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January 6-8 2014 arctic attack obs thread...


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32° at 4:47 AM. Shouldn't crack freezing again for over 48 hours. How low can we go??

I'm at 29. Deck and grill are icy, but it appears for the most part that the roads dried up before we went below the freezing mark. Would've been a real mess had we gone below 32 right after the rain had ended!

 

Deep freeze incoming!

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Flash freeze wasn't going to happen.   Not when its almost 50 degrees and you have 30 mph plus gust to help evaporate for the 2 hours till it hit 32 degrees.  Roads are totally fine in north metro Atlanta.   I'm off to work, traffic should be a breeze though :)

 

27 degrees here

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46 degrees right now. Went to bed at 11pm and temp was 41. The winds have shifted coming from the WNW. We've got some light rain right now so I know the front is right on my doorstep. I'm excited I get to watch all of this happen today. The crashing of temps is going to be amazing!

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41 in Greensboro with light rain.  Everything is soaked.  We must have gotten quite a bit of rain last night.  I see clearing off to the west.  I imagine that with the wind inbound that the main roads will dry in a hurry.  It wouldn't surprise me if there are some icy spots that form on the shady back roads.  Also, walkways may get slippery.

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Was 42 at 4:45 this morning. Down to 36 with a ever growing stiff wind outside.

Spent a little time checking the outside animals this morning, and they seem ready to rumble.

 

 

 

 It was 40 degrees at 6:30, now down to 35 with one or two snow flurries...

 

And here is the cam to prove it.

http://www.resortcams.com/webcameras-king-street-boone.php

 

Y'all will be surprised, everything will dry up before you go below freezing. But it's near blizzard conditions up here in Boone right now

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Flash freeze wasn't going to happen.   Not when its almost 50 degrees and you have 30 mph plus gust to help evaporate for the 2 hours till it hit 32 degrees.  Roads are totally fine in north metro Atlanta.   I'm off to work, traffic should be a breeze though :)

 

27 degrees here

It's not suprising to me as I thought all along it was being over hyped. Now if we had gotten an inch of rain or more and there was a lot of runoff, that would have been one thing but 0.10 or less falling several hours before freezing temps got here...just was never any real potential for problems imo. I can understand why they were playing it cautious though.

 

Temp down to 29 here. At 3 am, it was 51. It will be interesting to see what the temps do today across Ne ga and ther upstate.  The models have been showing a rather unusual temp trend. They showed temps dropping through 15z, then rising between 15 and 18z, and then falling again after 18z. Out west, temps will just keep dropping and stay steady at best but this temp trend is thanks in part to the old mountain shadow and evil downsloping.

 

fwiw, the models timing of freezing temps here were pretty much spot on. They had consistently showed temps reaching freezing here around 12z for a few days and it was 12z when we got to 32. Pretty impressive imo

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I think even with this outbreak, the mtns will do their dirty work, and slow tha arrival of the cold till atleast the afternoon. Atlanta is already at 24 , and if I had to guess, I'd say we won't see 20s until 4 or 5 pm.

Yeah, all the models have been consistent showing the mountains doing exactly that. The upstate will in particular see this delay. Usually the center of this delay is the savannah river valley but the trajectory is such that the upstate will see the effect the most. Below is for 19z this afternoon.

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Yeah, all the models have been consistent showing the mountains doing exactly that. The upstate will in particular see this delay. Usually the center of this delay is the savannah river valley but the trajectory is such that the upstate will see the effect the most. Below is for 19z this afternoon.

temp13.gif

I'm good with that. :)

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Yeah, all the models have been consistent showing the mountains doing exactly that. The upstate will in particular see this delay. Usually the center of this delay is the savannah river valley but the trajectory is such that the upstate will see the effect the most. Below is for 19z this afternoon.

 

The NAM is too warm, I'm already at 41.5 and falling :D 

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