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Well everybody wanted the clippers back. Some folks were saying last year and the years prior, it was being said that it’s odd they don’t seem to exist anymore; you never see them anymore was the talk etc etc. And of course now this year we got em in earnest….everywhere, and every few days.

Check that, after a week out.

I guess it nailed it over this way lol

Eh to the overnight runs. Looks like we warm up after day 10 or so.

23 with snow covered ground. Solid coating.

That would be a winner! Congratulations Ji!!!

17 snowflakes this morning

Well, just woke up and looked outside and it effing snowed! Looks like maybe a quarter inch. That was totally unexpected.

3”? Auld lang syne?

Looks like Hi-res stuff might have taken a step back from 0z, but we'll see. Feel good for about an inch here, but hopefully it gets going a bit earlier to get more of the board in on it and closer to 2-3 here, taking the groomer out Friday if my part comes in hopefully

Now here's some real TMI. We have no plans to welcome in 2026 with a bang...lol

I am not really able to comment on the deeper inner-workings of the MJO but it is super-frustrating to not have really any reliable American Modeling. It must have been really fun forecasting weather before the modern era, must of been why as a kid in the 1970's can recall local Nashville weather commercials bragging that they had a five day forecast, even that must have been difficult. I feel like we are back in that era with such flip flopping. I do not want to get my hopes up just yet for a wetter forecast but we sure could use it here!

We’re in a lot of NW flow with numerous potent northern stream shortwaves, but given the flow and the frequency of them we can’t get enough spacing nor enough digging in time for bigger systems. That’s a really strong vortmax coming through tomorrow, but there’s another one on its heels over Lake Ontario while it’s over us.

Looks like I'll be going to work...

It’s not that close. I think the best hope is to get the southern system close enough and then elicit some pressure falls as the northern stream vortmax approaches and trigger another inverted trough. When you loop H5/vorticity there really doesn’t seem to be a chance for the northern piece to be able to dive in and phase in time at our longitude.

Um we don't need to know what your plans are tonight...TMI.

Has a chance to be BOS biggest snowfall this winter to date.

The really big story this year has been the record breaking number of days by a wide margin with wind gusts exceeding 40 and 50 mph across the area. This is the result of an unusually active storm track through the Great Lakes and to the west of the I-95 corridor. Nearly all the days with these stronger gusts had a west to northwest flow. The lack of coastal systems this year really stood out as there was only a small number of days with 40 or 50 mph gusts from a southeast to northeast direction. So a continuation of the very dominant northern stream of the Pacific Jet pattern. At least December allowed our region to get two 4-8” clipper systems for the first time during the month. But since these were northern stream storm systems, we couldn’t get into a coastal KU benchmark track. Plus the Great Lakes cutter pattern remained active so we had two warm ups with rain and fog shortly after the two snowstorms. These clippers narrowly focused the snowfall to such an extent, that it’s the first time since the 1980s and 1950s in December that the heavier 10”+ snows focused around NYC Metro. Which didn’t allow Philly and or Boston to share in the heavier 10”+snows.

Best in a Nina to just focus on 5 days out. When you start unicorn hunting 2-weeks out, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Should be some decent squalls around next 36 hrs off and on.

1-4 west to East

Timing of the squalls could line up perfectly for ringing in the New Year. Someone might have a whiteout at exactly 12 midnight.

16.1 this morning.

The SEC isn’t as overrated as the Big 10, so there’s that! However fanbases of both of those conferences generally have no idea how terrible CFB has gotten. You guys are only just now seeing surface level stuff. And yes the sec and big 10 did it to the sport. I hope some humility finds its way back into the sport so that way people remember what made CFB great. The bluebloods have become absolute vampires, and not the sexy kind. It’s killing the spirit of the game.

24 when I left the house. Some light radar returns overhead this morning but nothing was reaching the ground. Excited to see who can catch a squall later tonight. Hope everyone has a fun a safe New Year’s Eve.

I support Capes thoughts completely. This is no-mans land during winter.