jm1220

The hi res models warned about the wind threat today, sometimes it’s a false alarm. It’s pretty messy around my neighborhood and I know others not far away got it worse. We probably gusted 55-60 here.

Crazy how you can time the cold early Dec with the warm late Dec the last 5 years or so. At least 90% of us made a nice snowstorm happen when it was cold this month. Hopefully we can get a window to do it again in Jan/Feb. A Nina with a good Dec snowstorm usually finds a way to do it again later in the winter and sometimes more than once.

The Grinch put on red this year.

Already happened this month. In fact there was 3” on a bench on Sunday. Pay up.

That’s the storm laughing at us as it destroyed all our snow.

The snow on Sun probably weakened some of the trees/power lines. The first 5” of it was paste here that clung to everything.

Some bigger branches and even a small tree down in my neighborhood. Yikes

A few years ago after a nasty T-storm knocked trees down my town trimmed most of the trees around any power line so it’s been better since then, but it’s a higher end wind event here for sure. Probably some 55+ gusts.

Lots of smaller branches down here and decorations/garbage pails blowing all over the place.

Yep, ice everywhere this morning.

2010-11 was by far the best snow cover winter I’ve ever seen.

And then Fri’s rain will come with strong winds so by the end we’ll just have the dirty mall piles. Oh well.

If we have a slightly negative or neutral PNA that would drive a more zonal jet stream, it could work with a -NAO, but a sharply negative -PNA would drive such a deep trough on the west coast that the SE ridge would respond and possibly link with the NAO block. That’s obviously what we want to avoid.

Hopefully the PNA doesn’t tank negative, that’s what seems to drive it like what happened in 2023.

I used the top of my deck table which was in a good spot. Easy to measure like you said.