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I'll have to check that one out. I picked up a great book about it about five years ago: "Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park"

Freezing Fog Advisory. This is the first time I have ever seen this.

I thought the same…all you need to know.

Tonight’s Euro is probably the worst case scenario in terms of cashing in on our December cold. There’s the mid-week clipper well to the north and then just a whole lot of nothing before a warm up leading into Christmas.

Freezing rain is now mixing in here as well. 1-3" call for QC was money.

Could crank the lake effect machine in these parts big time

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2025/12/significant-snows-likely-on-horizon-mid.html

I have no doubt it will be a good December. Already off to a great start in WNE. Before NYE I'm expecting at least one or two 1"-3" events and at least one warning event for you and me.

Significant Snows Likely On Horizon Mid-Month Multi-ensemble, Teleconnection & Analog Consensus Guidance Flagging Mid-Month For Winter Storm Threat Although much of Eastern Mass largely missed out on last week's snowfall, there is an emergent signal out around mid-month, or more specifically, Saturday the 13th. While specifics are still several days from coming into focus, all three major ensemble suites are signaling some sort of potential. The general layout of the pattern is consistent amongst all three camps, with an amplifying trough along the east coast, some sort of a ridge over the western CONUS, cold rolling over a stout -WPO ridge. and a -NAO acting to slow the flow down slightly and lock the antecedent cold into place. Obviously this does not guarantee a major winter storm, never mind one that will focus its' wrath on the forecast area, but this threat period does have support on a larger hemispheric, and seasonal scale. Telconnector Convergence & Analogs Affirm Modeled Threat Period There exists a major misconceptualization among laymen, and even weather circles alike, that it is specific index modes that favor heightened risks of storminess, ie -WPO, EPO or AO, but it is actually the modularity, or movement, of these atmospheric teleconnections that trigger storminess, rather than any specific mode itself. This is due to the fact that the shifting of major teleconnections represents mass flux within the hemisphere, which engenders an elevated risk of storminess owed to colliding air masses and shifting pressure patterns. This is what is signaled to at least some degree in the upper latitudes late next week. Note that the East Pacific, West Pacific and Arctic oscillations are all in descent, with each reaching a nadir in the vicinity of December 13th, which represents a fairly significant storm signal. This also coincides with the time frame during the second week of December that was identified in the Winter Outlook as the favored window of time for the first significant snowfall of the season for much of the forecast area. The mid-December timeframe is also consistent with the majority of the December analogs, as 4/7 seasons (2017, 2008, 2007, 1970) featured the first widespread significant snowfall for Eastern Mass during either the second of third week of December. Stay tuned for updates throughout the week-

I won't event look at an OP until like Tuesday.

13th still on the Euro. Models will waffle for a while. Main takeaway is that the pattern is ripe for something. No need to live and die on each run.

December 2010 was colder than December 2005, at least where I live. 05 34.4 -3.0 10 32.7 -4.7 If we do get colder than 2010, then 2000 would be next: 00 31.3 -6.1 Come to think of it, there's a weird coincidence that -ENSO Decembers in years that end in 0 or 5 (doesn't matter the strength) tend to be very cold in the East:

I don't need to look at guidance....just posters. I know what is going on by who reacts, and how.

At least I was a student when UVA won it all in basketball in 2018!

It’s essentially a guarantee. I’ll pretend to root for them but in reality I’m just done with CFB for the year. Not to be a sore loser but I’m a sore loser. Back to mediocrity

Thinking we may have a hard time attaining the 3" mark. Precip upstream is looking pretty showery, and we just aren't getting the high rate/low vis type stuff that they got out in Iowa all day. Storm is definitely on the decline. Still a nice lil' refresher though.

It’s much like your mood when you post. Lots of wild swings every 6 hours.

I meant, went poof at 00z lol

Snow started here at home about 45 minutes ago. Solidly dusted thus far.

Knowing him, he meant "won't look at 00z", because it probably sucked.

I keyed in on the second week in my work, but third is possible.

Huh?

Wow, heartbreaking ending there in the ACC championship. I hope JMU gets one of the spots tomorrow as a result at least.

I would take 12/9/05 every single day for the rest of my life even if I knew the rest of the winter would suck