December 2023

[WinterWolf]

3 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

My only real high-end snowfall since moving to Methuen in 10/2018 was during December 2019.

You’ve had it bad there…19 and 20 was great here. 2017 it was Xmas morning..not a ton but shovel-able.  
 

My bigger point was that his call of a decade and a half is complete crap. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

Just now, WinterWolf said:

You’ve had it bad there…19 and 20 was great here. 2017 it was Xmas morning..not a ton but shovel-able.  

Yea, I have been paying for March 2018 ever since....tab has to be about settled.

[Lava Rock]

40 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Some sticky crap.

I forgot to lock in my PTO for the blower and it kept kicking off. I was like wtf, is going on then realized I had forgotten to make sure the coupler was fully attached to the shaft. 

[CoastalWx]

2 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

You’ve had it bad there…19 and 20 was great here. 2017 it was Xmas morning..not a ton but shovel-able.  
 

My bigger point was that his call of a decade and a half is complete crap. 

They were great for a week. 

[dryslot]

1 minute ago, Lava Rock said:

I forgot to lock in my PTO for the blower and it kept kicking off. I was like wtf, is going on then realized I had forgotten to make sure the coupler was fully attached to the shaft. 

Did you get it fixed?

[WinterWolf]

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

They were great for a week. 

They were great…all that matters.  You take a good one when you can, and don’t moan. This is SNE…not Quebec City. 

[Hazey]

Around 8” and still snowing. Going out to snowblow. Great start to December here.

[SouthCoastMA]

Just looked at the GEFS, EPS, GEPS for the first time this winter. Yikes

[Layman]

Dec 3:  Dropped to a low of 35.2 with 0.85" of rain

Dec 4:  Low of 32.7 and 0.18" of rain as of 8:15am

My brother in Wolfeboro at 800' ASL has about 2" of wet compacted snow.

Sister in Farmington NH also has about 2" but I'm not sure of her exact elevation compared to the other Farmington posters here.  She's not on the ridge and maybe at 400' ASL.

[Lava Rock]

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

Did you get it fixed?

oh yeah, after a couple trys, once the collar locked, I was good. New to shaft driven blower = rookie mistake

 

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, WinterWolf said:

They were great…all that matters.  You take a good one when you can.  

They had a great storm in an overall suck month. Meh.

[dryslot]

1 minute ago, Lava Rock said:

oh yeah, after a couple trys, once the collar locked, I was good. New to shaft driven blower = rookie mistake

 

I've never had one, Belt only.

[Lava Rock]

12" at sunday river

[tamarack]

 

Our 55 lb Lab mix wondering when I will clear the driveway.  Still some light snow after 9.2" from 0.84" LE.  After a trace of rain about 12:15 PM yesterday, it's been light/moderate since then.

[WinterWolf]

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

They had a great storm in an overall suck month. Meh.

See, that doesn’t bother me one bit. Again, we live in a place where it snows..the snow doesn’t always stick around. Who gives a shit? As long as it snows. When I can get 12-18” in a December storm, I say thank you. 

[Brian5671]

Wet stretch here last few days.   Nice to see the sun this morning.

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

23 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

2017 Didn’t suck. 2018 we had significant snow in November. 2019 didn’t suck. 2020 didn’t suck.  Your recollections are horrible. If you’re gonna whine, then at least get your December facts correct. I just provided you with 4 that didn’t suck.  So your claim of a 15 year run of bad December’s is not correct. 
 

We knew a warm up was coming.  That doesn’t mean the whole month is toast. In 2010, we had Boxing Day, then it all melted and got warm less than a week later, and then Jan ‘11 came after that warm up. 

Boxing Day was the last significant winter storm in December down here. That was 13 years ago. My recollection is fine, maybe it was better in your area, but not here.

We don’t always need to polish a turd.

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

15 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

Just looked at the GEFS, EPS, GEPS for the first time this winter. Yikes

Like I mentioned last night. The holiday period for a turnaround is probably early.

[Brian5671]

2 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Boxing Day was the last significant winter storm in December down here. That was 13 years ago. My recollection is fine, maybe it was better in your area, but not here.

We don’t always need to polish a turd.

You didn't get anything in the Dec 2020 storm?

[Damage In Tolland]

Euro looks to have won the string weekend screamer idea . Looks like a beast  Sunday into Sunday night with high winds and heavy rains 

[WinterWolf]

5 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Boxing Day was the last significant winter storm in December down here. That was 13 years ago. My recollection is fine, maybe it was better in your area, but not here.

We don’t always need to polish a turd.

Not polishing a turd…showing there’s been significant big snow in December.  Ok, if you missed out on 19 and 20 on the big snows in December…I thought you were in on those. You’ve done better in almost every single event there, so I figured you scored in those. Almost 10” her in 19(and those were the lower amounts, others did even better), and 15 plus in 20…those aren’t lousy storms in December. 

[WinterWolf]

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Euro looks to have won the string weekend screamer idea . Looks like a beast  Sunday into Sunday night with high winds and heavy rains 

A week out …that will change too. 

[Brian5671]

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Euro looks to have won the string weekend screamer idea . Looks like a beast  Sunday into Sunday night with high winds and heavy rains 

At least it would be something exciting...

[40/70 Benchmark]

4 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

A week out …that will change too. 

Maybe over Cleveland over Albany instead of Buffalo.

[CoastalWx]

HRRR goes wild near the PYM county beaches Tuesday night. Hoping for a little whitener here, but who knows.

[ORH_wxman]

Yeah the cutter is very likely happening around Dec 10....beyond that is somewhat uncertain. Not a good pattern but not a total hopeless one either.

Still looking good on extended guidance for late month....we'll see how that pans out, but it's kind of remarkable how consistent the weeklies and other longer range guidance have been about flipping to a much more favorable pattern in late Dec and then as we head into January. IT is likely due to very good agreement on all that guidance of the MJO heading into phase 8 by roughly 12/20-12/22.

[CoastalWx]

It's a strong wave as modeled near the dateline mid month. It also feels like the ensembles are showing signs of shuffling a bit near the 20th. It's not a 2015 look going forward, but probably same areas favored that are getting snow currently. 

[WinterWolf]

13 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Maybe over Cleveland over Albany instead of Buffalo.

Should have been more clear, I meant the intensity, and high wind aspect. I’ll sell that here for now.  The cutter I agree with. 

[powderfreak]

3.5” on 1” Water at home.

Mountain 8-10” snow.

Just another crushing blue bomb.

[40/70 Benchmark]

4 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah the cutter is very likely happening around Dec 10....beyond that is somewhat uncertain. Not a good pattern but not a total hopeless one either.

Still looking good on extended guidance for late month....we'll see how that pans out, but it's kind of remarkable how consistent the weeklies and other longer range guidance have been about flipping to a much more favorable pattern in late Dec and then as we head into January. IT is likely due to very good agreement on all that guidance of the MJO heading into phase 8 by roughly 12/20-12/22.

Yea, I don't get the reluctance of some to buy into this...must be just mild winter PTSD. But I know if had that kind of consistent, strong consensus for a crap pattern, the skepticism would be met with buns.