YetAnotherRDUGuy

AHHH. I'M BEING PILED ON! I BLAME THE NC CENTRIC BIAS. PLEASE FORGIVE ME!

Drat! I knew I shouldn't have taken the bait--and yet I did anyhow. Lesson learned.

Alright, I'll take that bait... Who in the SE has had more snow than normal for a typical winter? S Miss? Louisana? HAHAHA. You know what? In a month, no one will remember that you deleted an entire thread--and all will be forgiven!

When the sanitarium/banter thread is getting as much action as the main threads, you know we're in trouble.

I think RainCold mentioned this earlier. In past years we've had similar patterns where we get a lot of cold air that works against us by suppressing anything from giving us a decent storm (outside of extreme southern and coastal areas). But even when this happens, there's usually the threat of a clipper or three barreling down from Alberta that threatens to throw down an inch or two. They almost never work out on our side of the mountains, but still---it's usually something to track just as a possibility. There hasn't been a single mention of clippers yet in this rather suppressed pattern. Is there something different about this pattern compared to previous years, or are they just not being modeled yet?

Done. Now to look forward to the Panthers/Falcons game this weekend. I heard its got "ramifications".

We're supposed to be venting about the weather in this thread. Not the moderators!

I'm just happy there's an event warranting it's own thread this early in the season. It's the little things.

Too bad you're not still in Asheville or Burlington. They both made out like bandits for this storm. All things considered, I love living in this area. The only two things I'm not a fan of are traffic, and less snow--neither of which I can do anything about. I know the traffic will only get worse over time, but there's still hope of the snow trend reversing itself. Maybe. There's always hope...right??

Haha, yea it took me almost 5 years, but the dark side of the force is strong. You growing up in Winston and now residing in the snow desert of Wake now makes sense as to how you got bitter. I wonder what CR's excuse is? Lol. I grew up in High Point. Was always jealous of Winston's storm totals, but never got too worked up about it. Why would I? WS would get 4-5'' and HP might get 2-3''. (I'm generalizing of course, but that to me is a typical storm amount for the area) Those totals were to be expected because that's climo right? It seemed rare that WS or GSO would get snow and we wouldn't. But the Triangle and neighboring locales seem much more prone to being feast or famine, as I described before. The rain/snow or ice/snow or even rain/ice line just always seems to be around here--resulting in high deviation in impacts over short distances. Yea yea, I know the line between the haves and havenots has to be somewhere. But why does it always have to be around here? That last paragraph sounded a little bitter. I'm only going to get worse, aren't I?

BTW, on another note.. I moved here about 5 years ago from the Triad. When I first started lurking these boards, I admit I didn't quite "get" the doom and gloom mentality of you Triangle posters. All this whining about warm noses and BL issues and always being on the line. I'd just shake my head at all the meltdowns/bittercasting and felt there was a little too much drama being generated. Blah blah blah. "It's gonna turn to rain! It always does, you just watch! Whaaa!" The fact there was so many of you didn't help. (Which BTW let to me choosing my username, lol) But I'm finally starting to get it now. I mean, every single one of these storms screws somebody around here. Every. Time. I've seen CH and Durham get nearly nothing while Mebane gets 5-6''. Another time I've seen CH and Durham get about that amount w/ N Raleigh getting a sloppy mess. And I won't even talk about those of you in S Wake, who I can't figure out why you're even here except that you must be addicted to pain. Why else would you put yourselves through this winter after winter? TL;DR, I'm starting to get why some of ya'll complain so much.

I'd rank the St. Louis free throw meltdown in the tourney as particularly painful. Admittedly I'm a UNC fan, but tend to pull for State in the tourney (because I'm weird). It was a slow, methodolical, torturous loss. The fact it was done using a strategy similar to what Valvano used on teams during the '83 title run just made it that much more awful. In fact, that game reminds me a little of this storm. Big lead for awhile, and then a slow but deliberate trend of the warm nose making a comeback. You saw it coming, but you didn't want to believe it. But deep down, you knew it probably would.

I'd love to see 5''-6'' of sleet/concrete. That stuff would last for almost 2 weeks. No power outages. Epic sledding potential. As long as it's not plain ol' rain, then I say bring it on!

Fair enough! That's not too far from these parts. Looks like I'm heading up 501 to do some snow chasing this weekend.

Lol, I saw you sneak in the 24'' up there. I can't tell where that is. Congrats Roxboro??

#stoptheNWtrend #ClassicGSOTrack #weneverlearn

Hahaha. Can we trust that model?? I've heard it's got bad run to run consistency.

Besides the French, German, Canadian, UK, & Japanese models is there any other ones we can drag out? If there's an Australian 00z model showing jackpot for RDU, I wanna know about it.

I love it when the non-serious/banter thread is just as informative (if not more so) than the main discussion thread.

That's not funny, because that will probably happen. Or maybe it IS funny, because of the same reason. It's gonna be a long 48 hours...

Yes sir! I thought they did a great job recreating the look of the original trilogy. Seeing the walkers again was also a treat. Won't say much more because I'm afraid I'll create spoilers. Be interesting to see how it holds up years from now.

Lol. I agree. I also like the one with the staypuff marshmellow man. I consider it a close 2nd.

YetAnotherColdRain ???

First question about soil temps in the storm thread. It's starting to get real, ya'll.

For the Triangle, looks like we can stop worrying about if there would be a NW trend. Now we can start worrying about mixing issues. Wooooooo!