UnitedWx

17 minutes ago, Krs4Lfe said:

Welcome to the new normal. The flow is too fast for anything amplified. Too much storminess near the west coast doesn't let anything amplified to crawl up the coast like it used to in the 2010s and 2000s. Even when there is a -NAO so there's enough blocking, the flow is too fast and the northern stream can never phase with southern stream. 

Horse hockey! EDIT: that translates to bullshit for those under 50

35 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I don't understand why energy congealing near the east coast ends up being delayed until the Maritimes as a result of the fast flow, but a developing eastern lakes or NYS bomb doesn't end up near the east coast...is there a gap in the flow or something?

You KNOW he's writing a multi paragraph explanation as we discuss

6 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

I wonder if 0z Euro doubles down?  Maybe we(SNE) win if they both can give us a nice big coastal from entirely different patterns….  

Question is, does the blocking show up as some seem to think it will. If it does, It doesn't look like the models are picking up on it yet, except maybe the Euro around the 10th? I guess the GoofusAI is showing some sort of Miller A at that time as well... FWIW

Didn't loose much in Westfield. Temp down to 31 and it's snowing. A dusting in the last 15 minutes 

Super icy drive from Wedstfield to Simsbury this A.M. It looks like it just went above freezing here, still 31 in Granby

22 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Snowcover was nice for the 2 days it lasted. Will be a dream tomorrow 

Not here,  it should easily last. So little precip and only a few hours of maybe low 40s. I'd watch for the flash freezes tomorrow afternoon 

1 minute ago, CT Valley Snowman said:

Up to 30.  No cold drainage on a south wind.  Expecting minimal impacts here.  

Hope it happens up this way as well. I have no use for ice. State is out absolutely plastering the treatment down

Some light sleet and freezing rain,  our driveway is already a sheet of ice. Radar looks super paltry, hopefully not much precip overnight. 27 degrees 

We've actually dropped a couple degrees the last couple hours. Down to 25 in Westfield. Hopefully the actual amount that falls isn't that great... but lighter seems to acrete more efficiently 

1 hour ago, jbenedet said:

“Pattern shift….” 
 

Careful what you wish for. 

 

There’s some naive optimism in seeing less mid level troughiness on the west coast but this is not without losing cold anoms in Canada. After first few days of January risk is tilted warm, even in the northeast. There’s some indications also, that the MJO makes a pass to 4/5/6 which are all warm phases for Jan. 
 

Pattern looks like trash around hr240 on the ensembles.

 

Deluded to be getting excited for big snow from day 9ish on..

Well here, not excited for it showing snow... just nice to see a POSSIBLE better pattern than we've seen in a while. What a clam

2 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

Got down to 8 this morning.. I see orange is -1 fake cold

Probably same here when we saw 1 this a.m. an hour later it was reading 9

1 degree in Westfield.  

3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

He’s cocky too. He’s gone after me for a few things and I just LOL’d.

Definitely more Tool than any of the tools in my garage 

2 hours ago, mahk_webstah said:

Can you say more?

It shows systems on the 1st / 2nd, 5th and the 9th. Plenty to track right now

2 hours ago, moneypitmike said:

We hope.   Let's get this rainer out of the way first.

Hopefully it isn't much,  and looks to be pretty quick through here. I'd expect to keep at least some of what fell last night. Certainly doesn't look like the last pack eraser

5.5 inches here in Westfield. I'm curious what Simsbury did, haven't heard from the plow guy yet

Over 4 inches here now, it had lightened, but has picked up nicely again 

4 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

just measured 1.5"

 

Nice. As much as the plows have been by here, you'd swear we've had 6 lol

Make that 3

1 hour ago, weatherwiz said:

was waiting for your post! This bodes well for me

Over 2.5 inches here now (well 10 minutes ago)

went from barely flurries to a quarter inch in less than 15 minutes here

Just got back from the Christmas light hike and just started flaking here in Westfield 

Just now, TalcottWx said:

The Reverend’s Revue

So, how is it?? 

Fading partial sun in Westfield, 20 degrees. Our Christmas light hike was rescheduled to this afternoon. Should be festive!

42 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Aren't the official voice?

They used to be far more relevant.  The last 20 years they always seem to be behind the 8 ball. EDIT: Also, we've had the weenie emoji forever,  isn't it time for something else... maybe a clam?