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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

The Euro op is close to as bad as possible for holiday traffic. Basically wipes Saturday off the map for the entire northeast from DC north, hitting all the airports and roads. Maybe a bunch of people who would normally have traveled on Saturday don't, so the plows can still get out (because once a traffic jam occurs and people stall out, everyone is stuck) but that means adding a lot of volume on Sunday when the roadways are already over capacity. Backups on the Pike and in Connecticut would be epic. (This guy is glad to have train tickets back from Philly on Friday …)

KBOS finally broke the dam … 32˚ for several hours, after the 5th 34˚ reading yesterday morning (and a 33˚) this month. 15 days after normal. Month now running more than 1˚ below normal. Congrats to the airport (I think the rest of the city has been well below freezing since I nearly fell on my behind the other day.)

Good news for this forum is that I am probably taking a last-minute trip out to SoCal this weekend so the chance that this is the one that the GFS sniffs out just went up dramatically.

Impressive after CAR had their first brown New Years IIRC. Hasn't been above 34 since then.

The cam up on the hill in Dublin is fun because you can see the wind direction from the flag pole (camera looks SE). All day it was pinned with winds from the east, then went limp about 90 minutes ago, and is now showing winds from the west. And nice looking SN.

I remember throwing my back out many times shoveling DGEX snow.

Oh, I know … it's just … the general public and their apps are … very misinformed. Literally "I am having anxiety about a storm five days out" Yeah, we all are, kid, but know deep down in our hearts it's pretty unlikely to come.

I had someone flying out of BOS on Thursday email me and ask what they should do. My response was take 10 deep breaths and wait two days, the models would probably send it out to sea. Probably some weather app overreacting to a couple of model runs. People seem to think that 5 days out isn't clown range because their phone pops up an icon.

BOS has had one more recently than you in Jan '22. Before that both Jan and Feb '15, Feb '13, Jan '11, Jan '05, Feb '03, Jan '96, Jan and Feb '94. Then you have to go back to Jan '78 (but *not* Feb), Feb '69, Mar '56, Jan '48, Jan '38. So, five from 1938-1988 10 and counting 1988-2038.

I've thrown out my back this season from shoveling D8 snow.

Would be nice if there wasn't a flood of warm air in behind it to melt it off but beggars can't be choosers.

Prospect Mountain (in Mitch-land, 2250' on Route 9 in Woodford, Vermont) has a webcam and a wx station. They crossed 32˚ at 0850, sat at 37˚ from 1000 to 1130, then dropped to 32˚ in about 30 minutes. https://dashboard.hobolink.com/public/PMA weather dashboard#/ Cam now showing SN. https://prospectmountain.com/trail-cam/

Disagree. 2015-2016 was just very warm with one arctic shot. At BOS: Dec: 2015: 45.3˚, 0.9" (high temp of 69˚ on xmas eve; not really the grinch because there was nothing to steal; I had friends in Vermont who went swimming in the pond they usually skated on) 2024: 35.3, 5.7" Jan: 2016: 32.5˚, 9.5" 2025: 28.7˚, 8.2" Jan has been similar-ish although cooler this year. Feb that year had the one cold snap (down to -9˚ in BOS) but the rest of the month was warm; it was 65˚ on the 1st and 64˚ on the 29th. 2015-6 had 35 days >50˚ at BOS (20, 4, 11), so far 2024-5 has had 8 (8, 0, ?)

Watching the squall come through from this webcam in Windsor, Mass. at Notchview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0keY9QYH54 If you scroll back to 12:57 you can see the vis go from clear to "can't see across the field" (the trees in the distance are <500' away, so basically 1/16SM). Video should work for the next 12h.

And reported 164" of snow depth with zero settling during the storm. I assume they were just glancing at the snow stake every few hours. If they were taking more frequent measurements, who knows how much snow would have been observed. I'd imagine there were some avalanches up in Tucks from that one.