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To be fair … if the current Euro op verified it would probably mean the coldest December since 1989. Nothing over 40 at KBOS, more time below 20 than above 30, average around 23 (monthly climo is 34, first half of the month is 37). Dry, would probably mean some dry snowmaking ponds but some very happy ski areas (especially if the atmosphere could squeeze out some natural snow. GFS had it warmer out in clown range, and clown range doesn't hit Grinch Range anyway but we have to factor in 57° on xmas.

Per Google Maps traffic the RA/SN line is basically Newburyport-Woburn-Natick-Hopkinton under some heavy banding. Grass shows white in the median on Route 2 east of 128, just up the road at 128 and Route 3 in Burlington it looks snowcovered. Tight gradient, perhaps a bit SE than advertised. Could be some nasty driving during the evening commute since media/BOX may have undersold the event. And all of this during peak sun angle, too!

Just wait, it's only 0800, the sun angle will start the melt going any second.

-SN in Cambridge, probably a remnant from that band of OES showing up on radar off of LIS. The Good Storms start with OES on the South Shore from the ENE, not a line up RI from the south (I'm not sure I've ever seen that before)

1/18/15: the last warm storm of the season. Started as ZR in NH (was was XC skiing in Jackson and it had been around 0 overnight, ZR started around 15, I came down a hill coated in ice; can't imagine it was much of a day at the downhill areas either), valley didn't scour out until mid-afternoon (I went skiing in the zr because it seemed preferable to driving in it) and eventually left once the temperature had gone above 32. The carnage on Route 16 was impressive, I saw the first spinout within the first mile, asked the trooper there if the roads were safe and he said "well, they're safe now." That was the last time it was above freezing up there for two months.

There was a storm about 8 years ago (ish, I can remember where I was living) where I said "make sure to clear off your cars because whatever slop is on them after the storm is going to freeze real solid." And it did.

They stole a lot of UI from TT. It's much better, I still prefer TT, but PWx has the Euro so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah looks like a significantly BN start to the month at least. Get the ground nice and frozen for the grinch.

Watch the NAM bring SN to ACK for the 12Z run.

From the BOX AFD: The timing of this system (largely during the day) doesn`t bode well for snow chances in the low elevations. I guess they're looking only at the time of day and not, like, the time of year?

Is it Morch already?

Especially the case from Stowe north to Jay. A bit less so for southern resorts.

I'm traveling for a week starting 12/6 so if there is going to be some epic winter, plan on it that week. (If I'm very lucky, it will be epic enough to bury BOS and/or EWR and it won't make sense for us to make the trip, but I'm not holding out that much hope.)

The ski areas, at least those with enough water, have to be salivating a that OP run. Put down enough of a base that even the Grinch can't steal it.

Oh we already know