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

[weathafella]

17 minutes ago, cleetussnow said:

Can't have snow without cold, and we have cold coming into the picture. 

A lot of us are fans of snow, like a football team.  Last couple years we were all Jets fans sadly.  Maybe this year we can be Buffalo Bills fans (in December anyway).  Root for a winning team that actually has a shot.

 And don't mention ride right.  I'll come to your house.

2012-13 was a warm winter-and pretty snowy .  BOS had 50%+ above average snow for the season.  So I guess I’m saying regarding your first sentence, yes you can but I agree not in the first half of December.

[WxWatcher007]

26 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

None of this means we’re going to get a big snow event, but it does mean that we should relax a bit and wait until we get a lot closer to the meat of the pattern before worrying about individual threats. It’s easier said than done, understandably, when the last 2 winters have been hot garbage. 

Almost a third of my life lol

2023-24: 24.7"  
2022-23: 13.7"
2021-22: 28.8"  
2020-21: 44.4"  (A normal season!)
2019-20: 15.6"
2018-19: 30.0"  (Well below normal but I'm coming from DC lol)
2017-18: 12.5" (DC)
2016-17: 5.6" (DC)
2015-16: 28.5" (DC)  (Well above normal)
2014-15: 27.3" (DC)  (Epic comeback/Divorced winter)

[WxWatcher007]

2013-14 (DC) is my favorite season and 2012-13 (CT) had the Great Blizzard of 2013. So I'm paying terribly for that four year heater a decade ago. 

[WinterWolf]

7 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

2013-14 (DC) is my favorite season and 2012-13 (CT) had the Great Blizzard of 2013. So I'm paying terribly for that four year heater a decade ago. 

It happens…and we’ve just been through a few years of it.  

[dryslot]

2 hours ago, MJO812 said:

I have a boner at work

See if you can get a homeless chick to take care of it.

[MJO812]

Clipper city on gfs

[ORH_wxman]

15 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Almost a third of my life lol

2023-24: 24.7"  
2022-23: 13.7"
2021-22: 28.8"  
2020-21: 44.4"  (A normal season!)
2019-20: 15.6"
2018-19: 30.0"  (Well below normal but I'm coming from DC lol)
2017-18: 12.5" (DC)
2016-17: 5.6" (DC)
2015-16: 28.5" (DC)  (Well above normal)
2014-15: 27.3" (DC)  (Epic comeback/Divorced winter)

Unfortunate timing that you didn’t get back to CT for 2017-18. That was a very good winter too. 

[dryslot]

LE areas are going to pile it up in december.

[ORH_wxman]

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

LE areas are going to pile it up in december.

Yeah not really a New England thing but this pattern looks amazing for the LES belt. The mountains of VT are prob gonna get a lot of leftovers too which will be good for the ski areas. You get those little vort maxes rotating around the ULL and they pick up the LES bands and they hit the west slopes if Berkshires and Greens. 

[dryslot]

9 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah not really a New England thing but this pattern looks amazing for the LES belt. The mountains of VT are prob gonna get a lot of leftovers too which will be good for the ski areas. You get those little vort maxes rotating around the ULL and they pick up the LES bands and they hit the west slopes if Berkshires and Greens. 

Depending on what degree the wind direction comes out of, NW Maine mtns could benefit as well with upslope snow, Myself here, We could catch a well timed clipper or two, Have had some good ones over the years blow up in time in the GOM and really pile up the snow well back west in the comma head.

[WxWatcher007]

18 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

It happens…and we’ve just been through a few years of it.  

Yep. Winters have been rough but tropical has been big time (for chasing + Isaias).

[bwt3650]

14 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah not really a New England thing but this pattern looks amazing for the LES belt. The mountains of VT are prob gonna get a lot of leftovers too which will be good for the ski areas. You get those little vort maxes rotating around the ULL and they pick up the LES bands and they hit the west slopes if Berkshires and Greens. 

Hoping for days and days of upslope that has been missing the last couple years...Looks promising

[weathafella]

And remember sne, we can do well on clippers moving under us.  12/30/08 featured a quick hitting 8 inches here from a clipper that came into view 2-3 days out.

[DavisStraight]

48 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah not really a New England thing but this pattern looks amazing for the LES belt. The mountains of VT are prob gonna get a lot of leftovers too which will be good for the ski areas. You get those little vort maxes rotating around the ULL and they pick up the LES bands and they hit the west slopes if Berkshires and Greens. 

Eastern Maine and NS too the next two weeks.

[CoastalWx]

Definitely some signs of action going forward.

[ORH_wxman]

1 minute ago, DavisStraight said:

Eastern Maine and NS to the next two weeks.

GFS almost pulls a 1/27/15 in clown range. But the longwave pattern is somewhat similar to the 2015 pattern with the trough axis extending from Quebec down through New England and a huge western ridge axis sitting over Idaho/Washington/Oregon. I don’t know if we’re going to get a good snowstorm or not but I’ll be very surprised if there aren’t several legit chances that show up on guidance. 

[dryslot]

3 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

Eastern Maine and NS too the next two weeks.

Congrats Eastport?

[CoastalWx]

It is so refreshing to see this look coming up in December. Even if we somehow don't get much, just nice to see the ridge out west. I am so bloody effing sick of seeing blues from Bering Sea to Baja CA.

[40/70 Benchmark]

6 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

GFS almost pulls a 1/27/15 in clown range. But the longwave pattern is somewhat similar to the 2015 pattern with the trough axis extending from Quebec down through New England and a huge western ridge axis sitting over Idaho/Washington/Oregon. I don’t know if we’re going to get a good snowstorm or not but I’ll be very surprised if there aren’t several legit chances that show up on guidance. 

Wow, I think I wanna jump into @MJO812's cruiser now.

[CoastalWx]

6 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

GFS almost pulls a 1/27/15 in clown range. But the longwave pattern is somewhat similar to the 2015 pattern with the trough axis extending from Quebec down through New England and a huge western ridge axis sitting over Idaho/Washington/Oregon. I don’t know if we’re going to get a good snowstorm or not but I’ll be very surprised if there aren’t several legit chances that show up on guidance. 

Not gonna happen, Will.  

[Prismshine Productions]

That is a BIG ridge... Goes all the way to the Arctic Ocean

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[weathafella]

5 minutes ago, Prismshine Productions said:

That is a BIG ridge... Goes all the way to the Arctic Ocean

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When do you think you’ll learn not to post d16 op model gifs?  You’re no longer a rookie.  Step it up!

[CoastalWx]

6 minutes ago, weathafella said:

When do you think you’ll learn not to post d16 op model gifs?  You’re no longer a rookie.  Step it up!

Might have to throw him out of the club.

[dryslot]

Looks like a few shots at some systems on the Euro the first 15 days into Dec, The cold won't be a problem.

[CoastalWx]

For awhile might be one of those things where the fishing boats come back snow covered with bare ground at the piers lol.

[mahk_webstah]

25 minutes ago, Prismshine Productions said:

That is a BIG ridge... Goes all the way to the Arctic Ocean

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That looks like a setup for something big 

[dryslot]

Blizzards at Georges and Jeffreys ledge.

[40/70 Benchmark]

36 minutes ago, Prismshine Productions said:

That is a BIG ridge... Goes all the way to the Arctic Ocean

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Holy split flow

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

55 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It is so refreshing to see this look coming up in December. Even if we somehow don't get much, just nice to see the ridge out west. I am so bloody effing sick of seeing blues from Bering Sea to Baja CA.

I get that but If this 2015 pattern doesn’t produce beyond a 1-2” clipper that covers the brooklyn cop’s weenie, then what will…?

 

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I get that but If this 2015 pattern doesn’t produce beyond a 1-2” clipper that covers the brooklyn cop’s weenie, then what will…?

 

Then we hold Will accountable.