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Long lasting intense Cold for New England


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4 hours ago, mahk_webstah said:

Arghhh, widespread -20 around KCON.  -21 in Boscawen.  Bye, bye peaches.  At least the new trees can put their energy into their roots this summer.

As long as there's life above the graft, all is not lost.

Odd temp action thins morning.  Had mid -20s at 4, popped up 11-12° by 6, then began heading down again.  I've no idea what the actual minimum was; will learn at 9 tonight.  After I stupidly failed to run the truck all weekend, had to jump it from the Forester (which we had driven 40+ miles yesterday.)  Truck is 2011 and battery original equipment, so we'll see if such behavior (truck's, not mine) is repeated.  Of course, 3 days with temps averaging 0/-24 (-1/-31; 1/-18; 1/-24) could take down some pretty good batteries.  

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...Coos County...
North Stratford              -36 F     0800 AM 01/02   COOP
Whitefield                   -33 F     0552 AM 01/02   ASOS
2 N Lancaster                -33 F     0710 AM 01/02   RAWS
2 WSW Pittsburg              -32 F     0800 AM 01/02   HADS
2 WNW Jefferson              -31 F     0754 AM 01/02   CWOP
Lake Francis - Pittsburg, Nh -31 F     0800 AM 01/02   NHDES
Lancaster                    -30 F     0600 AM 01/02   COOP
Colebrook                    -29 F     0600 AM 01/02   COOP
Berlin                       -28 F     0652 AM 01/02   ASOS
1 WNW Errol                  -28 F     0305 AM 01/02   NEPP
First Connecticut Lake       -27 F     0750 AM 01/02   COOP
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I did some digging around in my weather record to look for my record of consecutive days of cold considering the streak that we're in and thought I would share some numbers for anyone else looking for streaks.  I would think that these would line up with other cold waves.  The other thing to note is that I only have records going back to 1985 and I'm sure there have been others before this.

In terms of consecutive days below freezing, my record is 21 days from 1/11 to 1/31/2003.  Prior to that it had been 19 days set in December 1989.  It was tied again in January 2004.

In terms of days below 10°, that was 3 days from 1/15 to 1/17/2004. 

In terms of below zero lows, I have a pair of 10 day periods with the first occurring from 12/15 until 12/18/1989 and the other being 2/13 until 2/22/2015 that had lows below zero.  2015 takes the cake because on 2/23 it only got down to 19° and the next 6 days had lows below zero so 16 out of 17 days had lows below zero which is pretty special. 

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5 hours ago, klw said:

It was -15 when I left the house at 6:30.  It quickly got to -22 as I went down into town.  It was -22 pretty much the whole drive until it was -24 north of Well River and -26 in St. Johnsbury.  Feels nice with the sun however.

But it's a dry cold!

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1 hour ago, MetHerb said:

I did some digging around in my weather record to look for my record of consecutive days of cold considering the streak that we're in and thought I would share some numbers for anyone else looking for streaks.  I would think that these would line up with other cold waves.  The other thing to note is that I only have records going back to 1985 and I'm sure there have been others before this.

In terms of consecutive days below freezing, my record is 21 days from 1/11 to 1/31/2003.  Prior to that it had been 19 days set in December 1989.  It was tied again in January 2004.

In terms of days below 10°, that was 3 days from 1/15 to 1/17/2004. 

In terms of below zero lows, I have a pair of 10 day periods with the first occurring from 12/15 until 12/18/1989 and the other being 2/13 until 2/22/2015 that had lows below zero.  2015 takes the cake because on 2/23 it only got down to 19° and the next 6 days had lows below zero so 16 out of 17 days had lows below zero which is pretty special. 

Estimating for today, a full week with highs ranging -3 to 7, lows -14 to -31, week average temps 2/-22.  Unprecedented in my 19+ years here, and only one Fort Kent run (mid-Feb 1979) that really compares for sub-10 maxima streaks.  Only a weak 33° on 12/20 prevents the current 32-or-below run from being 26 days, instead of half that.

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14 hours ago, dendrite said:

Outside shot at a below 0F high on Saturday.

Maine mountains progged for max -10 or colder Saturday - with wind.

About -15 at my place this morning.  Might have a mean temp above zero today.

Highs for the past 7 days:  6, -3, -1, 7, 1, 1, 6.   Avg 2.4. 
Lows: -16, -14, -31, -25, -18, -24, -27.  Avg -22.1  
Avg mean for the week:  -9.9

Brrrrr!

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10 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Very cold but it finally warmed up above zero and its enough to snow.

3" so far this evening and -SN continues.  Warmed up into the teens and it was just enough to wring out some liquid. 

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This is why we hate big cold.  It warms up into the low teens and snows a foot at the mountain!

12" of new snow last night on Mansfield is mind-blowing.  From where?

One of the few places you can still get legitimately surprised by a foot of snow overnight.

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