December 2024 - Best look to an early December pattern in many a year!

[WinterWolf]

50 minutes ago, Patrick-02540 said:

This morning at 6am I hit exactly 10" for the season (6" alone from that over-performing clipper 10 days ago).  The long-term average for this area is 9.6 to 10.4" for December, depending on what data source you look at.   Now I feel the essential numbness that arises with climate equilibrium.

Hasn’t been a bad December for us inland CT folks this go around.  A lot of us are firmly on the board, and for guys like you, you’re at 100% of normal December snowfall. Again, can’t complain. 

[ice1972]

12 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Hasn’t been a bad December for us inland CT folks this go around.  A lot of us are firmly on the board, and for guys like you, you’re at 100% of normal December snowfall. Again, can’t complain. 

Its not great......another bone job TBH.......

[WinterWolf]

30 minutes ago, ice1972 said:

Its not great......another bone job TBH.......

It’s not bad either. Below normal temps, and some are at 60-70% of normal snowfall for December, and others are at 100% of normal for December, at the half way point.  So certainly much better than last December here.   
 

You need to move back to Tahoe bro. 

[ice1972]

2 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

It’s not bad either. Below normal temps, and some are at 60-70% of normal snowfall for December, and others are at 100% of normal for December, at the half way point.  So certainly much better than last December here.   
 

You need to move back to Tahoe bro. 

It’s pedestrian - December’s seemed to be better when we first moved here in 2004….then total skunk job last decade or so….definitely want to end up back in Tahoe where 500+ is a bone job lol

[40/70 Benchmark]

2 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

It’s not bad either. Below normal temps, and some are at 60-70% of normal snowfall for December, and others are at 100% of normal for December, at the half way point.  So certainly much better than last December here.   
 

You need to move back to Tahoe bro. 

It is bad for much of the region.

[UnitedWx]

2 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

It’s not bad either. Below normal temps, and some are at 60-70% of normal snowfall for December, and others are at 100% of normal for December, at the half way point.  So certainly much better than last December here.   
 

You need to move back to Tahoe bro. 

Or the Berkshires/Norfolk CT!

[wxeyeNH]

31F  Freezing drizzle and freezing rain.  From what I hear driving is extremely dangerous in Central NH.  It has been in the 20s all day with a bit of snow earlier.  

 

[UnitedWx]

22 minutes ago, ice1972 said:

It’s pedestrian - December’s seemed to be better when we first moved here in 2004….then total skunk job last decade or so….definitely want to end up back in Tahoe where 500+ is a bone job lol

Because that was an abnormally snowy period 

[kdxken]

Okay, I've poo pooed the entire drone thing. But ...I caught this on my game camera last night. Not for nothing, but that looks like a jetpack on his back and a ray gun on his hip. 

 

 

 

 

[dendrite]

3 hours ago, dendrite said:

29.5° with violent -ZL

31.7° with less violent ZL

[ice1972]

5 minutes ago, UnitedWx said:

Because that was an abnormally snowy period 

I don’t want normal….i want above normal all the time - nobody wants normal seasons…..lol

[Patrick-02540]

8 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Okay, I've poo pooed the entire drone thing. But ...I caught this on my game camera last night. Not for nothing, but that looks like a jetpack on his back and a ray gun on his hip. 

 

 

 

 

That's a backpack full of your best seasoned hardwood.  And a ray gun.  

[Typhoon Tip]

8 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

Does anyone else feel in a weird spot between time moving faster but also slower? October absolutely flew by as did November...but it seemed like time slowed a bit towards the end of November. It seems like December is going by quickly...but slowly at the same time. Not sure if the weather is factoring into that at all but think about this...

We have not even officially hit winter yet and it feels like winter has sucked lmao. I mean...it's only freaking mid-December lol. It's like there is so much investment in OP runs looking at storms that pop up at 240+ hours that after like a month of being into the cool season, it's nothing but mental exhaustion. Reading some of the posts over the last week or two...you would think we're in like mid-February or late February and haven't had anything...it's only mid-December and we just hit that point. I gotta stop doing that too and breathe and realize its only mid-December. 

all the wormhole portals by the alien sentinel drones opening and closing is causing temporal ripple effect in the local space. 

[WinterWolf]

39 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

It is bad for much of the region.

Well I was speaking for this area…I know others have been pretty much skunked. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

4 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Well I was speaking for this area…I know others have been pretty much skunked. 

Yea, I get it....you guys have had a pretty nice month.

[HoarfrostHubb]

Sucks that it is paywalled, but for those who can read it, interesting take by 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/16/metro/dave-epstein-new-england-snow-winter-forecast/

[kdxken]

11 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Sucks that it is paywalled, but for those who can read it, interesting take by 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/16/metro/dave-epstein-new-england-snow-winter-forecast/

Not sure I like his analogs that much.

[WinterWolf]

1 hour ago, ice1972 said:

It’s pedestrian - December’s seemed to be better when we first moved here in 2004….then total skunk job last decade or so….definitely want to end up back in Tahoe where 500+ is a bone job lol

My my how fast you forget..let me jog your memory-Dec ‘19 and Dec ‘20 had very good snow events. Dec ‘20 event was 12-18”.  Dec ‘19 had about a 9” snow event.  

[HIPPYVALLEY]

26 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Sucks that it is paywalled, but for those who can read it, interesting take by 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/16/metro/dave-epstein-new-england-snow-winter-forecast/

Good read. 

The Globe will always give you a good online subscription deal if you spend a few minutes on the phone with them. 

[TalcottWx]

At my high of the day: 35f. We had 2" earlier this morning, bringing us to a total of 6" for the winter in Simsbury. 

[USCG RS]

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

all the wormhole portals by the alien sentinel drones opening and closing is causing temporal ripple effect in the local space. 

This started on CoViD - 

[40/70 Benchmark]

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

My my how fast you forget..let me jog your memory-Dec ‘19 and Dec ‘20 had very good snow events. Dec ‘20 event was 12-18”.  Dec ‘19 had about a 9” snow event.  

It was Dec 2019 that had the MECS. They all melted quickly, though.

[ice1972]

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

My my how fast you forget..let me jog your memory-Dec ‘19 and Dec ‘20 had very good snow events. Dec ‘20 event was 12-18”.  Dec ‘19 had about a 9” snow event.  

I do remember being pissed off in that Dec 2020 event because nothing really happened after that so we lost the good start to the season….Inremember ranting about that pretty hard….lol

[WinterWolf]

10 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

It was Dec 2019 that had the MECS. They all melted quickly, though.

Dec ‘20 too Ray. Had 16” plus here. 

[WxWatcher007]

1 hour ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Yea, I get it....you guys have had a pretty nice month.

I wouldn’t classify it as that. Most of us are still well below Dec climo. But it’s all relative. 

[WinterWolf]

1 minute ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I wouldn’t classify it as that. Most of us are still well below Dec climo. But it’s all relative. 

Another couple inches or so here and I’ll be at normal Dec climo snow. 

[ice1972]

1 hour ago, ice1972 said:

I do remember being pissed off in that Dec 2020 event because nothing really happened after that so we lost the good start to the season….Inremember ranting about that pretty hard….lol

Ya - despite having that event in December 2020 the season total in Hartford that season ended up at 30"....well below the 50" or so average......Hartford hasn't had a normal total since 2018-19.....and here we are about to lose December and the first half of January.....so theres only 6 weeks to get it done......pathetic the last half decade - so even in the CTRV that all youse like to remind me I live in it has been pathetic.......time to get shit going again

[WxWatcher007]

I finished at 44.4” in 2020-21. No other season since 2018-19 has come close. 

[DavisStraight]

37 minutes ago, ice1972 said:

Ya - despite having that event in December 2020 the season total in Hartford that season ended up at 30"....well below the 50" or so average......Hartford hasn't had a normal total since 2018-19.....and here we are about to lose December and the first half of January.....so theres only 6 weeks to get it done......pathetic the last half decade - so even in the CTRV that all youse like to remind me I live in it has been pathetic.......time to get shit going again

I wouldn't punt until mid-January just yet.

[ice1972]

9 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

I wouldn't punt until mid-January just yet.

We're within 4 weeks of that and it doesn't look good.....punt.....