Joker January

[Torch Tiger]

8 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Clipper more robust

Slide down this if you want robust

[CoastalWx]

9 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Clipper more robust

Congrats Jay Peak

[alex]

Down to -4. Hopefully we are done with lows like this morning (-25.2); that was just stupid painful. 

[UnitedWx]

14 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Clipper more robust

So is this! 

[UnitedWx]

Down to 10 even in Westfield 

[ORH_wxman]

31 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Cold and dry at least keeps the mud at bay. Last two winters were absolutely triggering with that. 

Agreed. If there’s some snow OTG, I’ll def take cold and dry. At least it feels like winter out there with snow and ice all around and seeing all the ponds/lakes frozen here. 
 

Last two winters felt like fooking Vancouver…40s and rain every 3 days. Awful. 
 

But if it’s bare ground, I dunno…might take the warmth, but I really hate rain too. The “ideal” torch winter is prob very dry like ‘01-02. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

Cold and dry for me.  Skiing is much better in these conditions (albeit this is pretty darned cold)

 

[ORH_wxman]

Just now, HoarfrostHubb said:

Cold and dry for me.  Skiing is much better in these conditions (albeit this is pretty darned cold)

 

Yeah skiing is definitely way better in cold/dry winters. Also, up north a lot of places do well in upslope and leftover lake effect in cold/dry patterns. The upslope zones have been basically nature’s snow guns for the last few weeks. 

[Damage In Tolland]

8 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Agreed. If there’s some snow OTG, I’ll def take cold and dry. At least it feels like winter out there with snow and ice all around and seeing all the ponds/lakes frozen here. 
 

Last two winters felt like fooking Vancouver…40s and rain every 3 days. Awful. 
 

But if it’s bare ground, I dunno…might take the warmth, but I really hate rain too. The “ideal” torch winter is prob very dry like ‘01-02. 

We also had a lot of 50’s to near 60 rains last winter . Quite a few 

[Damage In Tolland]

This year we face a drought heading into spring and summer. Probably a return to the Gypsy moth 

[weatherwiz]

It seems like this winter has been dragging…just cold and boring. At this point I’m just ready for late spring/summer. I wish we could get front loaded winters. By mid-to-late February I’m really ready for late spring. If this is an awful spring it’s going to be a grueling haul moving into Summer. 

[Patrick-02540]

6 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

This year we face a drought heading into spring and summer. Probably a return to the Gypsy moth 

2023 I saw several gypsy tents.  But it seems the 1980s when I was growing up we had a LOT more of them.  I remember my grandfather smearing grease around the trunks of his trees and torching any nests that developed.  Almost an every-year event.  

[ORH_wxman]

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

This year we face a drought heading into spring and summer. Probably a return to the Gypsy moth 

Those things better not come back for a long time. They did a number on the forest behind my house. There was one year you could just here all of them eating the leaves every time you went outside. 

[Torch Tiger]

TBH some of my favorite winter memories were skiing Cannon in the 80's. Of course the wind is usually up at the summit, even on more subdued days.  Snowmaking was rather primitive then and they're trying to blow snow near Avalanche, but it's blowing wayyy over Paulies folly and evaporating/gone into the air.  Maybe some trees were caked

[Patrick-02540]

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

It seems like this winter has been dragging…just cold and boring. At this point I’m just ready for late spring/summer. I wish we could get front loaded winters. By mid-to-late February I’m really ready for late spring. If this is an awful spring it’s going to be a grueling haul moving into Summer. 

End of February and March is when I need to get the hell out of here and head south for a bit.  Mind is ready for spring, but momma nature just lags along.  

[radarman]

2 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Those things better not come back for a long time. They did a number on the forest behind my house. There was one year you could just here all of them eating the leaves every time you went outside. 

Sounded like steady rain.  I still have several big standing dead oaks shedding branches on the property over time.  Awful.

[Damage In Tolland]

14 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Those things better not come back for a long time. They did a number on the forest behind my house. There was one year you could just hear all of them eating the leaves every time you went outside. 

That was 20-21. Huge infestation here . That’s what we are hoping comes back 

[kdxken]

18 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

That was 20-21. Huge infestation here . That’s what we are hoping comes back 

18-19 around Will.

[qg_omega]

1 hour ago, alex said:

Down to -4. Hopefully we are done with lows like this morning (-25.2); that was just stupid painful. 

That’s normal for NNE, need to stop with this.  We get lows in the negative 20 range ever year.  Montana just had -40, this isn’t anything close to record breaking. 

[kdxken]

44 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

This year we face a drought heading into spring and summer. Probably a return to the Gypsy moth 

Not this year there's no eggs.

[qg_omega]

52 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Cold and dry for me.  Skiing is much better in these conditions (albeit this is pretty darned cold)

 

It’s literally a degree of normal, what are we doing

[kdxken]

Looks like it's actually going to warm up tonight. Driving around it was 6 in my car. Up to 11 now

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Currently 10° on the north side of Greenfield. 

[Prismshine Productions]

1 minute ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Currently 10° on the north side of Greenfield. 

9 here

[Torch Tiger]

because there was no MasSiVe CuTTeR to wipe out 24-48" packs, is this a better winter than those 90's biggies?

[Torch Tiger]

or at least 95-96 the infamous cut, but there have been others

 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Who knows if we'll ever see another cutter in this pattern regime?

[Typhoon Tip]

There’s likely some kind of pattern change after that GHD system … 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

As a weather geek, I find it amazing what transpired yesterday in the deep south.  Parishes in New Orleans got 6"+ of snow and parts of N Florida had 4-8" of snow with some wind swept powder.  Incredible. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Will be handing out hats to whomever wants .. MAGA

Make America Gypsy Again