2011 White Christmas forecast thread

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

While I am surprised who started this thread, I'm not by who was the first to respond.  And I know I won't have a White Christmas, and I never will unless I move someplace else.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

]I know I won't have a White Christmas, and I never will unless I move someplace else.

It could happen.  Stranger things have happened meteorologically.

Nah.  We never get the sustained cold that would be needed beforehand to let the stuff stick until January.  While a Christmas flurry could conceivably happen here, a White Christmas with frozen precipitation on the ground cannot happen in the Midlands. (Midlands of South Carolina I clarify for our British brethren.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Well, absent a similar volcanic winter, it ain't ever going to happen here, and it's too late for it to happen this ear even if a volcano were to blow its top.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

]I know I won't have a White Christmas, and I never will unless I move someplace else.

It could happen.  Stranger things have happened meteorologically.

Nah.  We never get the sustained cold that would be needed beforehand to let the stuff stick until January.  While a Christmas flurry could conceivably happen here, a White Christmas with frozen precipitation on the ground cannot happen in the Midlands. (Midlands of South Carolina I clarify for our British brethren.)

That's simply not true.  All you'd have to have is the right pattern to get it to happen.  I'm not saying it's likely to happen, but it could happen.

And in theory it could snow in July, but it won't.  Tell you what Inks, I'll bet you 10,000 that I will not experience a White Christmas during the next 9 years, 9 months, 9 days. (That's a 10,000 bet over 9-9-9.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

]I know I won't have a White Christmas, and I never will unless I move someplace else.

It could happen.  Stranger things have happened meteorologically.

Nah.  We never get the sustained cold that would be needed beforehand to let the stuff stick until January.  While a Christmas flurry could conceivably happen here, a White Christmas with frozen precipitation on the ground cannot happen in the Midlands. (Midlands of South Carolina I clarify for our British brethren.)

That's simply not true.  All you'd have to have is the right pattern to get it to happen.  I'm not saying it's likely to happen, but it could happen.

And in theory it could snow in July, but it won't.  Tell you what Inks, I'll bet you 10,000 that I will not experience a White Christmas during the next 9 years, 9 months, 9 days. (That's a 10,000 bet over 9-9-9.)

But it's a lot more likely to happen in December.  Happening in January, you'd have to have a crazy system, not just out of the ordinary.

And where in South Carolina are you?  Apparently portions of SC have had white Christmases in 2010 and 1963: http://www2.counton2.com/news/2010/dec/25/first-white-christmas-nearly-50-years-portions-sou-ar-1264706/

As you quoted, I live in the Midlands.  The Upstate, with a degree more northerly latitude and higher elevations gets significantly more wintry precipitation than the Midlands does.  I got cold rain for Xmas last year, not snow.