Ginx snewx

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Lots of drifting snow in town too. One of those deals where you’re driving on clear pavement and then you hit a spot where the wind funnels through and piles up a snow bridge across both lanes.

Up there?

3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Bryce and Steve brothers?

He only has one real son and that's TBlizz.  Two birds of a downy feather 

37 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Just absolutely rugged out.

9F, gusty winds, arctic fine flake snow adding 2-3” more today, blowing snow, sub-zero wind chills.

 

Can you add "up here"? Kev loves that

10 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Is what it is son. Let’s talk about Epicosity on Saturday.

Your words pops. 

9 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

No melt. Just meh.

Definitely melted

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

December can have some biggies but that also shows that March used to be just as snowy, if not snowier than December. I'm sure the BDL average for March the past 10-15 years has went down

No actually steady.  Huge Marchs skew the data like the 40s in 1956 and 1993 but as a whole negligible 

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I have the gaps in the data in a notebook that Will posted way back in the day and some stuff from Ryan too for BDL. It just sucks you check the records online and you either have no data or incorrect. Just think of the discrepancies it elicits. Like if you go check BDL on threadex for 1995-1996...it only has BDL like 106" or something versus 115.2" or 116.2" (forgot what it is).  

Climate data on snowfall is absolutely horrible.  The real reliable sites are COOPs like Jeff in Staffordville CT and Stacey in North Foster RI, also Revere Mass and Blue Hill

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

that data gap is so stupid. It pisses me off everytime I look at snowfall data.

Will has it. Dec is actually a very prolific month and up there on highest monthly average. 

4 hours ago, weathafella said:

I plan to arrive close to 4.  Looking forward to seeing everyone!   I hearTip is bringing a Hadley cell for each attendee.

Me and Tequila Barry there around then as well. I heard Ray is using his boys Red Rider wagon to haul in his blog for us to read.

Dec snows last 100 plus years in Hartford  50/50 shot of big snows. 

11 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

You really need to be outside of 495 and north of I-84 to get higher than 50/50 chances for White Christmas climatologically in SNE. ORH was around 60-65%. 
 

Obviously recent years have been bad. I think last year in 2024 is the only White Xmas in the 2020s. For ORH, then you have: 2019, 2017, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2002, 2000.
 

You could maybe count 2020 on a technicality (the snow wasn’t 100% wiped out by 12z which is the measurement time but certainly by 18z it was) 

So we’re sitting at about 50% since 2000. 

Yep since 1975 25 out of 50 years had 0 snow cover here

3 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Pretty good trends today too on EPS for the Xmas period....notice how much lower the heights are in SE Canada....this is kind of what we saw in clown range on the OP run where there was a lot of ridging over CONUS but we were staying colder due to the lower heights in SE Canada. That's a trend you'll want to see keep up as we get closer if you are looking to avoid macaw parrots for Xmas. 

 

 

 

 

High heights but wedged . Ice ice baby 

6 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

It's very cold on the backside of the system so there def could be some ocean enhancement on N or NNW winds. 

If one wants to make inferences. The first 10 days of Dec are already colder than any entire month since IJD ASOS was commissioned in 1997. Bodes well for the rest of winter if these are analogs 

First 10 days and month

16 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Drive up to Aroostook a couple days after…the ice on the way up was immense in central areas.  And yes, that’s why we went up…the northern part of the county was buried.  It was a scene for sure. 

Drove up to Jay Peak just brutal

13 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Cutters literally have a 1000 miles of territory to work with to produce the same result. Big coastal storms not so much.

The cutter has been in the exact same spot for a week on the Euro. St Lawrence screamer. 

1 hour ago, Arnold214 said:

Yeah that one conf in Balty you were like the Hindenberg. May have been the same year Kevin got us kicked out of the hotel bar for flicking a bottlecap at the bartender. 

That was PVD

4 hours ago, mreaves said:

I mentioned it the other day, well I had originally thought it was 80-81 before @tamarackcorrected me .  It might be my favorite winter.  It seemed to snow a couple of times a week and stayed pretty cold throughout.  At one point, our 4' electric fences were buried.

68/69

59 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

EPS looks awful for Christmas, GEPS, AIFS, GEFS all look a bit colder, with GEFS looking coldest. 

Remember our torched Thanksgiving models keyed on for days 2 weeks out, yea me neither. 

The Pope calling out our Mets when he makes silly trolling posts. Compares PSM to ISP LOL that's a new one. Its almost like he has no clue what climo is. 

34 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Pretty remarkable differences in look and feel from PSM down to eastern LI.

snow blowers and ice melt vs green grass and leaf blowers.

Traveling 150 miles looks and feels more like 600. 

It’s November to the south, early January to the north. 

For my location, it means winter’s grip, currently, isn’t that strong at all—warm sectors will not be strongly defended against…

The referenced map is more than just what the last storm brought. There’s a completely different seasonal vibe north/south of that line.

Looks like typical climo to all of us.

20 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Nice snowy evening with the clipper.

Should get a 2-4” refresh.

Nice fatties up there.  

17 hours ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

My itch to ski again is growing. Been over a decade since I’ve done downhill, not really prepared to right now but want to keep that itch going and growing. Biggest hurdles are ticket prices and gear, both of which are not in budget.

I took a decade off 35 to 45. Started out slow.  1st time  back using rental skis I was shitting my pants heading up the Barker lift. Like riding a bike all the muscle memory still there .it was on like donkey Kong after that. Check FB Marketplace for deals. If yout budget is limited look for midweek deals. Go go go while you ca. Don't be a procrastinator .You won't believe how fast you go from 50 to 70. Get it while you can Bobby Bobalina.

10 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Paywalled 

Damn must be 1 free article 

Great article on the new Burke 

A new ownership group has worked to restore Vermont's Burke Mountain into a top ski resort in the region. https://www.telegram.com/story/sports/columns/2025/12/03/snow-sports-after-years-of-neglect-new-owners-have-rescued-burke-mountain/87557725007/

4 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

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

Lol 2 sick minds thinking alike. We could have it blown up to picture size and framed