ORH_wxman Posted December 27, 2024 Share Posted December 27, 2024 1 hour ago, dendrite said: And then Jan 90 we struggled to get the 0C line south of MA. lol Yeah that was to be one of the most extreme dichotomies in back to back winter months we’ve seen. Jan/Feb 1981 might be up there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 27, 2024 Share Posted December 27, 2024 1 hour ago, codfishsnowman said: That November had some frigid weather too. I remember upper teens under at least partial sunshine and gusty NW to 30 mph. While the Thanksgiving snowstorm was meh the few inches that did fall blew and drifted all over the place under mostly cloudy skies and temps falling below 20F Yeah the frigid pattern actually started in mid-November 1989. There was a very brief interruption from a weak cutter a few days after Tday that year but otherwise it was pure frigid for like 6-7 weeks straight. One of the most vivid memories I have from that December was ice skating at Elm Park in ORH around Dec 10th or so. The ice was so thick already that you had it buckling near shore where the water was only like 6-8 inches deep and it had frozen to the bottom there. You prob couldn’t even ice skate on that pond by mid-January, lol. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted December 27, 2024 Share Posted December 27, 2024 8 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: I just looped the entire month of Dec 1989 on reanalysis and it's amazing. The first time the 850 0C line makes it north of MA is 12/31/89 the entire month. Most of the month is spent double digit negatives at 850mb. Didn't that winter end up not so good? I remember thinking this cold already, going to be a great year and was disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan2 Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 What is the latest with the light freezing rain tomorrow; is it mainly north of the pike? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 From this morning… super sharp inversion, but no visible signs of it either. It was 9F in the base area (where I took this with my phone), but 29F at the top of the lifts. It was below zero in town at this time too. From 1500ft to 3600ft (ridge is 4K)… a 20 degree temp rise on the lift ride up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimetree Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 I can recall going to the shore (seacoast NH) in December of '89 and seeing ice building up along the rocks where waves were causing freezing spray that had built up quite a bit. I don't remember there being a lot of snow but it was persistently cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 Went x-country skiing for my first time in Bretton Woods. Really beautiful. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 10F at 10pm. The inversion has been lingering. Should break tomorrow. The 34F at ORH is a sign. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 35° and rain. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan2 Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 31F here in E CT, very light glaze on the driveway 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metagraphica Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 36/36 with fog and drizzle here. KGON up to 41 already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 Still torched at the elevations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 2 hours ago, kdxken said: 35° and rain. Same here, nice cold drizzle, chills to the bone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 There was a nice glaze this morning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 38 and steady rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 18 hours ago, dendrite said: And then Jan 90 we struggled to get the 0C line south of MA. lol Living in Gardiner then, and 12/31/89 reached 38 after 32 days of highs 32 or lower (29 were 24 or lower). December's mean of 8.9° was 13.1° BN, then January came in at 17.4, which was +7.0. However, 12/89 brought 21.6" while Jan had 24.9. Lowest temp in Jan was -1, the same as December's average low, as that month featured 17 days at/under -1. The cold arrived with the Nov 21 thunderblizzard. I'd parked the ancient Subaru (2WD) pointing north, and the wind filled most of the space under the hood and froze the throttle cable, causing some "fun" as the battery was low - start/roar/shut down 3x before the cable ice shook off what I hadn't been able to scrape off. We were too far north for the T-Day storm but the max of 17 (with flurries) was easily the coldest in our 13 Novembers there. (Punched my deer tag that day as well. ) Next day's min of -1 was lowest by 6°. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 Took it off the trailer, Rip around the yard and loaded it back up. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 Lol, I don’t think I’ve ever heard “heavy drizzle” used in a forecast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 28, 2024 Share Posted December 28, 2024 43 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Lol, I don’t think I’ve ever heard “heavy drizzle” used in a forecast. Drizzle intensity is determined by visibility just like snow. 1/4sm or less is +DZ. DZ is >1/4sm and <=1/2sm. -DZ is >1/2sm. But yeah you never really see it in obs except for some stray AWOS sites. Usually the vis reduction gets attributed to fog so in ASOS METARs you see -DZ FG. I’ll assume the forecast algorithms just see the visibility forcecast with the drizzle forecast and if there’s 1/4sm in the grids “heavy drizzle” gets regurgitated in the wording. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 Decent inversion right now…. the lowest elevation is king of the cold right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 30.8° All iced up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 Sneaky 17° this morn at IZG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 14 hours ago, dendrite said: Drizzle intensity is determined by visibility just like snow. 1/4sm or less is +DZ. DZ is >1/4sm and <=1/2sm. -DZ is >1/2sm. But yeah you never really see it in obs except for some stray AWOS sites. Usually the vis reduction gets attributed to fog so in ASOS METARs you see -DZ FG. I’ll assume the forecast algorithms just see the visibility forcecast with the drizzle forecast and if there’s 1/4sm in the grids “heavy drizzle” gets regurgitated in the wording. Likely what happened here is that dense fog (+FG) was added to the grids, which carries a 1/4 mile visibility. Then drizzle was added and intensity was based off visibility (which was 1/4 mile because of the fog) so you get +DZ. But in reality I'm not sure I've ever seen a forecaster explicitly forecast DZ or +DZ, it's almost always -DZ. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 Nicer than expected. Sunny, mostly clear, 32fSent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Layman Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 Soggy & foggy here. Thicc. 34 degrees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 41f. Sun doing it's thing to melt the snow. Rain will take care of the rest. Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Kart Mozart Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 If the sun comes out we're gonna roast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 56 degrees here and we still growing... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 35.7° -RA Pack is softening up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 45 sugarloaf . About to drown my tears for Monday Tuesday. . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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