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When in doubt it is always "Congrats Dendrite". Never forget this.

2.2 officially in Harrisburg

For Merrimack maybe, and for the forum. Who got 12.5? Highland Mountain? Haven’t gone out to measure, but given that I measured 5 inches I think 5 o’clock and we shoveled it and there’s a good bit more in there. I’m guessing probably 7 1/2 or maybe eight here. A really good first snow, especially with cold air for a while and probably some small events to refresh it and keep it nice.

Agreed!

Yea, that northern fringe being shown over our area is very likely virga that can’t be resolved on global models at this range. The airmass that’s going to be over us is going to be extremely dry and is going to “eat up” the QPF

I also need to vent about Wankum...man, I can't stand him...such a lazy met. I love WCVB, but he is tough to stomach...always offers up these half-hazard, overly simplistic explanations that are just patently wrong. I mean...I get dumbing it down for the laymen, but to keep insisting central Mass got the snow because of elevation is idiotic when many spots in eastern areas hardly cracked freezing, and spots in the VALLEY out west still had 6". Is it rocket science to explain there was a warm layer a bit off of the ground back east?? He also was talking about the warm ground from the fall...what an ass.

Please note, all other scoring is located back before December forecasts started to appear, so scroll back past the first of those (from Scotty) and past the intro post for December (which I never did edit into scoring) and all the scoring will be found in one combined November scoring table and annual update. Tom continues to lead the contest and it looks like a very interesting scenario for the contest with severe cold on some guidance and in some forecasts (but not all). Meanwhile, the four seasons contest is now final and here are the results of that ... Four Seasons 2024-2025 Final Report after Autumn 2025 scoring 12 points to each seasonal winner, 10 points down to 1 point for rest of field, and 1 point for all entrants with at least 2 of 3 contests entered. (2025 annual leader to end of November, Tom, had a low score in Dec 2024 which explains how this is closer than the points contest for annual 2025) ___________________________ winter _______ spring ______ summer_______ autumn ________________ Contest year FORECASTER ____________TOTAL_pts___TOTAL_pts __TOTAL_pts ___Sep Oct Nov_ TOTAL _pts __TOTAL Points ___ Consensus __________ 1771 _ 9.7 __ 1767 __7.4 __ 2088_ 10 ___ 676_688_595 _ 1959 _ 10 ___ 37.1 so_whats_happening _____1662 __ 8 ___ 1805 __ 8 ___ 2038 __ 8 ____670_676_569 _ 1915 _ 7t ____ 31 RJay _____________________ 1703 __ 9 ___ 1689 __ 5 ___ 1972 __ 5 ____674_612_701 _ 1987 _ 12 ____ 31 Don Sutherland1 _________ 1587 __ 5 ____1733 __ 6 ___ 2088 _ 10____654_634_633 _ 1920 _ 8 ____ 29 Tom ______________________1417 __ 1 ____ 2053 _ 12 ___ 2154 __12 ___590_700_583 _ 1873 _ 3 ____ 28 Scotty Lightning _________ 1542 __ 4 ____1741 __ 7 ___ 2052 __ 9 ____738_650_507 _ 1895 _ 4 ____ 24 wxallannj _________________1800 _ 10 ___ 1561 __ 3 ___ 1906 __ 2 ____662_650_635 _ 1947 _ 9 ____ 24 hudsonvalley21 __________ 1532 __ 3 ___ 1933 __ 9 ___ 1950 __ 4 ____690_700_509 _1899 _ 5 ____ 21 StormchaserChuck ______ 1328 __ 1 ____1953 __10 ___ 2010 __ 7 ____490_570_ ---_ 1060 _ 1 _____ 19 BKViking _________________1805 _ 12 ___ 1621 ___ 4 ___ 692 __ 0 ____490_666_571 _ 1727 _ 1 _____ 17 wxdude64 _______________ 1653 __ 7 ___ 1436 __ 1 ___ 1980 __ 6 ____550_578_310 _ 1438 _ 1 ____ 15 RodneyS ________________ 1488 __ 2 ____ 1474 __ 2 ___ 1938 __ 3 ___ 552_772_591 _ 1915 _ 7t ____14 Roger Smith _____________ 1617 __ 6 ____ 1368 __ 1 ___ 1880 __ 1 ____738_554_469 _ 1761 _ 2 ____ 10 Yoda ____________________ -- -- __ 0 ____ -- -- ___ 0 ___ 542 ___0 ___ 678_686_595 _ 1959 _10 ____10 ___ Normal _____________ 1387 __ 1 ___ 1440 ____1 ____ 1778 __ 1 ___ 664_578_454 _1696 _ 1 ____ 4 Ephesians2 _____________ -- -- __ 0 ____ -- -- ___ 0 ____ --- ___0 ___ ---_ 574_ 531 _ 1105 _ 1 _____ 1 ___________________________ So we have a tie in points at the top (although Consensus is the contest winner too) ... I will declare it a tied win for RJay and so_whats_happening, meanwhile DonSutherland1 also had a strong finish into third place and contest leader Tom was just a bit off his previous pace to end up in fourth, but with so many totals just a few points ahead of Tom he was only able to advance slightly this past season -- the points differential is not making much impact on his overall contest lead, as you can see there has not been a large spread in the autumn points for most of the forecasters. Yoda had a very good first season after joining in August, finishing second in points for autumn. I don't score Persistence in the four seasons contest but probably Persistence would have been lucky to add any points to Normal's basic total.

I'm sure its been mentioned a ton, but the "beta" pivotal weather is a very nice upgrade. Even on mobile!

Been noticing that the coldest 500 mb height anomalies ( relative to normals...) has been persistently over our side of the hemisphere. I'm curious what the global monthly temperature anomalies (Climate assessment from NASA and also NOAA) looks like ... the color encoded versions. I have a feeling we have a CC denial-enabling (little sarcasm there..) deepest blue plume painted over N/A. At present, the global tracking at Climate Reanalyzer's site has 2025 flirting with the 3rd warmest per date. It's possible N/A is owns the cold trophy this late autumn and (so far) front loading winter, when comparing to the world.

They had a good band for a while

Dendy jack?

Yes...it was also huge to grab that inch of fluff at the end that a lot of SNE largely missed out on....covers up the rainy scars from yesterday evening...which as Steve said, us much more beneficial now than it is during March.

9.3” final

Absolutely frigid out there this morning. Says 31 but feels wayyyy colder. Any standing water is ice still.

Wx2fish and I have a friend in Bedford NH. He’s on the west side of town. There’s been a similar gradient between him and Bedford with these marginal events. At least you have something to make it look festive.

7.5" was the final here, Powdery and an easy cleanup.

Stop it. The storm will see this post and not come now.

It is frustrating how the gradient is always JUST to my north.

Enough cold to produce a cold rain for my neck of the woods, oh well, at least I got to see a few flakes last night.

We had our moment

Airport had 8” I saw.

Storm sucked, but at least I have a modest bullet-proof pack, so can't complain (too much).

How much did you end up with in MHT? 5-6"?

Gimmie

A freezing or sub freezing high temp for DCA would be incredibly impressive. That’s like a -20F departure or more.