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Winter in the RTP is just a passing phase. First it starts late, even Christmas you see shorts. Sure there will be cold days that do not reach 45F, but they are few and far between followed by days that reach 60+ and by 15Feb, it is all over
I lived in Columbia SC for 4 years and felt it was a lot hotter than here. Not only in daily high temps but the duration of the heat. It started earlier in the day and lasted longer into the night. Weather.com shows that Charleston is on average 5 degrees warmer. I believe that.
I lived in Columbia SC for 4 years and felt it was a lot hotter than here. Not only in daily high temps but the duration of the heat. It started earlier in the day and lasted longer into the night. Weather.com shows that Charleston is on average 5 degrees warmer. I believe that.
You can look up the annual climate for Raleigh, Cary, Durham etc on any weather channel map, but here is City-Data's page on Raleigh, which has climate graphs about 20% of the way down, showing avg highs and lows for the year, plus precipitation, etc.
We do get snowfalls virtually every winter, but generally under 6 inches. The summer heat/humidity is what people from the North sometimes find unbearable. This week has definitely been freakishly cold (Snow flurries on Nov 13!), but don't judge an area by one week.
Winter in the RTP is just a passing phase. First it starts late, even Christmas you see shorts. Sure there will be cold days that do not reach 45F, but they are few and far between followed by days that reach 60+ and by 15Feb, it is all over
That's a little wishful thinking. We can definitely have snow in Feb. My daughter's birthday is Feb 12th and we had to cancel a party one year because of snow. You definitely do start to see crocuses blooming and other signs of Spring, but winter is not necessarily all over by Feb 15th. Some years it's not all over in March, either. And some years we hit 90 in March. You just never know. Way back in the Stone Age when I was in college at UNC it SNOWED in mid-April. I was really ready for spring so it made a big impression.
SERCC (SouthEast Regional Climate Center) gives snowfall averages in Raleigh of 0.1, 0.9, 2.8, 2.6, 1.3 for Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb and March respectively, so we're much more likely to see snow in Feb and March than we are in December.
That's a little wishful thinking. We can definitely have snow in Feb. My daughter's birthday is Feb 12th and we had to cancel a party one year because of snow. You definitely do start to see crocuses blooming and other signs of Spring, but winter is not necessarily all over by Feb 15th. Some years it's not all over in March, either. And some years we hit 90 in March. You just never know. Way back in the Stone Age when I was in college at UNC it SNOWED in mid-April. I was really ready for spring so it made a big impression.
SERCC (SouthEast Regional Climate Center) gives snowfall averages in Raleigh of 0.1, 0.9, 2.8, 2.6, 1.3 for Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb and March respectively, so we're much more likely to see snow in Feb and March than we are in December.
Those erratic late frosts that you never know what year they will happen in are the main reason you can't grow certain fruits here unfortunately. Peaches will be great one year, non-existent the next. If you have an orchard with a variety of things in it, you never know what will be in your homemade smoothie from year to year!
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