MN Transplant

Hit 70.0 exactly. Really nice out.

0.20” to pop us over an inch on November (1.07”). Let’s hope for a wet and cold winter.

I like the massive day 9 trough in CA that was completely absent from 12z. Really makes me believe in these solutions.

The airports average 1-3" of snow for December, so expectations should be in check. It is our fourth snowiest month.

This will be the 5th consecutive below normal precip Autumn, and the 10th out of 12. You have to go back to the 1950s/60s and 1910s/20s to find similar stretches. Rolling it forward, both of those periods were relatively snowy, but the current one is, um, not.

0.14" overnight, 0.87" on the month. Continuing to be very dry.

It is dead still outside. Makes 45 degrees seem kind of nice.

0.33”. The globals juiced it up too much. The mesos were closer.

Things our region actually does well: Humid in the summer Warm/wet, cold/dry in the winter

This is my regular pop-in to say that our area is among the least windy places in the US.

The CoCoRahs website lets you do 90-day custom maps. I set it for Dec 15 - Mar 15, because that is a pretty good sense of climo. Any storms outside of that window would be missed in my analysis. The favored regions each winter were: 2024/25 - South and east 2023/24 - Central (MoCo through Baltimore) 2022/23 - Everyone lost 2021/22 - Fairly uniform, south a bit better than north 2020/21 - North had a dominant advantage 2019/20 - Another dead-ratter. Better north, but we're talking 4-6" vs 0-2". 2018/19 - North and central much better. Hwy 50 as a dividing line 2017/18 - Best in the north and east. Another sub-10" dud for most. 2016/17 - Marginally better north, yet another sub-10" year for most. 2015/16 - Almost everyone got to party! MoCo with some of the biggest totals. So, obviously it is better to be north over the long run and they had a nice advantage in the 5 winters post the 2016 blizzard. Since then, they have been worse versus climo than central or south.

I picked out some CoCoRaHS points for winter 2018/19 to present: Northern St. Mary's Co. - 53.0" Mid Calvert Co. - 54.8" Southern Anne Arundel - 45.5" Near Salisbury - 46.7" For comparison: Falls Church, VA - 76.3" (my house) DCA - 59.4" BWI - 69.6" IAD - 84.8"

I'm sitting here trying how to use my 10-year old DSLR camera that has been on the shelf for years because iPhones are easy. F-stops, ISO, etc.

If the Vikings are going to be in last place in the division, it warms my heart to see the Packers in 3rd.

27.3 this morning. Colder than the airports and every MD mesonet site east of the panhandle. A topsy-turvy world.