jburns

Then there are those of us who just have to walk a few feet to escape winter’s wrath. Since the county line runs right through my house I have a Winter Storm Watch in my garage, dining room and den but the rest of the house is in the non-event zone. I guess I should be thankful that I will only have to worry about the trees on the northern part of my property.

Raleigh NWS is getting a bit sloppy. December 2020 Central NC Climate Summary By Phillip Badgett and James Danco Number of days with high temperatures at or below 32 °F this month: Greensboro: 19 Raleigh: 18 Fayetteville: 15 Um...no. Maybe that should read low temperatures at or below. I’m not even sure that would be right. It also included this ob. Greensboro tied a daily record snowfall of a trace on December 7. This tied the previous record of a trace of snowfall set in 1995. Now that is just plain sad. Been keeping records for over 100 years and your record snowfall on a December day is a trace. I want to cry.

Lightning is popping and thunder is roaring. Pretty active for Feb.

If you wear an insulated wetsuit, some good gloves and shorten the rope to about 20 feet you should barely be able to see the boat and have a good time.

Indeed.

Actually I am perfectly happy with today. I awoke to trees with a shiny glaze of ice that reminded me it was still winter. By noon most of it had melted. But just a few miles north trees came crashing down, accidents were numerous and power is out possibly for several days. No, considering all that I am perfectly fine with how today turned out.

If you look at the woods across the street you can see a good example of a marginal temp ice event with a warm ground. Almost a straight horizontal line between the iced branches and the no ice branches close to the ground.

Based on this winter I am offering you a replacement photo for that majestic eagle in your signature. I took this several years ago and it actually fits this winter fairly well.

You’ve got to hand it to Raleigh NWS. they just summed up my entire winter in one line. Monday Night Rain. Low around 33. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

I taught in Floyd County from 74-79. I got to enjoy several awesome winters there. You are correct in saying Floyd tends to do well in winter weather situations. In January of 77 we came back from the Christmas holidays and went to school one day and that was it for January. Every time it seemed as if we might go back to school we would get hit again. Awesome times.

With an inch of ice?

Just to give you an idea of what you missed this was the first snowstorm I went through. I was only a little over one month old but it was just the first of many. NYC December, 1947. I destroyed the posts so as not to be tempted to disrupt the thread. Now, to paraphrase Paul Harvey, you won’t know, the rest of the story.

I guess I could but I doubt it would sell. Everyone already knows that.

Well damn. Just as I was about to release my life’s work. “73 Years of Weather, Which Storms I Liked and Which Storms I Hated”. Now what am I supposed to do with 784 pre-prepared posts?

One bed of daffodils are already three inches out of the ground. I have a good shot at a few February flowers. Last year the first of them bloomed about now.

This is true. If they had all the data they would be inconsistent in a completely different way.

In a fair world you might be correct but as my dad told me many times when I would bitch and moan about something, life isn’t fair.

Basketball is pretty boring when the other team doesn’t show up.

I know they can get irritating but doesn’t that really piss them off?

True enough. How did most of them turn out? You probably should have scrolled back before you titled the thread. It just reinforces that old saying, “those who don’t remember history, are doomed to repeat it”. What has happened to this world?

The main problem here is you. Why did you title the thread the way you did? Snow THREAT? On Christmas Eve everyone says Santa is coming tonight. Sure enough he shows. We don’t say there is a Santa Threat. If we did the old SOB wouldn’t show up either.

Don’t forget. 1) cold = no precip 2) precip = no cold

Can you get it to light at all? In other words, can you get it to light while your pushing the pilot knob in but it goes out when you let it go? If it does that get some steel wool and clean the tip of the thermocouple. Thats the thing that looks like the end of a knitting needle pointing straight up that is in the pilot flame when it is lit. It eventually gets coated with enough carbon that it insulates the thermocouple and it doesn’t get hot enough to open the gas valve. I have to clean mine every couple of years.

Yeah. I remember it really upset the horses.