MORE LIKE 6-12" COLD RAIN AMIRITE?

1/17/2008 10:24:28 PM

more like .5-1" of rain

12" of snow = 1" of rain

1/17/2008 10:24:58 PM

lol. maybe our basketball game will get snowed out.

1/17/2008 10:25:32 PM

^ Only if Trevor Ferguson plays. He makes it snow. LOL

1/17/2008 10:31:40 PM

Quote :

"Rain will likely begin early Saturday morning, turn into snow by the late afternoon and continue falling until late Saturday night. The system could dump "a fair amount of snow," Fishel said, cautioning that variables always remain in the forecast this far out from a weather event. "Now is there the possibility that this could all be farther north and west and most of us will get rain? Yeah," Fishel said. "Is there a possibility it all shifts farther to the south and east and more of us get snow? You bet. ... So don't call the bookie in Vegas and bet on this one yet." Bitterly cold Arctic air will follow the snowfall, possibly dropping temperatures to a low of 14 degrees on Saturday night and 10 degrees on Sunday night. The wind chill could make it feel like zero degrees on Sunday morning. Between the possible snowstorm and chilly temperatures, "Old Man Winter (is) finally showing up," Fishel said."

1/17/2008 10:31:56 PM

This could be a problem.

1/17/2008 10:32:40 PM

Current NWS gridded forecast says it's not going to happen... at least in Raleigh.

1/17/2008 10:47:05 PM

grocery stores must be having an off month, what better way to send them some business

1/17/2008 10:55:04 PM

Quote :

"Current NWS gridded forecast says it's not going to happen... at least in Raleigh."

Matt, I don't think they've updated the grids since the usual 3pm update. Did you see the 00Z run? It's hinting at a slightly colder solution. Such a close call! NWS usually plays it conservatively, however they did hint in the forecast discussion that there is POTENTIAL for a big snow depending on how the track of the low plays out.

Did he really say 6-12"? Fishel has some balls to say that! I'll have to watch it at 11pm to see for myself.

1/17/2008 10:58:15 PM

more like the computer model said 6-12". And I'll believe it when I see it. I should have gone in meteorology. There's no other job that you can not know what the hell is going on and still have a job.

1/17/2008 10:59:53 PM

this saturday or the next (26th)?

[Edited on January 17, 2008 at 11:01 PM. Reason : .]

1/17/2008 11:00:59 PM

this saturday, as in the day after tomorrow.

1/17/2008 11:01:58 PM

^ahh i was curious because the weather channel showed snow possible on the 26th

1/17/2008 11:02:48 PM

Quote :

"There's no other job that you can not know what the hell is going on and still have a job."

This is not true.

1/17/2008 11:04:02 PM

And all of us meteorology majors come out of the woodwork. Maybe Fishel will make the "I'll jump in the fountain AGAIN if I'm wrong" bet. He just showed his computer model and an area of pink which is about 6-8 inches lined up from Sanford to Raleigh, to almost Nash County. Guess we'll see.....

[Edited on January 17, 2008 at 11:08 PM. Reason : wx]

1/17/2008 11:07:00 PM

this could be a problem, but awesome at the same time.

1/17/2008 11:07:40 PM

If it does just rain, a low of 17 that night will make some rinks

1/17/2008 11:08:15 PM

^^^ doesn't pink indicate a mix?

1/17/2008 11:12:28 PM

^This was an accumulation forecast

Coming up here soon on WRAL

[Edited on January 17, 2008 at 11:14 PM. Reason : a]

1/17/2008 11:13:58 PM

i was in meteorology. as long as you sound like you know what you are talking about, then youll have a job.

1/17/2008 11:25:55 PM

Yup, it's true. Fishel dropped the bomb.

1/17/2008 11:27:06 PM

boston got enough....raleigh could use some

1/17/2008 11:30:15 PM

When we had that snowfall that shut down the roads for 8 hours -

An hour before it started snowing I was in a meterology class where the Prof, former local head of the NWS, told the class it most certainly would not snow.

1/17/2008 11:30:33 PM

does snow during a non-school day even count?

1/17/2008 11:31:55 PM

1/17/2008 11:32:02 PM

nice

1/17/2008 11:32:20 PM

we need to have a tdub snow party if raleigh gets plastered.

1/17/2008 11:33:43 PM

^^^^^ if you're talking about 2005 the snow wasn't what shut shit down it was icey as fuck. I remember on my way to class seeing cars slide down the western hill close to the beltline (I was like wtf,). Western had to be deverted, and by the time ncsu finally cancelled it was too late. Only took me 3.5 hours to go a 1.5 miles awesome day (by the end it was sunny and 45).

[Edited on January 17, 2008 at 11:34 PM. Reason : .]

1/17/2008 11:34:31 PM

Half-inch snow in Raleigh = Mass chaos

6"-12" in Raleigh = Armageddon???

OMG! GET TO THE GROCERY STORE! BUY BREAD AND MILK! WE'RE GONNA DIE! FISHEL SAID SNOW!!!

1/17/2008 11:34:39 PM

party has to be off kaplan...so i can walk to it

1/17/2008 11:34:53 PM

don't worry it won't snow 6 to 12 inches.... snow with min accumulation if anything

1/17/2008 11:36:23 PM

hell all the people have to do is hear the word snow in raleigh and shit closes down.

1/17/2008 11:37:04 PM

This is winter in Raleigh. I never get my hopes up. It'll be like Christmas morning though.

1/17/2008 11:37:26 PM

5^
lol

[Edited on January 17, 2008 at 11:38 PM. Reason : ]

1/17/2008 11:38:05 PM

Awesome and a bball game at night! What are the real chances though!

1/17/2008 11:39:50 PM

Unfortunately nothing's colder or falling harder or causing more chaos than our basketball team....


Oh shit! Fishel said snow?!

[Edited on January 17, 2008 at 11:41 PM. Reason : a]

[Edited on January 17, 2008 at 11:45 PM. Reason : wx]

1/17/2008 11:40:31 PM

ha, I think the last time I saw a decent amount of snow was after we beat #1 duke at the RBC center my freshman year. It was snowing like hell after the game.

1/17/2008 11:43:38 PM

So I'm going to Asheville tomorrow, planning on coming back Sunday. Should I be prepared to not make it home? Or should that not be an issue?

1/18/2008 12:01:30 AM

because we would know

[Edited on January 18, 2008 at 12:02 AM. Reason : better safe than sorry]

1/18/2008 12:02:12 AM

^^It takes a big snow for I-40 to get bad....they take real good care of the main roads in the mountains. It would probably worse back in the Piedmont.

1/18/2008 12:03:38 AM

Quote :

"ha, I think the last time I saw a decent amount of snow was after we beat #1 duke at the RBC center my freshman year. It was snowing like hell after the game."

The last time I saw a decent amount of snow was new year's day:

Granted, I was in Chicago ...

1/18/2008 12:04:57 AM

RALEIGH PWNT

STAY HOME.

CALL TWW FOR DETAILS

1/18/2008 12:05:59 AM

sweet

1/18/2008 12:09:09 AM

DID SOMEONE SAY

1/18/2008 12:09:11 AM

Is it true that the last time Fishel blew a big forecast he agreed to jump into the WRAL fountain?

1/18/2008 12:09:33 AM

i don't know if it was the last time

but, yeah, he did a few years ago

1/18/2008 12:10:43 AM

everyone should send him emails and get him to do it again if it doesn't snow.

1/18/2008 12:10:55 AM

Yeah, deal was that there was supposed to be a couple of inches at RDU or he'd jump in the fountain. Couple of inches fell but that was near Roxboro. So, he took the plunge.

1/18/2008 12:11:06 AM

Fishel has style.

You can't deny it.

1/18/2008 12:16:03 AM

set em up

1/18/2008 12:21:55 AM