Torchageddon

Still amused that my best t-storms now are in April not mid-summer. This may be the case in other parts of the US but historically not here with the lakes being as cold as they are and other reasons. There has been only 1 storm that struck fear in me mid-summer in the last 5-8 years and it was that cell that moved from the NW. This pattern has been anything but boring in the belts - great for LES here, I'm getting more than pegged.

I've already exceeded the total daily snow forecast (at 9am no less) just in the needle streamer that dumped on me, its connecting to lake Ontario. 2-3" was expected. The sun came out for all to shovel and plow before it wiggled back over. 50-60cm/20-24" drifts in the driveway. Too bad about the melt and the rain on Sunday, if it was snow this would match last Dec's snowpack and be another snowmageddon. A diamond of a December nonetheless.

I woke to a new snowpack that basically in 24hr restored most of what I lost during the major rain and thaw . Intense LES band over me currently giving major vibes! Suppose to get 1-2" but hoping for more if we're going to be smothered in snow anyhow. I can't stop looking out the window at the pour

What is extraordinary is my hourlies from WUN show snow falling every hour til 2pm on Jan 1!! A hour won't go by without flakes for the rest of the year...

I got 1"/27mm of rain yesterday. With the intense LES of 8"/20cm and awesomely my new years eve was charged up to 10"/25cm, will be the most intense winter wx for the final days of any year I've ken. Tomorrow 7cm and still breezy has a sum of 20" in the next 72 hr!! Consensus still giving me snow every day til Jan 6.

Got down to 985mb here although that might be my wx station tripping as it hasn't budged from 987 for 5+ hr. Woke up to loud winds, snow started at 7:40 and every min got worse as the intense LES is starting to smother all of the Huron shoreline! I'm already getting some blowing snow after the glacier with nada 45 mins ago. SN+, hope to see Blizz conditions at some point. Oddly the winds aren't as strong as 5am..yet. My dendrites are also choice so I believe in the 8" forecast.

I'm not getting the blizz but was wide-eyed once I checked on my local, an inch of rain for just today then 8" of snow right on Monday! Enormous precip amounts! The roads are already icy from the freezing rain on Boxing Day - this is going to exacerbate the mess.

My 'mas high is now 0C cloudy. I prefer below freezing during the highs as not to wax and mar the infrastructure e.g. roads. Starting next Sun night, consensus is that a new snowy era starts with cold temps into the new year. WUN (which I take with a pinch of cumin), has 7-10cm/2.8-4" daily starting Sun.

Its crazy enough it was 59 like that 3 in-and-outs, a 4th would be a hair raiser. I'm getting the largest flakes of the season, some 2.5" in size but I wasn't out in it. Its lasting too, 1 hr of large but 10 mins of the giants. I'm just above freezing and near the rain line.

Nicer day yesterday than I expected, got to 7C/44.5F with some sun even peeking in the later aft hours. Lost a lot of snow. The rain started after dusk, in awe to find it was over 10mm/.4" of rain ugh. I just had it switch over to snow, roads look icy even before the flash freeze. WUN is showing xmas day around 3-5C and rain...

This is the first day I've been above freezing since Nov 30. I was right on 0.0C Dec 3.

That brings up a fascinating ask; what winter is the closest to having most of its cold/snow in Nov and the first 3 weeks of Dec? There would still be wintery wx after the solstice due to the small database of winters we have.

I'm getting daily snows to keep things fresh, I got 12cm/4.5" yesterday and this morning more SN+ from LES although the heavier bands are to my SW. The % of hours this Dec with snow flying in the air has been high. Snowpack at 50cm/20". Even with the wind and dry snow its sticking to trees and most surfaces! This is shaping up to be one of my favorite Decembers, only missing a synoptic snow storm which doesn't seem to happen anymore in the first half of Decs (been forever).

Had my coldest temp so far at -21C/-7F in morning, far colder than forecast which was -18C. Various stations around me had ~-24C. I can't harken the last time I got below -20C before Dec 10 but my guess is since the nastiest winter of my lifetime '13.