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I went for Miami since it has at least snowed there before. I think somebody posted info about Christmas 1989 being cold enough for accumulating snow even though it actually stayed dry?
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Originally Posted by alex985
Definitely a brown Christmas in Barrow. Miami has never received accumulating snow before, while Barrow I'm sure has received a brown Christmas. I think a better comparison would be a place like Yakutsk.
What makes you think that, am I missing something?
If the record high for all of December is 34F (presumably early in the month) the snowpack isn't going to melt anywhere near Christmas, and they've usually had about 20 inches of snow by then, so even a record dry and mild year would probably still have at least 5 inches fall after temperatures had fallen below freezing. You think all that could sublimate or blow away?
I went for Miami since it has at least snowed there before. I think somebody posted info about Christmas 1989 being cold enough for accumulating snow even though it actually stayed dry?
Often the coldest air masses are dry ones, so that might not be enough. But if it has snowed before, I'd go with Miami too.
I went for Miami since it has at least snowed there before. I think somebody posted info about Christmas 1989 being cold enough for accumulating snow even though it actually stayed dry?
What makes you think that, am I missing something?
If the record high for all of December is 34F (presumably early in the month) the snowpack isn't going to melt anywhere near Christmas, and they've usually had about 20 inches of snow by then, so even a record dry and mild year would probably still have at least 5 inches fall after temperatures had fallen below freezing. You think all that could sublimate or blow away?
Yeah, I realized after posting that that I was wrong. I know Barrow can get above freezing sometimes in winter so that's why I thought maybe it had received a brown Christmas before. To get ACCUMULATING snow in Miami, however, is near impossible. Especially since 99.5% of the time it gets below freezing here it's usually with a bone dry air mass.
Yeah, I realized after posting that that I was wrong. I know Barrow can get above freezing sometimes in winter so that's why I thought maybe it had received a brown Christmas before. To get ACCUMULATING snow in Miami, however, is near impossible. Especially since 99.5% of the time it gets below freezing here it's usually with a bone dry air mass.
Christmas eve 1989 was the coldest day in the past at least 100 years here.
Some Readings
MIA 45/30
Miami Beach 44/32
WPB 42/28
Coldest location in the Miami Proper I found was
43/28
Cold enough (theoretically) for accumulating snow.
Christmas eve 1989 was the coldest day in the past at least 100 years here.
Some Readings
MIA 45/30
Miami Beach 44/32
WPB 42/28
Coldest location in the Miami Proper I found was
43/28
Cold enough (theoretically) for accumulating snow.
Yeah I know, but 45/30 isn't really cold enough for accumulating snow, unless the high was reached at midnight and it was 30 F during the day for several hours with snow. That would never happen in Miami.
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