BooneWX

1/25 - 2.5” of mostly sleet 1/31 - 7” of champagne powder 2/5 - 1” of icing on the cake to freshen up my champagne powder Season total: 10.5” Notable: Several cold periods with rare staying power. I went about 3 weeks with some sort of ice/snow coverage on the ground. Complaints? Few. Wish Christmas would’ve been cold but it felt like a winter of old. Final grade: A+ This winter reminded me so much of when I was a kid in the foothills. Multiple storms, including one good slop fest, a true snow and sneak-up event that was minor. It’s hard to be mad at this past season. I really hope this is the start of a better long term pattern, and even if it’s not, it was good to see we’re capable of going above average in snow/sleet accumulation not entirely dependent on one event.

You guys got shafted on that 1/31 storm but at least it still beat warning criteria for sure. This winter ranked high in the excitement category. I still can’t believe we had almost a full month of wall to wall tracking. I absolutely can’t remember the last time that happened.

Wrapping up this winter: 1/25 - 2.5” of mostly sleet 1/31 - 7” of champagne powder 2/5 - 1” of icing on the cake to freshen up my champagne powder Season total: 10.5” Notable: Several cold periods with rare staying power. I went about 3 weeks with some sort of ice/snow coverage on the ground. Complaints? Few. Wish Christmas would’ve been cold but it felt like a winter of old. Final grade: A+ This winter reminded me so much of when I was a kid. Multiple storms, including one good slop fest, a true snow and sneak-up event that was minor. It’s hard to be mad at this past season. I really hope this is the start of a better long term pattern, and even if it’s not, it was good to see we’re capable of going above average in snow/sleet accumulation not entirely dependent on one event.

Monday is looking interesting. We’re going to be in the warm sector of an incredibly dynamic storm system. Would not be shocked for the severe weather outlook to continue its uptick in the coming days.

Hit 30 this morning with a surprisingly heavy frost for that temp. Next week may zap some of the early tree growth.

Been a hell of a year for Virginia

Hard to believe we had snowpack not too many weeks ago. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear it’s June.

My only beef with March and April variability is that my sinuses can’t take the delayed, slow drag through pollen season. If it were warm this next week and into the extended range, we’d rip the bandaid off.

It’s joked but actually pretty accurate in western NC that the opening day for trout is usually miserably cold. In fact, anecdotally, I can’t think of one time where I’ve been warm on that day.

AIFS setting up spring fever followed by the bottom dropping out as the Canadian cold sink empties in mid March.

Perfectly fine rolling into thunderstorm season. I spent too much time outside this past weekend to long for arctic cold anymore.

Amazing amount of moisture upstream

What bourbon is everyone drinking tonight?

Could be an evening of containment breaking

You guys don’t have sweet tea or Bojangles up there. It’s a non starter lol. Enjoy my friend! That low is starting to crank off of Hatteras - north west flow already ensuing a few miles to my west.

This storm is going to be fun to watch even if we’re not involved. It’s been a hell of a year for the east coast. Not everyone has scored but collectively the best winter in a long time.

Good luck from this southerner! I know y’all have waited quite some time for an old fashioned blockbuster blizzard. Enjoy!

Good luck from this southerner! I know y’all have waited quite some time for a blockbuster blizzard. Enjoy!

Good luck from this southerner! I know y’all have waited quite some time for a blockbuster blizzard. Enjoy!

Good luck everyone and enjoy. Looks like it’s really going to crank by this evening.

I think March may have some tricks up its sleeve. I’m slowly getting reeled back in. PV is getting disrupted and a lot of the h5 maps aren’t too shabby at the tail end of the month/start of March.

This was a major win for the gfs. One of the most notable wins it’s had in as long as I can remember.

If it’s already germinated, yes. Your rye is going to die off when we start getting warm anyways, so you’re fine. I’d only avoid pre emergent if you have plans to overseed/add plugs to the existing Bermuda.

People are going to be pissed next weekend when we get throttled back into winter after some near 80° days this week.

I’m happy to see my pile gone this morning and even more happy to see the salt finally get washed off the road.