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"Down to 61* inside our apartment. But I'm determined to wait as long as possible before turning the heat on this year."

we gave in when ours got to 58*

[Edited on December 5, 2010 at 2:54 PM. Reason : ]

12/5/2010 2:54:01 PM

Our t'stat is set at 60°F

12/6/2010 12:08:03 AM

^ Did that take some getting used to or have you always been cool with it? Just curious because mine as at 67 or 68 during the night and I'm getting tired of sleeping in a hoodie sweatshirt and socks.

I do have bad hot and cold spots in this house though. My bedroom may be well below the hallway where the thermostat is located.

[Edited on December 6, 2010 at 1:00 AM. Reason : l]

12/6/2010 12:58:43 AM

i think everyone's house is different when it comes to those temperatures..
i left my thermostat on 65 for the longest time but couldn't take it anymore. yesterday i turned it up to 68 and now it feels like a sauna (compared with 65).. it's all relative

12/6/2010 5:47:46 AM

Also thermostat at 65 degrees /= to a uniform 65 degrees, especially if you have a 2 story place. More windows/doors can make it even more uneven. When I was in a townhome I would bump the thermostat occasionally just to heat/circulate the air for a few minutes.

12/6/2010 6:06:14 AM

if mine's anything lower than 65 i can't bend my fingers to type. old house, bad insulation.

outdoor thermometer said 17 when i woke up this AM.

12/6/2010 7:55:07 AM

Not really winter wx-related, but very relevant to NC weather, lol.

Also, it was 15* at my house this morning. F that.

12/8/2010 8:14:18 AM

that is exactly what happens to rocky mount. i swear it has some sort of big bubble shield or something. all storms split & go around us. wilson & battleboro will get pummeled but we're dry/snowless.

12/8/2010 8:23:56 AM

we keep the house at 68°F in the late afternoons/evenings and early morning...it's 65°F overnight, and 63°F when no one is there

adding insulation this past summer really helps, but i'm okay paying the ~$150 power bill

12/8/2010 8:37:19 AM

Quote :

"Did that take some getting used to or have you always been cool with it? Just curious because mine as at 67 or 68 during the night and I'm getting tired of sleeping in a hoodie sweatshirt and socks."

I grew up in NJ so I'm more or less used to it. Also when I lived in NYC some mornings it would be around 60 in the apt (by law landlords only have to keep the temp above 58° at night).

Also, it's warmer upstairs than where the t'stat is downstairs. I have a digital thermometer in my bedroom that usually fluctuates between 62-68. If I know it will be sunny out during the day I open my blinds and curtains before going to work to let in some radiant heat.

Our power bill is usually under $80 at this current heating level.

12/8/2010 9:02:43 AM

Bump for tomorrow night! Rain might turn into flurries after dark.

12/11/2010 9:32:12 AM

what about this coming wednesday/thursday/friday? discussion mentions the possibility of wintry weather

12/11/2010 10:33:56 AM

SPECI KGSO 130003Z 29010KT 6SM -PLRA BR FEW007 BKN023 OVC031 02/01 A2938 RMK AO2 P0000

12/12/2010 7:15:17 PM

speak english

12/12/2010 8:04:11 PM

^
PL=ice pellets
RA=rain
http://atmo.tamu.edu/class/metar/quick-metar.html

Special weather report for Greensboro Airport
12/13 @ 0003 Zulu time (for some reason, this report is missing the month identifier)
Winds out of 290 degrees from North @ 10 knots
visibility is 6 statute miles
Current conditions = ice pellets, rain, and mist
Few clouds @ 700 ft
Clouds are broken @ 2300 ft
Overcast @ 3100 ft
temp 2 degrees C, dew point 1 degree C
barometric pressue = 29.38 in hg
Remarks: automated station with precipitation descriminator, hourly precip = 0

I believe I still got it!

[Edited on December 12, 2010 at 9:33 PM. Reason : .]

12/12/2010 9:21:10 PM

METAR KGSO 130154Z 29011KT 10SM -SN OVC050 01/M02 A2938 RMK AO2 SLP951 SNB33 P0000 T00111022

More Suckas!

12/12/2010 9:34:15 PM

lolz.

FEW = Few clouds at Flight Level 007 i.e. 700 feet

Quote :

"Winds out of 290 degrees from North @ 10 knots"

does not compute. 290 is west/northwest last time I checked.

light ice pellets/rain

the pressure is in inHg



Pretty good, though. Now why do you know that? And, more so, why do you know the AO2 code and not the more basic stuff, lol?

12/12/2010 9:39:50 PM

meh, it's been a while. and I, too, am a pilot, just haven't flown or looked at this stuff in years.

and I had to look up the station type

and isn't it degrees measured from north (and no negatives used, thus 290 from north or 0 degrees) so the "from north" part is unnecessary, but I just remember when these reports were written out in normal type, it always said from north

forgot about "-" thanks

typo on pressure; brain fart on FEW.

Quote :

"T00111022"

oh dang... 6 hour max/min temp & dew points? I definitely don't remember this one or how to read it

[Edited on December 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM. Reason : .]

12/12/2010 9:43:03 PM

Ah.

I don't understand what you're saying with the winds. It's just true direction as opposed to magnetic, i.e. if it were 09005, it would be winds out of true East at five knots.

I think I see what you're saying, but I've never heard that convention. It's like saying "Take a right turn from straight ahead."

The "straight ahead" is obviously implied and unnecessary.

But if you've seen that before as a convention, my bad. Never heard of it.

[Edited on December 12, 2010 at 9:55 PM. Reason : .]

12/12/2010 9:48:45 PM

yeh, got that. what I was saying was that when I was learning this, I saw a lot of writings say:

29005KT written out as winds out of 290 degrees from North at 5 Knots; maybe it was a dumb/old way of saying it, but I gathered they were just explicitly stating the reference of north; not that the winds were out of the north.

from the link I posted: "Direction in tens of degrees from true north" = 290 degrees from true north

anyways, dumb & minor point.



[Edited on December 12, 2010 at 9:52 PM. Reason : .]

12/12/2010 9:51:51 PM

Just edited.

12/12/2010 9:55:45 PM

haha, yeh, I agree with you; just an unnecessary statement of the reference. I wouldn't say it's a convention (or at least anymore) but maybe just an artifact of whoever wrote some reference sheets I studied (for teh n00bs!) and apparently, it's how I still read it

Quote :

"T00111022"

now that I think about it, hourly temp/dew point, right?
Temp 1.1 degree C, dew point -2.2 degree C?

[Edited on December 12, 2010 at 10:10 PM. Reason : .]

12/12/2010 10:06:46 PM

what happen to this thread

12/12/2010 10:38:52 PM

Quote :

"As of now, it looks like this will not be a heavy precipitation event, but we could see a 0.25 to 0.5 of precipitation that could fall in the form of a wintry mix anywhere from Thursday morning through Thursday night. So Thursday is certainly a day to watch out for. The models are also hinting at the possibility of another wintery storm sometime between Sunday and Wednesday. The 12z ECMWF from yesterday showed this happening Saturday night, while the 00z run now shows it happening Tuesday night. The GFS hadn’t shown much but the 6z run now shows it occurring a little too far off shore on Saturday night. Many of the ECMWF Ensemble members show it happening on Sunday."

This was written earlier this morning. According to some other blogs, the models have moved further South, which could be good for us!

[Edited on December 12, 2010 at 11:12 PM. Reason : ]

12/12/2010 11:10:42 PM

Quote :

"T00111022"

Yes, that's the hourly temp/dew point from the remarks section.

12/12/2010 11:53:50 PM

I read that the next event would occur more wednesday night/thursday morning as opposed to thurday morning/thursday

12/13/2010 5:49:31 AM

If you guys don't stop decoding METAR in this thread, I swear to Christ...let's talk winter weather. Not automated station reporting and MEA 112/113 crap.

12/13/2010 8:35:44 AM

^8 & ^9, it is called an azimuth.

if the direction was N90*00'00"E, it would be a bearing.

/surveying dork

12/13/2010 8:41:54 AM

^^ GSO is NOT automated. :p And my bragging about getting winter weather yesterday was completely germane to this thread.

12/13/2010 10:47:34 AM

Got my fingers crossed for Thursday as well as next Sunday!

12/13/2010 3:59:16 PM

It's not possible to get excited about winter weather in the NC piedmont. Ever!

12/13/2010 5:30:16 PM

Next Sunday? As in almost 2 weeks away?

Ehhh...

12/14/2010 7:34:32 AM

No, i meant the 19th.

12/14/2010 8:59:47 AM

Oh, okay. There's a similar scenario next weekend (25-26) that I wasn't sure if you were referencing.

12/14/2010 9:44:56 AM

12Z NAM was pretty awful and came in drier for NC. This is a low confidence event because it doesn't fit our usual winter weather model. It is a WAA / Overrunning event so it all rides on how fast the mid levels warm up.

As for the weekend it all rides on the phasing. The GFS has now been showing an initial phasing of energy with a shortwave in the PAC NW with energy in the southern stream coming out of TX/NM. The phase occurs somewhere in the lower/mid MS valley. Thereafter the key is whether another piece of energy diving out of the upper midwest joins the party or not. This will have implications on how much the pattern amplifies and how much the trough goes into a negative tilt. Also if the third piece comes into place you will end with a much stronger cyclone but it will move northward and impact the upper mid atlantic and northeast as well. Finally for us we have to see just how much cold we will have available being there is no solid parent high.

12/14/2010 11:07:22 AM

Map for the next few days, produced by someone over on accuweather.

12/14/2010 2:26:11 PM

I don't like that map. I don't like it one bit.

12/14/2010 2:27:50 PM

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN?

12/14/2010 5:35:09 PM

It means we won't get enough snow.

12/14/2010 5:42:15 PM

either we get nothing or we get hammered. Those are my predictions. lol

12/14/2010 6:03:33 PM

Because if we dont get any snow we will get hammered to make up for it?

12/14/2010 6:06:01 PM

^

12/14/2010 6:08:30 PM

so weather nerds, whats the latest?

12/15/2010 2:19:16 AM

NWS discussion seems to have scaled back on their earlier thoughts..

looks like most areas in wake will see a brief period of snow but the warm air will move in quickly, changing it over to rain by late morning/afternoon...
as of now, they are not issuing a warning, and they said if they issue an advisory it would be much later today.

12/15/2010 5:47:30 AM

Still a little uncertainty surrounding timing and how far and strongly the warm air aloft pushes in over the state. This will be the big determining factor as far as when the transition from snow/sleet occurs and where it occurs.

Looks to be a non-event, really, at this time. Some generally light snow early tomorrow morning before transition to all rain (SUCKS) the rest of the day.

Totally blows.

12/15/2010 7:36:09 AM

Wral's forecast:

12/15/2010 7:56:02 AM

it's really pathetic how we all (myself included) get so excited (for good or bad) about what will turn out to be nothing (as is usual)

12/15/2010 8:06:43 AM

Trace - 2", lol. WRAL has it covered!

12/15/2010 8:27:40 AM

WRAL always way overestimates precipitation amounts, especially snow. I don't believe their snow forecasts anymore.

12/15/2010 9:36:39 AM

to be fair, elizabeth is very good about noting that weatherscope is aggressive in its estimates

12/15/2010 9:40:44 AM