Expect a really ugly day for air travel on Monday as Atlanta’s forecast is not one of encouragement, and we all know just how important Atlanta is an a regional air hub.
From NWS Atlanta/Peachtree City, GA:
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Yes it has hit, fell upon Dallas forth Worth area the forecast was for maybe one to two inches, and we received about four inches that immediately began melting away, preparing to freeze the water left from it now in the evening so Yes again snow fall in the deep south of North America
It’s a bad winter, don’tcha know.
Ain’t like we didn’t try to warn everyone about the Polar Express Hopscotch effect many months ago.
Now we need to stay vigilant by keeping an eye on the Southern Hemisphere Summer.
Those liberal Yankees are so cold, broke, lonely and depressed that they don’t even bother to put the barbed wire fence that holds the cold air back up when it falls over.
The storms that have been pummeling the Southern Oregon Coast area have finally lifted. It has been beautiful blue sky’s and temps hitting 60+ on the deck. Cold at night though… Perfect break between major storm sessions.
Good old Alberta Clipper, enjoy!
Wow, FFC is predicting higher snowfalls here than GSP is, I live right along the bottom edge of that 7+ inch section. I’ll most likely end up BBQ’ing for lunch tomorrow, not from the heat, but from the lack of power….
Rather than shovel snow (again!) this winter, my wife has just laid a tarp across the driveway.
Theory being: When the snow stops, roll up the tarp/pull it sideways, and then drive out… We shall see if it works.
If not, or if ice is trapped underneath – Let it melt, let it melt, let it melt.
Not just an air hub. Let’s not forget about road travel, with Atlanta also a hub with three interstate highways converging … I75, I85, & I20 as well as the 60 mile perimeter surrounding Atlanta – I285. Folks will get themselves a three day weekend (at least).
That picture totally looks like a shark.
Jack H Barnes says:
January 9, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Lucky you. It’s been low 40’s for highs and low 20’s for lows NW Ca. The sun was out all day, but it didn’t do squat for warming anything. All the fog drained out to the Sac. Valley, so it’s not all bad.
Did you see that Polar stuff hanging around in the Intermountain West? Watch out for backwash.
Here in uncle Al’s backyard, we are set for 4-7 inches!!! … just started snowing about 30min. ago and we have about 0.25 inch already. Supposed to snow from now through Tuesday. Yikes!
BTW: Nashville, one of the coldest/snowiest years on record this year.
If it gets any colder, Florida will disappear under three feet of ocean in less than 2 years
rbateman says:
January 9, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Now we need to stay vigilant by keeping an eye on the Southern Hemisphere Summer.
Its been quite a summer down here so far Robert, never seen so much rain. In Melbourne today we have a weather front that already passed us which is now heading back over us again in an easterly direction.
The arctic pressure has been building over the last few days with the AO dropping again, this is a similar weather pattern as around xmas, the next few days in the north may be bleak?
When people were blaming global warming for the snow in Atlanta on Christmas I put together some info about snowfall in Atlanta. That seems appropriate to this story.
http://theinconvenientskeptic.com/2011/01/weather-and-more-misinformation/
This clearly falls in the uncommon, but not rare weather for Atlanta.
John Kehr
The Inconvenient Skeptic
rbateman said: ‘Now we need to stay vigilant by keeping an eye on the Southern Hemisphere Summer.’
The only interesting meteorological event is a positive SAM, which is known to bring floods to South Africa and Australia.
N. Chattanooga, TN checking in.
The white stuff started hitting the ground around midnight local time.
We’ve got 4″-5″ sitting on all horizontal surfaces at the moment(3:45am local), with a steady fall continuing, and predicted to continue all day. We’re going to beat the predicted accumulation depth before daybreak.
And folks laugh at the snow tires on the super-roo. Who’s laughing now?
Tomorrow will be fun.
Looks like about 5″ on the ground here in NW GA- after 3″ Christmas Day. I thought La Ninas brought mild winters to the SE USA. WUWT?
Just as long as that little bit of West Africa that’s tacked onto the bottom of the continental United States (I refer of course to The Sunshine State) stays snow-free, then my annual pilgrimage from the ‘green’ tax hell known as the United Kingdom should not be in peril…
‘Y’all have a nice day, and come back and see us real soon…’
Love it…!
I also lived in the deep south for years. I would also say this weather is not rare for the deep south–in fact, I remember it being fairly common in the 70s. Many people will not think that far back, even if they were around.
sleeper says:
January 10, 2011 at 5:15 am
You could make the argument that this is about La Nina on Very Low Solar Activity steroids.
La Nina on the heels of a moderate El Nino, and occurring at the same time as a negative AO anomaly, means the SE US will get cold, cold, cold wet weather.
Before the storm is over you know what the warmistas will say: that the South ‘s cold isn’t as cold, and the snow isn’t as pure or as white as it all once was.
It was fun many years ago to be in San Antonio when they got snow and freezing rain. The folks there do not know how to deal with it. This is an obvious example of climate change. The climate is cooling. Well, that is a change isn’t it?
Yesterday the Weather Channel had a segment on the cold air descending into the South . While the explaination was correct , ie. , warmer (slightly) high pressure systems over Alaska and Greenland are forcing frigid air much further south than usual , although if one hadn’t listened closely one would have gotten the impression that “warming causes cooling “. Sometimes I have to scratch my head and wonder .
Bastardi says the next 10 days will be the coldest of the season, particularly in the South.