Why does so many people always say winter is over for the Southeast after Feb.?I remember even in the 90s and up to 2000 it was still cold thru early April.Not all the time but more than the last 10 years.Also isn’t March 1-20 still really Winter season?Why?
Winter After February?
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Just the way things shape up to be I suppose. Usually we get a cold snap around Easter or so.
i think feburary will be sensible to stormy conditions to western to the eastern part of the country this should be very exciting month.
For me and where I live, January is typically the hardest winter month. Any thing that comes now will be less than what we’ve had. Its all down hill from here. Since we really didnt have squat… we’ll get less than…. nothing. We had 2 snows that just barely covered the ground. That’s not typical for central Missouri!
We’re still in drought conditions, winter did us no favors. I’m hoping spring will be wet tho I dont hold out any hopes for summer.
The pattern got set, we got nothing and expect less.
Good luck to those that have a chance!
All we got today was a mix of sleet and drizzle that lasted for a few minutes. Just give me the warm weather again if winter isn’t gonna deliver.
We didn’t even get that Rickster here in Horry County.I sure pray things start changing by the second half of this decade.
Differs year to year up here… sometimes winter ends in late February, sometimes the snow and freezing lows last well into April. Our average April snowfall is 6 inches.
You lucky MaineMan
No hope, no mercy and no return to normal for eastern Colorado, we are screwed…no meaningful moisture at all since September, and it will never come…it’s as I said almost 6 months ago…say goodbye to Colorado, it’s over, we are at the point of no return…the critical point in a drought, the point where the landscape changes forever, and for the worse I’m afraid.
I even doubt that we will have much of a spring bloom, if any, since there is no water left in the soil for plants, trees and grasses to draw from to be able to grow, and it will be so tinder dry by summer that what doesn’t die during spring will just burn up, so summer will look like a scene from a nuclear war zone.
Bye guys, it’s been nice knowing you all, if I survive this spring, I’m leaving Colorado before summer, I just can’t take it anymore, watching my beautiful home get singled out and systematically destroyed by drought and fire by an angry God and all his hateful fury.
Oh, and let’s not forget that what doesn’t get destroyed by drought and fire, will be finished off by those damn detestable pine beetles.
You used to have meaningful posts back in the beginning, now all you do is whine. Good luck where ever you decide to go. Later.
Hello All, MaineMan, Sapporo, KatD, Grondin and anyone else with whom I have corresponded!
Winter here has been going strong in the Traverse City MI area. We have had snow every day, except for whatever that day when it was 50 degrees this week. After many years of no snow, I still do not think the ground is frozen enough to stomp out the freaking bugs as I saw mosqitos flying around the day everything was melting, (I do my laundry in an outside shed type thing) so it does not convince me that the ground is frozen, and neither are the lakes. What I do know, is that where I live on Grand Traverse Bay of Lake MI, it is down a foot and seems to be getting worse, many ”BEACHES” are now marshes just google “M-22″ Earth or US 31 North – incredible, but I have also heard that NESTLE has been sucking the fresh water too……like we are not going to notice it…..if there is not enough precip to bring back that foot, forget about many docks, boats high and dry and well that would be too political, but all ties in, if you know what I mean! Let me know your thoughts peeps, laters!!
Winterwarrior, if you saw what I see, it wouldn’t bode much hope for you either, I am guessing that you do not live in a drought-stricken area, so you have probably never experienced just how bad it can be, so I would say that unless you have, you don’t really have any room to talk.
Anyways, on to a more important matter, how is everyone? it has been a while since I last actually visited besides a few days ago, how has this winter been for your areas?
CPC is calling for above normal precip in the mountain Southwest and upper Great Lakes, however, besides the lakes, I am not sure I buy the above normal prediction for the Southwest, unless the current pattern breaks and a strong storm track gets going over our region, I am hopeful though, because any change to wetter is good for us.
Sapporo1,
We got some rain and just enough snow to color the ground. I’ve given up on snow, so the rain was glorious! My rain gauge isnt out so I’ve no idea how much we got, but it made a difference in the ponds and lakes. We even had some run off into the dry washes! The ground sucked up as much as it could and a day later its back to being stiff and dry-ish. This didnt break the drought for us, but gave us some temporary relief.
I’m hoping to see the drought break for the country. Dry and burnt isnt fun nor pretty. Its not cheap either. Maybe spring will have pity on us.
(I think someone whizzed in winterwarriors wheaties. Ignor it.)
I think you can vent here when you need to. Many of us know exactly what you’re talking about.
Yeah, a large part of this country is in a drought, and it is hurting everyone.
We can only hope that the CPC is wrong about this spring and that a good storm track turns in favor of all of the
drought-affected areas.
Sapporo, I am so sorry for all your going through with this horrible drought. I sure hope thing’s get better for you and all there this spring and summer with lot’s of rain.
Been boring around here. Temps got up in the 70′s or so today. Nothing else to mention. Lol.
Almost wouldn’t mind 70s for a few days just as a brief break from the cold… but spring coming soon. It’s been cold with highs in the 10s and 20s, and lows in the single digits and occasionally below 0. We had a brief warm spell last week where it hit 40/50 a couple of days and melted the last of the snowpack, and it hasn’t been very snowy until today. Forecast is 16-28 inches which would be our biggest storm since 2008. I honestly have no idea if spring will come early or if winter will last into early April… this winter seems to wax and wane quite a bit.
Wish we would get some snow here in Eastern panhandle of WV. Been a very disappointing winter so far. Storms going north or south of us, and so far only 11” of snow since Christmas Eve.
Weve had not one flake.Very sad so called winter here.