CoastalWx Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 12:26 PM, dendrite said: I blame a lack of precip and clouds mostly. As you suggested, when you’re dry adiabatic almost daily you’re going to overperform on what you’d expect aloft. Expand Lots of cold DSD days for sure with west and even WSW flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 12:35 PM, CoastalWx said: Lots of cold DSD days for sure with west and even WSW flow. Expand Yeah we haven’t had a lot of that northerly flow where it just drills down the valleys of NewEngland. So much of our cold has been on west winds as the primary directional component. Lack of good snow cover over NY State and midwest helps modify that a bit but I think most of the disparity between sfc and 850 anomalies is the sun and dry adiabatic lapse rates all month like @dendrite mentioned. Typically when we have cold 850s, we’ll mix in plenty of northerly “Montreal express” flow and then also some nasty CAD type days in approaching storm systems. Those are the types of days where your high temps might offset meh low temps…like over the interior, maybe clouds kept your low temp at 13F but CAD from that approaching system keeps your high temp the next day at 18F so it’s still a nasty cold departure. Sometimes you’ll also get the scenario where the high is sitting on top of you and it’s poor mixing which makes your daytime highs much colder…we haven’t had much of that either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx2fish Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 12:35 PM, CoastalWx said: Lots of cold DSD days for sure with west and even WSW flow. Expand Good stretch for the pope's busting 2mt maps. Dry adiabatic lapse rates half the month overshooting model temps. Might be one reason the AIFS scores well with temps, sometimes anyway. It handled this upcoming event pretty poorly with qpf, so the jury is still out on it overall I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Final images from an odd month. Normal cold and…you know… Taken at the CT River in East Hartford. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Good riddance to this hideous month. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Outside those 6 days of cold it wasn't really that cold here on the shoreline. HVN was +.9. It was also sunny most of the month. My solar production from Oct-Jan has been the highest in 5 years. Also, some of the lowest Jan electricity consumption by my heat pumps due to all the solar gain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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