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Absolutely. That’s what recall so fondly and miss the most. December’s were more often snowy and sometimes so were Novembers . It’s the whole premise for my wasting winter if you wait until January. Two months wasted with only two months of winter left and if lucky a Morch that snows a few times and melts quickly .

.32” we take

Backyard Davis 22F, good frost, current 24F

M0.14" oy vey

Well we got below 26°… 22.9°

BWI: 31.1 DCA: 28.6 IAD: 38.8 RIC: 8.8 Tie Breaker SBY: 15.2

Temp has been rock steady at 39 since midnight, to go along with .42” of rain. Can anyone from my area confirm that the precip started as sleet, or at least a mix of sleet and rain, last evening? I went to bed early and it sure sounded like pingers for the opening 15 minutes or so. Also, in things that interest only me, my temp dropped an additional two degrees yesterday morning after I left the house, down to 29 from the 31 I reported. Carry on.

You must have the most insulated house around! My heats been on since before Halloween. What temp did your house get down to?

Congrats to everyone that got on the board overnight! Hopefully it’s the first event of many for our group on here!

39 & rain in Marysville with maybe a stray flake mixed in if I squint enough.

About an inch of PASTE in Philipsburg.

.37”

Stupid. Just another OF in an already crowded outfield. I know Grayson has been hurt but never trade away quality pitching. They better do something about the starting pitching in the offseason.

You are really lucky to be living in such a beautiful region. The stronger winds and lack of ideal radiational cooling there are also a function of the warmer air masses in nearby Canada. Since really cold Arctic air masses usually begin with strong cold air advection followed by a few nights of high pressure and calm clear nights behind the Arctic fronts leading to the great radiational cooling. We haven’t been getting this cold pattern in the Northeast with Canada so warm. The Northeast needs good cold pooling near Hudson Bay which has become more rare over time. The airport station that was established in June 1998. It’s in a uniquely cold area with excellent cold air drainage. So it can be 10 to 15 degrees cooler than the village. But that microclimate is still a good proxy since it is currently experiencing its 2nd longest streak not dropping to -30 or colder. The #1 longest streak was several years ago. Number of Consecutive Days Min Temperature >= -30 for SARANAC LAKE ADIRONDACK REGIONAL AP, NY Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending. Period of record: 1998-06-06 1 1103 2019-01-14 through 2022-01-20 2 1018 2023-02-05 through 2025-11-18 3 524 2000-10-31 through 2002-04-07 4 460 2007-03-08 through 2008-06-09 5 399 2011-01-25 through 2012-02-27 6 353 2016-06-30 through 2017-06-17 7 341 2004-02-21 through 2005-01-26 8 329 2012-03-01 through 2013-01-23 9 326 2013-02-21 through 2014-01-12 - 326 2010-01-12 through 2010-12-03 https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21443/20130218/why-lake-clear-is-so-very-cold Feb 18, 2013 — The village of Saranac Lake has a reputation for cold. During the winter, it's frequently the coldest spot on the North Country weather map, sometimes the coldest in the lower 48 states. Overnight or early morning temperatures in January can hit 20 and sometimes 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. That kind of cold is has brought the community a fair share of publicity over the years, but technically, that publicity should go to another community located about five miles outside of Saranac Lake: the hamlet of Lake Clear. Watch the nightly forecast from WPTZ weatherman Tom Messner and you'll find Saranac Lake is often the coldest spot on the map. But that's actually not Saranac Lake's temperature. The reading Messner and other forecasters are giving is recorded at the National Weather Service automated weather station at the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear. It's typically much colder there than it is in a short distance away in the village of Saranac Lake - sometimes as much as 10 to 15 degrees colder. Enterprise Sometimes the airport temperature is significantly colder than it is just a mile-and-a-half down the road in the hamlet of Lake Clear, where Bob Callaghan lives. The same morning in mid-January that the airport weather station hit 31 below, Callaghan said he had minus 21 at his house. "The thermometer in the car definitely registers colder when we get in the area of the airport," Callaghan said. "Sometimes it's 10 degrees difference." Why is it so much colder near the airport? What strange weather phenomenon is at work here? Dave Werner started asking that question a few years ago. Werner lives in Malone and is a cooperative observer for the National Weather Service. "Every day I'd compare my readings with all of upstate New York and Vermont," he said. "And it was so interesting to me that Saranac Lake [Lake Clear] was so much colder than every other place." In 2008, Werner contacted the weather service's Burlington office and got an explanation. "It's called cold air drainage," Werner said. "The bowl-shaped terrain around the Lake Clear airport is such that cold air settles or drains into the airport area, giving it significantly colder readings than are found in the village of Saranac Lake." John Goff is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Burlington. He says Lake Clear is higher up, "and it's an open area, an open kind of clear area at the top of a hill where the cool air can kind of just pool." For people who live and work in Lake Clear, the bitter cold winter temperatures brought on by this microclimate are just a fact of life. Deb Gauthier is the Lake Clear postmaster: "It was minus 31 yesterday. When I went out at lunch time it was minus 21. You don't go out with wet hair, and you bundle up. We live with it." Surprisingly, the arctic temperatures cause few headaches at the airport, according to its manager Corey Hurwitch. "Just our equipment sometimes starting up is a little more difficult in the morning," he said.

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Snow by me was only sticking to non paved surfaces and roofs. The R/S line at least along the rt. 23 corridor was at rt. 287. Currently raining in Westwood NJ.

Same here (22.5 for MPM). Coldest of the season.

I finally caved and put my heat on last Tuesday and at least I got a few days before the indoor humidity crashed to 22%. Needless to say, the humidifiers were fired up yesterday afternoon and and overnight, and I'm finally @35% (with the rain helping). Had my first frozen of the season yesterday. About 3:15 pm, my Upper Darby sis had texted "And now it's sleeting". I hopped up and looked out and didn't see anything except some possible drizzle (it was in the mid-40s at the time). But about 15 minutes later I checked and heard the unmistakable pingers. Obviously nothing was sticking but it was there. Eventually it became a mix of light rain and sleet. Ended up with 0.01" of that yesterday and woke up to 0.20" this morning. After a 32 low yesterday morning, made it up to 47 and it's currently 39 with light rain (now at 0.32" in the bucket), and dp 38.

Agreed, just some flurries here.

For the MA, phase 7 is a transition phase. It is usually the precursor to big storms. Not always, but some.

Wow. Not sure about this.

0.27"

0.35"

Rain and big wet snowflakes here 34 degrees.

FWIW, Judah updated his SPV blog for anyone interested: