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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: September 15, 2012, 10:29:10 AM »
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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork
« on: September 15, 2012, 10:27:10 AM »
It's gonna happen eventually...
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TWC Classics News / Re: Timeline idea
« on: September 14, 2012, 06:27:56 PM »
I think this is a neat idea. 
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Winter Weather / Re: 2012-2013 Winter Outlook
« on: September 14, 2012, 06:25:40 PM »
There's a member at AmWx forums named GaWx who's a serious guru for statistical information when it comes to -+AO, -+NAO, and -+PNA in relation to El Ninos/La Ninas.
I liking a lot of the information he's been gathering up on weak El Nino following a La Nina. It's very detailed and thorough.
It's getting harder and harder for me not to get a little anxious and excited about what this Winter might bring. If we can get at least one measurable snow event this Winter, that's saying a million times more about this Winter than last Winter. 
I liking a lot of the information he's been gathering up on weak El Nino following a La Nina. It's very detailed and thorough.
It's getting harder and harder for me not to get a little anxious and excited about what this Winter might bring. If we can get at least one measurable snow event this Winter, that's saying a million times more about this Winter than last Winter.
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The Game Room / Re: Put the wrong emoticon at the end of the sentence
« on: September 12, 2012, 07:03:30 PM »McDonald's forgot my fries when I was ordering lunch at the drive-through earlier this afternoon so I went inside the restaurant to pick them upMy parents are coming over to my house this weekend
That could be the right emotion depending on how the weekend plays out...
OT: My folks don't actually drink very much. I just picked a random wrong emoticon.
OT: I know, that was apart of the joke I was trying to make. Also I wasn't talking about your parents as far as that's concerned, I was poking fun at you.
I can't believe I've been writing for almost 9 years, it doesn't feel that long.
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The Game Room / Re: Put the wrong emoticon at the end of the sentence
« on: September 12, 2012, 06:30:01 PM »My parents are coming over to my house this weekend
OT: That could be the right emotion depending on how the weekend plays out...
I got a lot of work to do this weekend unfortunately.
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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: September 12, 2012, 06:21:45 PM »
How is NBC managing to stay a major network? They're constantly FAILING. 
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Forecasting / Re: Ask The Weather Expert!
« on: September 11, 2012, 10:36:18 PM »Here's my attempt to answer your question, but I imagine there's more to your story as I haven't been in Georgia enough to explore your local weather patterns: First, most of those cities you listed are closer to the coast and will get more moisture. Atlanta seems to be stuck in between where storms finish picking up Gulf moisture and start tapping into Atlantic moisture if you imagine typical storm tracks. Obviously, if you can't get enough moisture, you won't have big snowfall totals.
The other big key is the start of the Appalachian Mountains to your north. If you have any winds coming from the north to northeast, you will get downslope flow off the mountains, which will make the air warmer and drier as the moisture is squeezed out over the mountains from upslope flow on the other side. The other cities you listed do not have mountains nearby that could create this problem.
Hope that provides you a better idea for your area. I'm sure there are plenty more, and you would have to watch approaching storms to see if you can spot more issues that inhibit your snowfall accumulations.
Hmm, I didn't really take that part into consideration. That could be a large reason why during the February 12, 2010 Snowstorm places like Columbia, SC for example picked up 8 inches, they may have been closer to the Atlantic to receive additional moisture from there. Something I did neglect to mention was dry air, in the past couple of years where we have had snow storms, an Arctic Cold Front swept through, sometimes as early as just the day before. I know the more dry air, the longer it takes for the moisture to saturate the air to the surface thus cutting into snow totals, but in these cases the Gulf moisture was heavy, heavy enough that once the snow fell it stuck immediately it would have seemed like those heavy snowfall rates would have been able to combat that period of virga and bring significant amounts of snow, but apparently not.
As far as the Appalachian Mountains, they can sometimes help us out with Cold Air Damming (or COLD Wedges as out local mets simply call them) ,but in those cases we need a stationary high to our NE (preferably around the interior NE/SE Canada) to flood the cold air down to us and since cold air can't go straight through mountains, it spills around on the NE side trapping it into the valley areas such as Atlanta for example. It could be argued in those type of events we would see more icestorms than snowstorms however because the cold air that gets trapped here is usually shallow in nature it can be overridden by warmer SW winds from the low pressure system to our South.
Going back to that question about storm duration, the only ones I know of that lasted more than 12 hours is the January 2, 2002 snowstorm we had (Technically this was like two storms in one, an ULL dug in south in concert with a developing Gulf low enhancing precip/snow across our area) ,the Superstorm of 1993 lasted about the same amount of time and I think the SnowJam of 1982 was about 18-24 hours.
Also, snowfall amounts can vary across a big metropolitan area like Atlanta. While Atlanta officially recorded 4 inches of snow during the March Blizzard of 1993, some suburbs had 10 inches of snow. The totals can vary from one place to another.
You're absolutely right about that, I live literally only about less than 10 minutes away (by car) from the Downtown Atlanta area on the NW side of town and we picked up a foot of snow, I got baby photos to prove that. The suburbs I believe picked up more than that because I know in the mountains of N. GA they picked up about 3 feet. Unfortunately, what bothers me is that I feel that 4 inches is a terrible representation of what the majority of the city actually saw. With the airport being on the southside, they do tend to see less snowfall totals than the northside does, that is something I have always observed. It makes the saying about the I-20 corridor being a battle zone for snow or ice/rain fairly valid, it really doesn't help that the city is literally divided along that interstate.
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Forecasting / Re: Ask The Weather Expert!
« on: September 11, 2012, 07:36:53 PM »
This might be a question(s) that can't really be explained and if you can't that's fine, but I'll ask them anyway. It's just something I'm curious about around here. Is there any reason as to why snowstorms move so swiftly (12 hrs or less) in the Southeast (specifically GA)? Why is it that other Southern cities all around us have MUCH higher single snowfall records than my hometown does? Is it a climatology thing? I don't wanna come off bias asking this because of where I live, it's just I've noticed, we can never seem to get above 4 inches of snow no matter how near perfect the setup is for us. Lately, I consider a 6 inch snowstorm a significant storm for us because we rarely get that high. Before January 9-10, 2011 you had to go back to January 2002 for the last time we saw a 6 inch snowstorm and if you go by the weather records kept at the airport alone, before 2011 you have to go all the way back to March 24, 1983 when we saw 7.9 inches!
Believe it or not, Atlanta has never has a 1 foot snowstorm recorded in weather records. The highest we've had is 11.7 inches going back to the 1940s, yet places like Columbus, Macon, Birmingham and heck even Savannah have accumulated that much or more from a single storm.
The simple answer to all of this could turn out to just be terrible climatology, but I feel like it's has to be something else besides that. 
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Hurricane Central / Hurricane Nadine
« on: September 11, 2012, 01:13:44 PM »
Another fish, so not much excitement here. Looks to become "Nadine" by tomorrow and a hurricane by Friday morning.
Looks to become "Nadine" by tomorrow and a hurricane by Friday morning.
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Local Forecast / Re: TWC Songs you've heard in other places
« on: September 10, 2012, 09:13:44 PM »
I guess "Green Onions" is a very popular anthem song to use for commercials now. I heard it being used in a JCPenney ad about a minute ago.
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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?
« on: September 09, 2012, 10:03:02 AM »
THANK GOD!!! 
It's in the mid 60s right now with sunshine. We'll probably only get up into the upper 70s today.
It's in the mid 60s right now with sunshine. We'll probably only get up into the upper 70s today.
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