December 2025 regional war/obs/disco thread

[Damage In Tolland]

Icestorm conditions 

[Kitz Craver]

Late to the party on account of a full shit clog in my basement U joint, quite an experience. For what I just went through, I’m now demanding GFS verification. 

[alex]

Happy to report that the ski trails fared the storm really well. Even all natural terrain and glades are still in good shape with some decent powder stashes from the few inches we got overnight. 

[ORH_wxman]

58 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Boxing Day interesting on EPS too

Kind of surprising considering how warm it looked the last two days. Still not totally buying it, but this is clearly a very volatile look. I don’t trust anything out in LR right now given the weird exotic blocking we’ve been seeing showing from time to time.  

[WinterWolf]

2 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Pray this fades over time:

15 days out…chances are good it will. 6 days out and the upper air look is still morphing. 

[wxmanmitch]

Heavy, heavy damage around my property from last night's windstorm. The S to SE winds weren't anything to write home about here, but the W winds last night all hell broke loose! Gusts were easily in the 50-60 MPH range brought down these two large red spruces and several smaller snags (not photoed), one snapped right off and is resting on some live utility lines while another uprooted and is leaning on some smaller trees. 

There's still about 2-5" of styrofoam snow that survived the cutter. I had 12-14" beforehand. Season total at 33.3".

[wxmanmitch]

On 12/8/2025 at 8:04 PM, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah even N ORH county might get some rain....or at least very wet snow that prob isn't really sticking well. Might go an inch or two of paste there as the onset looks marginally cold enough. The system itself inst very impressive. Hard to get excited when you have the midlevel center NW of Ottawa....you're trying to get moisture advection on a dry wind direction. Western slopes might do a little better in that type of setup. Someone like @wxmanmitch(Mitch in S VT) will prob get like 8-10" while 10 miles east gets a sloppy inch with some drops mixed in late. 

Wound up with 8.5" from this.

[Lava Rock]

Happy to report that the ski trails fared the storm really well. Even all natural terrain and glades are still in good shape with some decent powder stashes from the few inches we got overnight. 

Same with sunday river, in fact more trails open today then Thursday

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[H2Otown_WX]

Meh, I still think this winter has ratter written all over it. No southern stream involvement and the northern stream only cuts when it occasionally amplifies. Everything else is a strung out POS.

[mreaves]

2 hours ago, wxmanmitch said:

Heavy, heavy damage around my property from last night's windstorm. The S to SE winds weren't anything to write home about here, but the W winds last night all hell broke loose! Gusts were easily in the 50-60 MPH range brought down these two large red spruces and several smaller snags (not photoed), one snapped right off and is resting on some live utility lines while another uprooted and is leaning on some smaller trees. 

There's still about 2-5" of styrofoam snow that survived the cutter. I had 12-14" beforehand. Season total at 33.3".

DIT just made a mess in his dungarees. 

[UnitedWx]

19 minutes ago, mreaves said:

DIT just made a mess in his dungarees. 

Which end? Takes time to recover from weed whacker damage 

[UnitedWx]

5 hours ago, Kitz Craver said:

Late to the party on account of a full shit clog in my basement U joint, quite an experience. For what I just went through, I’m now demanding GFS verification. 

BTDT with our lateral... fine roots right at the joint between our line and the city. The one good thing to come out of it was the sudden permission to throw away anything I wanted that was down there. You should see how much... got wet. Major purge FTW!

[WxWatcher007]

18z Euro also looked colder for Boxing Day. That might be one to watch. Rain to ice to snow? The low level cold is there verbatim. 

[FlashFreeze]

interesting it’s far windier tonight than it was anytime yesterday on top of the hill here in East Hartland

[mahk_webstah]

My weather underground is showing 6.6” snow between Friday and Sunday.  So some model is showing something 

[moneypitmike]

Today back in 2016 held a different vibe n GC.

 

 

[WxWatcher007]

Still a huge discrepancy in sensible wx between Euro and GFS for Boxing Day, but the cold press has been gradually trending on the GFS. Euro would be impactful verbatim. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Maybe ice/ snow 26-28

[SouthCoastMA]

7 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Maybe ice/ snow 26-28

6z Euro looked real good for 12/26-27

[WxWatcher007]

6 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Maybe ice/ snow 26-28

Yes, I think that signal is real for the 26-27th. We’ve been talking about it for a week now and it’s looking like at least a substantial part of New England is going to stay on the cold enough edge of this overall pattern that’ll flood areas to our south and west with warmth. Doesn’t mean it’ll be all frozen the rest of December, just that unlike virtually the rest of the CONUS we will have our chances to produce. 

[Damage In Tolland]

5 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Yes, I think that signal is real for the 26-27th. We’ve been talking about it for a week now and it’s looking like at least a substantial part of New England is going to stay on the cold enough edge of this overall pattern that’ll flood areas to our south and west with warmth. Doesn’t mean it’ll be all frozen the rest of December, just that unlike virtually the rest of the CONUS we will have our chances to produce. 

Definitely some good trends since mid week last week. Each run a little more sw with the boundary . Just too much cold air in SE Canada to get it warm NE of about Philly . I’ve been thinking ice in SNE at least south of 90 with snow CNE 

[brooklynwx99]

the trend west with the ridge axis around the 30th is nice to see... hopefully that continues

[WinterWolf]

7 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Definitely some good trends since mid week last week. Each run a little more sw with the boundary . Just too much cold air in SE Canada to get it warm NE of about Philly . I’ve been thinking ice in SNE at least south of 90 with snow CNE 

When aren’t you thinking ice ….

[WxWatcher007]

9 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Definitely some good trends since mid week last week. Each run a little more sw with the boundary . Just too much cold air in SE Canada to get it warm NE of about Philly . I’ve been thinking ice in SNE at least south of 90 with snow CNE 

I know we’re all beaten down by the last few years and not getting as much snow as we’d like during the frigid pattern, but this relaxation is exactly the time where a shortwave could produce a solid overrunning event. With the trends we’ve seen I almost think we have to produce otherwise we might be in trouble heading into January.

 

[Damage In Tolland]

2 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

When aren’t you thinking ice ….

When I’m thinking wind.

[WinterWolf]

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

When I’m thinking wind.

True. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Some pretty good gusts right now, wasn’t really expecting that.

[kdxken]

Eff snow and cold. I'll take another month of these. 

 

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I know we’re all beaten down by the last few years and not getting as much snow as we’d like during the frigid pattern, but this relaxation is exactly the time where a shortwave could produce a solid overrunning event. With the trends we’ve seen I almost think we have to produce otherwise we might be in trouble heading into January.

 

Thats a overunning prolific snow storm on the 6z Euro.  Ongoing at day 6

[qg_omega]

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