December 2025 OBS and Discussion

[nycwinter]

3 hours ago, jm1220 said:

Yep-12/26/2010 is one of my favorites living there for sure. Too bad we couldn’t get that death band over NJ a little further east. 

a actual blizzard wind gusts on long island were over 60 mph even had thundersnow..

[snowman19]

The new HRRR and RAP on Pivotal are showing 0.1 and 0.2 of snow respectively and no freezing rain in the metro overnight. HRDPS isn’t showing anything and neither is the RRFS 

[MJO812]

Tonight 

[weatherpruf]

4 hours ago, MJO812 said:

could you elaborate? not that i would trust that dude.

[MJO812]

8 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

could you elaborate? not that i would trust that dude.

Possible storm which the Euro and gfs shows. Right now the Euro has it hitting the mid atlantic. 

[tmagan]

Central Park most recent calendar month with above normal snowfall: January 2022.

[jm1220]

2 hours ago, nycwinter said:

a actual blizzard wind gusts on long island were over 60 mph even had thundersnow..

That was an amazing storm. I walked on the Long Beach boardwalk in the height of that and it was a whiteout. Some of the best blizzard conditions I’ve experienced. 1/4/2018 was up there too. 

[cleetussnow]

1 hour ago, MJO812 said:

Possible storm which the Euro and gfs shows. Right now the Euro has it hitting the mid atlantic. 

Perfect timing.  Army Navy game is in Baltimore and I have to haul my RV down there for tailgating on the 12th, back the 14th. Yay.  This storm will happen cuza my dumb luck.  
 

or not

[jm1220]

1 minute ago, cleetussnow said:

Perfect timing.  Army Navy game is in Baltimore and I have to haul my RV down there for tailgating on the 12th, back the 14th. Yay.  This storm will happen cuza my dumb luck.  
 

or not

I’m going away from 12/19-23, guaranteed the Dec storm that gets Central Park over 4” happens then. 

[sussexcountyobs]

Very light snow has been falling last couple hrs. It's sticking of course. But it's so light it's not accumulating. 21.9

[TheClimateChanger]

 

[weathermedic]

[MANDA]

40 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

 

No joke.  It might not be sexy to talk about drought at this time of year but the dry pattern persists.  If we have a dry Winter we will go into Spring with well below normal ground water levels and reservoir levels.  If dryness during the Spring persists it will worsen quickly.  Certainly seems as though we are on our way toward a dry December.

[psv88]

We have 1.30” of rain already in December and it was a pretty wet November with 2.50” of rain. The ground is muddy and we aren’t in a very dry pattern.

[Picard]

29 minutes ago, psv88 said:

We have 1.30” of rain already in December and it was a pretty wet November with 2.50” of rain. The ground is muddy and we aren’t in a very dry pattern.

Maybe you do but that's not the case everywhere.  Most of the rain events in the past two months have been small 0.2, 0.3, 0.1, etc, and while they can add up, they don't add up quick enough to reverse the long term dry trend, and we're still running below normal monthly totals in a lot of locations.

[psv88]

Flurries now and 32. 

[RU848789]

SWS just issued for 95 and coastal areas from SNJ through NYC/LI for the chance of some light freezing drizzle that could cause a light glaze...

[Snowlover11]

Snowing here. ground covered.

[Roger Smith]

Friday's daytime max of 30F at NYC would have been the sixth lowest maximum for the date. The record low max was 22F in 1886. Also colder were 24F in 1926, 27F in 1901, 28F in 1893, and 29F in 1871. The 30F was set to replace 31F (2002) for lowest of the past 99 years, but the daily max then crept up to 32F before midnight, so all of the above was amended as a few more days crept into the mix at 31 or 32 F. 

The minimum of 20F (despite the much greater urban heat island now present) was lower than all but six years, most of them well back in the records. The lowest reading was 11F in 1926, followed by 13F in 1886, 14F in 1871, and 15F in 1935. Also colder were 19F lows in 1901 and 1911 (and 2025 also tied 20F 1893).

Friday was (until the slight evening rise) slightly colder than the same date in 1989. A benchmark cold day early in December in relatively recent times would be Dec 3, 1976 (max 23, min 9 both records) followed by Dec 3, 1966 (max 25, min 15 with 14 the following morning before a massive warming trend culminating with a record high 66F on the 9th). I remember reading my own backyard thermometer (30w Toronto) in that 1966 period when I was a high school senior, at my home weather station we went from a low of -2 F to a midnight high of 60 F over those same days, and there was a very high barometric pressure with the cold spell. There was no snow on the ground either except for traces from a light fall before the cold snap, the November had been very wet and mild.