December 2019 Discussion

[joemomma]

Uncle NOAA has a chance of snow for us Thursday night into Friday. 

[Curt]

Euro hinting at some possible flakage next week. Both the main and ensemble have flurries flying. Maybe a "flurry dusting" as Bill Hall used to say.

Euro has a light snow cover and temps nearing the teens statewide early next week.

[wfrogge]

Guys and gals it’s still fall.   My OCD takes over when I see short term discussion in a thread about next seasons weather

[Michael]

Guys and gals it’s still fall.   My OCD takes over when I see short term discussion in a thread about next seasons weather

Last December 9th was 10-12 inches of "next seasons weather" in Northeast Tennessee   

[Thundersnow]

Last December 9th was 10-12 inches of "next seasons weather" in Northeast Tennessee   

If we're going to be even more nitpicky about it, "meteorological winter" begins December 1st, so in a sense that was winter. In climatology, the seasons don't go by the solstices and equinoxes, but by 3 whole months at a time. Winter is Dec - Feb, Spring: Mar - May, Summer: Jun - Aug, and Fall: Sep - Nov.

In any case, wfrogge's point is taken, it's November and Fall this month, anyway you cut it.

To muddy it up even more though... we do typically discuss "wintry weather" (ice, snow, etc.) in the "Winter Weather" forum regardless of the date. 

[Dyersburg Weather]

It is sort of hard to pick the correct thread with bipolar weather we have. One can get confused easily.

[Clint]

Winter weather in November? 

[Curt]

Winter weather in November? 

The audacity. That should be in the winter thread. I mean the Fall thread. I mean the winter thread.

[Flash]

Winter weather in November? 

 

[Nashville_Wx]

Its early still to tell but with such a potent High to the NE and a Low pressure system developing, Globals are flirting and starting to want to turn the backside to snow one cold air starts to get wrapped. No sense in breaking it down, elementary here. I am heading to Denver tomorrow to ride for a day, then head to seattle to climb. Ill bring back the snow mountain vibes. Def a possibility we see snow flying in November this year. Long terms I see some systems coming into the West coast . They need the Rain and mountains snow.

[wfrogge]

The audacity. That should be in the winter thread. I mean the Fall thread. I mean the winter thread.

Might get some severe weather in the next month.  Time to post in the 2019 spring thread

[cgauxknox]

Might get some severe weather in the next month.  Time to post in the 2019 spring thread

[Thundersnow]

Kidding aside, it's tricky because of how the forum is organized. The subforums are based on "types" of weather, not the seasons. There are Winter Weather, Severe Weather, and Tropical subforums. Technically, any severe weather discussion should take place in the Severe Weather subforum, regardless of what season it is, likewise "wintry weather" belongs in the Winter Weather subforum. Significant events should get their own threads and belong in those forums. For example, say we did get a snowstorm next week, even though it's not the "winter" season yet, I would expect the thread/topic to belong in the "Winter Weather" subforum. Likewise, severe weather discussion belongs in the Severe Weather subforum, regardless of what the calendar date is or which season we're in.

Where it gets tricky is when we have these "season" threads... which are fine for keeping a running dialog of discussion over the course of a season. We have a "Fall 2019" thread, where really anything taking place during this season could and should be discussed, regardless of the type of weather it is. Now, if some system of significance happens, a thread should be created in the appropriate subforum (depending on whether that falls under wintry, severe, or even tropical weather). As far as what the bar of "significance" is when that happens is a judgment call. I wouldn't expect every line of sub-severe storms or flurry to get its own thread... keeping it going in the generic "season" thread is fine.

I would say, if we're talking about "wintry weather" about to occur when it's not yet winter... yeah, probably best belongs in the "Fall" thread simply because that's the season we're still in. But, I don't get bent out of shape if someone brings that up in the "Winter 2019-2020" thread since it's understandable that someone wanting to talk about "wintry weather" might have the inclination to put it in the "winter" thread.

Clear as mud? 

[Michael]

Both GFS and Euro are flirting with a decent chance of accumulating snow Mon/Tues. I think we got our first system to watch, especially if this is still close on both 00z runs tonight.


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[Nash_LSU]

Y'all, it's too early in the season for me to get my snow hopes crushed. I'm still recovering from last year.