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I agree to a point. Some of the recent years with unusually wintry novembers followed by unusually tame Decembers was weird. To happen once, no biggie. But it happened multiple times. But then, sometimes you get slammed in January and February and forget about how December was meh. Especially since December is busy with Christmas activities and January and February are boring. All that said, I'm really hoping for a great December then when January starts we will worry about that. One month at a time.

Felt like an Edmund Fitzgerald day driving home. Grey with a howling NE wind. Obviously nothing like the 978mb bomb that sank the Fitz with 86 mph winds and 30 foot seas. Played Gordon Lighfoot in honor of the 29 souls lost 50 years ago today.

Friend in Charlotte says it’s snowing hard but not sticking

I *still* haven't turned my heat on yet but it's coming. And I know once I do, I have to start up the humidifier routine. With the central air heat, the humidity can drop down below 20% in here (triggering the static and nosebleeds)! I can usually get my humidifiers to take me to ~35%, which is fine. 40% and over gets to be too damp.

Yeah. To really have a great winter around here, you need a wintry December. Without all three months it’s hard to label the winter as great imo. When winter doesn’t start until January, it feels like it’s over prematurely by March because it feels short at that point regardless of how good it is.

I’d sign for half of normal…in blood.

Pretty good lower-level frontogenesis corresponds with radar returns over lower Piedmont area, including Charlotte.

Definitely going to be crisp night. Helps with breathing going out for a quick walk clears my congestion. Being inside I'm a mucus factory...

I saw that. I actually "plant by the moon" from that. The other (older) one - the "Old Farmer's Almanac" is still going though, although that one is really oriented towards farming vs this one that had more general gardening stuff. Am hoping that maybe someone will swoop in and buy them up.

first flakes of the season in NW Chesco first flakes 2025.mp4

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If you are talking about the Jan. 7 - 8, 1996 storm, they definitely declared a state of emergency and actually threatened to fine anyone (like $400 or something) who went out in it. But people still did and I know that there was at least one car stuck and completely buried in the middle of the street that ran alongside my apartment building. It was there for almost 2 weeks! Philly schools were pretty much closed the entire week as was the federal government (we had a LAN and I had a dial-up connection to the office to check email, etc). I never bought my "french toast" supplies (bread and milk) beforehand like true Philly snow wienies do, so there I was the day after (my birthday), hoofing it with my little shopping cart, to the supermarket that was 2 blocks down the street (walking in the middle of what was somewhat "plowed" (in quotes) of the street), to get some bread and milk. The supermarket did open (am guessing the clerks lived nearby). My car was strategically parked in the lot SW side of my building, where with all that snow, I expected to have to spend forever shoveling, but was spared. There was literally almost nothing on my car (the building blocked the snow blowing in from the NE). I just needed a snow brush and was done. The snow was really powdery (it was ~23F during much of the storm so had to have easily been 15:1 - 20:1 ratios. The cars elsewhere in the lot were buried in several foot drifts! I had one LOUD and LONG rumbling thunder about 9:45 pm last night and then maybe 20 minutes later, I heard a softer, more distant thunder. I actually picked up 0.25" on Sat., 0.55" overnight, and a couple scattered showers this morning gave me 0.06", for a 3-day total of 0.86", which was not bad. Made it up to 64 yesterday after a low of 46 but had my "high" today of 55 just after midnight, and it has been downhill ever since. It stayed mostly in the mid-40s during the day and the sun did pop out briefly once the last of the rain was done, but the bottom is starting to fall out now, with the CAA and even with the active breeze. It's currently 39 with dp 31, so the cold front is definitely sending that dry air in.

Saw a few flakes blowing about while coming home on I-285 today... naturally they melted on contact with anything, but still...

Last year of the Farmers Almanac. We have to go out with a bang. I don't care if its a blizzard, ice storm or whatever. Need something memorable...not nickel and dime crap. The end of an era. After 208 years, the Farmers’ Almanac has officially published its final edition. For generations, farmers, gardeners, old-timers, and “I can tell a storm’s coming by my knee” folks have used it to predict the weather, planting seasons, fishing days, and just about everything in between. Their 2026 edition is already out — and it will be the last one ever. Even their online access is shutting down next month due to rising costs and the mess of today’s media world. Whether you trusted it… or just argued with it… it’s hard to deny it was a piece of American tradition.

Definitely some level of convective rotation. I have noticed it off and on today. Honestly, I am a little surprised there have not been reports of rumbles of thunder. Might just be too cold.

Down to 43 here Big change from earlier today

Dryslot shortly in the city. NW of town is place to be

40*F right now. Feels like January. Hopefully January weather isn't swapped with November weather this winter.

That has to be psychological damaging to the weenies out there Sent from my SM-G970U1 using Tapatalk

Hey don’t you miss a tent with -15 air temps and windy???

what about the lunar radiation index (LRI)? it has a strong connection to snow chances ChatGPT said: That’s an interesting one — and it’s a good example of how ideas circulate on the edge between research hypotheses and pattern-spotting lore in the seasonal-forecasting world. What the “Lunar Radiation Index” is claimed to be Some private-sector and independent forecasters use a “Lunar Radiation Index (LRI)” or “lunar cycle index” to describe the repeating 18–19-year modulation of the Earth–Moon geometry (sometimes linked to the 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle). They argue that small changes in tidal forcing and upper-atmospheric angular momentum can influence the position of the jet stream or the frequency of blocking events, which in turn could affect snow potential in mid-latitudes.

Temperature Plunge Advisory in effect 48 for a high which is coldest high of the season by 8 degrees! Dropped to 42 by sunset and 40 at 5:30pm

I joke but um is this thing rotating some?

lol -------------------- should i be rooting for siberian snow pack ChatGPT said: Absolutely — and that’s a very savvy thing to be watching. Rooting for early and extensive Siberian snowpack is a legitimate (if indirect) way to improve Mid-Atlantic snow odds later in the season.

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