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    December 2025 regional war/obs/disco thread

    in New England

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    10 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

    I’d prob extend that personally a bit to Xmas week. If we don’t have anything banked or imminent, then it would be another shaft job…..we have a chance this week before a little tiny relaxation (if it all), but then there’s clearly a reload for another favorable stretch doing into Xmas week. If we strike out on both periods, then we’re just living in the late 1980s/early 1990s paradigm again. 

    We got more snow up here in Jan 90 versus Dec 89 despite it being like +6. Not sure how it was down there, but we had a couple of good events that month with monthly totals around 2ft.

    December 2025 regional war/obs/disco thread

    in New England

    Posted

    1 hour ago, wxeyeNH said:

    Brian,  I was paying more attention to the snow squalls vs how cold this air mass is.  It seems like last night's cold over preformed.  Was that true?   0F here but snowcover must helped.

    Maybe a little? But this was modeled to be pretty cold. It had that look of strong CAA early and possibly radiating in the good rad spots before sunrise and it seems that panned out. I’m just glad we got a good pack before it came.

    We’ve had recent winters that didn’t even get below zero. Hopefully we don’t get too many of these days. I don’t need to be ripping through 2 bags of pellets every day.

    December 2025 regional war/obs/disco thread

    in New England

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

    I remember Dec 89 being really cold, hoped for a great winter, didn't happen. I was in Central Mass at the time.

    Yeah Dec 89 was brutal the entire month. The first 30 days at CON were 8 BN or colder. The last day was +2. Of course Jan went on to be warm. 

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    December 2025 regional war/obs/disco thread

    in New England

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    5 minutes ago, ariof said:

    Amateur! I'm hiking Washington in shorts, a t-shirt and crocs. What could go wrong?

    An aside: in Jan 2015 I ran up Mount Madison in a t-shirt, xc ski tights (basically yoga pants) and trail runners (with microspikes), a puffy jacket in reserve and some water. Of course, I had looked at the sky and read the forecast (this was the storm a couple days before "Bomogenesis, baby" which had a sharp cutoff in CNE; from the summit the view south was dark clouds behind Washington, the view north was blue skies over Quebec, about 25°, basically calm winds). I was also meeting up with AMC staff who had a radio and keys to the hut should anything have gone awry. The Valley Way is so much nicer when it's a packed out snowy inclined plane instead of a jumble of boulders.

    Three weeks later Kate Mastrodova was all geared up for a day no one should have been on the summits: 5 and windy in the valley should be a good enough sign; -35 and blowing 120 on the summit is not really survivable. 

    Ha my wife is watching a youtube vid on Kate right now. 

    December 2025 regional war/obs/disco thread

    in New England

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, ariof said:

    To be fair … if the current Euro op verified it would probably mean the coldest December since 1989.

    Nothing over 40 at KBOS, more time below 20 than above 30, average around 23 (monthly climo is 34, first half of the month is 37). Dry, would probably mean some dry snowmaking ponds but some very happy ski areas (especially if the atmosphere could squeeze out some natural snow.

    GFS had it warmer out in clown range, and clown range doesn't hit Grinch Range anyway but we have to factor in 57° on xmas.

    They showed the 6z euro valid over the next few days. Check H5…there’s no PV. 

    EC at 2m still tends to underestimate highs a little bit with sunshine. 

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