Iceagewhereartthou

Pretty crazy, 28.5 here, and that following one of the wettest years on record.

I swear you live on a different planet.

Haven't checked weather in a few days but WOW, looks awesome early next week. Some 40s coming for mid May, I'll take it every time.

Thank goodness for accuweather; summer of 2003 incoming.

#nosummerrocks

Looking summer like the rest of the week. Low 90s for CAE!

Wow! BTW, just noticed NWS point forecast shows a chance of snow mixed in all the way down to the NC/SC border including Caeser's Head, Sassafras, etc. Shows Mt Mitchell at 5800 ft level getting 5-7 inches of snow.

I'm so jealous of you guys, feels like we never had a winter here in the upstate and now we're looking at temps 10-15 above normal for the forseeable future after a "coolish" Sat. Been nice the past few days and mornings but the heat is coming.

Well not seeing much good news on the horizon. One day of a wedge on Saturday and then it looks to be an early summer type pattern for the forseeable future with temps around 82/60 for the upstate, or about 10-15 degrees above average! Would love to have a longer cooler spring, maybe keep some 70s/50s for a few weeks but not in the cards. Oh well, at least Accuweather doesn't have me hitting 90 until June 21st!

Welp; heat, humidity, weeds, skeeters already EVERYWHERE in my neighborhood at least, pollen, allergies, bees, bugs, already mowed my front twice and dandelions everywhere, back yard looks like a jungle of twisted weeds and onion patches, Argentine Ants in the house; I'm already sick of it! I wish I could just repeat October through March weather every year and never have April through September weather!

Typical Oconee, Pickens County skip job incoming... I'd be interested if I was in Sptbg to Clt, but here....

We know better; not even a Lloyd Christmas chance here.

Wow, didn't realize they had that many big gaps; so for the most part their average really is just one system every few years. Yeah for the upstate it's getting harder and harder and warmer and warmer. Who knows, we may be headed for CAE winters pretty soon.

What we needed was for the Sun night/Mon system low to track further South; that is the storm with the moisture. But the snow is in Kentucky and the Virginias, with the low track through SC. Needed it 300 miles further south, but that's been the story ALL winter. The Tues system isn't even close and has no moisture with it.

Yeah the cold has been centered too far West all season. The Midwest to West coast has had an awesome winter, but the cold has not made it East of the Great Lakes and south of the Mason Dixon. Our little SE corner was completely left out of the cold and fun this year and I am hating it!. The potential was there and the cold has been there, but we could never get the jet stream to push farther East and the same areas have gotten the fun over and over, with more to come next week. Just saw that LA failed to reach 70 in Feb for the first time in 132 years! It is becoming more and more clear that if those of us outside the mountains and south of I-40 want to experience any more than a random inch or two of slush we'll have to move. The 60s, 70s, and 80s winters, like the ones that brought GSP double digit totals 11 out of 24 years from 59/60 to 82/83, then two more in 86/87 and 87/88, and even the March 93 and 95/96 winters are long, long gone; and I'm not sure we'll ever see anything like those again. CAE doesn't have a monthly snowfall totals chart on their site like GSP does but by next winter their measurable snow drought will be nearly 6 years. I know CAE has never been a ski area but six years without measurable snowfall has to be a record there I would think.

Good to see cold but that looks like backside cold after the low and precip pass; ie cold chasing moisture.

It would certainly be nice but I can't bet against the pattern. The pattern all winter is for the cold press to be mush less than modeled in the medium range, especially at the mid levels. I can't think of a single time when the mid levels were colder than modeled. Been several times where I was supposed to see at least a sleet pellet or two and got nothing but rain. Even the Dec storm was more sleet than anticipated for my area. The storm track trend has been further north and the surface temps have been underwhwelming all winter. As much as I would love see some snow I just can't see the indeces lining up all the sudden as we head into met Spring. I'll stay tuned to see what happens but the towel is ready to go and I've been holding it for a long time. Verbatim on that GFS, we'd need a high to the north or it's gonna cut again like all the others. The FV3 has a high but it's sliding and too weak.

Yep, just saw that too. Video of LA snow, and Vegas tying a 70 year-old record for snow per TWC. Was supposed to be a good year for the east but been good for everyone else instead. Pattern is as bad as it gets for us. Every system tracking from Amarillo to great lakes.

The law of the land (SE) this year has certainly been for models to overestimate the cold push in the long to mid range. As we've gotten closer, the cold hasn't been there at all this year. December snow was the same; for days snow and frozen was shown well into SC. Come go time, only extreme northern SC got any at all. The models have been too cold everytime this year and I wouldn't expect that to change all of the sudden. We may still have a chance before the end, but it's going to take a much bigger breakdown of the SER, a stronger high than we've seen materialize this year, and setting in for more than a day. Time is not on our side.

Good analogy; sometimes the good in life just doesn't work out. There's hope during darkness, when evil is winning out, but eventually good will overcome again.

I would be getting pretty interested if I was North of I-40 or above 2000ft. Unfortunately I'm not.

Hey, now theres one where the upstate does well!

Still can't get 6 inches in western upstate

Hey if you can sacrifice your body for the collective, I'll head up the relief fund!