J Paul Gordon

Lookie! Lookie! Weather Underground is predicting 10.5" on Wednesday 12/16. I'm sold. Can only go up from here.

About 6.5" of slush/snow on the deck and grass. 33F/0C. Finally sanding the street. Will be nice to have snow on the ground on a moonlit night. Looks like it will stick for a few days. Kind of weird little storm with all its permutations of rain/snow lines. Early December in SNE.

What's it doing in Southbridge. Had to cancel an event one year when I was stuck in Worcester with 8" of the wettest, greasiest, snow ever (absolutely beautiful though). Southbridge got only rain. People thought I was crazy to cancel.

0C/32F light to moderate snow, smaller flakes now. Ground covered, parts of my steep Worcester street are getting some cover. Win picking up.

When it looks like the pattern change is always two weeks away..... 2001-2002....2011-2012.... whatever. We're here today. That's not nothing in 2020. Would be nice if our 2 weeks of winter encompassed Christmas and New Year, but then again, Christmas isn't about snow and getting 2020 the hell out of here counts more than any number of blizzards...

Tolland Massiff and NE/NW CT, NW RI, along 95-495 belt northeastward. Sometime interior SE MA can get a good icing in that kind situation in a generally BAH HUMBUG pattern. Have to count the little blessings in the midst of the larger storm.

Oh sure it can, at least where you are. We get monster slop/snow/ice storms in some scenarios under a regime like this even early in December. Maybe especially early in December. Ice storms especially. A transitory Quebec High can sometimes do wonders.

All it takes, though, is the right combo of cold air and precip to wind up a decent snowstorm in the interior even in lousy winters. January 2006 is a case in point of a significantly above average month (only 7 days with a high below freezing at ORH airport) with above average snow (24").

2011-2012, 2001-2002, looks like another memorable non winter?

Thanks for making the change. I was afraid it might be one of those, "Winter is lost because it snowed in October" whines. It is a great joke as a subtitle though. I well remember the superstition that followed the barren winter of 2011-2012.

could be worse. might turn out better. eventually the forsythia will bloom and we'll know that its over no matter what surprises may come up the coast. And then there is the hope that NEXT year it will be better. dr dews is like someone who loves to pull off band-aids. everyone's gotta have their fun. and nothing wrong with a little dose of "get real" counter-propaganda.

Sometimes jumping onto this site is like reading Joyce....total stream of consciousness. So what if March (aka "Morch" to some of the pre-teens here) blows? Winter is climatologically nearly over. On the other hand, if we get cold and snowy, its a gift. There is something to be said for a blizzard followed by enough high sun to help melt the stuff on roads and walkways in something less than two weeks. Anyhow. Looks like our 4 months of mud season will end before mid May this year. Be thankful for the small things.

I hope to God not. Anywhere but here. That was one ice storm too many for me.

Curious. Why paste?

yeah, right. Love talking about 015 but are things so completely dead an dull there is nothing to look forward to in 020?

So 3-6 in ORH with a short mild up to maybe 38, then plummets back down. Sounds like a boilerplate in the making. Good base for something else.

Remember, while grabbing for every inch to be had, January 2015. Then came the deluge and anything less than a six inch fall was treated like flurries.

What's going on in the mets minds re the last third of the month and Feb?

When winter gets to be a long brown bore my eyes see the Maine coast in summer. Just gotta count the days. But when that ginormous set of storms rides up the coast come February I could take another six months of the Old Man. In other words, there is always something to look forward to.

Winter Cancel Page? Guess maybe "Morch" will be the coldest month of the winter? Lol Anyhow if every model on the runway looked like the progs here..... well that would be some ugly boys and girls

OK so the roaring silence interrupted by low moans of despair means the mild weather continues. Looks like a long stretch in early mid January has gotten folks telling ghost stories about 01-02; 011-012. Are there solid reasons to write off February and March?

December has been pretty decent in my area. So we get a little mild up. The NOAA 8-14 range has us colder than normal with normal precip. They aren't all that awful in these near range forecasts so I hardly looks like a "winter cancel". Really, the old fashioned up and down type of winter with some very real possibilities of good snow mixed with a cutter or four.

How about a precipitation hole for Worcester? 2008 was more than enough. Give me two feet of snow almost anytime, but ice? Nothing romantic about a freezing cold house and nowhere to stay. Really. Its like wishing for a direct hit by a tornado or hurricane. Just doesn't make sense that anyone wants to be it the bulls eye for this sort of thing. Don't like this 4C with a dew of -4C.

Yes. 2008

Seems realistic. I'm just hoping the ice doesn't happen here. Memories of December 2007 still linger in these parts. Nothing nice about ice.