January 2025

[Allsnow]

Just now, bluewave said:

The sensible weather here since October hasn’t been matching up with the MJO expectations for the past similar phases and 500mb patterns.

Looks below normal temp wise going into Feb 

[EastonSN+]

21 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I know why, they are only including 12.0 inches plus for KU events.

 

I'd argue that it should be lowered to 8.0..... storms like April 1982 and March 1993 were most definitely KU events!

 

 

Your list prompted another question, among the big east coast cities (DCA, BWI, PHL, NYC, PVD, BOS), which has the most 20"+ snowstorms? I'm including PD2 because 19.8 can be rounded up to 20 and it was 25.5 at JFK anyway.... so that means NYC has had 8 20" snowstorms.  (JFK has 6 but their records only go back to 1960.)  I know at one point Baltimore had the most, is this still the case?

It's a good question that I do not know the answer to.

[wdrag]

Regarding other threads for January... none at this time though am looking at measurable snow in much of the subforum sometime between 06z/27-18z/30 (next week). but too soon for me to thread whatever the significance.  Looks somewhat interesting.

 

AND,  not to completely discard this Thursday-Friday for the coasts... not impossible to see patchy snow showers on the coasts sometime in there, but not looking quite as impressive (to me) as this marginal fringe snowfall potential ton ight along our coasts. 

[LibertyBell]

10 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

In Feb we tend to see the jet stream start to come back north and more surges of moisture into the colder air. Hopefully we can time one or two correctly. 

at least it's February and not March.  We can get a decent snowstorm even with a milder than normal February.

[bluewave]

9 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

Looks below normal temp wise going into Feb 

The Southeast Ridge should be a bigger player in February than January so we should lose the suppression pattern of this month. 

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

18 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I wonder how far below zero KFOK, KMJX, KMVY got?

-11 in Montgomery at Orange County airport. 

[cleetussnow]

It was 2.8 here when I got up.  Must have hit 0 at some point.  3.2 rn.

[ILoveWinter]

33 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

awesome, they have become one of the few locations to experience both a hurricane and a blizzard!

I'd add say one of the few locations to experience a "Cat 5" hurricane and a blizzard 

[LoboLeader1]

47 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

awesome, they have become one of the few locations to experience both a hurricane and a blizzard!

 

IF they can get a blizzard down in Lake Charles, then it's possible we can see a major hurricane in this neck of the woods this summer. 

[lee59]

9 degrees here this morning

[uofmiami]

35 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I wonder how far below zero KFOK, KMJX, KMVY got?

KFOK hit 0, didn’t get below for the low. 

[NorthShoreWx]

1 hour ago, Allsnow said:

Is 12 degrees not cold? 
 

this January is a lock to finish below avg 

Still above average at this location vs the past 20 years.  Next few days should fix that, but it isn't a lock everywhere.

Bottomed out at 6.8⁰ this morning.  Up to 8.8⁰ now.

[EastonSN+]

3 minutes ago, LoboLeader1 said:

 

IF they can get a blizzard down in Lake Charles, then it's possible we can see a major hurricane in this neck of the woods this summer. 

I really hope not. I would not take that trade.

[MANDA]

Overnight low here of 1.2 with solid 5" snowpack.

My location is quite elevated for the area and I'm sure lower elevations were a degree or 3 below zero. 

Cold and only a slow recovery next few days.

[MANDA]

Cold!

[Allsnow]

Shade 

 

 

[the_other_guy]

Interesting that Lake Placid this morning checking in at -3F

 

With these temps here, that should easily be -15F. But really shows that the core of the cold is south and west.

Also of note, ATL (-6C)was colder than JFK (-4C) yesterday morning. And that wasnt the first time in the last couple of weeks I saw that

[Allsnow]

 

[Volcanic Winter]

1 hour ago, Allsnow said:

The core of the cold went sw of us 

 

is it not impressive to see a winter storm along the gulf coast today?

Of course it is! Just not sure what that has to do with our weather / statistics, which is what Bluewave has been posting about. 

And the core of the cold dumping west of us absolutely has been a recurring theme. 

But yes, this has been quite a cold January in comparison to what we’ve had for years now! I was saying yesterday it really reminds me of the 2013-2015 winters. 

[Volcanic Winter]

40 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

Looks below normal temp wise going into Feb 

Chance at a BN winter (DJF) on the table? Now that would be interesting. 

[Rjay]

Low of 9 here 

[NorthShoreWx]

17 minutes ago, LoboLeader1 said:

 

IF they can get a blizzard down in Lake Charles, then it's possible we can see a major hurricane in this neck of the woods this summer. 

Please no.

[LibertyBell]

28 minutes ago, ILoveWinter said:

I'd add say one of the few locations to experience a "Cat 5" hurricane and a blizzard 

Yep, and that's a really small list that doesn't include anyone in the midatlantic or northeast.  The gulf coast is the furthest north a Cat 5 has ever happened.

 

 

[LibertyBell]

5 minutes ago, Volcanic Winter said:

Chance at a BN winter (DJF) on the table? Now that would be interesting. 

and with under 10 inches of snow lol?

 

[LibertyBell]

9 minutes ago, Volcanic Winter said:

Of course it is! Just not sure what that has to do with our weather / statistics, which is what Bluewave has been posting about. 

And the core of the cold dumping west of us absolutely has been a recurring theme. 

But yes, this has been quite a cold January in comparison to what we’ve had for years now! I was saying yesterday it really reminds me of the 2013-2015 winters. 

it makes me wonder why the Deep South didn't get snowstorms when it got down to the single digits the last few years.  The moisture has to hit someone somewhere right?

 

[LibertyBell]

11 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

 

2010-11 was an extremely snowy winter, but I guess not for them.

[LibertyBell]

12 minutes ago, the_other_guy said:

Interesting that Lake Placid this morning checking in at -3F

 

With these temps here, that should easily be -15F. But really shows that the core of the cold is south and west.

Also of note, ATL (-6C)was colder than JFK (-4C) yesterday morning. And that wasnt the first time in the last couple of weeks I saw that

what about this morning? I didn't see the low at JFK

[LibertyBell]

14 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

Shade 

 

 

In the tweet, he said the climate has changed, but to what exactly? This isn't warming (it's not cooling either, this kind of thing happens every few decades.)

[dmillz25]

10 for the low

[ILoveWinter]

NOLA webcam, already sticking! Going to be quite an event for them.