Hurricane Harbor: The Trouble With Winter Weather in the Coastal South. Deep South. Savannah - Charleston - Wilmington NC & What Sort of Winter Weather?

A look at the WV for the USA

Shows the dip from the North...
...and the constant FLOW... East.
Where these meet up is everything.

There's energy moving into the Gulf of Mexico.

The trouble with living in Raleigh is that every once in a while the Winter Weather goes Deep and so DEEP that it misses you as it races along to your South and does odd things like snowing on the beach in Wrightsville. So many ways to miss out on snow here in Raleigh and yet we do get snow more often than many other Southern towns as we are after all in NORTH Carolina. Sure hope we don't miss out ....

The trouble with Winter Weather in the Deep South is that it all depends on what sort of Winter Weather you'll be getting. Yes, into capitalization today as it emphasizes the relevant, salient points here. Back a while we got a wild dose of Winter Weather in NC and in Charleston it snowed deep enough to take pictures standing in the snow smiling and yet parts down along the coast got more Ice than snow. The pretty coastal Carolina Palm Trees sort of collapse inward after they thaw from ICE and it's not pretty, not scenic and really not very tropical. But, then again Myrtle Beach is not Miami which is tropical and rarely has to worry on frozen precipitation let alone an Ice Storm. People love seeing snow on the beach in the Carolinas and it melts really fast. In 2018 Wrightsville had enough surprising snow that someone built a snowman and took a fast picture. Snow on the beach in Maine is totally normal, but not in the Carolinas.

We once moved to Savannah, something most people aren't aware of as we didn't tell anyone we might be moving. I love Savannah, there's an awesome community there and it's a place I really would like to live except that it really, rarely gets snow and it's hellishly hot in the Summer. The lack of snow chances bothered me, but about 7 years ago it did snow some and everyone was excited and then life went on. It didn't work out and it was just as well as Covid happened a few months later and shut down the city for a long while and Raleigh was a good place to be during Covid while the really wonderful community we wanted to move to was shut down in Savannah. Still Savannah is one of my favorite places to visit. Distant cousins are everywhere there in the Bonaventure Cemetery (giggling but true) and have made some good friends who are alive and happy to live there. Maybe One day...........

But for a weather girl.......you add up the positive and negatives.

SNOW and HURRICANES in NC

Savannah ranks low on both of those .... tho who knows, as I said maybe one day.

Jax is good too, but that's for another blog in January.

A bit of snow is good, as long as nothing kills the hanging moss.

Snow in Jax or Tally is a rare but semi-common treat in wicked winters (not capitalized) and it awesome for photo ops. Happens more than people realize, all the cool kids drive up (a long drive from Miami) to get a picture. Rarely enough for a snowball fight, but flakes falling fast then melting when the sun comes out strong.

Too much of a good thing can really put a damper on the fauna that's so beautiful in the Coastal South.

That's all that I'm saying.

Snow in Tampa would be cool!

Tampa has better chances of snow than Miami and when it does snow a little, there's a whole lot more than Miami got! South of The Lake it's really, really hard to get snow! But hey, it's 2025 anything goes, right?