December 2010 was great in Boston.
So there are times where a west based -NAO may lead to huggers, but I think overall we certainly do want a -NAO for the big boys. A lot of our major snow events have had some serious blocking. Anywhere from DC to BOS wants blocking.
Synoptically they probably are due for one of those. It's just real hard to get anything 18" or more in the lakes region, but I think Brian has the better chance where he is. The Lakes Region is more known for the 6-10" deals and CAD.
Would be pretty cool to have a Zoom room from like 9- midnight within a couple days of a big threat as the models roll in
That sounds like a good idea!
I had company over as well so I missed this, but sounded like it was a good time. Anthony sitting in the cruiser eating takeout?
I guess you could do the ESRL composite site? My guess is that it will look like 1987 Zelda graphics looking at SST anomalies from that year.
https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/composites/printpage.pl
This was the page I always liked, but doesn't go back far.
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/anomaly/2019.html
Yeah I think I had around a foot on Christmas, '95. Christmas '08 and '09 had a good pack, but Christmas '08 started to torch. I think in '09, best pack was down in SE MA because of the big storm earlier.
December would have made the grade a lot better. 2nd best locally and just a few tenths of an inch below '08 here. I'll take that anytime. Not too often you have a foot of snow OTG for Christmas around here like you did in 1970.