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Congrats BTV on the high of 65F today. CAR breaks their old record by 9F.

Christmas Highs for NNE BTV 65R (62 in 1964) MHT 62 BGR 61R (54 in 2015) CON 59 MLT 59R (53 in 2015) CAR 57R (48 in 2014) PWM 55

The 70 and 71 readings were CWOP sites too.

Front just roared through. As for CAR...just noticed they had their first ever Nov 70s this year and their first ever Dec 60s as well. Lots of record highs up there the past 2 months.

It’s been done when they back in like that and turn from rain to snow. But the GFS struggles at 24hr so I’m not going to get emotional either way over 246hr.

I think most of us said to toss the winds inland. The best chances were just away from the shoreline. There were some high 60-70mph gusts in CT. It was probably a little more meh than I expected, but other than Kevin I don't think many were going wild here. We always laugh at the weenie gust maps that people post here and on Twitter. I gave Wizzy a bit of a hard time, but I didn't necessarily disagree with him...he just seemed a little needlessly angry about the higher wind forecasts. It was a pretty strong LLJ with torched low levels so I was intrigued to see it play out. The BOX numbers did seem over the top though.

MVL too.

Update

Next hour CAR should be warmer than EYW.

Nice. More snow for the chickens so far than Sugarbush.

The problem is a wave of low pressure formed on the front and really inverted the whole system. So up here it slowed and down south it accelerated...hence why we’re going to be getting the front and caa from the SW. It’s not as if the fronts up here are always slow...we can rip them through too. We’ve just had some exceptionally bad cutters lately. Plenty of winter to go though. We’ve rocked the 2nd half after a crap first half before (not that it’s been crap here).

There’s a lot of brightbanding right now on the edge of the beam.

Let me rephrase that...lol. Cutters can happen all season. But they don't look the same later in the season as they do now. We don't usually advect 50s dews up there later in Jan or Feb/Mar. It's more of a cold rain that does lesser damage.

Eh...cutters happen. This one sucked for Christmas standards, but it's not like they're that unusual in Dec or the first half of Jan. They become climatologically rare for NNE after the middle of Jan, but this is like expecting the dews to have settled in by June 25th.

My stream out in the back woods looks more like a river. Only about an inch so far, but most of the 2" in the pack has been lost too. Hope Alex is doing alright. Pack is starting to open up in spots. 55.9F

6th amendment

A lot of missings in NOWdata, but the only goose eggs I see are 1982 and 2006.

HIE warmer than MIA is a good one. Give it a couple hours and it’ll be CAR warmer than MIA.

As others have said that's a good link. I haven't done it in years, but when I used to make it it came out well. Most people have everything needed to make it. Sometimes it takes a few tries to get it down how you like it. I was making mine with my own eggs from my hens and raw heavy cream from the local farm which tastes superior to basic store cream and eggs.

Ever try making your own?

Guess I can order that new anemometer since the roof is almost completely clear. 58/57 RA

I was expecting you to go here...

Rain picking up now. 55.5° and 0.72”. The ground is completely thawed so at least everything is soaking in rather than piling up in the run. Overall not too bad. Last week feels like all a dream.

Up to 56.5°. Torchmas.

In a week we’ve gone from very little snow to 34” to very little snow.