Ginx snewx Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Getting close to range where deets can be talked about. Euro weeklies have a definite period of lower heights this year, a better setup than we have seen the last few years. As we get closer we should be able to see if we can sneak in a miracle in the midst of hell. This was last years disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saber Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Last year my family and I went to Sedona AZ for Christmas and it was warmer here than there, woke up christmas morning to the ground covered in white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 4, 2015 Author Share Posted December 4, 2015 Last year my family and I went to Sedona AZ for Christmas and it was warmer here than there, woke up christmas morning to the ground covered in white.thats pretty awesome. My favorite was an early 80s Christmas Eve, 35 or so people down in the finished basement at Moms, oldest son maybe 4-6 at the time comes running down the stairs screaming its snowing , 35 plus people from Grandma to the littlest piled upstairs to every available window. It was a ULL that ended up dropping a couple of high ratio stuff, a magical moment for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Could work out this year.....0z GFS was amazing......lolz.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 thats pretty awesome. My favorite was an early 80s Christmas Eve, 35 or so people down in the finished basement at Moms, oldest son maybe 4-6 at the time comes running down the stairs screaming its snowing , 35 plus people from Grandma to the littlest piled upstairs to every available window. It was a ULL that ended up dropping a couple of high ratio stuff, a magical moment for sure. Yeah I had an experience like that in NC for Christmas 1999 with a surprise inch of snow on Christmas morning. Of course I think this one takes the cake: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/crp/?n=whitechristmas2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 Yeah I had an experience like that in NC for Christmas 1999 with a surprise inch of snow on Christmas morning. Of course I think this one takes the cake: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/crp/?n=whitechristmas2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3NDQ4SooIM lol I remember that well of course I remember a month later better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 lol I remember that well of course I remember a month later better As do I. I scored 21 inches in the Carolina Crusher in Southern Pines, NC and lost power for three days. Anyway as for this year up here I have to go with Grinch with this super nino in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 As do I. I scored 21 inches in the Carolina Crusher in Southern Pines, NC and lost power for three days. Anyway as for this year up here I have to go with Grinch with this super nino in place. I remember the date now, well checked my handwritten records. The week before Christmas it was 63 degrees in 1983, it snowed then melted on the 22nd,warmed to 48 then Christmas eve we had 2.25 of snow followed by still the coldest Christmas day in my life. Winds were sustained 40s gusts to 55 with temp low 10s dropping all day to zero and below with no letup in wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 Christmas Day 2002 is the standard for me. That was a fun day.wasnt that a early evening into the next day event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 White Christmas not going to happen if you believe the long range 12z GFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 White Christmas not going to happen if you believe the long range 12z GFS. lol wait 6 hrs. Can't even get Tues consistent yet and its Saturday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 You would know better than me (I was in middle school). 3.8" on the 25th, 4.0" on the 26th. Christmas snow all the way down to DCA apparently. ETA: random link http://www.raymondcmartinjr.com/weather/2003/25-Dec-02-SurfaceMaps.html yea meat of that came in around dark for us east of you Christmas day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 What I do remember about 02 was the ETA nailing the forecast with the low level warming before the secondary took over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Christmas Day 2002 is the standard for me. That was a fun day. Me too...we got two feet on Xmas that year. The storm peaked in the late afternoon and evening with a band of 3-5" per hour. The NY State Thruway was shut down near Albany. This was the band I remember...just incredible snow rates, up there for me with the band during Valentines Day 2007. The most intense snow band cranked snow out at five to six inches per hour during the late afternoon and evening over the Catskills and Mohawk valley. That band of blinding snow pivoted through the Capital Region during the evening and eventually ended up in western New England between 8:00 and 10:00pm in a somewhat weakened form. For ALB it crushed the December 25th daily record, with 19.2" falling during the calendar day (and a few inches falling after midnight on the 26th), breaking the 11" record from 1978. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Looks like the I-88 corridor and those higher elevations southwest of Albany got pounded with 24-32" of snowfall. My aunt and uncle drove from Albany to our place near NYC that day. The trip, which normally takes a bit more than 2 hours, was 6 hours. They expected the storm to change to rain south of Poughkeepsie, but it pounded snow the whole trip as we had a fast changeover. We got 11", and they couldn't get the car up our hill, had to park at the bottom. My uncle poured himself a triple shot of vodka after finishing that crazy drive and trudging up a 300' hill in boots to our house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Very warm and dry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Take a drive up to Quebec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Paul Gordon Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 It will be a white Christmas (somewhere). Actually, why not call one for us? EC snowstorm in the 22nd-24th range with significant amounts right to the coast. On the ground on Christmas with temps in the 30'sF (inland, at least) before another mild up then some changes come January (nothing all that cold, but not QUITE as warm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I'll go with 65F and sunny. Santa in jhorts and the reindeer suffering from heat exhaustion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 wasnt that a early evening into the next day event 2002 started around 6-7am in ORH from memory...but the bulk was afternoon and evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I remember the date now, well checked my handwritten records. The week before Christmas it was 63 degrees in 1983, it snowed then melted on the 22nd,warmed to 48 then Christmas eve we had 2.25 of snow followed by still the coldest Christmas day in my life. Winds were sustained 40s gusts to 55 with temp low 10s dropping all day to zero and below with no letup in wind. Colder (and windier) than 1980? On 12/25/1980, Boston had a low of -7 and an afternoon high about zero (and cheap 12:01 max of 35.) Farther north, I had an afternoon high of -16 in Ft. Kent with winds gusting into the 40s, and 1st CT Lake recorded -24/-32 (26th, with 7A obs), coldest non-MWN max I'd seen in New England, since tied on Mt. Mansfield, 1/15/2004. Boston's low on 12/25/1983 was zero. In that 1980 cold blast, only serendipity kept 10 people from freezing to death on a back road between Ft. Kent and Frenchville. Christmas 2002 remains as perhaps the sharpest precip cutoff loss since moving to my present location. Forecast was 8-12, we got 1". About 10 miles SE in Belgrade Village there was 8", and 20 miles farther SE in AUG it was 15". And I'd vote for another Grinch, but one cannot steal Christmas if there's no presents, can't Grinch winter if there's no winter (yet.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Colder (and windier) than 1980? On 12/25/1980, Boston had a low of -7 and an afternoon high about zero (and cheap 12:01 max of 35.) Farther north, I had an afternoon high of -16 in Ft. Kent with winds gusting into the 40s, and 1st CT Lake recorded -24/-32 (26th, with 7A obs), coldest non-MWN max I'd seen in New England, since tied on Mt. Mansfield, 1/15/2004. Boston's low on 12/25/1983 was zero. In that 1980 cold blast, only serendipity kept 10 people from freezing to death on a back road between Ft. Kent and Frenchville. Christmas 2002 remains as perhaps the sharpest precip cutoff loss since moving to my present location. Forecast was 8-12, we got 1". About 10 miles SE in Belgrade Village there was 8", and 20 miles farther SE in AUG it was 15". And I'd vote for another Grinch, but one cannot steal Christmas if there's no presents, can't Grinch winter if there's no winter (yet.) Yeah my subjective opinion on what a "Grinch" Christmas was is when we had good snowpack and then an ugly cutter that tries to take it away...some years we survived (2007, 2008, etc)...other years we did not (1996, 2003, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 give me 1966 again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 give me 1966 again... For those about to Rock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Yeah my subjective opinion on what a "Grinch" Christmas was is when we had good snowpack and then an ugly cutter that tries to take it away...some years we survived (2007, 2008, etc)...other years we did not (1996, 2003, etc). For BOS 12/25 (12/24 is nearly identical) Snow Depth Maximum Average Minimum Percent of Years >=1 inches >=3 inches >=6 inches >=12 inches 11 0.9 0 23% 15% 6% 0 12/23 Snow Depth Maximum Average Minimum Percent of Years >=1 inch >=3 inches >=6 inches >=12 inches 12 0.9 0 29% 11% 4% 2% 12/26 Snow Depth Maximum Average Minimum Percent of Years >=1 inch >=3 inches >=6 inches >=12 inches 12 1.2 0 29% 18% 6% 1% It's amazing how the statistics jump on either side of the holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 For BOS 12/25 (12/24 is nearly identical) Snow Depth Maximum Average Minimum Percent of Years >=1 inches >=3 inches >=6 inches >=12 inches 11 0.9 0 23% 15% 6% 0 12/23 Snow Depth Maximum Average Minimum Percent of Years >=1 inch >=3 inches >=6 inches >=12 inches 12 0.9 0 29% 11% 4% 2% 12/26 Snow Depth Maximum Average Minimum Percent of Years >=1 inch >=3 inches >=6 inches >=12 inches 12 1.2 0 29% 18% 6% 1% It's amazing how the statistics jump on either side of the holiday. lol oh how we know the Grinch is real You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch, You're a nasty wasty skunk,Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch, The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote, "Stink, stank, stunk"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 there is a chance here though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leo2000 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Anyone think there is a chance for a white Christmas for Nova Scotia Canada this year?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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