Deep South Winter 2024-2025

[Cpv17]

I'm not really happy NWS doesn't have us getting out of the 50's for a week or so. This sucks

Tonight - Low 12 (wt actual f?)
Tomorrow 38/21
Friday: 44/22
Saturday: 50/33
Sunday: 56/42
Monday: 59/43

Sunday and Monday are tolerable just based on how cold it's been since yesterday. But I'll reiterate that for those of us who don't really like cold weather, this sucks. 12 sucks the worst though.

Sheesh, you really hate the cold weather. I’ve kind of already gotten acclimated to it, personally.

[Ivanhater]

Wow



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[cajungal]

Wow

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And inaccurate. Showing on that map we only got 8 in my area when we got nearly a foot. 3 days later there is still snow in my yard

[Ivanhater]

University of West Florida


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[BigB0882]

Wow

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And inaccurate. Showing on that map we only got 8 in my area when we got nearly a foot. 3 days later there is still snow in my yard

Yeah, not sure exactly how they come up with the numbers sometimes. That’s shows 6.5 directly over my house and I measured multiple spots of 8 inches away from where any drifts would be. The numbers for most places seem a bit conservative but maybe that’s just how they do it.

[BigB0882]

Does anyone know the QPF amounts from last weeks snow storm? I’m curious because the snow was so unusual for down here, it was so powdery. Wouldn’t that mean higher ratios?

[Kingarabian]

12Z CMC/GFS were interesting in the 7 day range, although different systems.

[chaser1]

Yep, seems to me that most globals are more or less consistent that sharp troughing will return to the E. CONUS with similar low 500mb heights reaching the Northern GOM. I only wish that it was reverting back to the multi-week pattern that occurred last month, but at least it'll remind us here in Florida that it's not quite Summer yet LOL. I wonder whether it was more of a result of a split flow (sub-tropic & polar) that was able to generate the set up for frozen precip that you guys in the deep south (well, AND Fl panhandle) got?

[chaser1]

Okay..... someone explain to me WHY no one gives a rat's ass about Winter Weather other than those people from Texas

[Brent]

Okay..... someone explain to me WHY no one gives a rat's ass about Winter Weather other than those people from Texas

Haha do y'all even get winter some years just saying

I grew up in Alabama I remember many many years nothing happened. Then to make matters worse my parents were too far north when Pensacola got 9 inches and they ended up with about a half inch for the whole winter

[Cpv17]

Okay..... someone explain to me WHY no one gives a rat's ass about Winter Weather other than those people from Texas

I don’t get it either lol I’ve been wondering that for years. Winter weather is hella exciting to me, but I’m from Texas

[Brent]

Okay..... someone explain to me WHY no one gives a rat's ass about Winter Weather other than those people from Texas

I don’t get it either lol I’ve been wondering that for years. Winter weather is hella exciting to me, but I’m from Texas

Yeah it is weird to me too because I was always like a kid in a candy store with snow over there because again some years it didn't happen at all

It's only faded a bit up here but I still have moments

[wxman22]

Climatology speaking the Deep South gets less winter weather events on average than Texas does. My definition of the deep south is ( Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.) Partly because theirs more warm nosing issues from the Gulf and also Atlantic. And also the topography doesn't funnel and accelerate the cold air south like it does in the Plains. For places like Georgia and South Carolina the Appalachians also sometimes act as a barrier to stronger cold air intrusions from the NE (CAD or Cold Air Damming). The mid south fairs much better with winterstorm events though and is more comparable to the winter storm climatology of Texas and Oklahoma. Mid South being (Arkansas,Tennessee ,North Carolina)

[Brent]

Climatology speaking the Deep South gets less winter weather events on average than Texas does. My definition of the deep south is ( Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.) Partly because theirs more warm nosing issues from the Gulf and also Atlantic. And also the topography doesn't funnel and accelerate the cold air south like it does in the Plains. For places like Georgia and South Carolina the Appalachians also sometimes act as a barrier to stronger cold air intrusions from the NE (CAD or Cold Air Damming). The mid south fairs much better with winterstorm events though and is more comparable to the winter storm climatology of Texas and Oklahoma. Mid South being (Arkansas,Tennessee ,North Carolina)

Yeah I know a lot of people over there on another site. They frequently get jealous of our weather haha

Like I said I spent 25 years in Alabama there's so many years I have no memory of any snow(we got CAD from the Appalachians a few times). Everyone talks about 93 but it's literally the only big storm I ever witnessed there

The Gulf storm was crazy in January because a lot of places got more snow than since then but it's so rare

[chaser1]

Yeah, its a tough go trying to get any Florida Winter Weather Weenie member drive traction The day that we get our first blizzard though.... they'll come running then!

As for you true deep south folks, I'd guess that a season that features a strong split jet flow is every bit as important as low .id level heights. That Pacific moisture in conjunction with a moist GOM return flow are what I would guess be key for a few Gulf Coast Winter Storm systems to develop and hopefully phase in with an Arctic airmass intrusion. Sadly, I can see how that setup would seem to favor Georgia and the Carolina's more than points west in Louisiana & Alabama

[MGC]

I live on the coast in Mississippi because of the lack of winter weather. I hate winter. Last Jan snow is hopefully the last snow event here for a while. It was a brisk 32 this morning when I let the dog out.....MGC

[Jag95]

Okay..... someone explain to me WHY no one gives a rat's ass about Winter Weather other than those people from Texas

Because it's very rare to have anything to get excited about in the Deep South. Last year's snow is the first and probably only system like that I'll ever see here, and sleet and freezing rain is something I can do without.

That said, there have been a couple of runs in the GFS over the last two days that are interesting. Although far out, they have shown some type of sketchy weather around the 21st. What makes it so interesting is that it's exactly a year from last year's event. Probably isn't worth starting another thread over, yet.