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Also see https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/new/ for some insane videos.

Check out the NYC metro sub and especially https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/new/ to see the insanity of what is happening now.

Near Miami and 70, just now. https://m.imgur.com/gallery/vLCkgAo

Had to drive from NE Durham down to work right near RDU for a power outage related emergency (off Page rd). Do not recommend. Traffic lights were at least working all the way there, but rotten visibility. Back home now, flakes still falling but it sounds like rain in there too.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/WxSouth/posts/?ref=page_internal

34.9 in slightly rural NE Durham. Hobbyist weather station.

Hmm. In another thread I asked what time our hopes usually get crushed and you said “yesterday”. On topic: Durham county schools closed tomorrow per WRAL. Wake starts 3 hours late. Relurks

It's been a while for me. When is the time it usually all falls apart for us? Is it the late night runs tonight?

Wake County schools closed tomorrow.

Totally depends on what type of people you feel more comfortable around. Which will lead me into regional and demographic stereotypes, and no good will come of that. I preferred the Escape out of Manhattan over the Breakaway out of NOLA in all aspects (ship, port, fellow passengers). But it seems like I got lucky and my commute from LGA to the port was pretty painless, so that helped.

Also depends on your departure port. A cruise out of Manhattan (even on a mainstream line like NCL) gets you a different crowd than, say, NOLA. (And yes I’ve done both, recently.)

Just a lurker. I noticed there aren’t many RDU posters for this event. Did we pretty much bust already? I see a lot of conflicting maps so no idea what’s going on at this point.

Yes. If it's not an airport code, it's usually a weather office. RDU = airport, RAH = weather.

My bad. I'm a transplant (although going on 11 years now), but Greensboro still tends to be "that one little town that gets the good stadium rock concerts" to me.

I don't know anything about how television weather networks work, but I assume in edge cases like this they prioritize large viewership metros over anything else. Whatever it takes to keep the most people watching. But maybe I am overly cynical.

Just gonna say I don't think this hobby is entirely healthy for some folks.

I opened the back door in Durham/Southpoint a little while ago and got a blast of *wet* coldish air in the face. So weird. It didn't even feel that cold, although it's supposedly just above 32 around here.

Random time-killing question, do a lot/many of you guys have home weather stations? I always wonder when people are reporting obvs.

Haha, I don't remember that one, must have blanked it out of my memory. But I do have a document I keep for the holidays, for random info from one year to the next (like grocery store hours, what dishes I cooked for Thanksgiving that people ate/didn't eat, shopping lists, etc). When I opened it this year I read at the very top: "STOP FOLLOWING SNOWSTORMS IT JUST MAKES YOU SAD". I don't remember typing that but maybe it was because of this Feb thing you mention.

=D I haven't followed a TON of storms here so what I'm about to say may be gibberish, but it feels like there are more areas in play for this event than usual, so there is a wider range of IMBY requests from town names I don't recognize many states away.

I'm a non-met layman snow weenie lurker, and even I'm getting tired of the IMBY forecast requests.

(Word of the day: "concerned")

Newb question: If this NW trend is very predictable by humans, why isn't it predictable by models?

Thanks for responses. I've mentioned it before, but even in my ignorance, the people who only post negative posts stand out just as much as the people who only post positive ones, and I tend to be more invested in the ones who are clearly taking a more rounded approach. Not that anyone cares what I'm invested in, I'm just always interested in how the cultures of different message board forums work. (Although this is literally the only one I'm on where I have nothing to contribute other than random meta commentary, or "yep no power near Southpoint mall" during Matthew.) (P.s., mackerel_sky, I particularly like the way you're always cheerful even when it's bad news, and I'm glad the tornado didn't cause you major problems.) (Oh, and man, meteorology hobby culture is such a crazy mix of science and superstition! It reminds me of the brief time I spent on some vegas gambling forums! I totally understand why it's like that, especially in this area. I've seen the snow shield in action.) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Legit question from the uninformed, does the "BL temps suck!" guy have a valid point? I can't tell (due to met ignorance) but my long-honed message board spidey sense says troll? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk