Weather-Wise

Unless tied to a specific event in your life or the date of some weather catastrophe, you most likely don’t remember the weather for the day on the 20^th of last month, or the 20^th 6 months ago, or the 20^th of December 5 years ago. The local weather is part of the daily forgetting as we march forward time-wise.

Which is why I forgot that this snowfall happened December 8^th of last year—Facebook was mindful enough to remind me.

Which I jokingly referenced as saving me the need to post photos of this year’s December 8^th snowfall. Of course, I did anyway.

I moved to this area the last day of August in ’16. The historical record for Greenville-Spartanburg snow-wise is an average between 4 and 5 inches. The number of snowfalls, 1-2 annually.

January 7, the first snow of that first season. I remember the event, but wouldn’t have come up with the date.

Ten days later, another snow. Remembered another one, but not that it was only 10 days later.

Now, we have seen our average amount of snow, and we have been significantly over for total inches seasonally since I have been here. A trend? Historically significant? Not one of these snows is in the record book for heaviest single accumulation (15"), nor have I seen the highest seasonal total (21.4"). Historically speaking, I have witnessed non-events except as they contribute to averages going back to 1892.

I might say more perhaps, but in today’s climate—and let this be a word to the wise—I am reluctant to reach for much of any kind of conclusion other than to say we might see more snow around here or might not.