We gots a winter storm watch from Tuesday to 6pm Wednesday. (NE South Carolina)

[Are_grits_groceries]

I realize this is not close to what other people will see or have seen.

It is a tricky scenario. They are calling for about 4" of ice, sleet, and rain.
'The Wintry Mix' by Stephen King

This will depend on the amount of moisture coming off the ocean. If the circumstances are just right, it could be a boatload of water and thus a boatload of snow.

In the early '70s, my college roommates and I left the NW South Carolina foothills and headed to the home of one of us who lived a few miles from I95 around Bowman, SC. It was a wintry February Friday.

As we went further southeast, the weather got worse. It got colder and the wintry mix appeared. It dropped about 18" to 2 feet there and all along I95. Nobody moved for days. We travelled around on one of those HUGE tractors with big-ass wheels.

The SC Highway department was finally able to scrape one lane off to Columbia where it was fairly clear. As we headed out Wednesday, we saw less and less evidence of snow as we went northwest and back to school.

This is very rare, but when the storm rolls up the East Coast, it's interesting.

[tblue37]

1. Here in Lawrence, KS, we had temps in the 60s yesterday. Today we will have a high of 18.

Right now, it is 10 degrees outside.

These bizarre sudden swings from one extreme to another are predictable consequences of global warming, but of course the RW will focus only on today's extreme cold, not yesterday's unseasonable warmth, even though cold in January used to be normal but is now something that occurs only occasionally.

The same unseasonably warm weather has been common all winter most winters here for the past couple of decades, with only occasional cold weather even in December and January. But every cold or snowy day, no mater how rare they are in a given winter now, is taken by the RW as proof that there is no global warming.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. We're getting a 35-40 degree drop. nt