Volcanic Winter

That’s really incredible. Weather and climatology are so fascinating to me, so many variables at any given time producing innumerable outcomes - sometimes resulting in extreme permutations. I was born in the late 80’s so of course wasn’t around for the extremes of that decade. One of my first vivid weather memories however was the blizzard of 96… not a bad one to have. Was in Monmouth county for that as a kid.

Through today, my Tempest is showing an average of 30.9F for December with a low of 10.5 and a high of 49. Pretty crazy. AI says NJ averaged 22.7F in Dec 1989 with 5 days below zero recorded in Ocean County - that’s honestly wild if accurate. Trying to imagine these first 16 days but averaging 8 degrees less is kind of breaking my brain.

Appreciating the deep January vibes today. 15F at 8am and a pack in no rush to obliterate itself. At least the cold start to Dec had a worthy finale.

Had a crazy, extremely busy day and I’m insanely sore from shoveling out my parents and then my house. We had about 7 sloppy, heavy wet inches of snow. Seaside was about 4.5-5.

At my parents in Seaside shoveling them out, a good 3 inch here.

So far

I’m just NW of the Toms River dot on that map, I’ll let you guys know what I finish up with. Currently

Staying up for now, beautiful steady light to moderate snowfall. No wind, just peacefully falling small flakes. Pretty happy, this is needed.

Snowing beautifully, western Toms River / Manchester. 32 now. Upgraded to WSW just now for 4-6.

Snowing here in west edge of Toms River / Manchester. 33F now.

Good luck man, enjoy.

Yeah, SNE has been in rough shape as well. C/NNE have done much better. Tracks have not been right for the stretch of coast from NJ to LI to SEMa. Easy for Va to pile up nickel and dime events when everything is suppressed/shredded and weak, with no amplification to drive the waves northward. Happy this one appears to be working out.

Holding steady at 15F here, nice cold ground ahead of this little event. Looks like SEMA is gonna pick up the most in NE and I’m happy for those guys, they’ve been getting screwed as much as the NYC area lately. Hopefully this is a nice little event for everyone. I think LI down to my area should do pretty solid, hopefully it ticks up for NYC also.

Wow, temp is cratering past two hours. 13F

15 and falling