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

[Damage In Tolland]

Just now, ORH_wxman said:

SE NH is def the pork zone so far relative to climo. Areas like ASH to Derry over to DAW have been screwed pretty bad. They average double digits in December and while there’s still a couple weeks to go, they’ll keep falling behind unless a miracle happens on Friday or that Xmas system delivers. 

Why are you ruling out a couple inches interior from the IVT?

[Sey-Mour Snow]

1 minute ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Its going to rain far off of the shore, dude.

It’s day 7-8, have some faith, add it to your prayers, it’s the most wonderful time of the year.  

[40/70 Benchmark]

Just now, ORH_wxman said:

SE NH is def the pork zone so far relative to climo. Areas like ASH to Derry over to DAW have been screwed pretty bad. They average double digits in December and while there’s still a couple weeks to go, they’ll keep falling behind unless a miracle happens on Friday or that Xmas system delivers. 

Pretty much me..though maybe worse just north of me.

[ORH_wxman]

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Why are you ruling out a couple inches interior from the IVT?

I wasn’t. SE NH is unlikely to be a good spot for the upcoming system or any IVT. Best shot at an inch or two is SE MA and then maybe some IVT stuff in CT if you get lucky. I wouldn’t actually count on it though. 

[ROOSTA]

Love this place,
ONE.....LOL said it all

So close,
Looks a little toasty...
Here come the passive aggressive.
Nice to watch from afar. 

[Ginx snewx]

5 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Dec 1968 was pretty brutal. Check out Boston’s F6 data for that month. Very cold month with over 6” of QPF and 5 inches of snow. 

I remember it so well. Southern RI zero snow 6 inches of water 5 BN lots of ice skating though. Christmas was brutal don't think we got out of single digits. I have Christmas family pics with brown grass and every one bundled.

[Ginx snewx]

8 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

A bit more than 20 probably within 75% of climo but yes EMASS and the entire south coast have been porked. 

Love this map. Lol let's do this all winter. Melting down now the.melts by March would be all timers.

[40/70 Benchmark]

1 hour ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Unreal....I challenge anyone not named Will to find a winter month that featured this combination of cold with excessive QPF, yet managed to avoid snow so skillfully....probably something close in the 1980s, maybe.

 

29 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Dec 1968 was pretty brutal. Check out Boston’s F6 data for that month. Very cold month with over 6” of QPF and 5 inches of snow. 

I knew you would know

[mreaves]

1 hour ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Unreal....I challenge anyone not named Will to find a winter month that featured this combination of cold with excessive QPF, yet managed to avoid snow so skillfully....probably something close in the 1980s, maybe.

@powderfreakwill have to verify for me but I think January 2014, up here, featured brutal cold interspersed with driving rain.  

[CoastalWx]

2 minutes ago, mreaves said:

@powderfreakwill have to verify for me but I think January 2014, up here, featured brutal cold interspersed with driving rain.  

I think that is the month where Tamarack had a frigid month with more inches of rain vs snow. 

[mreaves]

Just now, CoastalWx said:

I think that is the month where Tamarack had a frigid month with more inches of rain vs snow. 

I think so.  It was the same here.  It could have been January 2015

[dendrite]

37 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Dec 1968 was pretty brutal. Check out Boston’s F6 data for that month. Very cold month with over 6” of QPF and 5 inches of snow. 

The 2nd half of Dec 73 we had 3 soakers up here with below zero in between. 

9.93” w.e. and 3.0” snow on the month  

 

[H2Otown_WX]

42 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Here comes the normal snowfall posts from a 20 sq  mile area of CT.

Most of us are solidly on the board. It could have been an at or above normal snowfall month for a larger area, we just didn't know. No one did. Could be a snowy month for January, could be a rainy month. We'll just wait and see.

[40/70 Benchmark]

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

The 2nd half of Dec 73 we had 3 soakers up here with below zero in between. 

9.93” w.e. and 3.0” snow on the month  

 

1973-1974 was one of my stronger analogs, ironically enough.

[rimetree]

42 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Pretty much me..though maybe worse just north of me.

Recurring theme. I've had 8" total in December since 2021.

[40/70 Benchmark]

18 minutes ago, mreaves said:

@powderfreakwill have to verify for me but I think January 2014, up here, featured brutal cold interspersed with driving rain.  

2013-2014 and 1993-1994 are two of the more overrated winters from my persecptive...espcially the former.

[40/70 Benchmark]

Just now, rimetree said:

Recurring theme. I've had 8" total in December since 2021.

I think se MA has "caught up" at least somewhat, but for awhile, our area was ground zero for the post 2015 porking.

[dendrite]

3 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

1973-1974 was one of my stronger analogs, ironically enough.

I would’ve lost it

[WinterWolf]

1 minute ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

2013-2014 and 1993-1994 are two of the more overrated winters from my persecptive...espcially the former.

Kind of the reverse for 2015 here. 93-94 was a record breaker here, and 2015 was a record breaker there. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

2 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Kind of the reverse for 2015 here. 93-94 was a record breaker here, and 2015 was a record breaker there. 

93-94 was near record in most spots...Boston did set a record that was eclipsed in 1995-1996...ORH was close.....but my area was always caught in between. Most of the events were either CJ or elevation deals. I had 78.5"...which was decent, but nothing to write home about.

[ORH_wxman]

Dec '73 had almost 10 inches of QPF at ORH with 0.9 inches of snow....that's about as bad as it gets. It wasn't that cold, but it wasn't a full-on torch either. Just a bit AN....that would usually produce plenty of snow in that.

[OceanStWx]

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I would’ve lost it

[forkyfork]

digging up other bad years instead of tracking something interesting. sad!

[Great Snow 1717]

9 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

2013-2014 and 1993-1994 are two of the more overrated winters from my persecptive...espcially the former.

...not from my perspective....I'll take 93-94 24/7/365

[40/70 Benchmark]

Just now, Great Snow 1717 said:

...not from my perspective....I'll take 93-94 24/7/365

Yea, a lot of people feel that way. I am in the minority. Understood...you may have done a bit better in Methuen than I did in Wilmington, too.....def. some interior jobs.

[dendrite]

5 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

digging up other bad years instead of tracking something interesting. sad!

Merry Christmas Michael 

[Great Snow 1717]

3 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Yea, a lot of people feel that way. I am in the minority. Understood...you may have done a bit better in Methuen than I did in Wilmington, too.....def. some interior jobs.

...do you mean the new Rodent capital???

[40/70 Benchmark]

3 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

...do you mean the new Rodent capital???

Yea, hopefully AMC gets cleaned up....convenient spot there.

[Prismshine Productions]

1 hour ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Ya true but they might get more snow up there the next 2 weeks.. Trying to find a snow anomaly map, no luck on a good one

best I can find:

[weatherwiz]

I like how that map captures that narrow area from northeast Kansas into Kentucky...probably from that one "event" a few weeks back