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March 2012 or the peak event of it accelerated my passion for meteorology. It was also the first time I was really excited witnessing a weather feature that wasn't a type of cyclone (it was an anti-cyclone! ...maybe?). The ask if it was a before/after flip is intriguing: I do sort of think before and after since it mucked up what we thought was possible in climo regimes. I started thinking what if the whole script had flipped where we get acceleration in unexpected ways of trends in motion.

I’m not going to lie, I’m a little jealous. Have a blast, and bring back some snow with you.

Lamar is injury prone and he ALWAYS chokes in the playoffs, not exactly a great combination. I can guarantee you Mahomes or Allen would be playing with this sprained ankle. He is like Charmin. This is the NFL, not tiddlywinks.

Every even year this decade (2020, 2022, and 2024) has had record warmth in the early part of November. It looks like the trend will continue this year.

Good example here on the AI of how forcing can pull the trough west from time to time. MJO exits the IO and MC where it is completely suppressed, then activates forcing over the dateline and slowly pulls east (along with the trough).

Hopefully we are free of any significant wx events for a while; let's San Diego!! New norm

Scrapping for the bottom of the barrel for wx content. This is what happens when the wx is quiet. They have to still have wx stories b/c wx gets the ratings, and you end up with minutia articles like this w/ loaded questions "what's driving all this bluster wx?" even if this is nothing specific or obvious or as if you can always pin down the reason, yet they ask the question anyways for tease. BOS avg wind speed so far this Oct is 10.2 mph. Normal is 9.5-10.5, so noting out of the ordinary. Peak wind gust for the month so far 42 mph. MEH in terms of sig. Sep was windier than w/ 11.1 mph (8.5-9.5), but that was due to the one big extended nor'easter Sep 22-28. One event does not make a windy season overall! That's like saying on big CONUS HU landfall means it was an active HU season. I mean really, 16 years windiest fall? Slicing and dicing that down to this level? That's another thing, you have virtually endless ways to slice and dice things down to certain periods (week, months, season, etc) along w/ any given wx parameters or phenomena and historical context, and voila, content! The thing is not all is impactful, recognizable, or significant, so why report on it? Once again, CONTENT, doesn't matter the subject or significant. And a sub-headline "BOS continues to clock is most blustery year yet". Ok, so which is it -- "windy" or "blustery"? For the fall season or for the entire year so far? Just confusing statements. And for those here, what is your definition of "blustery?" I always think of cold wx w/ wind chills. No one ever says "blustery" when it is warm out or in the summer!

An all-timer. Easily the most impactful winter wx event, but I think 2013 was my favorite. As I repeatedly say, the Mount Rushmore of CT winter wx events are 1888, 1978, 2011, and 2013.

I’m going to Edmonton and Calgary in early December to see the Caps in both cities…I might need two suitcases for all the layers I’ll need.

I'm so bored I've been perusing the Octobomb and Sandy threads. Halcyon days those were.

Gross! Starting to remind me of 2024 fall minus the wildfires.

Yeah, prob some +15 anomalies for the northern tier

We will get some Spartman tennessee valley snow fantasy maps too.

WINTER, WINTER, WINTER, WINTER, WINTER

Wife and I had a new 4wd vehicle at the time were doing a weenie tour of damage that next day. I did a drive up Mt. Uncannonuc in Goffstown - it was 32" on the level settled depth at 1250' the next morning. I know Dendy probably knows of the access road and trails Not sure if there were any higher event totals. 21" settled depth in Bedford around 5 miles away but obv. lower.

It actually went noticeably north from yesterday.

Get this all teed up for @bluewaveto compare it to future warmer runs as the ridge trends southward.

Straight up San Diego weather pattern here. Enjoying it before days and days of 50 and rain .

Regardless of the strat, today's weeklies have the first week of December looking exactly like the Euro and all other seasonal modeling for December, which is a good thing.