The Weather Thread

[Icky Mettle]

My sister-in-law and her family are in Disney World this week and it was snowing there today. It’s got be crazy to be in Disney World when it snows.

 

[nycfan]

 

[Icky Mettle]

So that’s where alien abduction stories come from.

 

[aGDevil2k]

Another one in 10 days?

What are "things I wont believe" for $500

 

[1moretimeagain]

After sitting on the salt for years, Charlotte did not hold back on these roads.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

You plow roads and shovel steps and sidewalks. What is this “scraping” nonsense?

Scraping is what you have to do to afford eggs.

 

[lawtig02]

After sitting on the salt for years, Charlotte did not hold back on these roads.

Yep.

 

[Patb78]

After sitting on the salt for years, Charlotte did not hold back on these roads.

The same in Burlington. It looks like the streets are covered with a mix of salt and flour. No rain in currently forecast in the next ten days so I don’t know when the shit will be gone.

 

[uncsig]

Wow

Late to comment but as a lifelong Houstonian, Tuesday's snow was the most I ever remember. 7th grade January in 1973 had been tops before then.

 

[1moretimeagain]

The same in Burlington. It looks like the streets are covered with a mix of salt and flour. No rain in currently forecast in the next ten days so I don’t know when the shit will be gone.

 

[Patb78]

That’s what they look like. Where was the picture taken?

 

[1moretimeagain]

Uptown area of Charlotte, but not center city.

 

[Patb78]

Uptown area of Charlotte, but not center city.

Thanks.

 

[donbosco]

North Carolina Weather History -- January 24-25, 2000.

"This record-setting snow storm began with freezing drizzle in the early morning hours of the 24th. Low pressure rapidly deepened near the Carolina coast, wrapping abundant moisture back across the piedmont of the Carolinas. Snow fell all day and into the night, heavy at times south and east of Interstate 85. Road surfaces quickly froze during this time when the temperature dropped from 32 degrees to 27 degrees. Numerous traffic accidents were reported. By mid-morning, additional precipitation was advancing northward into the southern portions of central North Carolina. During the afternoon of the 24th, rain was falling across southeastern North Carolina while an area of snow was located over the southwest Piedmont to the western Sandhills. Later that evening the precipitation reached the Triangle area, beginning as mostly sleet before quickly changing to all snow.

The heavy snow brought central North Carolina to a standstill. Many roads were impassable, and power outages were reported across the entire area. Statewide, an estimated 260,000 people were without power, mostly in the Sandhills. Strong, gusty winds produced snow drifts several feet high. At the Raleigh-Durham Airport, the record snowfall from one storm was set at 20.3 inches. The total cost of the storm to the state was estimated at $800 million.

By the time the snow ended, accumulations ranged from a trace to 4 inches to the immediate north and west of Interstate 85, to 4 to 8 inches from eastern Rowan County to Charlotte and Gastonia, and 10 to 14 inches across southeastern Mecklenburg County and all of Union County. Utility damage in Union county alone was above $4 million, with damage in Monroe at more than $1 million. This storm followed no more than 36 hours after the area received several inches of snow and ice from a previous storm over the weekend....Continued at the link."

Winter Storm Event – Products | North Carolina State Climate Office

products.climate.ncsu.edu

 

[nycfan]

 

[circlesky88]

Another one in 10 days?

Make a note of that model and never listen to it again, that aged like milk

 

[Carolina Fever]

Could have some more winter weather in NC between 2/11 and 2/14. Models are showing a possibility of two storms back to back. Depending on which one you look at, could be some snow the first one and ice the second one, or the other way around.

 

[sringwal]

The equanimity of your average pitcher and tosser of coins depends upon a law, or rather a tendency, or let us say a probability, or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance, which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often. This made for a kind of harmony and a kind of confidence. It related the fortuitous and ordained into a reassuring union which we recognised as nature. The sun came up about as often as it went down, in the long run, CF prematurely posted a weather prediction that proved to be wrong, and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails.

 

[UNCatTech]

It's frigging 70 degrees here.

Supposed to be warm all week.

 

[Carolina Fever]

The equanimity of your average pitcher and tosser of coins depends upon a law, or rather a tendency, or let us say a probability, or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance, which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often. This made for a kind of harmony and a kind of confidence. It related the fortuitous and ordained into a reassuring union which we recognised as nature. The sun came up about as often as it went down, in the long run, CF prematurely posted a weather prediction that proved to be wrong, and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails.