December 2023

[Torch Tiger]

12 minutes ago, Sled said:

I can sort of understand not liking snow but you don't like pedestrians? How do you feel about that rock and roll music?

My day job is driving, and no I don't enjoy pedestrians (especially crowded, urban areas).  Add the blinding winter sun angle and it's pretty dangerous at times

[Sled]

Fair. Wild enough with all the brain donors driving around in their phones.

[Damage In Tolland]

6 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

My day job is driving, and no I don't enjoy pedestrians (especially crowded, urban areas).  Add the blinding winter sun angle and it's pretty dangerous at times

Amazon 

[WeatherX]

Amazon 

Mom’s basement


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[Sled]

3 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Amazon 

Weak troll, if you're going for it you gotta go with short bus.

[Ginx snewx]

30 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

I have; no blinding AM sun, no snow to slide around in, rain keeps many pedestrians/bikes/runners inside, on and on.  On top of that it's a holiday week so traffic is down.  It's awesome!

Weird

[Layman]

Through 1:30pm on 12/29/2023, my location has received 62.63" of rain since January 1, 2023 according to my PWS.  That seems like a significant amount.  Visualizing it as 5' of standing water covering everything here is pretty crazy.

Ironically, no real mushroom problem throughout the year.  Unlike other wet years, that didn't seem quite as wet in total as this one, where it was a constant battle between mud, trying to mow, and mushrooms blooming all over the yard.  

As I've gotten older and understand I have no power over the weather, I have a greater appreciation for what happens in the here and now as well as how it differs from season to season, year to year.  Weather is going to do what weather is going to do.  We simply experience it.  

[HIPPYVALLEY]

We have not seen the sun in the valley for days.

[powderfreak]

53 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Thru Jan 15, 2014, temps here were 5.0° BN, we'd had 3.46" total precip and 2.1" snow. 

Thats the month!  More inches of rain than snow but with significant below normal departures during coldest month of year.

[PWMan]

Driving home just now through yet another round of drizzle, it hit me that at this point I’d actually be excited to just see the sun for a while. Snow isn’t even part of the equation.

[dendrite]

Just had some thin spots in the ovc and some blue sky to the east, but it’s back to thick ovc again. The days and days of low 40s continue.

[Brewbeer]

45F and misery mist IMBY

[Lava Rock]

1 hour ago, PWMan said:

Driving home just now through yet another round of drizzle, it hit me that at this point I’d actually be excited to just see the sun for a while. Snow isn’t even part of the equation.

lol, flying back from LAX yesterday to BOS and there was sun above the clouds as we approached BOS. I knew it was going to be awhile before I saw it again when we dropped into the clouds. The cloud deck was really low at ~1300ft. I was watching the altitude from our seats and always appreciative the pilots know what they're doing as we were circling a bit at low alt then making the final turn to approach. My wife's been a FA for 38yrs so no big deal for her.  Landing was uneventful, unlike the AA flight yesterday into London

[rimetree]

Six days in a row with measurable precip. Maybe we can trade the mist for a little snow in the air tomorrow afternoon per 18z NAM.

[met_fan]

I have; no blinding AM sun, no snow to slide around in, rain keeps many pedestrians/bikes/runners inside, on and on.  On top of that it's a holiday week so traffic is down.  It's awesome!

Hating sun and pedestrians is a new one

[met_fan]

My December avg temp (37.4) is currently running less than a degree below my November temp (38.3). Do Decembers ever actually run warmer than Novembers in SNE?

[Chrisrotary12]

Is this the worst school vacation week ever? I’ve had 6 straight days of fog and rain. 

[dendrite]

55 minutes ago, met_fan said:

My December avg temp (37.4) is currently running less than a degree below my November temp (38.3). Do Decembers ever actually run warmer than Novembers in SNE?

I looked back at the historical monthlies of CON, BOS, ORH, and BDL and couldn’t find an instance of it happening. There is a nonzero chance of it though considering all of the sites have had Novembers with monthly means that were colder than some of the warmest December means…just not in the same season. 

Warm bias or not, ORH is threatening it this year, but will likely fall short. They are 38.5° after 29 days and November finished at 38.8°. 

[Spaizzo]

When did Seattle weather move to the north east this is bullcrap


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[dendrite]

41° and just had a heavy shower roll through. Seasons in seasons.

[ORH_wxman]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

I looked back at the historical monthlies of CON, BOS, ORH, and BDL and couldn’t find an instance of it happening. There is a nonzero chance of it though considering all of the sites have had Novembers with monthly means that were colder than some of the warmest December means…just not in the same season. 

Warm bias or not, ORH is threatening it this year, but will likely fall short. They are 38.5° after 29 days and November finished at 38.8°. 

Needed another all-day 40s on New Year’s Eve to have a chance but it looks like NYE is going to be sort of chilly for recent standards. Highs around 34-36 with lows a bit below freezing. 
 

Tomorrow morning’s low looks like it will get counterfeited too prior to midnight tomorrow night. 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

23 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Needed another all-day 40s on New Year’s Eve to have a chance but it looks like NYE is going to be sort of chilly for recent standards. Highs around 34-36 with lows a bit below freezing. 
 

Tomorrow morning’s low looks like it will get counterfeited too prior to midnight tomorrow night. 

Another good one would be finding out when many climate sites had their latest first day staying below 32 for a high. My lowest high here is 34 this season. 

[wx2fish]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

41° and just had a heavy shower roll through. Seasons in seasons.

This has been one miserable stretch. Pavement hasn't dried off in days. 

[ChangeofSeasonsWX]

Something that surprised me looking back at historical records for PVD is that despite being near the coast, it's actually very rare for them to maintain 100% rH throughout an entire day. 2023 has had five days with 100% rH, one on January 4th, one on April 30th, and then three this past month on December 3rd, 26th and 27th. Before that, the last time there was 100% rH for an entire day was May 13, 2002! More than 20 years ago. Delayed reaction to the Hunga Tonga eruption maybe? It released all that water vapor into the air.

[dryslot]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

41° and just had a heavy shower roll through. Seasons in seasons.

Made it to 36°F for a high here today, Mid levels have cooled enough for some frozen but no precip around yet, Some sun Sunday.

[tavwtby]

finishing Dec off with a bang huh, nearly 9" of rain, avg mean temp 35.5...and it's still raining, I'll have to check the archives on how this ranks in terms of Dec rain, that's even a lot of precip let alone RN only..

[met_fan]

Another good one would be finding out when many climate sites had their latest first day staying below 32 for a high. My lowest high here is 34 this season. 

34.5 is my low max

[Damage In Tolland]

23 minutes ago, tavwtby said:

finishing Dec off with a bang huh, nearly 9" of rain, avg mean temp 35.5...and it's still raining, I'll have to check the archives on how this ranks in terms of Dec rain, that's even a lot of precip let alone RN only..

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDfm-po_FUmvM&playnext=1&si=n82rDnhT0XeQ7rGS

[DavisStraight]

1 hour ago, met_fan said:

34.5 is my low max

I had a couple mid 30's for highs but nothing below freezing yet, we actually had a thin layer of ice on small ponds at the beginning of the month but that disappeared quickly.

[Ginx snewx]

69.2 for the year 2/3 years near 70