Patriots are used to it, as well as most of the Chiefs. But I wonder about Mahomes. Has he ever played in vodka cold?

I second Calc's suggestions. Really anywhere in the Triad would be a good place to consider. Easy drive within 2 hrs and rental costs aren't too pricey. Burlington and Roxboro are good suggestions too. They are closer, and tend to do better than RDU more often than not for winter weather (see the early Dec storm for example).

Good to hear it went smooth!