Joker January

[weatherwiz]

Ehh you know what let’s just keep this brutally cold stretch we’ve been in through February. It will make that first 60’s and 70’s in March AMAZING 

[Spanks45]

10 minutes ago, tavwtby said:

2.3 now...

Impressive drop, 7.9⁰ here and dropping fast....

[Prismshine Productions]

that southeast system keeps trending NW... outer cape and maybe RI could be in play

[qg_omega]

Historic cold so far this winter or not……can’t even buy average

 

[512high]

On 12/26/2024 at 2:20 PM, kdxken said:

Yeah no one's going to get excited until there's some eye candy on the operationals. I'm just glad we haven't been hearing the phrase, thread the needle much. That is a sure sign we are toast.

5 deg. With the fresh snow on the ground and these temps. It feels like winter, just don’t want to see the heating bill!

[Prismshine Productions]

down to 3.6

[Prismshine Productions]

1 minute ago, qg_omega said:

Historic cold so far this winter or not……can’t even buy average

 

look you may post some absolutely hot takes, but those are some gorgeous photos

[kdxken]

1 minute ago, 512high said:

5 deg. With the fresh snow on the ground and these temps. It feels like winter, just don’t want to see the heating bill!

They are going to be ferocious.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

8 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

Historic cold so far this winter or not……can’t even buy average

 

Jeezuz, how is there no ice?   People are walking on rivers around here.

[powderfreak]

10 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

Historic cold so far this winter or not……can’t even buy average

Thanks for the photos, those are worth a post.

Interesting that up on Lake Champlain, places like Mallets Bay are frozen over with folks walking around out on the ice.  A ton of open water, but it’s been cold enough where the bays are freezing over.  Give it another month and see where the ice is at.

Is that really Lake George right now?

[HIPPYVALLEY]

2/-4   Going below zero tonight.

[qg_omega]

7 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Thanks for the photos, those are worth a post.

Interesting that up on Lake Champlain, places like Mallets Bay are frozen over with folks walking around out on the ice.  A ton of open water, but it’s been cold enough where the bays are freezing over.  Give it another month and see where the ice is at.

Is that really Lake George right now?

Yes this morning, would think we freeze this week but who knows it’s been too windy and overnight lows much above normal, hopefully changes this week with some actually cold calm nights, currently zero degrees

[powderfreak]

I will say this month has felt cold but the average says +2.4 at MVL.  Wild.  It has been a cold January compared to the +5 to +8 winter months in recent years.

The recent years definitely have altered my perception of “cold.”

[DavisStraight]

9 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Jeezuz, how is there no ice?   People are walking on rivers around here.

You could almost walk on the Conn River in Springfield

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I will say this month has felt cold but the data says +2.4 here.  Wild.  It has been a cold January compared to the +5 to +8 winter months in recent years.

Yup. CON is +1.7F for Jan coming into today and that’s with 1991-2020 norms. This week will quickly chomp into that, but it hasn’t been very cold so far. 

[powderfreak]

10 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

Yes this morning, would think we freeze this week but who knows it’s been too windy and overnight lows much above normal, hopefully changes this week with some actually cold calm nights, currently zero degrees

It has been a breezy and well-mixed month in regard to air masses.  That has led to warmer nights that cause the radiators to show higher anomalies.  Those without rad cooling baked into their normals have had lower departures

BTV with a lower departure than MVL and 1VP in January so far.  Despite the latter two spots being colder overall.

[monadnocks]

1 here

[wokeupthisam]

0° / -4.5° and still a 5mph breeze

Man Cold

[mahk_webstah]

11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yup. CON is +1.7F for Jan coming into today and that’s with 1991-2020 norms. This week will quickly chomp into that, but it hasn’t been very cold so far. 

Nighttime lows have been held higher by wind but daytime highs maybe are below average 

[dendrite]

4 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said:

Nighttime lows have been held higher by wind but daytime highs maybe are below average 

A little, but still only -0.4F in the highs. 

[qg_omega]

15 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

It has been a breezy and well-mixed month in regard to air masses.  That has led to warmer nights that cause the radiators to show higher anomalies.  Those without rad cooling baked into their normals have had lower departures

BTV with a lower departure than MVL and 1VP in January so far.  Despite the latter two spots being colder overall.

It’s been a struggle to go calm but also to get actually cold 850s. -15 isn’t very cold, those -35s in the upper Midwest are but will get modified by the lakes.  North of us  has been even warmer relative to average with the big negative NAO block.  It’s just been dry average and windy, lots of blah this year.  Last winter was much better so far and even warmer, lol.  Been a brutal pattern and winter so far.

[jbenedet]

27 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I will say this month has felt cold but the average says +2.4 at MVL.  Wild.  It has been a cold January compared to the +5 to +8 winter months in recent years.

The recent years definitely have altered my perception of “cold.”

This is exactly how I’m feeling in the seacoast NH. Much closer to normal. Slightly above. This week will probably put us very close to normal temp wise maybe even tilt us to slightly BN. That’s before the next big warmup though…

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

Another ratter.

[mreaves]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

I will say this month has felt cold but the average says +2.4 at MVL.  Wild.  It has been a cold January compared to the +5 to +8 winter months in recent years.

The recent years definitely have altered my perception of “cold.”

MPV was -+.9  I don’t think it’s felt all that cold and definitely there ha been no “historic” cold.  It has seemed pretty windy.  Even the little bit of snow last night drifted  

 

 

[MJO812]

Active pattern next week on the gfs

[dendrite]

Down to -2.4°

Coldest in almost 2 years

[powderfreak]

Impressive to see the WSW and winter weather down to the Gulf Coast.

Huge expanse of cold weather advisories.  Then there’s this winter storm coming out of the Gulf and FL Panhandle.

[Snowcrazed71]

16 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Active pattern next week on the gfs

What's it showing?

[AstronomyEnjoyer]

-5.1°. Nights like this remind me of Warren G's 1994 hit single, "Radiate"

"Radiators!, mount up. It was a clear black night, a clear white moon..."

Actually, I think I'm remembering the song wrong.

 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Already below zero here before midnight. 
-2/-5