December 2025 OBS and Discussion

[steve392]

2 hours ago, psv88 said:

My yard a mess after these gusts. Weather station tripod blew over!

Hopefully it wasn't damaged 

[ForestHillWx]

“Lies, damned lies and statistics”… be careful with stats and stick to real time observations. 

[Krs4Lfe]

Midwest is getting more heavy snow through this weekend. Clipper moving in tonight, and then another snowstorm that's in Montana/the Northwest tonight moving in through this weekend. It's good to see snow to our north, west, and south. Winter definitely off to a good start for much of the northern tier. Hopefully we get ours this weekend and then we can reset later this month and start off January strong. I'm just concerned about torching late month and then that lasting through January like December 2022. Lots of similarities that month. 

[Roger Smith]

Two Decembers that flipped very greatly from cold first half (+2-4 days) to mild second half would be 1875 and 1895. The means changed as follows: 

1895 ___ mean 1-17 30.7 ___ mean 18-31 47.7 ___ overall 38.4

1875 ___ mean 1-20 29.1 ___ mean 19-31 41.3 ___ overall 33.4

The largest upward shifts in recent Decembers are

2003 ___ mean 1-21 34.5 ___ mean 22-31 44.2 ___ overall 37.6

2005 ___ mean 1-22 32.0 ___ mean 23-31 43.2 ___ overall  35.3

The most prolific change was in Dec 1895 and most of the rest of the winter (Jan-Mar 1896) turned quite cold again. Winter 1875-76 remained mild well into Feb 1876, March was cold. 

[sussexcountyobs]

Partly cloudy. Occasional light flurries. 21.6

[eduggs]

Yet another snowy evening out there. Everything's dusted up pretty good - maybe 1/4". From radar I suspect parts of western or northern Morris county have accumulated 1/2" - 1" this evening. These minor events help soothe the snowstorm deprivation angst. 

[eduggs]

For the past few days, meso models and even globals advertised a finger-like lake effect snow band getting into NNJ this evening. And it has verified as advertised. Count me as impressed.

[Stormlover74]

Ewr has fallen below freezing meaning each of the first 11 days of the month will have had lows below 32. The streak should go through at least day 17 before the moderation begins. Looking at other cold Decembers in the past 25 years I can't find another year that matched that feat

[weathermedic]

Band of snow headed to parts of the city 

[Nibor]

Currently in that narrow band. 

 

Jersey City Heights 10 PM

[qg_omega]

Impressive snow band!

[MJO812]

Special weather statement for tonight for nyc

[Nibor]

 

Right before a lull. New round about to come through.

[eduggs]

The junction of I-287 and I-80 looks like it got into that band pretty good. I bet it dropped a quick 1/2" plus in that area.

[jm1220]

Looks like it extends to the south shore of Nassau. Long Beach/5 Towns probably snowing in that band. 

[Nibor]

Visibility down to less than 1/4 a mile here. Great dendrite growth. 

[Bxstormwatcher360]

That band just keeps going. 

[psv88]

If the GFS is correct this is just about all the snow the city sees this year 

[eduggs]

If the GFS is right, some spots might get more snow from tonight's lake effect bands than from the Sat. night event.

[Krs4Lfe]

5 minutes ago, psv88 said:

If the GFS is correct this is just about all the snow the city sees this year 

It’s truly crazy. I can’t think of any other way to describe it. Thinking we might very likely be shut out of snow here this month. That is likely a terrible sign for the rest of the winter. It was actually cold enough to snow this month, it just couldn’t happen though. Always need a bit of luck down here on the coast. But each year that we don’t get a KU, we need more and more luck to get something because of how much the base state has warmed. The 2010s winters feel like ages ago now

[MJO812]

Cmc

[MJO812]

Just now, Krs4Lfe said:

It’s truly crazy. I can’t think of any other way to describe it. Thinking we might very likely be shut out of snow here this month. That is likely a terrible sign for the rest of the winter. It was actually cold enough to snow this month, it just couldn’t happen though. Always need a bit of luck down here on the coast. But each year that we don’t get a KU, we need more and more luck to get something because of how much the base state has warmed. The 2010s winters feel like ages ago now

Even the AI gfs is more robust. Gfs is lost.

[jasperk99]

I’m in Journal Square in Jersey City and the tiny band packed a punch, the squalls were something else!!!


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[MJO812]

Snowing here

[jasperk99]

Jersey City


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