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

[ORH_wxman]

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. 

[ORH_wxman]

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. 

[DavisStraight]

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.

[Modfan2]

What is the latest with the light freezing rain tomorrow; is it mainly north of the pike?

[powderfreak]

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.

[rimetree]

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.

[alex]

Went x-country skiing for my first time in Bretton Woods. Really beautiful. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would!

[powderfreak]

10F at 10pm.

The inversion has been lingering.  Should break tomorrow.

The 34F at ORH is a sign.

[kdxken]

35° and rain.

[Modfan2]

31F here in E CT, very light glaze on the driveway 

[metagraphica]

36/36 with fog and drizzle here. KGON up to 41 already.

[dendrite]

Still torched at the elevations

[DavisStraight]

2 hours ago, kdxken said:

35° and rain.

Same here, nice cold drizzle, chills to the bone.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

There was a nice glaze this morning.

 

[CoastalWx]

38 and steady rain. 

[tamarack]

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°. 

[dryslot]

Took it off the trailer, Rip around the yard and loaded it back up.