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Patb78 said:
I saw an article I think last year that said climate change was pushing Tornado Alley further east. Hope things turn out okay.
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It has definitely shifted over the past several years. The part of the state I live in was often referred to as being in a bubble because almost all the tornadoes stayed to the west of us, but not anymore. These December ones are beyond ridiculous though.

Anyway, it's 24 outside right now and was 76 yesterday.
 
It was in the lower 50’s today here in Burlington. Talk to a friend who lives in Connecticut. It was around 15 and they had snow New Years Eve.
 
Patb78 said:
It was in the lower 50’s today here in Burlington. Talk to a friend who lives in Connecticut. It was around 15 and they had snow New Years Eve.
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When I lived in the Northeast for 25 years (1990-2015), I loved it when snow came early and heavy…..It’s winter. Lots of snow is good. Snow is clean.

Lack of snow AND cold absolutely SUCKS! Lack of snow and warming days SUCKS more. Kids get muddy.

Kids love snow caves.

Kids love snow. My daughters, especially the elder, became damn good XC skiers…..which made downhill/snowboarding easier.
 
I don't think it's going to snow in central NC anymore this winter.

Meanwhile, there was an elevated fire risk today.

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CarolinaFever said:
I don't think it's going to snow in central NC anymore this winter.

Meanwhile, there was an elevated fire risk today.

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Why is a semi-erect penis penetrating Georgia and South Carolina and attacking SE North Carolina?

If it wants to assault the MAGAts in Brunswick County and similar places, so be it.
 
Temperatures have increased, especially in the Fall and Winter over the past 2-3 decades in Texas. We have longer periods of drought interspersed with more flooding rain. Oddly, the occasional jailbreak polar vortex - driven snow has increased over the past 15 years, separated by warmer periods.

May have to push the retirement dream to north of Winston-Salem.

The foot deep snows in the NC Piedmont back in the day - great stuff!
 
Duke Mu said:
Temperatures have increased, especially in the Fall and Winter over the past 2-3 decades in Texas. We have longer periods of drought interspersed with more flooding rain. Oddly, the occasional jailbreak polar vortex - driven snow has increased over the past 15 years, separated by warmer periods.

May have to push the retirement dream to north of Winston-Salem.

The foot deep snows in the NC Piedmont back in the day - great stuff!
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I remember those occasional deep snowfalls in Chapel Hill in the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s. In the late ‘60’s/early ‘70’s it seemed like we got a big storm at the beginning of Spring Break…..8-12+ inches of snow. Great sledding!

The increasing number of violent polar vortexes is predicted by climate science.

The climate will warm and random, increasingly violent weather events will happen more frequently.

Basically, we’re fucked; we just haven’t realized exactly how we’re fucked and the extent to which we’re fucked.
 
Zoo_View said:
I remember those occasional deep snowfalls in Chapel Hill in the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s. In the late ‘60’s/early ‘70’s it seemed like we got a big storm at the beginning of Spring Break…..8-12+ inches of snow. Great sledding!

The increasing number of violent polar vortexes is predicted by climate science.

The climate will warm and random, increasingly violent weather events will happen more frequently.

Basically, we’re fucked; we just haven’t realized exactly how we’re fucked and the extent to which we’re fucked.
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All antecdotal here-no data from me. But it seems lately we have a lot of normal months or seasons overall-as in avg Temps. But they are made up of wild swings of highs and lows that "average" normal , but are in fact not at all normal ?
 
Zoo_View said:
I remember those occasional deep snowfalls in Chapel Hill in the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s. In the late ‘60’s/early ‘70’s it seemed like we got a big storm at the beginning of Spring Break…..8-12+ inches of snow. Great sledding!

The increasing number of violent polar vortexes is predicted by climate science.

The climate will warm and random, increasingly violent weather events will happen more frequently.

Basically, we’re fucked; we just haven’t realized exactly how we’re fucked and the extent to which we’re fucked.
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I grew up in central and eastern NC and we had lots of big snows in the 80’s and 90’s.
In hindsight it feels like that big snow we had in 2000 ( the big one where Fishel called for an inch and snow was 16”-24” deep across N.C.) was big snows death knell in N.C. I loved back here in ‘05 and it feels completely different in the winter now than pre 2000.
 
HandsonFire said:
I grew up in central and eastern NC and we had lots of big snows in the 80’s and 90’s.
In hindsight it feels like that big snow we had in 2000 ( the big one where Fishel called for an inch and snow was 16”-24” deep across N.C.) was big snows death knell in N.C. I loved back here in ‘05 and it feels completely different in the winter now than pre 2000.
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I lived in the Northeast for about 25 years.

VT, MA, NY, NYC, Westchester County, Maine.

Winter CHANGED.

Rivers and lakes froze over. Snow fell in November/December and melted in late March.

In 2003 the Kennebec River froze from the coast to Augusta….it’s an estuary to the fall line. Salty, brackish water and it froze. Not thin ice. Thick, chunky ice.

That same year, it didn’t snow after a December blizzard. That snow melted and the temps dropped to minus 35 or so. Nasty winter with no snow.

2004 was epic snow and it lasted. That was the last of that.
 
Anyone else getting snow today? It's snowing here and was coming down pretty hard a while ago.

Looks like the big one could be coming next weekend.
 
Pretty much all the weather computer models are showing a huge winter storm for NC and SC next weekend. Lots of snow and ice. More ice the further south of Raleigh.
 
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