dendrite

5 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

non native. cut them all down

I hear ya and don’t necessarily disagree. But they aren’t invasive (aggressive) and don’t spread their seed far so a single tree isn’t really hurting the ecosystem much. If I could only plant a couple of trees it would be native ones, but if I had a large enough property and more room for trees than I knew what to do with I’d possibly plant one. They’re fairly useless for wildlife though.

4 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Gfs went from flaccid to powder keg look on one run. Lol

The whole run looks feasible 

5 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Anger mounting under sunny skies
Southeast ridges crushing souls
Yule-tide carols being dumped by a choir
And AC installs are apropos

Everybody knows, a cutter and some rising dews
Help to make the season right
Tiny tots with their eyes filled with tears
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know the Grinch on his way (oh he’s comin’)
He's loaded rain, and warmth, and woodsheds on his sleigh
And every mother's child is gonna cry
As fathers smash all their presents nearby 

And so I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although it's been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you

3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Listening to Christmas songs…I wonder if we had the background warming 80 years ago, would there be so much references to snow? 

Chestnuts blighted, and catching fire
Jack shit amounts of snow
Yore-like snow maps, being sent by a weenie
And folks dressed up like Key Largo

Everybody knows, some toucans and forsythia
Helps to make the season right
Weenie cops, obsessed with MJO
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know the Grinch storm, is on its way
It’s melting lots of ice and snowmen in just a day
And every mother plays, John Mayer on a drive
As the temp and dewpoint, both hit fifty-five

Please Husqvarna don’t hurt ‘em. 

That sucker is fast moving. I think the ones more aligned in a W-E axis tend to be more persistent since you tend to have the vortmaxes that induce the inv troughs coming in from the W-NW. This is more like a quick moving line going through rather than training cells. 

On 12/4/2025 at 11:34 AM, Layman said:

@dendrite Not sure if you follow this at all but I've seen your posts regarding trees and figured it may be of interest:

https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2025/12/james-hall-ginkgo-tree-sees-latest-leaf-drop-record 

I love ginko trees. The late leaf drop is interesting. Hopefully the tree is okay. I’d plant one here, but I already have too many other trees…not much room between the fruiting trees, chestnuts, and butternuts/hickories. 

10 hours ago, bristolri_wx said:

“Your local forecast from the National Weather Service.”

 

This is my favorite wxstar 4000 simulator. There’s a lot of customization. 
https://www.taiganet.com

8 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

An air quality alert and cold weather advisory for wind chills up to -55. Currently -27 at the airport. Vodka cold.

Boy, I sure do hope they find relief with a big ridge over their head sometime around Christmas. 

I don’t take much notice of Fairbanks temps until they hit that magical -40° mark. Of course that’s with calm conditions.

8 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Stay safe all 

Was that birds taking off at sunrise on radar down there?

Light dusting up here. 

14.2° -SHSN

3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

How many IPAs?

Inverted bottles

Already 8.3°. Brutal. 

1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said:

Garbage month. Had one decent snow event and a pretty decent ice storm near the end of the month. 

That must’ve been a decent SWFE on the 29-30th. CON 10.0” on 1.31”, Franklin 13.0” on 1.76”, Lakeport 12.0” on 2.02”, and North Conway 16.0” on 1.77”. Double digit snow with glop on top. 

23 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I may send Kevin a Christmas card with this image on the front.

At least BDL got 2.4”

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.

17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

The only thing you might be able to argue is that perhaps 80 years ago some of these borderline events would’ve been a little more snow on the coast.

I may have added a new emoji

16 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Mods could move this where it needs to go, but this read was extremely informative for our region regarding CC.

 

Another analysis indicating New England is fastest warming region, right along side the arctic.

It also corroborates the observations we’ve had that this warming is accelerating. 
 

https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/13/12/246

Oh shit…must be Friday again

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Hrrr 1” for Kev tomorrow. Winter is saved.

RGEM has been consistent with it. Euro has a little sign of it too. But yeah, NBD overall. The 3k not being enthused is what gives me doubt about it.

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.

12z mins

-1.2°

4.6°

8.1°

Terrible

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

It’s so bright outside.

3/-8

Also feels like the surface of the moon.

When I had a rooster, I had a few overnights like this with fresh pack where he would start crowing after midnight because it was so bright. 

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. 

13.8°

Holy super moon