^^sandwiched between rain

1/6/2015 9:03:53 AM

yall...i'm ready for some snow. I thought we were gonna get blasted this winter. It did thunder sunday right?

1/6/2015 12:35:38 PM

^ Roughly 10-12% of the time that happens.

1/6/2015 12:38:02 PM

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" Roughly 10-12% "

would roughly 10-12% translate definitely to 2-20%?

what % buffer does roughly provide?

1/7/2015 2:43:41 AM

I only said that since I couldn't remember off the top of my head the approximate percentage.

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"Does Thunder Signal a Coming Snow? Along with a diverse variety of frozen precipitation, it's not unusual to see a thunderstorm during the winter in North Carolina. At some point, that gave rise to the proverb that if you hear thunder during the winter, it will snow in 7 to 10 days. It makes some sense considering that weather systems generally take about a week to move across the country, so a strong cold front that produces thunderstorms is likely to be followed by another system within the next 10 days. But here in North Carolina, where snow is never a guarantee, how often is thunder followed by flakes? To find out, we first looked up all reports of thunderstorms or lightning between December and March from six long-term weather stations (in Asheville, Greensboro, Charlotte, Raleigh, Wilmington, and Hatteras) with hourly records. Since their records began in the late 1940s, there have been 642 wintertime days on which thunderstorms or lightning were observed. In 85 of those cases, or about 13% of the time, snow was observed 7 to 10 days later. This amounts to about a 1 in 7 chance, which is far from a sure thing."

http://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=55

1/7/2015 8:28:55 AM

It's cold.

1/7/2015 9:06:52 PM

I went outside earlier. I am scared to go back out.

1/7/2015 9:49:32 PM

Can't wait to head to the bus stop at 6:45 tomorrow morning.

1/7/2015 10:20:52 PM

scarf, hat, gloves and pea coat make it easy to shrug off this cold weather.


I'm starting to get depressed that we won't be having much of a snowy (comparatively speaking) winter here in NC

1/8/2015 11:54:36 AM

We are only 2.5 weeks into winter still plenty of time for a few snows

1/8/2015 12:11:24 PM

all the seasonal models now say few or no snow events

1/8/2015 3:37:39 PM

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"I'm starting to get depressed that we won't be having much of a snowy (comparatively speaking) winter here in NC"

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"We are only 2.5 weeks into winter still plenty of time for a few snows"

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"all the seasonal models now say few or no snow events"

1/8/2015 3:42:22 PM

Our first snow last year had not happened by this time. So be patient.

1/8/2015 5:49:28 PM

fuck winter!

1/8/2015 6:25:57 PM

^

[Edited on January 8, 2015 at 6:52 PM. Reason : and summer. fuck temperature extremes. March, April, October, and November are where it's at]

1/8/2015 6:51:27 PM

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"fuck temperature extremes"

pretty much...i like "winter" and i like "summer", but only when each is mild

1/9/2015 7:32:25 AM

<30 degrees and sunny. Days later it's rain for multiple days, temps >40 degrees.

Yep, trolling us.

1/9/2015 9:38:00 AM

that's pretty typical for NC winters

1/9/2015 10:13:11 AM

1) who gives a shit about snow days? are we in kindergarten here? no

2) you want to be trapped with your shitty kids while they have snow days? no

learn to appreciate NC's "trolling"

you want to see snow bc its pretty then drive somewhere

1/9/2015 10:41:11 AM

I still love snow days. Maybe because I have no shitty kids to worry about. I'm not above going out and sledding down a good hill.

Even better is prepping beforehand for a snowstorm. Snow is an excuse for good booze and junk food, and possibly treating a work-night as a weekend night.

In other words, fuck off, I still love snow.

1/9/2015 10:53:17 AM

Snow in NC is great.

It snows, I get to work from home. I have no kids, thus it is wonderful.

If you live up north, it snows you just go to work and deal with it.

So yes, I love snow in NC.

1/9/2015 12:02:47 PM

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"1) who gives a shit about snow days? are we in kindergarten here? "

Not that it happens that often in Colorado but snow days are the best because it means you can hit up the mountains.

1/9/2015 1:11:39 PM

neodata:denver::terpballC

you fuckers even remember terpball?

1/9/2015 1:16:59 PM

that's supposed to be terpball: DC

1/9/2015 2:54:05 PM

Tuesday night / Wednesday morning could be interesting as far as freezing rain.

Looks like cold air will be here but question is the amount of moisture... could have .1" of freezing rain which could cause some problems..

1/11/2015 12:01:20 PM

I had fun the last time we got a snowpocalypse. I walked home from work at lunch after the buses shutdown. It was a blast and I got lots of great photos around campus and on Franklin Street. Then I got to spend the next couple of days playing in the snow with my kids. It was fun.

1/11/2015 4:39:53 PM

Cold [Frozen] Rain...

1/13/2015 1:04:28 AM

Looks like it could get nasty out there tonight into the morning. Will be interesting to see how the morning commute looks.

1/13/2015 8:58:04 AM

Trying to figure out how the roads will be on the way home to Holly Springs from the Canes game tonight. What do you guys think?

1/13/2015 11:20:37 AM

Depending on how quick the cold air can get here they will likely being going from Shitty to worse.

1/13/2015 11:40:19 AM

I'm not leaving the house once I get home from work. General clusterfuck traffic pre-storm and of course a shitshow once it gets going.

1/13/2015 11:44:33 AM

Expect the freezing stuff to start between 7-10pm it appears. Bulk of the heavier action will be from 1-7 am. I dont look forward to tomorrow morning.

1/13/2015 11:50:25 AM

I'm guessing it won't be pretty around midnight, which is when I'd be coming home if I go out tonight. Might have to pass.

1/13/2015 2:42:19 PM

bring it!

1/13/2015 2:48:48 PM

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"Trying to figure out how the roads will be on the way home to Holly Springs from the Canes game tonight."

The first thing I would worry about would be the PNC arena parking lot freezing and grid locking traffic much like what the 2/10" ice did to cars sitting in traffic in Raleigh back when the city gridlocked.

1/13/2015 3:32:07 PM

How much ice is this actually going to be?

1/13/2015 3:50:50 PM

Depends on a lot of variables anywhere from a trace to 1/4" I would guess

1/13/2015 3:58:24 PM

WRAL and WTVD just backed way off their predictions. Says it won't be below freezing really until after midnight, but to still exercise caution if you are out and about. Should be ok tonight but a little icey in the morning hours.

1/13/2015 5:07:01 PM

Yeah seems everything shifted East and dried up, haha. Typical Raleigh force field.

1/13/2015 7:06:44 PM

They were saying everything was going to be east anyway. That said they also said south (Fayetteville/sanford) and its looking like north right now. Wake Forest area is reporting frozen precip right now as well as ice accumulation.

1/13/2015 11:44:38 PM

Looks like we got Fisheled again.

1/14/2015 12:47:01 AM

still didn't go into work

are we going to get anything meaningful this year?

1/14/2015 8:34:08 AM

Non event. Drove into work and all the roads were just fine. Only annoyance was scraping off the ice on my car windows.

1/14/2015 8:43:40 AM

Sure, it was a bust for QPF. But it doesn't take much more than freezing drizzle to make an impact. All the pics of wrecks I've seen on Twitter certainly make this an event.

1/14/2015 8:53:44 AM

That is normal for anytime it rains it seems. Turns out all it takes is a little rain for people to turn into morons when it comes to driving.

1/14/2015 9:01:41 AM

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"Non event. Drove into work and all the roads were just fine. Only annoyance was scraping off the ice on my car windows."

+1

Some of the weather boards I lurk are saying the next month could be interesting winter weather-wise so at least there's something to look out for.

1/14/2015 9:09:30 AM

ignore them, they said that about this month

1/14/2015 10:14:12 AM

12z run of the GFS ushered in the upgraded version of the operational GFS. This is what it shows for next Fri (with it being 200+ hrs out, it'll obviously change):

1/14/2015 1:27:40 PM

such bullshit. I really didn't want to go in today.

FUCK YOU FISCHEL

1/14/2015 1:31:33 PM

No one wants any fucking snow on a weekend. If its gonna winter weather it needs to happen overnight on a workday so that I dont have to goto work and I dont have to fight getting home in the shit like last year.

1/14/2015 1:38:24 PM