weatherwiz

I used to do outside work in the heat all the time and I've done it in the cold. Much prefer the heat than the cold. When it's hot you just pace yourself and make sure you drink plenty of water. Adding layers doesn't work as well as people think...unless you're wearing specialized equipment. Though you're absolutely right...it's the extremes where the impacts begin. 20's...30's that's right...70's...80's that's fine.

On the 0z EPS 500mb height anomalies looking at ~240-hours out...would that configuration east of Greenland into Europe be considered an east-based -NAO? Trying to visualize the NAO domain here but it almost seems that the core of the anomalies may be outside of the NAO domain? What is the other teleconnection which encompasses that part of the world...is that the EA/WR?

I saw a tweet yesterday that had some numbers for the record low max's and min's which were set...I gotta try and find the exact numbers but they were quite impressive.

There is nothing remotely good about cold. And all those people who prance around screaming, "I'd rather be cold then hot. You can always add clothes, you can't take them off"...GARBAGE...COMPLETE GARBAGE. What a ridiculous phrase. There is nothing good about cold. Nothing fun about shivering

In all seriousness I'm just being selfish and calling it brutal b/c I hate it lol. I also fear we will be seeing airmasses much worse than this...which hopefully I guess will produce some snow.

Snowing in Branford

I've been drinking these protein things from the store for breakfast...30G of protein! I still gotta get to a doctor though. One of these days I'll start putting my health ahead of everything else lol yeah I have no clue how people can live in those places. They have to leave their cars running 24/7 lol

I am always cranky.

That i am pumped about. Especially since there is a hockey game in Hartford Saturday...I dead the walks from the parking lot to arena in winter...even though its only like a 10 second walk...except for when you have to wait for the stupid guy on the crosswalk to tell you its o to proceed. Sometimes I just say screw it and play frogger.

I get terrible cramps in the cold...specifically in my arms. I tense up and if I have my arms bent too quickly and straighten them I get awful cramps right where my arms bend.

well technically climo can still be brutal. Like in Siberia...maybe their worst climo is like -20...so -20 on a day is climo but that's still brutal

meant more for overnight lows...single digits with lower teens. BDL I think lowest avg max is like 33 or 34 and lowest min in the upper teens. I'm only dreaming hoping this is the coldest lol...also, with our latitude we can still probably get alot of snow without these brutal airmasses.

Looks like EWR is going to shatter their record low max tomorrow. This is terrible...brutal. Hopefully this is the coldest airmass we get all season

Kinda going back to what I mentioned yesterday and I saw your comment regarding it being chaotic...that seems extremely likely and it's going to make it difficult to address the upcoming pattern. It does look like the EPO, PNA, NAO/AO all really fluctuate quite a bit...perhaps that's a good thing though

The pattern end of the month into December is going to be rather interesting and I'm not so sure it works into our favor...I think we're going to have to get a great deal of help from the Pacific and by help something to completely change-up the pattern which looks to evolve. Both the euro and GFS continue to indicate a pretty significant (in terms of strength) jet extension from east Asia to the west coast of the United States...typically not good for us, however, there are a few caveats here...weakness within the flow may yield some Rossby wave breaking and instead of a completely zonal pattern developing we may see a rather highly amplified pattern developing...this is a case where I guess we would want some support from the Arctic...which I guess there are some signals that may happen. The pattern looks to become pretty chaotic and it could also be a fairly warm one too.

that's never a good thing.

Looks like a nice ice storm in western VA

too much work

This is nuts

i wish Ryan Maue's site had the Ukie. Only time I ever looked at that model I almost broke my neck trying to interpret it

Speaking of avatar's I miss Kevin's avatar from several years ago of him making a funny face wearing an ugly UCONN sweatshirt but cute shorts. He was standing in front of some building.

with what?

That one is probably going to be more highly dependent on a phase with that northern stream energy. If the phase happens in our favor plenty of cold air to tug in and lock in.

This is a pretty wild sounding in NW PA Monday morning lol. Nearly isothermal from 700-500 lol. Moist and a bit unstable below it and about as stable as can be above it...maybe good LES out that way

No I was looking at for 12z Mon.