Silver Meteor

Seems a decent Low but the track isn't useful for us:

Laugh or perhaps cry ... The cold has been relentless here in Greenville, NC and always with a breeze to make it worse. Nights are frigid and my electric bill has gone up like a rocket. All this with zero payoff ... Have yet to see the first snowflake.

A reminder how amazingly wrong even the best of models can be at medium to long range. Here is the ECMWF one week ago today:

I moved from Wilmington to Greenville in 2013 and have been amazed by the lack of snow here, scant little more than I saw in Wilmington from 2003 to 2013. Am I cursed?

Discussion for Eastern North Carolina covers two scenarios including a 20% possibility of blizzard conditions at Cape Hatteras: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MHX&issuedby=MHX&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=off

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/01/why-la-wildfires-have-little-to-with.html

Son of a gun, found this slush wave pic from Delaware in my files.

The winter of 76-77 does seem to be a once in a lifetime event (and not typical of some "era.") I was 25 years old and living in Maryland that winter, one like none I'd ever seen before or seen since, three months of perpetual cold. There's a video clip from that winter with waves of slush rolling into the Delaware beaches. Who knows what freaks of nature lie ahead in the coming years and decades.

34/23 up the road here in Greenville, NC. Notice that heavy stuff on radar heading our way. We about to get a sleet bomb?

Every other area? Don't forget there's a huge chunk of N.C. east of I-95. That you so rarely hear from us is ... well, you know why.

The years blur at my age (73) but I was living in Fenwick Island, DE (a stone's throw above the MD state line) around that time and boy did we have a storm, a full-on blizzard. The wind roared in from the ocean with heavy snow blowing sideways. At the height of the storm with visibility down to zero the governor ordered the snow plows to halt. The snow drifted to above the top of my front door yet there were bare patches of ground in my yard. It was like that everywhere in the neighborhood. I don't recall the year precisely but I'll absolutely never forget that storm.

Down here in Eastern N.C. it got up to 50F today but with a dewpoint of -4F giving us a relative humidity of just 10%!

Well, I have found one solution ... logging in to this site on Windows Explorer instead of Firefox. Been on the internet since the 1990s and using Firefox for an awfully long time and never seen this before. Leave it to a cat to find such a bizarre feature (selectively altering the resolution on just one website, and permanently at that) which effectively I'd call a bug given it didn't ask me if I really wanted it. Thank you to everyone who took a shot at it.

Hello. I've searched the site high and low and can't find anything to control the screen resolution here. My cat stepped on my keyboard and now I can barely read anything as the resolution shot up making everything here so tiny. This is happening ONLY on this website as the rest of my computer is normal. Would appreciate any help, thank you.

Aha! That does make sense. Ophelia came later and was a good one that had much better shape. The eye wall took all afternoon to move through. I have very few images of storms from Wilmington but possibly this one is Charley? I remember clearly the front half was very weak, so weak in fact I was wondering where in the heck is this hurricane? It was the backside right rear that had all the power. (I've no idea what that squiggle is on the image.)

Charley Part II My first full year in North Carolina, Wilmington was my new home after leaving Maryland. Then a Cat 1, Charley was a direct hit with the eye passing overhead. The front half eye wall was solid and easily visible from my apartment while the right rear, fully open with lots of blue sky, was oddly enough the strongest part of the storm. I saved a radar image from the time:

Indeed it is ... After many weeks of bone dry conditions NOAA has Pitt county in "severe drought" which can easily be seen simply by looking at our vegetation but that ended abruptly today. That eastbound frontal boundary dropped a deluge here in Greenville this morning (1"+)and then after clearing the area returned this afternoon as a westbound front and slammed us even harder (2"+). Police department is telling people to stay off the roads due to widespread flash flooding. Feast or famine eh? Thoughts to the farmers.

July 1st was indeed delightful in Eastern North Carolina. And then came the real July.

Friday's 106F at RDU does seem a bit much. From what's been posted here sensor location would be a plausible explanation. Here in Greenville (population ~100K) off to your east we too have been in a prolonged dry spell (grass is brown) so we have similar antecedent conditions yet we barely made it to 100F. On Saturday we topped at 99F. Don't know about RDU but Greenville's average July high is 91.4F.

Thank you, a pleasure to finally see a short - to the point, intelligent post without teeny bopper grammar or global warming hysteria.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Parr's_Ridge

Strongest blast here in Greenville, N.C. (at the airport) was winds S 35 G 54 at both 5:45 and 6:05 pm. Our NWS Office did a great job in forecasting a peak gust of 51 mph. Missed by only 3 mph!

Your mom lied to you, lol. I was actually IN school during the 1960s (junior & senior high, Montgomery County, Maryland) and if we had a foot of snow I guarantee you the schools would be closed (until the roads were cleared.) Even the Washington, D.C. schools would have a rare closure. Traffic, even light traffic, doesn't move well in snow that heavy. That said, it is true schools close "more easily" now than back then. Consider the difference in population, traffic, and litigiousness.

The climate change narrative is more than just a political game, much more. At the core is carbon credits, already a multi-billion dollar racket on Wall Street, it will grow into the trillions. You'll pay, you always do. The wealthy elites, politically-connected, and media moguls run this game, and you can take it to the bank they are not stupid. (Or perhaps you believe these people can't sleep at night because they're worried about YOU. LOL.) I see it everywhere, people barking at trees oblivious to the forest that will consume them.

Thank you Floyd for the NHC track plots on Charley. The earlier forecast was remarkably accurate not only for the Florida Coast but also for the second landfall (I watched the eye pass directly overhead on Cape Fear, N.C.) The more updated forecast not only missed the Florida landfall but also had no second landfall at all! Charley is a good reminder that depending on trajectory a small error can rapidly magnify. While here let me thank you for the good work you do on your videos.