Post by snowlover91 on Jan 9, 2017 12:13:25 GMT -5
This morning was definitely the coldest I've ever experienced since I've been alive. It was 1F outside for the low temperature and insanely cold. Was hoping it would go below zero but didn't quite make it.
I don't remember the exact times...but at 8pm lastnight...Roxboro was at 12 degrees...9pm 18 degrees...then 10pm at 10 degrees...I thought it had to be a error. Guess not.
The temps on my station fell slowly all night. No sudden jumps. Low was 15.
Yeah jeff the ons at pgv were strange all night up and down and back and forth.Definitely had a UHI going on as well. At work in north greenville it was 12 on my truck but rose to 15 going through town. As soon as I hit open country on the way to bell arthur the temps plummeted down to 10 or colder and bottomed out at 8 on my station.
Finding record high pressure by location is difficult. I did some research and can't get an exact number for Greenville.
For particular cities I could only find three: Asheville @ 30.90 in 1924, Cape Hatteras @ 30.86 in 1899, and Charlotte @ 30.91 in 1899. (30.90" = 1046.4).
Below is a map from the NC Climate Office showing extreme high pressure records in February 1981 which I believe was the all-time record making High, including 31.00" / 1050mb as the state record. This map suggests the record for Greenville would be ~30.92 / 1047mb. (The all-time record for Washington D.C. of 31.05" / 1051.5 was also in February 1981, further evidence this was likely the #1 Mid-Atlantic High.)
Whatever the case, the pressure here this morning was amazing, and surely the highest pressure (and lowest temperature) I've seen in my 13 years in North Carolina.
Awesome stuff there Tim. This mornings pressure are something we don't see very often for sure. I've seen temps in the single digits several times and even the record coldest of -4 for pgv. Maybe it's the added years since then But this mornings cold was miserable and I really don't care for it anymore.
-6 just over the NC border on I95 in Va this morning.....last night coldest since Jan 2014 when we got to 3 after the snow storm late in the month. Also have been below freezing since Friday 1 am and wont get above freezing until mid morning tomorrow...so 75-80 hrs below freezing not to bad of a stretch for us...ironically it looks like we wont go back below freezing for at least 10-12 days lol. That said I suspect we get another few rounds of winter weather later this month into Feb....
Last Edit: Jan 9, 2017 18:08:39 GMT -5 by downeastnc
Was just thinking back to the lowest temperature I can remember personally experiencing (outside my USAF time in Alaska) and recall clearly seeing -8F on my outdoor thermometer in Maryland (northwest of D.C.); and for reasons that have nothing to do with weather I remember because of the house I was living in for just that one year - it was 1981, the year of the great High. Son of a gun ... and now I know why it was so cold that day!
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. H.L. Mencken
Post by downeastnc on Jan 10, 2017 19:42:38 GMT -5
So we hit 32 last Friday night around 1 am and did not go back above 32 till 10:30 Tues morning....that's a 90 hr stretch below freezing which isn't to shabby for this part of the world and the majority of that was sub 25 degrees....the big sand pit ponds out by work all were mostly ice covered this morning and its the first time in several years I have seen these larger ponds mostly frozen over.....