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37.8 °F with 0.29". Second miserably cold rain day this week...I love them on weekdays!

I'm not writing off Pac Puke just yet. The solstice warm-up seems to be the most unstoppable atmospheric force on earth for 15+ years. It hasn't mattered whether we're in Nino, Nina or Nada. It hasn't mattered whether the first half of the month was good, bad or meh. It hasn't always meant a warm Christmas day per se as we've had a couple of powerful yet ultimately transient cold shots. And several times we've had normalish surface temps but with torched mid and upper levels. 2017 - 2018 is probably the biggest exception to this rule that I can remember off the top of my head. It was warm right before Christmas but then turned chilly on Christmas day and then brutally cold around New Years and the first 10 days or so of January. Even then it was a dry cold with no big storms.

Wait are you referring to the bird-like shape, or something dirty, because I al a little confused.

One thing to remember: this week was supposed to be a torch.

Ended up with 1.21" today. 39.52" for the year. Since the start of September, I don't think I've hit the almost 7 inches I got in a 36 hour period in June.

I'll let you guys know how it turns out.

I had that same thought, but didn't want to to start that war

I'm not trying to be mean, but this was too good an opportunity to pass up...

Yeah there is a nice trough in the east, but I see what to my layman's eyes looks like the dreaded AK vortex. Isn't that our signal to close the blinds for the following 3 weeks or so?

Frustrating for sure, but I try to remind myself that ~10 days ago this upcoming week was looking like a full-on torch. Since I personally love cold for its own sake (not just for association with snow), I'll be savoring the chilly temps and scanning the horizon nervously for signs of the inevitable late-December torch.

Ah, I have noted in the past Louisburg is one of those "typical outlying cold spots" often mentioned in the RAY AFD. What is it about the geography to that gives such good radiational cooling?

Got down to 22.1 last night and below freezing much of the night.

Where is your farm? It must be in a nice "holler".

We're back to: it's over.

It must be admitted that next week's torch seems to be becoming muted as it enters the medium range. Here's hoping it continues.