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Yeah, maybe. February is what I'm thinking. But still - looks like we may still get some action here in the near future: 1-3 inches of snow still being forecast for my area for Saturday.
Good luck, it actually might miss me to the south. So hopefully you get some.
Oh God, the palmtalk forum is going down hill. One guy said DC sees 80 in winter and coldepoch Antony is up to his build a wall over Canada rhetoric.flamingalah your forum has been invaded.
Exactly, imagine how tropical the South would have been had the North American continent had some protective factor: mountains, huge water bodies, replacement of much of Canada with open ocean (most ideal form of protection). I've checked temps for places like NOLA, H-Town, etc; these cities can see lows near 70F, even in the middle of January. Now think about the fact that those are the types of lows that would be constant experience if the cold-fronts were removed from the equation; H-Town, NOLA, even Myrtle Beach would be having full blown tropical climates.
Yeah, keep dreaming Anthony. The only place in the US south that will remain tropical is the southern half of Florida. He's just salty that Houston saw two hard freezing nights in a row this month.
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Brisbane is a bit closer to the equator than Houston is, around the latitude of Corpus and Tampa. Match-to-match, Durban in South Africa is exactly at Houston's latitude; it's record low is above freezing:
But yes, the point still stands regardless. Overall, I admit that I am salty, when the only thing keeping Houston, New Orleans, etc, from cultivating cool tropicals comes down, like what, once a year at most? The only solutions are as follows:
- Convince Donald Trump to build the wall along northern Canada, and super-size it Game-of-Thrones style.
- Advance genetic technology, so that tropicals can be spliced with "anti-freeze" genes.
Or how about move farther south where the climate is actually tropical? Cancun would be nice. Better brush up on that Spanish.
We actually had a thunderstorm and some severe thunderstorm warnings across central Indiana last night. Not unheard of but still quite rare in mid-January. A possible ice storm is coming this weekend, though there is still much uncertainty as we'll be right on the boundary because below freezing and above freezing. Temperatures in the 50s this week and even 60 today warming the ground up could hinder ice accumulation as well.
Yeah, keep dreaming Anthony. The only place in the US south that will remain tropical is the southern half of Florida. He's just salty that Houston saw two hard freezing nights in a row this month.
Or how about move farther south where the climate is actually tropical? Cancun would be nice. Better brush up on that Spanish.
Lol, he doesn't realize climate doesn't work the way he thinks it does. Even with a big mountain range the best he can get is maybe corpus Cristi to be tropical and that's only if we assume that the southern climates warm. So many other factors become apparent with a mountain range like that. Will summers cool due to a strengthening of the North American monsoon because of the massive mountain range?
Bastardi is gambling on a PV displacement over the next couple of weeks, which if it does occur would send cold down to the mid latitudes during early February onwards... We shall see.
It seems likely to me that 2017 will end up being one of those winters with a first cold then warm but relatively ho-hum pattern throughout the early and middle winter followed by an outpouring of cold air and more severe winter weather in late winter.
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All of these look incredibly promising after what we suffered through in December and early January.
Indeed. I bet this is the lull before the pattern change - a midwinter thaw if you will.
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Garbage pattern, headed north to actually see what winter should be like this weekend! Can't stand the garbage #$%@ weather that passes for "winter" in the Upper South and Lower Midwest.
I like to call it a three-month mud season, which I have a very unfavorable opinion of. Heading northward just seems to be in the air this winter in that part of the country - for example, just this December one of the guys on a Tennessee weather forum bolted to his new winter home in Milwaukee.
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PRETTY!! Big 988mb storm over Wisconsin heading to Ontario then Hudson Bay.
For here...
Isn't it pretty - beauty and harmony is to be found in nature in abundance.
Oh God, the palmtalk forum is going down hill. One guy said DC sees 80 in winter and coldepoch Antony is up to his build a wall over Canada rhetoric.flamingalah your forum has been invaded.
Indeed. I bet this is the lull before the pattern change - a midwinter thaw if you will.
I wasn't talking about the cold recorded in the north during that time period. I was talking about the record heat experienced in my locale, even those maps showing above average temps translate to lows in the upper 60's and highs in the mid 70's, not lows in the mid 70's and highs in the low 80's like we had in December.
Driving with window open and in short sleeves. I didn't expect 50s today too.
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Hopefully someone will put him in his place, I don't have the energy lol...
