DavisStraight

Every time I look at the weather station it's down a degree, down to 4

52 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah it basically turned into Labrador for about a month with the sea ice extending out from the shore many miles all along the MA shoreline.

I was down at the Cape in the 2005 cold snap, there was ice as far as I could see, looked pretty thick too.

Minus 20s already in northern Main, getting close in PF land.

MesoWest Surface Weather Maps (utah.edu)

9 minutes ago, 78Blizzard said:

Having lived in New England most all my life...we do get these extreme cold spells we are having here now..Yes it is cold…brrrr.. but it's not like it is some novel event never experienced here before. Yet that is what the media act like.

Problem is we're not used to it, some years this cold wouldn't bother me, today it's chilling me to the bone. Gonna stay inside tonight by the wood stove.

Was outside for 10 minutes to bring in a load of wood, getting gusty and my fingers are frozen. Not adjusted to this type of cold yet.

18 minutes ago, TalcottWx said:

I'm down 3 degrees in 45 minutes. 

I quickly dropped to 12, probably going to keep dropping a degree or two an hour now.

HRRR has me down to -14

Way below zero up north, should start seeping down soon.

MesoWest Surface Weather Maps (utah.edu)

11 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Euro looking pretty interesting at D7....brewing something up to the southwest with a decent high nosing in. Seems like all guidance have something there that may be trackable. Obviously no reason to take it seriously for winter wx until we are closer, but there is a reason to keep an eye on guidance at least.

I've never gone a whole year without using the snow blower so something should happen this month. I'm talking 28 years.

Down to 15, should be a continuous drop from here.

I've been oscillating between 16-17 degrees most of the day. I guess it should start dropping at sundown.

4 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

-19F and hammering wind.

Snow from the arctic FROPA squalls leading to pow.

 

Full on winter in your hood, I'll have to talk my wife into going up there for a weekend.

3 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah rad pits in calm wind showing -7 is a completely different sensible wx feel to -7 ripping with 25 knot winds. 
 

You can get -7 in calm winds and be 25-30F a few hours later in daylight. Tomorrow afternoon might be near 0F in spots near NH border and single digits in much of MA with wind. That’s the difference between “fake” cold and these deep layer CAA events. 
 

You typically want to combine the two if you want to go super low in the rad pits…you get the CAA and then the next night it goes calm and you put up a -22F or something. We won’t do this in that event because it’s too fast. But some of the slower ones like Jan 1994 and Jan 2004 were able to do it. 

In 94 I radiated down to -20 two nights in a row, coldest it's ever been that I can remember.

12 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I’ll tell you what, tomorrow afternoon should be good stick tongue to flag pole or jungle gym weather for the kiddos. 

Do you know the kid who stuck his tongue on the pole in the movie went on to be a pornstar?

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Lots of kids going to school with temps upper 20s and not caring. Leaving with temps in single digits with wind chills -20s. Unfortunately many students are not capable of dressing right for many reasons.

When I was in Grammar school every time it cold like this the old boiler would break down and they would send us home, I had more days off for cold than snow back then.

When I was in Boy Scouts, we used to do a winter campout, one year we went to Treasure Valley in Paxton and got below zero, was a good year in the 70's with good snow cover. None of us slept, we stayed up all might sitting around the fire it was so cold. Fun times though.

32 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Have you had any predator birds move into the neighborhood? Hawks, Owls? Maybe coyotes are getting them. 

During a windy day last fall there was a baby owl on my wife's car, it stayed in the garage for most of the night but was gone in the morning. I wonder if the wind blew it out of its nest or blew the whole nest down.

16 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Has anyone noticed all the squirrels vanished? I have not seen a squirrel since pre Xmas . There was not one acorn last fall so maybe that’s the correlation? After these fat boys ate the pumpkins they literally vanished. Good riddance 

I had a huge family all fall, brothers, sisters' cousins cleaning up all my nuts, haven't seen many since fall.

49 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

That was a good one. Not hecs but the cutoff spun south of LI for days with snow showers, giving a prolonged deep winter vibe. 

Was kind of in a screw zone with 8 inches but not as bad as that little blue circle NW.

11 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

You didn’t break -13 in the 2016 event? ORH airport had -16F. 

I had -16, I figured Daves area hit -20s

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Tough for us with no snow cover. I figure -2. The wind Friday afternoon will be the problem 

A foot of snow would be nice for this cold snap, my low where I live now is -16, don't think I have a prayer of touching that.

17 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

He finally is retiring...

Doesn't have a wife to piss off anymore, might as well.

Can't they check temps with satellites now? There has to be places colder than where a thermometer was or heat too for that matter.

8 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

I don't see one minus on that chart. I guess it will be 2/4

5 minutes ago, 78Blizzard said:

The Euro op is all alone among the ops with that widespread below 0F in SNE, even down on the Cape and MV.

An interesting battle among the models.  Let's see which one(s) cave(s) from here.

 

Which one's handle temps the best?