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Yeah I forgot my several inches beginning on my birthday…lol. I guess I blotted out that winter which started with so much promise and dudded.

Some years it did. Most years it didn’t. I was also affected by impressions because growing up in the 50s in NNJ we had a string of years where we got decent snow in the first week of December. Then we went 15-20 years without, then a string with,etc. the early 2000s were good. The 20s have been bad. Even the big dump of 2020 came in the 2nd half of the month.

Today is December 2nd. Normals highs for selected locations north to south: CAR: 33 BTV: 40 BGR: 40 AUG: 40 CON: 42 PWM: 43 MHT: 44 BOS: 46 ORH: 42 BDL: 45 PVD: 48 SNEers-your expectations are out of whack.

It's true that everyone used to not worry too much but Covid often puts you down for a week-who needs it? Also, everything has changed. I was going to my friend's house to watch football last Sunday and when I called him, he sounded sick. I asked him and he said he had a cold but is covid negative. I told him great on that but I don't want a cold. So I canceled because who wants to feel like crap? Maybe we're all getting soft but I like feeling good.

Interesting and odd combo. Better would be pizza with that beer?

Bummer!

Big 4 finals for November 2023: BOS: -1.7 ORH: -1.4* BDL: -2.0 PVD: -3.1*

Heads up-Clarke's moved to 12/20 to accommodate Bruins/Celtics schedule and ability to find a parking space.

Heads up guys-moved to 12/20 to better accommodate parking with neither Bruins nor Celtics playing in town that night.

Great memories Steve! I think we had another one at Funky’s a month later and I was worried about the futility record. Will predicted a total for Logan of 53 inches. End result was more than double that.

Whenever I think of Tewksbury I am reminded of the commercials during Bruins games in the 70s. “Hi this is Jim Pierce of Jim Pierce Ford World in Tewksbury”. He pronounced it as Tewkshbury.

Where are you looking? I imagine you’ll lock in a nice profit on your house given the market and years in that location.

Yeah that was the 84 hour NAM perusal. I’m amazed at how much younger and thinner I looked 6 years ago!

I believe the scientific method disagrees with your reasoning. Perhaps 100 years from now we’ll have better data but I’m not counting on being here to find out.

FYP

The big question is whether or not there's a game at the Garden that night. There is a Bruins game on the 19th. I've found spots on Canal Street but more likely in places like New Chardon Street which is about a 5-10 minute walk to Clarke's.

Getting back to sample size. Bluewave, sample size of 7 is simply not scientifically valid. This is one of the reasons seasonal forecasts often are unreliable. Let's take the case of medical research. Accepted treatment modalities are formed from huge studies involving many locations often with sample sizes in the tens of thousands or higher. So one can speculate based on an n of 7 but if it busts it doesn't mean that bust is an outlier. We have a limited number of years where we have drilled down this far in data.

Ya just gotta cope when the pope says nope.

Amazing bravery and valor!

A below normal November is sealed it would seem. Through 11/27: BOS: -1.4 BDL: -1.9 PVD: -2.8* ORH: -1.0*

Then it’s Uber from my house or walk from Coolidge Corner.

The '66 Christmas event had my brother and I shoveling the front sidewalk of my Dad's pharmacy. There was a wave of men dropping dead of heart disease then so if there were able bodied offspring they were the default shovelers. It was nice snow-maybe 4-6 inches in the Englewood/Tenafly area. Mostly occurred Christmas morning similar to 2017 here but not as cold.

1957. I believe the storm was 12/4-5. In those days kids came home for lunch and my mother made a nice little lunch bday party for me having just turned 11 on the 1st. It was cloudy with the sky lowering and clouds thickening but temperatures were a problem. We ended up with a foot+ from the dynamic nature of the snow. So yes-12/5 was seared into my memory early. It was within a few days of that date the following year for our first meaningful snow. 50s/60s were early winters really lasting into the early 70s.

Yeah I park in Coolidge Corner and either walk or take the green line depending on my timing.

In December,, 1960, my father scored Giants tickets against the expansion Cowboys who were 0-7 up to that point. They managed to tie the Giants that nearly 70 degree day 12/4/60. As that week progressed, temperatures stepped down to normal but the following Saturday was still 40s by day dropping sub freezing Saturday night. I wake up Sunday to what was then "provisional heavy snow warning" which is akin to WS Watch today. My mother made me sweep the oak leaves out of the garage and I happily did it as we faced north and the stinging wind carrying termperatures in the low 20s was in my face. Cirrus was spreading across the sky which by mid day was starting to blot out the sun. I turn on the Giants/Washington game at DC and the announcers start by saying we're having a blizzard in Washington! YA Tittle hits Del Shofner who scored the TD and ended in a snowbank. by 3PM it begins snowing lightly with the temperature near 20. It was one of those deals where it took forever to develop but unbeknownst to me the secondary was bombing off Hatteras and slowing down. We had an inch from 3-9PM. Then things began ramping up and at bedtime, with my bedroom facing the side of the house, I often opened the window and stuck my head out and craned my neck to check out the street light across the street-and low and behold it was starting to snow hard. I woke up at 5 AM to a raging blizzard-one of the all timers given the wind gusts exceeding 50 MPH at times, temperature of 9F, and heavy snow. Looking back and reflecting on Tip's post above, I am thinking that's how you do a December blizzard. We ended up with 18-24 throughout much of the area. It was one of 3 biggies to hit DC-New England during that glorious winter of 1960-61.