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Props to you. I take Christmas down mid-January and then leave the 'winter' vibe items out until...basically calendar spring. Winter is my favorite season IF it cooperates.

I must have missed something and it's been better for the pace of conversations but what happened to LibertyBell

Thanks for posting data like this. 25 mean temp in 1876 is wild.

I took my shit down this morning while it was warm..lol SHORT TERM... (Rest of today through Sunday) Issued at 1100 AM CST Sat Dec 27 2025 After an intensely foggy morning, it`s cloudy and very muggy out there. Temperatures have warmed into the low 60s so far and will make at run at 70 by this afternoon. The remainder of today will be cloudy and dry as the ridge responsible for our spell of above- normal warmth finally shifts to our east. Behind the exiting ridge will come a fairly strong upper low that will push a strong cold front through Middle TN Sunday night. Ahead of the frontal passage, flow aloft will transition out of the southwest, drawing anomalously high moisture into the area. Looking at soundings, instability overall is very limited with less than 100 J/kg and profiles are totally saturated. With that being said, a 60 kt low- level jet will be in place as this line moves through, and if any of that wind can mix down, there will be a chance for a gusts up to 40-50 mph with the line. With regards to any tornado potential, the threat is very, very low. Low-level helicities and shear are more than sufficient, but limited instability and weak lapse rates will make tor development very difficult. The most likely scenario is that a narrow band of heavy rain and gusty winds will move through tomorrow night between 7pm-1am. Non-thunderstorm gradient winds will be gusty tomorrow as the surface low moves across our north. There will be a steady breeze with gusts up to 35 mph at times. Here`s your notice now to get those outdoor Christmas decorations down!

Looks nice there but. Surface maps can be a bit misleading lol

I love the cold beef injection diving through the Dakotas:

probably different reasoning vectors converging on the same idea... Breakdown of the Pac and introduction of +PNA is an H.A. signal in the gross sense but we're seeing it already in ensemble clusters The EPS with an impressive spread at 240+ hours is getting above the 95th %tile for this long of a lead. The GEFs still lag tho

Just looking at the 8 cases that were during -ENSO (16, 22, 26, 33, 42, 44, 95, 10), the Jan SN mean/median rises to 12.8”/9.9”.

yeah, legitimately exciting... that -NAO is uptrending, too. the 5-7th is our first legit shot at a larger region-wide storm. pattern becomes even more favorable after that, too

You must be mistaken? DIT says everyone is down with damaging ice events.

this poses some promise

yeah, starting to get excited. that's legit and the pattern is only becoming more favorable as the PNA rises and EPO drops

As fun as that sounds my initial reaction this morning was I wished I had a early 1970s boat LTD (RWD) w/a V8 429cubic inch, empty/clear parking lot and/a handle of spiked Eggnog.....fun morning indeed. 31F/partly cloudy/sunny

I was just going to comment on that. Forget the weird solution for sensible weather, the set up is loaded...right out of the KU book.

Just helped shovel some of 7-8" we had in Wesport. It felt pretty heavy for that amount. Not surprised given the small flake size, ratios were so-so. Best event Ive had in several years though.

Looks like another windy period Monday night and Tuesday. Gusts to 40+

If December ended today, it would be Juneau's coldest on record.

3.8 jersey city. More than half of that fell after 11 PM

Again! Since my last measurement of 2.1" I had some errands to run and then I went to Oak Ridge Park and shoveled all the disc golf tee pads (29!), as I'm part of the club there and I enjoy being out in the snow shoveling and walking around. It was snowing the whole time and they went from 2.5" to 2.7" when I was done around 1:00 pm. So I got home and measured again and we got about 0.3" more snow as everything was covered again - bonus! Wife said it was snowing the whole time I was gone and the radar showed the snow - guessing that IVT some were talking about materialized. Anyway I think the final number is now 2.4" which brings my season total up to 10.1". It's just beautiful out there and despite the bust for our area and most in NJ, I'm pretty happy with the result as it feels like deep winter out there - 28F at midday with snow falling - sweet!

Lots of daytime high temp records have been broken altogether. And even some overnight lows as well in all four of this topic's states from just yesterday (26th), and on Christmas Day. Most notable so far has been Fayetteville AR. Also setting a new all-time record high this year for the month of December.

Thank you. Yes, there are so many great posters here. If I started naming all of them, I would miss someone. They make this subform the great place that it is. Many thanks to them and to you both as well!

When the fun and games begin, it wouldn't surprise me if my area was outside where the best entrance/exit jet regions set up. I know it's far out but that's just my gut looking at the upper air and beyond. Growing up I recall several storms that organized just in time for middle TN to pick up a few inches before exploding into something more east of the Apps. As it was said earlier today, the pattern has an old-school vibe to it.

Looks like it might be close

I just know from experience that a bad Pacific/good Atlantic usually trends warmer. The NAO has rarely been negative in long duration since 2011, so yeah some of that is the NAO trending in the wrong direction. +EPO's can be underrated though, and models don't really get the strength of the Pacific jet right from this range. Sometimes it will trend away from +epo though.

This couldn't be more true. Southern 1/3 of DTX is in the rip-off zone between cutters and Miller b's.. May be why I get high anxiety is storms even when we have a Winter Storm Warning and 6+ forecasted. Seem it bust too many times.