December 2025 regional war/obs/disco thread

[wxeyeNH]

1 hour ago, DavisStraight said:

1989 I think

It might have been 1989.  I had just bought my fixer-upper house up here but lived in Boston.  I had something called a Climate talker.  It was hooked up to my phone line and I could call long distance and get the outside temperature.  I believe it was below zero about 12 nights in that December.  When winters used to be real.

[WxWatcher007]

Models did good with the cold here, at least so far. Below zero now with the whole night to go. Still working with a light wind so WC is even lower. WXW1 is at 24 and falling. Will easily top coldest of the year there.

Whiteface is -13 WC -48 according to BTV.  

[CoastalWx]

3 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

He's already melting down and we're one week after Thanksgiving. 

If Taunton gets a 6"+ snow event prior to Xmas even in a coldish December, that's a win. My guess is there's a reasonable shot of that happening this year given the pattern outlook. 

I don't blame Brett totally though....his formative snow weenie years were very prolific in December even in SE MA. The 2000s were ridiculous relative to climo across SNE, but especially in SE MA in December. 

 

Our generation was hard-wired into being cynical about snow given what we had to deal with in our formative years. 

It was more or less a novelty until 1995. Sure one here or there but even in 92 we got somewhat hosed. He will never know the crushing depression I had from that event. 
 

I do remember an event (maybe 89?) where I went to Edaville and they had several inches more than I did. I was annoyed lol.

[weatherwiz]

18z GFS would probably verify low end warning criteria somewhere. warning snows tough to get with cutters but someone would probably pull it off

[kdxken]

Jeebus these winds of ferocious. A log blew out of the fire pit. Hope the neighbors have fire insurance...

 

[kdxken]

1 hour ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Gonna have to dig into the archives to find the last time we had lows in the single digits the first week of December.

 

Days of Yore. My sister who's a school teacher in MetroWest sent me this. According to the kids it was the "best recess EVAH!"

 

[WinterWolf]

5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It was more or less a novelty until 1995. Sure one here or there but even in 92 we got somewhat hosed. He will never know the crushing depression I had from that event. 
 

I do remember an event (maybe 89?) where I went to Edaville and they had several inches more than I did. I was annoyed lol.

He doesn’t understand…as Will said, he was molded by a crazy 10-15 years of prolific snows.  Now he believes that that’s how it is supposed to be. It wasn’t. He thinks this is bad…he’d have already off’d himself if this was winter of ‘85-‘92. 

[kdxken]

Almost a meltdown but thankfully wide right. Lost its mate in the Gale of '24. 

 

[WinterWolf]

13 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Models did good with the cold here, at least so far. Below zero now with the whole night to go. Still working with a light wind so WC is even lower. WXW1 is at 24 and falling. Will easily top coldest of the year there.

Whiteface is -13 WC -48 according to BTV.  

Ya dropping like a rock now…22 and plummeting here.  Enjoy the brutality there tonight…I’ve experienced many of them in Northern Maine…it’s impressive.  Looks like a good pattern setting in…. 

[dendrite]

13.8°

Holy super moon

[alex]

Down to 3

[kdxken]

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

13.8°

Holy super moon

Yeah it's awesome.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

18 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

18z GFS would probably verify low end warning criteria somewhere. warning snows tough to get with cutters but someone would probably pull it off

You talking about Sunday bc that storm doesn’t cut it transfers south of Long Island and bombs east of Cape Cod?

[ineedsnow]

15.8 and wind is roaring

[CoastalWx]

It is roaring out there. Real cold, none of this stuff with its 20F warmer at the top of your head. 

[weatherwiz]

4 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

You talking about Sunday bc that storm doesn’t cut it transfers south of Long Island and bombs east of Cape Cod?

Yeah...I think someone east would have a chance to pull off a warning criteria snow. ORH bufkit looked pretty solid...solid lift into DGZ and ratios upwards of 18:1. 

[rcostell]

26 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Models did good with the cold here, at least so far. Below zero now with the whole night to go. Still working with a light wind so WC is even lower. WXW1 is at 24 and falling. Will easily top coldest of the year there.

Whiteface is -13 WC -48 according to BTV.  

My place over in Franklin Falls is at -7F already. That’s Whiteface glowing under the cold moon. 

[kdxken]

5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It is roaring out there. Real cold, none of this stuff with its 20F warmer at the top of your head. 

Dead calm now. Feels a lot warmer. I think that windchill thing is real.

[WinterWolf]

1 minute ago, weatherwiz said:

Yeah...I think someone east would have a chance to pull off a warning criteria snow. ORH bufkit looked pretty solid...solid lift into DGZ and ratios upwards of 18:1. 

But you said cutter? 

[weatherwiz]

Just now, WinterWolf said:

But you said cutter? 

whoops...meant to say clipper lol

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, WinterWolf said:

But you said cutter? 

well what I said though wasn't inaccurrate...it is hard to get warning criteria in cutters  

[WxWatcher007]

3 minutes ago, rcostell said:

My place over in Franklin Falls is at -7F already. That’s Whiteface glowing under the cold moon. 

Now that's a view! 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

8 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Yeah...I think someone east would have a chance to pull off a warning criteria snow. ORH bufkit looked pretty solid...solid lift into DGZ and ratios upwards of 18:1. 

Ya it def would be beefier than first glance.  Would love to see other guidance back up the gfs 

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Ya it def would be beefier than first glance.  Would love to see other guidance back up the gfs 

yup...ultimately I think the GFS will end up a bit on the overdone side but I think we'll see the underdone guidance come up some. 

[moneypitmike]

31 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Days of Yore. My sister who's a school teacher in MetroWest sent me this. According to the kids it was the "best recess EVAH!"

 

 

Nice. 

These days, I'm suprised they even let them out because they might get cold and hurt themselves.

[WinterWolf]

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

yup...ultimately I think the GFS will end up a bit on the overdone side but I think we'll see the underdone guidance come up some. 

Well we aren’t 6-8 days out here with this…so this is pretty close in now…it’s like 3 days away, that’s what I like seeing. Be very interesting to see what 0z does. 

[WxWatcher007]

7 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

yup...ultimately I think the GFS will end up a bit on the overdone side but I think we'll see the underdone guidance come up some. 

 

2 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Well we aren’t 6-8 days out here with this…so this is pretty close in now…it’s like 3 days away, that’s what I like seeing. Be very interesting to see what 0z does. 

South and flat sure didn’t work out on the euro a few days ago 

[DavisStraight]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

89 for where? TAN had 3 single digit lows the first week of Dec 2002. CON did multiple single digits mins in mid Nov 2019. That Nov 2018 airmass was pretty brutal too. They had 17/6 on 11/22. 

I remember Dec 89 being really cold, hoped for a great winter, didn't happen. I was in Central Mass at the time.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

1 minute ago, WxWatcher007 said:

 

South and flat sure didn’t work out on the euro a few days ago 

And the euro was north by 300 miles for tomorrow nights miss while gfs nailed the track earlier in the week. Not the euro we used to know. 

[CT Rain]

Could be some FZDZ especially at the coast Saturday AM. Worth watching for some sneaky issues.