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

[Typhoon Tip]

20 minutes ago, brooklynwx99 said:

yeah, I kinda like the 3-6th more... Arctic airmass gets entrenched with a 50/50 ULL sitting nearby, block weakening and an open STJ. fireworks with this kind of look

prediction ... we'll get a significant system on the charts for the 1/2nd ... then, the 5th appears, and starts to take over for a few days.  the 2nd perhaps almost disappears in lieu of 5th...then, on dec 30 at 12z the 2nd comes roaring back and the 5th is still there but it just looks like something's oddly pulling at it.  then the 18z is the same-ish... but the 00z makes a sudden all out bomb out of the 2nd and the 5th is shredded...  

or, reverse that order -

i mean, that's the song and dance, not what Tiger' just snarked -

[40/70 Benchmark]

2 hours ago, brooklynwx99 said:

I'm worried about the airmass for that threat, though. I think there's some kind of wave that moves through afterwards as that one you mentioned establishes a 50/50 ULL that can be a larger snow threat

I'd prefer a questionable airmass...all set with an arcric dome over se Canada...

[40/70 Benchmark]

1 hour ago, rimetree said:

Basically -20 to -30 every year in that timeframe with decent events every so often

Yup.

[kdxken]

Sheesh Is it cold. My beer is freezing. Been a while since that's happened. Guess I just got a drink faster.

[alex]

21 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Sheesh Is it cold. My beer is freezing. Been a while since that's happened. Guess I just got a drink faster.

Yep. Down to 7, which is the forecasted high for tomorrow. My sister is flying in from Italy tonight and we have tickets for Santa’s Village. Gonna feel like the North Pole 

[dendrite]

2 hours ago, tamarack said:

Siggy AN here, maybe, but not a torch.  My running average for December temps rose to 22.36° after 12/15's record 29.69.  We then had 4 straight BN months ('17 at 14.32, our coldest) that dragged the avg down to 21.64.  Then 20-23 were all AN, especially 22&23, and the avg is back to 22.34.  I expect this month to finish in the +1 to -1 range.

CON would be +3.6F through yesterday if this was the 90s. I’d probably call that “siggy AN” too given the larger winter std deviations, but it’s pushing it. Of course we’ll knock a couple off the departure the next few days. Tomorrow will be a deep winter day…may push a sub 10F mean here.

[powderfreak]

5 minutes ago, alex said:

Yep. Down to 7, which is the forecasted high for tomorrow. My sister is flying in from Italy tonight and we have tickets for Santa’s Village. Gonna feel like the North Pole 

It is brutal out right now.  3F at 1500ft, wind chill -20s.

Have a fireworks display and ice skating exhibition tonight at the mountain… wind is honking hard, blowing snow, snowing arctic flakes, and it is so cold.

Down to -6F at 3,600ft.

[dendrite]

Toss the DAW ASOS into the GOM. It’s actually colder at IOSN3 right now.

[bwt3650]

With over a foot this month , this has been a good winter month. Not great , but good . It’s been cold and several good snow events. I was 100% wrong and I have a sneaking suspicion this winter might well be at or AN for snowfall looking at the progs ahead. This is how Dec is supposed to be. Dark, cold, snowy , low sun angle , holidays. Not the spring Morch stuff that melts before it stops falling and rapidly increasing daylight and temps and high sun angle 

I agree…it’s felt like December. People leaving the house tonight bundled up and hearing the cracking of ice and seeing snow on the ground makes it feel as it should.


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[mreaves]

6 hours ago, kdxken said:

Dendrite's chickens tomorrow.

Instead of quack it was f*ck!

[mreaves]

Pretty wintry. Snowed most of the day and has been breezy. My high was 19.7° just after midnight, it’s been dropping ever since. 6° now. It’s cold enough for the snow to squeak. That’s been rare the last few years. 

[dryslot]

To windy to get to zero tonight, Better chance tomorrow night, 14.7F

[ineedsnow]

it was pretty crazy driving to leominster today.. about 5 miles from here there's only about a half inch or so in Gardner then started driving further and got to be a bit more again.. just missed the total screw zone yesterday 

[WxWatcher007]

High of 28.8° so the cold overperformed a bit. Currently at 18.6/9.0.

[DavisStraight]

Im at 17, not sure if Ill get to single digits tonight, maybe tomorrow night.

[Patrick-02540]

39 minutes ago, dryslot said:

To windy to get to zero tonight, Better chance tomorrow night, 14.7F

That's the tradeoff.  It will feel colder tonight, but be colder tomorrow night.  

[alex]

5 degrees with blowing snow. Winter of yore

[powderfreak]

The 3sm haze obs in the valleys is classic low level arctic airmass stuff.  -SN or HZ, hard to tell the difference.  Cold crystals in the air.

[Torch Tiger]

2 hours ago, alex said:

5 degrees with blowing snow. Winter of yore

the best winter ever

[WinterWolf]

3 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

High of 28.8° so the cold overperformed a bit. Currently at 18.6/9.0.

We were told that doesn’t happen anymore…I guess it does!   13 degrees now. We take and like.   

[dendrite]

7.5°

Terrible and useless 

[H2Otown_WX]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

7.5°

Terrible and useless 

Imagine being in MSP

[40/70 Benchmark]

11.5

[Snowedin]

This f’ing blows. It’s too cold to do anything out unless you enjoy the feeling of freezing your balls off. It does feel like winter, I’ll give y’all that much. At least the daylight (the part that matters) is slowly swinging in the other direction, thank the lord for that! 

[kdxken]

Maybe not days of yore but plenty cold.

[Modfan2]

2 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Maybe not days of yore but plenty cold.

Same here,  10F in E CT.