February 2025 Obs

[CamelCityWx]

Sitting at the intersection of 52 and 40 in Winston Salem. This beats yesterday's event easily. 

[yotaman]

Had a high of 31 just after midnight. Low of 25. Picked up .15" last night before ice closed the bucket. Had around 1/4" of ice give or take. Just flurries in the afternoon

[NorthHillsWx]

If this wind wasn’t blowing it would probably be near 10 in the morning but it’s whipping. Probably only get to 20 unless it falls out

[suzook]

17 this morning at 7 am, already up to 25.

[GaWx]

-KATL’s 19 low this morning was its coldest since Jan 22nd’s 14 and is the 3rd coldest of the winter.

-KSAV’s 26 low was its first freeze (21st freeze of the season) and lowest since Jan 26th. It was a hard freeze that lasted 7 hours (2-9AM). KSVN’s (not as far inland) low was 29. 

-Even the entire coast of GA/SC/NC had a freeze this morning. Ft Pulaski got down to at least 31.

-Much of N FL got down to freezing incl JAX’s 32. Gainesville got at least down to 33 though the winds may have prevented an official freeze. I won’t know til later.

[yotaman]

Low of 19. Already up to 28 at 9:42 am

[GaWx]

At 10AM it was still only in the upper 20s in the ATL area and only mid to high 30s GA coast. It’s a beautiful winter’s day with clear skies.

 Offshore buoys were only in the 36-38 range as of 9:50AM.

[Daniel Boone]

27 minutes ago, GaWx said:

At 10AM it was still only in the upper 20s in the ATL area and only mid to high 30s GA coast. It’s a beautiful winter’s day with clear skies.

 Offshore buoys were only in the 36-38 range as of 9:50AM.

Yeah, really pleasing to the SE peeps. What looked like early in as being basically a snowless, SER dominated Winter turned out quite the contrary. Those late Fall near record to warmest Winter on Record Forecasts busted big time. 

     In all fairness, I was one that thought that would be the case as well. I think 99% of us did. The writing was on the Wall with all the Driver's pointing to that at the time. The PDO was the biggest change imo that flipped things. Rapidly went from strong negative to slightly positive. The +QBO was expected to basically keep the AO and NAO positive but, that wasn't the Case. I wonder what might have been had it been negative.?.  The MJO was expected to hang in warm phases due to the Nina and PDO. That didn't happen either. What Nina there was, was later developing than Forecast.

     An interesting Winter to study for sure. A good Project for you Larry.

[NorthHillsWx]

1 hour ago, Daniel Boone said:

Yeah, really pleasing to the SE peeps. What looked like early in as being basically a snowless, SER dominated Winter turned out quite the contrary. Those late Fall near record to warmest Winter on Record Forecasts busted big time. 

     In all fairness, I was one that thought that would be the case as well. I think 99% of us did. The writing was on the Wall with all the Driver's pointing to that at the time. The PDO was the biggest change imo that flipped things. Rapidly went from strong negative to slightly positive. The +QBO was expected to basically keep the AO and NAO positive but, that wasn't the Case. I wonder what might have been had it been negative.?.  The MJO was expected to hang in warm phases due to the Nina and PDO. That didn't happen either. What Nina there was, was later developing than Forecast.

     An interesting Winter to study for sure. A good Project for you Larry.

Larry will be all over the post season analysis of this winter, I have no doubt. Not sure there are too many analogs. A fantastic surprise for the triangle, coastal, Deep South and mountain peeps

[GaWx]

As of 1 PM it is still only in the high 30s to low 40s throughout most of GA/SC/NC. In coastal GA it is still only in the upper 30s coast/offshore buoys and will struggle to reach only up into the mid to upper 40s. Average coastal highs are in the low 60s on Feb 21st. So, ~15 BN for the date and ~10 below mid Jan climo.

[dsaur]

4 hours ago, GaWx said:

-KATL’s 19 low this morning was its coldest since Jan 22nd’s 14 and is the 3rd coldest of the winter.

-KSAV’s 26 low was its first freeze (21st freeze of the season) and lowest since Jan 26th. It was a hard freeze that lasted 7 hours (2-9AM). KSVN’s (not as far inland) low was 29. 

-Even the entire coast of GA/SC/NC had a freeze this morning. Ft Pulaski got down to at least 31.

-Much of N FL got down to freezing incl JAX’s 32. Gainesville got at least down to 33 though the winds may have prevented an official freeze. I won’t know til later.

18.8 here. exp sta had 18.5

[suzook]

2 hours ago, GaWx said:

As of 1 PM it is still only in the high 30s to low 40s throughout most of GA/SC/NC. In coastal GA it is still only in the upper 30s coast/offshore buoys and will struggle to reach only up into the mid to upper 40s. Average coastal highs are in the low 60s on Feb 21st. So, ~15 BN for the date and ~10 below mid Jan climo.

We just hit 50 South of ATL. Took a while, but sun heated us up. 5 above forecast of 45.

[NorthHillsWx]

2 hours ago, suzook said:

We just hit 50 South of ATL. Took a while, but sun heated us up. 5 above forecast of 45.

Don’t know what forecast was but we exceeded what I thought. 46 here. Snow is gone besides shade. Grass still completely covered in shade and driveway snow piles are rock solid. Weenie as it gets

[CentralNC]

3 hours ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Don’t know what forecast was but we exceeded what I thought. 46 here. Snow is gone besides shade. Grass still completely covered in shade and driveway snow piles are rock solid. Weenie as it gets

My north side of house in the shade. I purposely shovel the driveway and sidewalk to make big piles that stay in the shade all day so the snow lasts the maximum number of days. I ain't right...also I'm 65 years old which makes it even worse

[eyewall]

Sat pic of the snow posted yesterday:

[yotaman]

Low of 21. Will this be our last morning in the low 20's?

[NorthHillsWx]

19.8 this morning. Broke teens two days in a row after Feb 20

[suzook]

Low of 25 at 6am, already at 42. Guessing we top our forecast high of 55 if it stays sunny all afternoon.

[GaWx]

KSAV got down to 31. Last freeze? I’m guessing  there will be at least one more light freeze but we’ll see. Mar on average sees 1, but ~50% see none. Mean coldest is 33. Chance of a hard freeze is low. Winter’s typically over after 1st week in Mar.

 DJF headed to ~1F BN due to combo of strong ups and downs. Including today I count 36 of 84 days 10+ AN or BN. Last entire winter: only 20 of 91 days. 2022-3: 37 of 90. 2021-2: 24 of 90. 2020-1: 16 of 90. 2019-20: 31 of 91. 2018-9: 26 of 90.

 In summer we typically have 0 days 10+ AN or BN and is why I find winter much more interesting.

[olafminesaw]

Coldest start to the year across the US in a long time

[NorthHillsWx]

1 hour ago, olafminesaw said:

Coldest start to the year across the US in a long time

How in the world is Raleigh only -1 this year? I guess the first two weeks of February offset the whole winter lol

[suzook]

5 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

How in the world is Raleigh only -1 this year? I guess the first two weeks of February offset the whole winter lol

Definitely did. For us in GA also. Year of extremes so far.

[olafminesaw]

21 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

How in the world is Raleigh only -1 this year? I guess the first two weeks of February offset the whole winter lol

First 10 days of February were +10.5

[StantonParkHoya]

Yeahs its pretty weird. This feels like a top 7-8 coldest winter of my entire life