MANDA

It absolutely does, especially in south and southwest facing rooms. Once the sun sets though that "free heat" goes away fast.

I'm not there yet but suspect I will be within 2 weeks.

My bill is due to arrive any day. Was just thinking about what it might be. Last month was $367. This coming one has to beat that.

Endless cold without any decent snow is going to get old fast for some I suspect.

High here today was 14. The cold spot in NJ today was High Point with a high temperature of 8. Lowest temp of the season here to date is 1. It is currently 11. Clear skies and light winds should get me to at least 1 and perhaps the first zero or a touch below by tomorrow morning.

Low of 3 here for second morning in a row. Zero or below has been unusually elusive here during all this cold even with a solid snow pack. Seems there has always been a breezing kicking up or some high clouds.

With the 500MB pattern the way it is forecast to be and has been forecast to be for days this is not a surprise. Closing off upper low along the GA coast moving ENE, tilt of the trof which was not at all favorable, kicker feature and a sloppy surface evolution this was going to be a reach for anything decent up here, except for maybe a NJ coastal grazer and maybe central and eastern LI and even that is failing. Maybe someone, Don? can confirm when was the last time we had something major up here with a 500MB low digging to the GA coast? Certainly nothing I can remember from the recent big ones. Something that far south is going to peak and occlude way to soon and would be quite a feat to get a surface feature from off the GA coast to vicinity of the BM. It can happen but upper trof would have to be going negative rapidly, very rapidly. My friend in RDU is excited, been waiting a long time for something decent like this.

Low was 3 here this morning.

Whew, I remember the 1977, 78, 86 and 87 entries very well. Within a week to 10 days of the 1977 event the bitter cold season of Nov. and Dec. 1976 and January 77 came to a screeching halt and Winter abruptly ended. I remember waking home from school in February 77 and sweating on some days mid to late month. The great Ohio Valley cyclone in 1978 was of course followed 10 days later by the Blizzard of 78 along the east coast. The Ohio Valley cyclone had record low pressure readings that I believe still stand today. What a monster triple stream phaser event that was.

I’ll take the over on 45 by Saturday morning the way some keep trying to pull this event from the ashes.

Pretty expansive snow cover. Lake Erie is essentially almost all frozen over. Lake Huron is building some ice cover. Been a while since we've seen such expansive snow cover east of the Rockies. North and even South Carolina will pickup some solid snow depth over the weekend to fill in the map even more.

Low of 4 here. I was going to post about the -17 in Walpack and I agree they could sink lower than that before the worst of the cold peaks.

18z CMC and Euro got 9/50 dropscondes in their data set... 0z suite should have them all Lifted from NE forum.

In this cold I'm happy to stay home with the fireplace going and the tunes cranking. No desire to be out in this for any length of time. Took the garbage to the curb this morning and nearly broke my neck on a thin layer of frozen slush, probably should not have been wearing flip flops though. Roads around around here are still only one fully clear lane in spots. The snow / sleet combo and the absolutely frigid temps is highly unusual around here. Salt just has not been super effective. The snow mounds in the Shop Rite lot are huge and will likely be around well into March I'd say. Cars are in the garage here and even that is about as cold as it gets in there at 40 degrees.

11.5 degrees currently with steady light to sometimes moderate snow. Windy as well. Looks like Old Forge, NY out there. Low gray overcast, deep snow cover and the air filled will falling and blowing snow. Gotta feel sorry for anyone who has had to work outside this month. Except for a several day pause in the cold earlier this month it has been brutal. December was no bargain for outdoor workers either.