weatherwiz

Those retrograding blocks can really work in our favor and models can struggle with those. That's when you can see one run showing a 980 low tracking north of the Great Lakes and then two runs later is tracking 700 miles south lol. All in all...that trend is not bad looking. I also wonder what role that cutoff southwest of Baja would play...sometimes that can be beneficial to us and sometimes not. But it does seem to be assisting in those higher heights into the PAC NW. Still some room here but its encouraging to see at this stage

The trends have certainly been noteworthy, you've done a damn good job and highlighting these trends (and not just with this period) over the past few weeks. It's been great to see some trends moving in our favor as we get closer to an event versus the other way around, which has plagued us the last several winters. I am very intrigued moving into and through January.

Going to be a weird one tomorrow...probably going to see some surprises on both sides of the spectrum...overperforming somewhere locally and underperforming somewhere too. Should rip decently though for a time wherever that fronto band traverses

Still great to see this upcoming period continuing to hold potential. The late weekend period has my eye

You’re right it’s not cold, it’s nice out. So many people out jogging, walking the dog, kids playing in the park, people sitting outside enjoying the sun in their lawn chairs, smells of BBQ’s going with people playing corn hole, have some people hiking along trails. It’s not cold

Fair

Doesn’t mean it has to be liked. Sitting in traffic during rush hour is part of going/coming to work, but nobody enjoys that

Cold and wind is pointless if it isn’t snowing. If it wasn’t windy it wouldn’t be terrible out. Just nothing fun about it

I can promise you about 99% of the population in New England would say the same thing. So 99% of the population just should up and move to Florida

Still liking that post Christmas period but I sure hope we get a bit of a mild up moving into January or get an early spring in March. This cold/wind is horrible.

There should be some decent frontogenesis that crosses the region. Still have a quite a bit to iron out with the details but there should be a sizable swath of 1-3 inches. Def some concerns with boundary layer temps in some spots, but that won't be much of a concern if we get a decent precip. shield and a far enough south track.

Got back to Springfield to a coating of snow

In terms of convectively induced wind damage, not bad for December.

Driving to Hartford soon for the Wolf Pack game. Haven't been since opening night (boooo) but trying to leave a tad earlier to avoid any squalls that might come in as early as 6

This right here for 100000

I wish I did a before and after picture lol.

All of the snow in my backyard is gone...vanished. Outside of some bare spots along the fence line which is hit by the sun, there was probably a good couple inches of cover still. I can see gradd, mud, and melted dog poop

Tornado Warning in Hawaii!

We've steepened up the 2-6km lapse rates well. Gusts here in Springfield are becoming more frequent and a bit stronger too. Really curious to see what the next 1-2 hours brings, especially with the thinning overcast on satellite.

wow, a mesonet station in Middletown, CT measured 63 mph

I would definitely watch for some low topped convection to evolve this afternoon and move across Rhode Island and interior southeast Mass. Wouldn't even rule out the potential for a very brief tornado. You can see some convection developing south of Long Island now. We get any convection with thunder/lightning and we may see some 70-75 mph gusts (not widespread but very localized).

A pretty impressive satellite presentation this morning and you can see some embedded areas of convection which have contributed to some locally stronger gusts. Noticing some breaks too just to our southwest, so something to watch as we move through the next 3-4 hours.

Just ripped a pretty solid gust here a few minutes ago. I love how every now and then you can hear what sounds like a freight train

Interesting stuff! Makes alot of sense

When I was at WestConn, one semester during my broadcasting class I had made a snow map for a potential storm we were getting (I don't remember the year). But I had text saying, totals could shift depending on track...but I wrote shit and didn't catch it until we reviewed the video in class.