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6 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

I just looped the entire month of Dec 1989 on reanalysis and it's amazing. The first time the 850 0C line makes it north of MA is 12/31/89 the entire month. Most of the month is spent double digit negatives at 850mb.

That November had some frigid weather too. I remember upper teens under at least partial sunshine and gusty NW to 30 mph. While the Thanksgiving snowstorm was meh the few inches that did fall blew and drifted all over the place under mostly cloudy skies and temps falling below 20F

Pretty impressive stretch of cold. The range at CEF over the past five or six days is 1 to 33. The two afternoons where it did get to 32 and 33 was just for a few minutes. We've only received about or just under an inch of snow between the two events but there's still a good quarter inch left. Just amazing at the retention this time of year with decent cold. All in all not a bad month of winter weather here in the lower PV.

1 hour ago, forkyfork said:

digging up other bad years instead of tracking something interesting. sad!

Helps with the misery

1 hour ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

93-94 was near record in most spots...Boston did set a record that was eclipsed in 1995-1996...ORH was close.....but my area was always caught in between. Most of the events were either CJ or elevation deals. I had 78.5"...which was decent, but nothing to write home about.

I lived in Bristol CT back then and I only had 60 inches while a few miles north BDL had close to 90. 

Early morning inch brings us to 4 inches on the young season so far.

It's been somewhat wintry at times the past couple weeks. Nothing major but it's something. Too bad about later next week and beyond but at least we're used to it now.

An inch here in the heart of death valley. Very good snow growth for awhile very early this morning.

15 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

That will not happen with that HP up there . Will be a chilly Rainer 

You're ride or die with that HP aren't you?

16 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

well .. to be empathetic to the solemn singers, it's been since 2015 ...   mmm 9 years is for all intents and purposes a decade, that much of coastal mass has seen normal snow.  so saying "just had" ...that's a little gaslighty   hahaha.

seriously though, it's getting on in age at this point.   thing is, we may have slipped over a climate threshold where these 9 years worth of sore butting becomes more normal.   i know that's probably going to earn me 0 love hearts, no 100 %'s ... no thankyous and a pile of shit or two, but this is unfortunately our non-zero possible reality at this point. 

that said, this winter will probably go on to conquer all evil ... just to enable.  but the price in selling to that devil might be a new fresh hell of 12 years again over before we pull the cosmic d out of our cc bums ... a time in which the polar ice free waters for the first time.

Well I don't know. To have lived through is strong wording, since most folks live at least five to eight decades. Ten years is a long time but when the pattern is right eastern  Mass gets 15 to 30 inch storms like a dog gets ticks running through the woods.

17 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Just think of all the times in history to be alive as a snow lover, and this is one we get. Unreal. Boston just had its 3rd least snowy 2 year period ending in 2021, which, of course, is almost certain to drop into 4th barring some late month nor'easter magic.

Excuse me, you had winter of 14-15. Now that was something to have lived through for anyone more than 20 miles east of the river

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

The valley got crushed in 1888. Below is a picture from Northampton. 
 

Yes the whole valley but I just think lightening won't strike twice . There may well be a similar storm someday but we probably won't get crushed when it happens.

Two inches of 34 degree ugly wet snow. We had plenty of precip but it was just too warm

Congrats to those who were a little cooler and have postcard picture snow

16 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

Probably not. Would much rather have that then a ‘38 redux. Something like that scares the shit out of me. I mean it would be fun to experience the elements but not the result of those elements 

Did you mean 38 TC or 1888 blizzard?  An 1888 redux would just look give us good snow and wind but I would doubt there would be those huge totals in the valley .... probably be east. We wouldn't loose power and Internet for 7-12 days 

17 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Serious question—not being a wiseass: would folks pass on an October 2011 type of event or an 1888 redux given the extreme impact? How much is too much?

1888 redux in a heartbeat 

Wow!! Surprise inch of snow, looks beautiful out. It will be pretty tomorrow morning.

Nice light snow falling. Grass and carrots dusted up. Pretty sure these are the first flakes down here or at least the first I have seen.

5 hours ago, George001 said:

No, negativity is fine when it’s justified. It’s not justified for this upcoming pattern. There is no guarantee of success, but it would take some shitty luck to not score in this upcoming pattern. We might get a clipper in early Dec. A CLIPPER! Isn’t that exciting?

Beggars can't be choosers 

Nice more normal cooler fall weather this week. Thank goodness 

9 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

Just saw this on facebook.. guess it's on the masspike before the 291 exit for   Springfield 

Yeah I'm out that way now, went through some smoke just after Paige Boulevard 

Mid 80s on 11/6 is ridiculous, it doesn't even look November until further notice. I'm looking for 20s in the morning and upper 40s to mid 50s for highs and some overcast days without a southerly wind. 

What a terrible day all around. God help us 

On 8/19/2024 at 8:06 PM, Damage In Tolland said:

Will you unpack the fall clothing . Sweater on the deck with morning coffee while posting in Augdewst?

As a matter of fact I have been enjoying a hot pumpkin spice coffee in a hooded sweatshirt the past two mornings before I take my walk. In fact I haven't been on in a few weeks, especially when almost everyday is COC and the future looks like unlimited COC. Hippy was right about the back of summer being broken. The last half of August was pretty nice and the predictions of a wild hurricane season are starting to be in question.

42 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Should be some very exciting discussions next few days with tracking 40’s and 50’s in the morning 

Can't wait 

I wonder if these events are likely to be more common if that will get most folks a shot at something like this over the next couple decades.   Also that part of CT was ground zero in more than a few of the bigger snow events back in the 2000-2018 period.

7 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

We flood today.. that wasn't expected

Yet the point and click through yesterday had rain chances at 20 percent lol....been raining here almost all day.

Bring on the cool weather. I hope it's overcast and 40s/50s