February 2025 Disco/Obs Thread

[WinterWolf]

2 minutes ago, UnitedWx said:

Just enough in my areas to have the heavy equipment scrape side roads all day... and warm the cab. One thing I HATE is driving with a jacket on. High of 28 in Westfield today, felt like 48!

Yes, when I drive for any length..jacket is off. Of course had to have heat going for my first 3-4 hrs, then had to keep intermittently using the heat in the truck after about 10-11 am…driving 80 plus for 8-9 hrs with no temps above freezing the whole way, required the heat to be turned on and off to stay comfortable.   

[DavisStraight]

41 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Wow, I drove home from way up north….And came through all of Maine, into S. NH and into Mass and CT, and I  didn’t see anything at all melting anywhere.  Still that glistening frozen top on the snow fully intact. Temps below freezing the whole way home. But that’s just what I observed on a 550 mile drive. 

The sun melted some ice on my driveway today with a high of 28, it's over once the sun goes down. Not crazy about all this ice, I'm gonna take a good fall if it doesn't melt soon.

[ORH_wxman]

45 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Doesn’t it take longer than 10 days to actually see any results though…?  Usually a two week plus lag no?

If we are seeing the effects from the Feb 10th split this week, that would be a pretty darn fast turn around time(like 5-6 days).  Just remember reading that it takes a good amount of lag time. 

SSW takes like 3 weeks. But we never achieved an SSW. We achieved a split of the SPV which was actually “bottom-up” from the TPV splitting and not top-down. If it had been from an SSW then we likely would’ve seen another TPV episode of displacement or splitting. But we didn’t. 
 

Pattern honestly looks pretty good for additional threats regardless in early March so not sure we want any disruption anyway if you’re looking for more snow events. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

 BOS has gone 50 days without hitting 50F.  Longest stretch since 2015.  Tomorrow will tie that.   
Longest stretch looks like 2003 when they went 60 days. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

3 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

Doesn’t it take longer than 10 days to actually see any results though…?  Usually a two week plus lag no?

If we are seeing the effects from the Feb 10th split this week, that would be a pretty darn fast turn around time(like 5-6 days).  Just remember reading that it takes a good amount of lag time. 

The lag is when it downwells from the strat....which is what I expected to happen. Instead it began in the lower levels and worked up, so we felt it instantly. 

[weatherwiz]

Please end this cold and wind. 

[Snowedin]

Yeah this’ll make my trip to visit family in NC a little sweeter not too long from now. That straight up cold and dryness really does get old after a while..plus the bottom of the driveway is a solid sheet of ice. Not good for doing much of anything outside these days. The sun did feel noticeably strong today on the old nape haha. 

[weatherwiz]

If there is one good thing about the cold…dog poop freezes quickly making it easier to pick up. Though I had to kick a piece to get it loose 

[Snowcrazed71]

13 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

If there is one good thing about the cold…dog poop freezes quickly making it easier to pick up. Though I had to kick a piece to get it loose 

So true. It's been so cold that as soon as our dog pooped, it was almost frozen in a short period of time

[mreaves]

2 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

Wow, I drove home from way up north….And came through all of Maine, into S. NH and into Mass and CT, and I  didn’t see anything at all melting anywhere.  Still that glistening frozen top on the snow fully intact. Temps below freezing the whole way home. But that’s just what I observed on a 550 mile drive. 

I had icicles on the south side of my porch roof dripping and my high temp was 17°

[Prismshine Productions]

got a 2 foot pack here... Happy Hour Goofus would fortify that with dense snow 

[kdxken]

2 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

The sun melted some ice on my driveway today with a high of 28, it's over once the sun goes down. Not crazy about all this ice, I'm gonna take a good fall if it doesn't melt soon.

I saw a bunch of oldsters walking down the sidewalks today. Some lady was wearing dress shoes. Out of their gourds. 

"At Tufts Medical Center, the emergency room since midnight Sunday has treated about three times the typical daily number of people for falls, said Dr. Matthew Mostofi, the hospital’s associate chief of emergency medicine. Since the beginning of the week, the hospital had treated 36 people for falls, including 12 fractures"

[kdxken]

1 hour ago, weatherwiz said:

If there is one good thing about the cold…dog poop freezes quickly making it easier to pick up. Though I had to kick a piece to get it loose 

Easier to throw over the neighbor's fence.

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

 BOS has gone 50 days without hitting 50F.  Longest stretch since 2015.  Tomorrow will tie that.   
Longest stretch looks like 2003 when they went 60 days. 

Nice stat.  Thats noteworthy.  Indicative of the sustained pattern.  No rouge 6-hr warm sector torch.

[Damage In Tolland]

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

 BOS has gone 50 days without hitting 50F.  Longest stretch since 2015.  Tomorrow will tie that.   
Longest stretch looks like 2003 when they went 60 days. 

Thanks Fish!

[kdxken]

4 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Nice stat.  Thats noteworthy.  Indicative of the sustained pattern.  No rouge 6-hr warm sector torch.

"That 1969 stretch ranged from December 13th through March 23rd...wild. Max temp that February was 40F. This year...might be 48 or so (we'll see next week)"

Actually remember it. 9 years old. Back then we were outside everyday no matter what the weather. I remember being excited that we found a patch of bare ground in late March under a pine tree. It looked foreign.

[powderfreak]

It has been a stretch of winter we haven’t seen in a bit.

High of 18F here today, currently back down to 0F (it’s cold, squeaky snow) and 2+ feet on the ground here  the valley bottom… 8 feet on the upper Toll Road.

It’s been cold, snowy and windy for 6 weeks.  The time frame is impressive.

[mreaves]

23 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

It has been a stretch of winter we haven’t seen in a bit.

High of 18F here today, currently back down to 0F (it’s cold, squeaky snow) and 2+ feet on the ground here  the valley bottom… 8 feet on the upper Toll Road.

It’s been cold, snowy and windy for 6 weeks.  The time frame is impressive.

The wind has been relentless. It seems like every snowfall is accompanied by enough wind to make measuring in my elevated snow board a crap shoot. 

[Chrisrotary12]

3 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

Wow, I drove home from way up north….And came through all of Maine, into S. NH and into Mass and CT, and I  didn’t see anything at all melting anywhere.  Still that glistening frozen top on the snow fully intact. Temps below freezing the whole way home. But that’s just what I observed on a 550 mile drive. 

Lol. I live at the top of a hill and there was water flowing downhill. 

[UnitedWx]

Looks like even the Cape scrape is off the table this A.M. 10 degrees here in Westfield. And now we've gone from kicking the can to kicking frozen dog crap 

[powderfreak]

-12F.

[Modfan2]

8F here in E CT, ponds and lakes frozen til April?

[dendrite]

8 hours ago, powderfreak said:

It has been a stretch of winter we haven’t seen in a bit.

High of 18F here today, currently back down to 0F (it’s cold, squeaky snow) and 2+ feet on the ground here  the valley bottom… 8 feet on the upper Toll Road.

It’s been cold, snowy and windy for 6 weeks.  The time frame is impressive.

Yeah…no real noteworthy cold, but just completely devoid of significant warmth since the very beginning of the year. 

[kdxken]

24 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah…no real noteworthy cold, but just completely devoid of significant warmth since the very beginning of the year. 

Just wait. Coldest winter of your lifetime.

[HoarfrostHubb]

9 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Thanks Fish!

I messed up the second part.  The 2003 stat was for this century. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

7F here.   Some cold mornings. 

[WinterWolf]

8 hours ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Lol. I live at the top of a hill and there was water flowing downhill. 

I guess my point was…the roads were dry. The big ice on the rock walls on the sides of the highways wasn’t dripping. The snow in the medians were rock solid with no melting into the highways. Sure Icicles on the south side of a roof will drip in direct sunlight, and what not…but there was no melting of the snowpack on the sides of the highways as there can be most times. Just what I observed. 

[WinterWolf]

40 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah…no real noteworthy cold, but just completely devoid of significant warmth since the very beginning of the year. 

Perhaps not recordbreaking (in the northeast at least) as you point out…but plenty cold nonetheless, and sustained.  Doesn’t need to be any colder than it’s been lol. 

[512high]

7F for the low, what ever dripped off the roofs yesterday, watch your step this am! 

[UnitedWx]

12 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Perhaps not recordbreaking (in the northeast at least) as you point out…but plenty cold nonetheless, and sustained.  Doesn’t need to be any colder than it’s been lol. 

Sustained cold, and some damn cold mornings for sure. This is the first year I've noticed that I have to prepare myself for the cold even more... must be getting old LOL