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low of 30.9F, completely bare ground with a heavy frost and sunny skies. Beautiful late Octember morning!

22.8F -SN nearing 1" Festive refresher with tree branches and ground covered, and low impact for all those who have to travel later.

Depends on the scale being used?

I lived in S Texas in the late 70s and couldn't get out of there fast enough. Yes, palm and citrus trees, and watermelon fields dotted with oil & gas pumps. But the searing heat from May to September, and 70s-80s thru the winter is enough to bore a wx enthusiast to tears. 10 day forecasts are on repeat all summer - sunny, upper 90s, low 80s at night - and walking out the door in summer is a blast furnace assault to exposed skin. Not to mention the hostility of goat-heads in yards that shred your pets paws to hamburger and nestle in your socks to gore you unexpectedly at some future slight movement. Fleas that thrive in the grass year round, along with scorpions and tarantulas. That said, I get ya - and to each their own, both my sisters still live there after all these years and love it. Plus, there's Whataburger... Merry Christmas!

-0.4° for the low, now 1.8°

"Dr. NAM" (Not Any More)

6.3 off a low of 3.7. Farm pond is frozen solid, with a half inch coating hanging on from fri night, wintah vibes of yore

They call it a Clipper… clipper, faster than lightning, Few storms you see, are faster than he, And we know the Clipper’s just a vort in the dry air, Flying by here, on it’s way to the sea Snow lovers hope each Clipper they see, Will stall and grab moisture, when it reaches the sea But that trick’s a rare one, and much more likely No one will see, more than a coating to three.

This is true the last decade or so. Opposite of my childhood when Oct or Nov snows were rare but Christmas was more reliable - which I prefer.

FYP^2...

this sent me looking for the 'ruh roh' emoji... ah, found it

When I start feeling like this I take one spiked eggnog and a brooklynwx99 animation or two, and my mood improves dramatically...

57.4` / 57.1` peak gust 22.8 and 0.48" so far. Snow 'pack' cryin for mama

Yup glad to be missing the rain so far, just 0.01" and 33.1°

Not expecting any of this snow to be here by Thurs - high dews with high winds are prolific pack erasers. Hopefully can get something to pop around the 20-21st to refresh and then hold it thru Christmas week.

27° eyeballing 3.5-4". Surprised by the drop in temp & wind/drifting

A surprising number of folks want 15ft or larger trees, we get more requests than we can fill. This was one of 4 we've sold in the past week that was 16 or more feet tall. It takes a lot of determination to lift it onto the trailer, get it stood up in a stand, secured, and decorated but there's still folks looking for these big trees.

Yeah talk to those of us who lived thru the 80s LOL

30.5F and intermittent -SN, 2" otg, good snowball consistency

I knew I'd heard some of these posters somewhere before...

I'll trade a suboptimal look in the middle of December for a reprieve from the Grinch. If we get a wintry appeal anytime after Dec 22nd or so, I couldn't care less what it does beforehand.

Exactly why I'm hoping to stay on the RN side of this one - opening day tomorrow for Christmas trees here at the farm and after the last two years I'm done with branch-breaking paste jobs for a while. Bring back the fluffier stuff hopefully for December and it's all good. 33.8° -RN

32.5F -RN 0.06" in the gauge so far. Fingers crossed we stay on the wet side of the R/S line with just flakes at the end and no accum - so far the short range models look good for that here but it's close

1.01" since yesterday, skies quickly alternating from low clouds to nearly clear and back.

I check in here for both the met insights, and the banter. Both are interesting enough to me to spend a decent amt of time reading and checking in. It's fun. The emotional reactions are a part of that, for better or worse. When I hear mets talking about favorable patterns it gives me a boost in day to day interest of what might happen, and I start hoping for something memorable. When patterns aren't favorable, it takes my day-to-day interest down a few notches, that's all. For all the obvious reasons (sudden recurving typhoon to proverbial butterfly wings in Mongolia) there's always a chance something unexpected happens. To think otherwise is just foolish. That said, long years of watching models has me realizing that when persistent patterns set in, it's time to watch for (met) signs of a change. And then when they inevitably show up, realizing they're more often delayed beyond the original fcst window. But getting mad at mets who are simply saying what the models show is an entertaining study in futile emotions, same as denial and wishcasting. It's all part of the board drama. All that said, I'm fine with a toasty November but hoping real signs of a mid-December change start showing up. Like others here, I hate to lose late December to torches so hoping the grinch takes a much-needed break this year for a change.