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Heckin' wimdy out there today. Low roar in the treetops and cold as a muthafukka. And finally after all this cold we have full coverage in New England. Wintah!

Was outside last night want to say it was around 9:00 or so and it was very peaceful just looking around and seeing everything covered in snow with Christmas lights...for some reason, this scenery makes it so you don't even feel the cold. All it takes is a couple inches of snow to totally change the mood.

Central Maryland yes, I lived in Germantown at the time and remember it well. After hours of heavy snow we were hit with by far the greatest thunder snow/sleet event I've ever seen in my 74 years. The wind became so fierce bare trees were swaying wildly as sleet began overpowering the snow and we were absolutely hammered with thunderclaps. It was truly a mind blowing experience, a movie ingrained in my memory.

5.8" total here from the clipper + LES. The cold has done a number on western Lake Erie!

Lol… Very wintry out there for sure. Enjoy and appreciate.

Hopefully the Ridge doesn't do like the guy in thaht Song, I get knocked down, but I get up again, ain't nothin gonna slow me down ". Lol. I just had to man !

Holy son of a nutcracker. this thread is WOW. And people wonder why i rarely post....................Heres your sign

That happened in '95-96 as we know. It would Snow and be cold a few Days, warm up rain and even flood some a time or two then cold and snow again. Blocking was the big difference maker that Winter. If we can get strong persistent blocking, I think we'll score some good Snow Events.

Similar thoughts. We’ll probably lose the first week of Jan, but second week may get more interesting with tracking threats.

The future is scary. Hide yo kids, hide yo wives…

Oh yea, that's a nice one..lol.

We decided on gutters (I wanted to wait a year) but the insulation so far doesn’t seem to be too bad. We still need more though. I came across this monster downtown the other day.

Yea, Im pretty bad at keeping up with that. Some years I do a little better job, but this year I haven't done any roof raking so I have more ice dams.

8.5” storm total and season total. Thanks. Commack NY

Take the under on summer temps and winter snowfall there lol

Tri-State snowfall map is going up tomorrow if anyone has any totals from NJ/NY that they want included let me know @IrishRob17 @psv88. Probably do a season to date map this week as well so lmk your seasonal snowfall total to date.

--I wouldn't call it "disdain", per se. But definitely reservations. Certainly, a measured approach - not happening.... One should always understand "how" things work. AI is at a sort of 'intellectual event horizon' beyond which it cannot be fathomed - not by 98% of the using population. This creates a wider gap, one that may not be bridge-able. There is a crisis of social mores, and breakdown of common morality. Example, what used to keep mass shootings ( for example) down to one or two every 10 years going back to the 1920s. People just didn't act to absurdly. Much less conceive of ever doing so in the first place. All but just a very small tiny fraction of beyond-fringe psychosis were at least sufficiently guided, these acted as at least tenuous, but in place nonetheless. safe-guards that kept things in check. Now? one every 6 months, a number that far exceeds the "very small fraction" number. Something is motivating enough to indoctrinate merely untoward ideologies into committing to specific actions. And if anyone has a modicum of understanding about sociology and history, they'll see that the most fantastic force to ever have impacted humanity, during and immediately preceding that uprising, wasn't just fire or the wheel. It has been this unchecked innovation --> advent of technologies, since the Industrial Revolution, that is proven too profoundly capable of unilaterally either helping, or afflicting at a species level. The fairest way to define this era is truly a techno-sociological experiment at an evolutionary scale - one that 90some% of the population density will lack the capacity to even be aware of what it is they are being unwittingly subjected to ... Can't end well playing with Cosmos' gun. Failure to understand and commit to the virtuosity of understanding how something works, that same something that one is allowing to guide them? That is a problem when people intertwine with it in blind presumptive faith. From one end of the spectrum of miss-use, to the other end of becoming co-dependent, then having it fail: Where does that leave us?

I've been raking the edges to minimize the icicles. It's a pita but I don't mind, it's al part of the clean up routine now.

No disagreement there, but (and maybe I am flat out wrong on this) we can't teach AI something that we don't know ourselves. For example, when it comes to physics and mathematics, AI isn't going to teach us or give us a better understanding of how atmospheric physics works and how these processes behave and evolve. Let's look at thunderstorms, for example. There are certain processes which occur during a thunderstorms life cycle that we know happen, however, we don't fully know why certain processes happen the way they do or what is the leading contributor. Tornadogenesis is one...we know the ingredients needed for tornadoes, we know how tornadoes form, but we don't know fully understand why some supercells (which look tornadic based on visual features/radar features) produce tornadoes and others don't...AI isn't going to solve something like that. AI isn't going to tell us this because we don't understand it ourselves and we don't have all the necessary data and measurements to be able to do so. But with the phone example, its learning faster because it has a basis to go on...it understands something because that something is known. There are many meteorological processes which we know exist and understand their existence, but don't fully know the why/how. AI will be a major help though in calculating mathematical/physics calculations much more quickly which will hopefully get us faster model output in the future.

I think you’re right about this North Hills. Not seeing anything definitive to indicate blocking and we definitely don’t have a good western ridge. We will have to be patient. Perhaps we will start to see things turn around on by late December as negative height anomalies begin to wane in the eastern Pacific and positive heights begin to build east of Greenland and possibly push west. .

I love building a base of my own resources....I sometimes draw upon them when the situation warrants. It's also nice when some douche misquotes me, as I simply copy/paste my actual thoughts in short order.

The snow drought continues in WNC. And the dry conditions will continue through the end of the month. Its almost a guarantee December will be way below average rain for most of the state.

Here is another map at 6 days.

Its the EPS and I can show 200 hour maps that show the same. Anywhere from 6-16 days look at or above average according to the EPS.