gravitylover

Funny how all but one of the highs is nearly 40 years ago which is outside the current climate change induced averages. It's also interesting that the 3 lows inside the heat island are in the current higher averages. Hey honey, we need some groceries. - Yeah I know but I can't get out of the house.

I guess I kinda have to be ok with my 2" (for a while anyway)

If that were to happen I'd also hope for it to be warm. Cold and dry sucks and why bother wasting the $$ on heating costs. As of 1/1 those costs will be going through the roof in CT when their electric rates will double for over 80% of the homes and businesses.

I guess the upside to the way the month played out is many of the regions that have been very dry started to put some moisture down. We've now brought our soil moisture up to where it needs to be to move past the short term drought and the upper Midwest and the Rockies > west are in a good position to also get the ground moisture in a better place.

Great. Let's fool the plants into thinking it's time to grow again.

Again, IMO it's because we don't have the significant southward transport of cold Arctic air coming down the east side of western ridges that creates a wider temp spread as it encounters the warm ocean. That cold air was also usually deeper and had some staying power so it kept us colder for longer as opposed to now where the cold is more transient because it's shallower and moving faster with the jet stream because the ridge isn't there. Someone else had noted recently that we don't see that cold stream coming down the Hudson Valley very often anymore either.

Mostly overhead.

IMO not really. My recollection is we used to see more quick moving clipper type systems riding down the east side of western ridges that brought us 2-6" snowfalls.

Most years they do a significant water release going into the cold season, they didn't do that this year because levels were already at or below where they needed to be post release. We've had close enough to normal precip since then so the system has maintained the needed levels. The trick now is getting enough snow and rain to bring them up to, or close to, full as we get to spring.

Where are you? That looks like forecasts I used to see in Tahoe 30 years ago.

Happy ChrismaHanaKwanzika

Good thing too! It actually helped that the car doors on our black car sitting in the supermarket parking lot this morning.

Made it to 0, looks like 1 or 2 is as low as it got down in town on Rt6.

2/-5/W5 CLR makes it a 53° drop since 6am. I'm glad the wind is so light or I'm sure there would be lots more tree damage and power problems.

The current temp of 2° makes it a 53° drop.

55°>9° (so far) makes it a 46° drop in a little less than 14 hours.

That was a timely suggestion. I went out and struggled with the doors on our cars but managed to get them open without breaking anything. Thanks.

From 55 down to 18 now. Yuck.

And now it's snowing pretty hard and accumulating. Too bad it's gonna shut off soon.

32/32/E6 SN

34/33/NW7 RN+/white rain just started

What a shitty day and setup. It's raining hard, everything is soaked, water is running down the hill in sheets and the temp looks like it's gonna take a dive soon. Weeeeeee....

37/37/W6 RN+ That wind reading is from about 100 feet further up the hill, at my house only the tops of the trees are moving at all. I'm at 1.8" since yesterday afternoon. If the temp really crashes when the front gets here it's gonna get sketchy in a big hurry, the puddles are deep and water is running down the hills and streets now like it does during any heavy rain here.

34/33 SE7 ~.1" so far

It started wet with a few pingers then promptly went to about 40°. Meh...