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Factually you’re not wrong. However, it’s quite clear that the context of your posts is to ruffle some feathers of the winter weather lovers. Sure, none of us can wish the weather we want into existence but thanks to Bing Crosby, Norman Rockwell, and the Little Ice Age some people feel comfort and nostalgic about a “White Christmas”, especially considering how shitty life has been for some the last couple of years. I live near Narragansett Bay so my chances of snow on the ground or it snowing on Christmas are less likely than @Typhoon Tipgeting his point across in three sentences or less, so it’s really no sweat off my back to see it being a low probability of it being snowy around the holidays. Your 850mb anomaly map wrapped with a heart instead of a bow was more meant to antagonize the board than factualize the forecast. Feel free to point out I’m wrong <3

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Did the Polar Express in Woonsocket tonight with the family, could have used some light snow to set the mood. Instead it was drizzle and rain and 37 degrees and miserable. Ah well… at least the train ride was fun.

True. Just inserting some debate to the "it ain't gonna snow the next 3 weeks" discussion. Hard to tell if that's going to actually happen if you can't get any semblance of an actual weather pattern that might make sense past 10 days.

I wouldn't buy anything I'm seeing on the GFS ensembles after 12/10. Look at the northern hemisphere views and everything just stops moving after 12/10, like an entire hemispheric "block". It seems unusual and I don't think that's actually going to happen - unless it's some sort of common artifact of being the end of the ensemble run. Just something that stuck out to me - even on the 500 mb map...

I guess the hope would be to get the milder weather out of the way now so December can close out colder, and potentially snowier. No science behind this statement, just some logic and the hope the pattern changes at the right time. We could all use a snowy Holiday Season to set the tone…

Windy with drying pavement, 37.

Yay, not even flurries in RI lol…

We will be lucky to get 2-4” if this thing gets it’s act together, with maybe a little more in the higher elevations or where good dynamics setup. And that’s a big IF…

It’s a tradition… lol…

But Polar Vortex sounds cool, and makes any boring winter forecast more exciting!

Looks like it’s fixed…

Personally I vote for Billerica Stool Chart but that’s just me. Let’s leave the Bristol’s of the world out of the fecal judgement business.

Is there an issue with BOX AFD’s? No updates since Sunday 11/21 9:45 AM…

We really need a better name for that stool chart…

Looks like updated GFS did well this season. Euro only did better at 144 hrs and later on stronger storms...

I see CNN is as bad at reporting weather as they are at reporting other news... lol...

I'm in Providence. Heavy rain, lots of lightning and thunder, no hail or signs of a tornado. Strongest stuff has now moved east. Looks like Attelboro and Barrington are getting the worst of this at the moment.

Tornado Warning just buzzed on my phone for Providence!

No one does this any more because of debit cards. In the past when you balanced your checkbook people were paying for everything in cash, and then you kept track of the checks you sent out each month for bills, minus your cash withdrawals. People weren’t tracking every cup of coffee they paid cash for. I haven’t written a check in four months, all my debits and credits are electronic/ACH transactions. Plus there are temporary holds, reposts for restaurant transactions, etc. Just doesn’t make sense anymore to spend that amount of time on it, especially when I can view it all from my banks website.

Was surprised to see an 80 MPH gust in Bristol Harbor... https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=BOX&product=PNS&issuedby=BOX&fbclid=IwAR1xJ78AbmKII7FkGmM9fQ8GnowVipFCBFniU047-YyJzVLPTCfcjQi1zDE Power is out for 3/4 town here, and most of Warren as well. Weirdly, less outages on Aquidneck Island. Most of the outages started at around 5:30 or so, must have been some big gusts...

James would have been super excited about this storm out on the Cape. May he RIP...

Power is out here. Been getting 50+ gusts for several hours but nothing crazy like out in E MA…

Yeah, synoptic storms don't happen in the summer because the atmospheric patterns that would be required aren't there, and don't produce the conditions needed. When the seasonal conditions adjust, synoptic storms happen, and sometimes some patterns are better than others for producing storms. No atmospheric learning there, just physics based on our yearly seasonal cycles. A very John Madden like assessment of the weather lol.