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Limping

A slow, agonizing crawl to 16°. Southerly winds please.

11° Finally getting a peek of sun. Mix this crap out please.

I like getting my sleep and waking up to actual snow.

Red is the analysis temp by MADIS of what was expected for MPV the last 36 hours. They’re running solidly 5-10° warm there. I see no reason why they should stray so far from their analysis temp given their geography and the strong CAA/mixing we had.

Your tax dollar at work

-0.5/21 at 1pm Not too bad out there with slightly diminishing winds and full sun.

Looks like shoddy obs overall back then. With -7C temps we toss.

They’re still separate sensors IIRC.

Those -37s look fraudulent

Christmas 1980 really flies under the radar with the cheap midnight high. 18° at 5z for CON, 0° at 8z, and -15° at 12z. Then eating dinner at 2pm with an afternoon high of -8°. Then it briefly went calm the following night and they reported -25° although for some reason the ob looks discounted and -19° went in the books.

Lowest BOS dews in our lifetimes. Toss that random -36.

There was something about this that gave it more bite though. The low dews and wind made any exposed skin feel like it was starting to freeze instantly. I’ve had snotcicles many times before, but I was getting them last night before I even started breathing in. Shorter period of record for FIT, but this almost ran the 24hr record low dew gamut.

I have my stove on the opposite side of the house from the bedrooms. It’s tough to get the heat down the hallway to the other side. The living room is a toasty 75 though.

Pretty much the coldest overnight in BOS going back to at least 1943 (not sure if Feb 43 is in this dataset) although Jan 57 surpassed this toward the sunrise hours. Impressive.

Cougars with pickles?

ART went briefly calm and hit -33°. If the region was theoretically calm under this airmass we’d be in the -30s and -40s. (Up here with pack anyway)

Damn. Did it get any or was it trying to find a way in? Haven’t seen one here yet, but obviously they’re around.

Get the sun on the coop and it’ll get up to 35-40 in there

I can report all of the chickens are alive albeit very miserable.

I use mesowest, but you just have to know the limitations of the 5-min frequency obs vs the full observation at the hourly METAR time (usually :51 to :54 after the hour). 12z gives the 6hr max/min and DXR had -5. They’re still around that temp so we may need to wait until 18z to see if they sneak a -6 in. But locals here have been complaining about the DXR readings based on obs around it so maybe they’re reading too warm anyway. https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=Kdxr&unit=0&timetype=LOCAL

-17.2 Guess we aren’t done yet

Yup. HVN hit -3. BDR -4

Besides the actual values, the Euro had the mins closer to 12z vs the other guidance. Pretty good performance by it.

We’ve been down this road before, but it isn’t really -2.2. It’s -2 or -3. And given how long they were at -19C they probably snuck a -3 in there.