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Cold temps thread Fri/Sat Jan 3-4


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Right. So this was a once in 9-10 year shot. A high of 2 today

 

 

Norfolk has some quirky lookign data recently, I don't entirely trust it the past few years. I would think a couple cold shots recently could have been similar but they don't show up in the records as cold.

 

ORH had a high of 9F today...they had a high of 8F on both 1/24/11 and 1/26/07 recently...and a bunch of them like that between 2000-2005 when we had more 'bouts of -EPO. I don't personally view today's highs as all that rare. I view yesterday's temperatures during a coastal snowstorm as much much rarer...once every 4-6 decades or something. That's the part of this cold outbreak that should be pimped for historical.

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You guys want to talk about cold. How about this for Nashville.

 

 

   SAT 04| SUN 05| MON 06| TUE 07| WED 08| THU 09| FRI 10|SAT CLIMO
N/X  18  46| 33  50|  1   5|  1  23| 20  45| 31  42| 33  53| 38 27 46
TMP  21  41| 37  39|  6   2|  4  20| 23  39| 35  38| 35  47| 41
 

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I vaguely remember Christmas Day either 81 ort 82 with highs in the area of -5 in Southern Worc County, that was cold!

 

You might be thinking of 1980.  I was in new London then, and I think we even capped out at like 1 or something.

 

I had some cool mornings when I was living in Maine.  In Mass, I recall hitting -12 when I was living in Worcester back around 2004 or so.

 

I was hoping to be below zero by nightfall.  FTL.

 

1.2/-5

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Yeah, that is the coldest day I remember. It's too bad that the high was at at midnight which makes it look warmer in the weather record.

At my parents house we had a septic tank with issues around then (pipe had a crack or something). It got clogged Christmas morning and we had to stand outside and use a snake to unclog it. Tank was steaming

Ahhh the memories

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BOS hit -7 in January 2004. We had a shot at lower but some high clouds and pixy dust fell with temps below zilch. Temps went minuts by dark so I thought -10 was not only doable but probable and it may have been had it not been for the debris.

 

I was in upstate NY once and the temperature was -33. A true snot freezer. But it was due to extreme radiational cooling since during that same day temps rose over 50 degrees!

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No, it is very neat

Although I did not realize Nashville was that warm of a place

-50 departure here would rock

 

This will be an airmass where Atlanta up through DC will be colder than BOS. The trajectory of this airmass is right into the deep south and then southeast. Sometimes the Deep South can get these insane cold airmass plunging south without the mountains modifying it.

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Right. So this was a once in 9-10 year shot. A high of 2 today

Return periods don't quite work like that. Looking back over the past 30 years and eyeballing it I'd say on average a day with a sub-zero high occurs at least once every 6 years and a high of 5 or less about every 1-2 years. A day with a high of 2 or lower is somewhere in between.

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BOS hit -7 in January 2004. We had a shot at lower but some high clouds and pixy dust fell with temps below zilch. Temps went minuts by dark so I thought -10 was not only doable but probable and it may have been had it not been for the debris.

-10F wasn't happening at BOS. The core of the cold passed through over night and no one went calm. Winds were ripping 30-40mph. We had the below 0F SHSN up here too (at -10F). In fact I think the SHSN helped BOS get that extra 1-2F for -7F. We had the mid-level -30 to -35C core go right over us so we actually started getting WAA before sunrise.

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