2025 foothills Thread

[mercurydime]

My DP is -1.3.

[strongwxnc]

13.3 at 4:10.

My lowest this year was 10.6 on 1/22.


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[BooneWX]

13.5! Let’s do this again in Jan, preferably after 10 inches of snow. 

[strongwxnc]

Down to 10.8.


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[wncsnow]

12 here. 

[mercurydime]

Got down to 12.7 here in Pleasant Gardens.  I had a couple wind gusts yesterday exceed 25mph. 

[wncsnow]

I have been perusing data again and was looking at the most snowy 5 year periods for the foothills from the last 75 years.

 

Most Snowy-

1960-1965- 70-80 inches of snow. Winter of 1960 had around 30-40 inches alone (most of it coming in Feb and March). 

1968-1973. 70-80 inches of snow. Winter of 1968/69 was the snowiest on record for a lot of our region. 35-45 inches of snow fell that winter alone. 

1943-1948- 65-75 inches of snow. Around 15 inches each season.

2014-2019- 60-70 inches of snow. Big storms in 2016 and 2018 helped this period make the list. 

 

[BooneWX]

1 hour ago, wncsnow said:

I have been perusing data again and was looking at the most snowy 5 year periods for the foothills from the last 75 years.

 

Most Snowy-

1960-1965- 70-80 inches of snow. Winter of 1960 had around 30-40 inches alone (most of it coming in Feb and March). 

1968-1973. 70-80 inches of snow. Winter of 1968/69 was the snowiest on record for a lot of our region. 35-45 inches of snow fell that winter alone. 

1943-1948- 65-75 inches of snow. Around 15 inches each season.

2014-2019- 60-70 inches of snow. Big storms in 2016 and 2018 helped this period make the list. 

 

I’ve been exploring home snow makers so I can never experience a drought again

[Jmoon]

7 hours ago, wncsnow said:

I have been perusing data again and was looking at the most snowy 5 year periods for the foothills from the last 75 years.

 

Most Snowy-

1960-1965- 70-80 inches of snow. Winter of 1960 had around 30-40 inches alone (most of it coming in Feb and March). 

1968-1973. 70-80 inches of snow. Winter of 1968/69 was the snowiest on record for a lot of our region. 35-45 inches of snow fell that winter alone. 

1943-1948- 65-75 inches of snow. Around 15 inches each season.

2014-2019- 60-70 inches of snow. Big storms in 2016 and 2018 helped this period make the list. 

 

Awesome stuff brother! When you have a chance it would be interesting to see the top 5 least snowy periods in the foothills over the last 75 years with the snow drought we have going on now. Great data here! Thanks buddy!

[calculus1]

Made it down to 10.8 F IMBY this morning at 6:33 AM. Brrr!!


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[wncsnow]

I'm not a huge fan of AI but I have Google Gemini at work and plan on using it to make some charts with regards to snowfall patterns/data. 

[mercurydime]

1 hour ago, wncsnow said:

I'm not a huge fan of AI but I have Google Gemini at work and plan on using it to make some charts with regards to snowfall patterns/data. 

Sounds like a good way to put it to work.  Like you, otherwise it's sus in my book. Already feels out of control on social media.  

[wncsnow]

14 minutes ago, mercurydime said:

Sounds like a good way to put it to work.  Like you, otherwise it's sus in my book. Already feels out of control on social media.  

Its like all new technology. Easy to abuse. Not well regulated and the longterm effects of using it aren't really known. I know a lot of folks love it because it does a lot of their work for them but it also takes human skill and the human touch out of things. 

[strongwxnc]

Coldest morning of the year yesterday Imby at 10.2.

19.9 so far this AM.


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[wncsnow]

18 here

[BooneWX]

I’d say there’s a strong chance Monday morning will be the lowest temp of the winter season. I may eat my words, but low teens have been hard to come by for years now. 

[wncsnow]

11 minutes ago, BooneWX said:

I’d say there’s a strong chance Monday morning will be the lowest temp of the winter season. I may eat my words, but low teens have been hard to come by for years now. 

I told my dad that literally a few hours ago. Its hard to see what can change up the new base state and the subtropical jet is straight up dead. 

[BooneWX]

55 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

I told my dad that literally a few hours ago. Its hard to see what can change up the new base state and the subtropical jet is straight up dead. 

I don’t think that Aleutian Ridge is going anywhere on its on. @Daniel Boone pointed this out in the TV thread, but the only way to glory soon is to back our blocking west, boot the death ridge to the west coast and shove that Aleutian Ridge into a more optimal spot deep into Russia. I do think we get a strong -NAO but it remains to be seen if that has the downstream effects we need.