WxWatcher007

I wouldn’t hold my breath for a wintry February either (not saying you necessarily are). I never expected to bat 1.000 here but it seems ominous that this fabled wonderful pattern could very well keep our average of significant region wide events at 0.000. Every year we get these beautiful 500h depictions and play the mental gymnastics to convince ourselves that this time it’ll be different from all the other failures, and it never is. Last month and your near normal snowfall notwithstanding, it’s been all or nothing for years around here and it’s been nothing more often than not, especially from a regional perspective.

I’m not sure there’s any coming back from that.

I’m not bothered by it. It gives hope that someday (voice cracking) my back yard too will know the joy of fresh cold powder.

I’d love to use it on banding from a big dog.

True, but backsliding hurts more too at this stage. I’m cautiously optimistic for light measurable here but we need additional help for sure. Ironically (and I’m just speaking for our yards not anyone else) the last minute trends this season have generally been in our favor…but with each system being fundamentally flawed.

Great stuff in this article, including our own @FXWX https://www.courant.com/2025/01/02/snow-day-or-go-day-how-ct-superintendents-make-the-call-during-inclement-weather/

I honestly believe that a sub 10” snowfall season is possible in SNE as a hypothetical bottom.

Awful is a disaster, bad is a joke, ok is meh, good doesn’t work, perfect is a nightmare.

And finally snow 41° here with flurries flying. Might be the most snow I see all month.

We half kid around here about model dopamine drips, but when you think of how that’s manufactured on social media through likes and other algorithms it’s really incredible. And horrifying.

Yeah. How OJ did it in 14 games is kind of wild (obviously a different game back then of course)

We quiet. We watch.

I started this morning by looking at my tropical chase videos and posts from the season. Sigh.

I need to see this take root on other guidance at 00z. Euro is on an island until then. Would definitely like to see a stronger vort and less confluence combination. Edit: ninja’d by Will

Yeah, I think there’s a low ceiling for any impact, and if anything happens it’s most likely CT-RI-SE MA.

.58 on the day

I posted about 12z earlier. It’s an outlier but if the Euro could find its former glory for this one that’d be great lol. I was very close to punting this morning but we’ve seen plenty of instances of the confluence seeing substantive changes on guidance outside of 48h. Still think anything that happens would be light at best but with a cold regime in place that would at least bring back some wintry appeal as the 11th and beyond gets into greater focus.

It’s an outlier yada yada and I know nobody cares in Mass and points north, but the Euro did try to get very light precip a touch further north with 1/6. I don’t think it’s coming back for a region wide crusher obviously but even .1 of qpf could be good for a ground whitener if someone can steal it.

Happy New Year! We rain. We thunder. We pour. We keep lights up until winter has sufficiently failed or satisfied me. Wishing all a happy and prosperous year ahead.

And if it’s prodigious paste that takes down the grid?

I'll say

Talk about thermonuclear. Wow.

Go Gamecocks

Looks like a good rainer inbound here in CT tonight

I think it’d probably depend. I kind of bake in now that winters will be shorter and more crappy than nice so it’s not a huge leap that in an awful season I capitulate. I’d probably need another few years of futility to be open to an early February flip though. At this time March is still my psychological barrier for cold to warm(er) season.