December 2025 obs

[GaWx]

8 minutes ago, Coach McGuirk said:

Storm dying out, probably end up with 6 inches.  But 6 inches that came out of nowhere is fine with me. 

How often has your area received 6” or more from a single storm?

[Coach McGuirk]

3 minutes ago, GaWx said:

How often has your area received 6” or more from a single storm?

More common than you think.  We do get snowstorms in southeaster VA.  It's feast or famine.  Last year was 1 in, 2 in, 2 in, 8.5 inches.  The previous two years were nothing.  We average 8 in a year.  We could be zero or 20 inches.  Nor'easters can drop 8-12 inches on us. 

[Coach McGuirk]

The moon decided to show up

[GaWx]

2 minutes ago, Coach McGuirk said:

More common than you think.  We do get snowstorms in southeaster VA.  It's feast or famine.  Last year was 1 in, 2 in, 2 in, 8.5 inches.  The previous two years were nothing.  We average 8 in a year.  We could be zero or 20 inches.  Nor'easters can drop 8-12 inches on us. 

I forgot to mention that there’s a dedicated thread for today’s storm. For documentation purposes, you may also want to post your results in there:

 

 Today here I just got an invigorating walk in with low 40s and just enough breeze to give it a nice bite. Today’s high of only 51 (normal is 65) means that every day so far this month has had a high only in the 50s. We already had had the first time in recorded history (back to 1874) of no high reaching 60 for Dec 1-7. Now it’s also the first time for that for Dec 1-8 and tomorrow is going to make it the first time for Dec 1-9!

 Rainfall so far this month is over 2”, which is way above the normal of 0.75” for Dec 1-9. For the first time since at least Thursday we had no rain.

[Coach McGuirk]

12 minutes ago, GaWx said:

I forgot to mention that there’s a dedicated thread for today’s storm. For documentation purposes, you may also want to post your results in there:

 

 Today here I just got an invigorating walk in with low 40s and just enough breeze to give it a nice bite. Today’s high of only 51 (normal is 65) means that every day so far this month has had a high only in the 50s. We already had had the first time in recorded history (back to 1874) of no high reaching 60 for Dec 1-7. Now it’s also the first time for that for Dec 1-8 and tomorrow is going to make it the first time for Dec 1-9!

 Rainfall so far this month is over 2”, which is way above the normal of 0.75” for Dec 1-9. For the first time since at least Thursday we had no rain.

thanks

[Coach McGuirk]

Light snow/flurries, I'm looking up in the sky and I don't see a single cloud.  Meteorologists, please explain. 

[Coach McGuirk]

26.8, hope the roads are good tomorrow.

[NorthHillsWx]

Still just below 32 at 11:15, 31.8

[yotaman]

Low of 29, high of 46. Breeze made it feel colder. No accumulated snow from last night.

[yotaman]

18 hours ago, Coach McGuirk said:

More common than you think.  We do get snowstorms in southeaster VA.  It's feast or famine.  Last year was 1 in, 2 in, 2 in, 8.5 inches.  The previous two years were nothing.  We average 8 in a year.  We could be zero or 20 inches.  Nor'easters can drop 8-12 inches on us. 

I grew up in Virginia Beach and only remember 2 years when we got slammed with snow. 1980 we ended up with over 40" for the year with it ending with the infamous early March blizzard. And 1989 we had back to back blizzards in February that dropped over a foot each time separated by a week. Other than those, we had a years with no snow or maybe a year with 2 to 6". I moved away in 1996.

[GaWx]

Today is the 9th day in a row of highs below 60 at SAV and below 50 at GSO, extending the record! Before this SAV had never even had this for Dec 1-7 going back to 1874. GSO had had a 7 day period one other time.

[NorthHillsWx]

High of 39.2 and low of 26.4

[Coach McGuirk]

5 hours ago, yotaman said:

I grew up in Virginia Beach and only remember 2 years when we got slammed with snow. 1980 we ended up with over 40" for the year with it ending with the infamous early March blizzard. And 1989 we had back to back blizzards in February that dropped over a foot each time separated by a week. Other than those, we had a years with no snow or maybe a year with 2 to 6". I moved away in 1996.

VA Beach is tough to get snow, I got 6 inches with this storm on the peninsula.  The southside was 1-2 inches.  Norfolk did get a 12 inch snowstorm last year.  VA Beach was like 10.  I was a bit north and got 8.5.  I just remembered, January 2018 VA Beach got a full scaled blizzard.  12 inches and 50 MPH winds.  

January 2018 North American blizzard - Wikipedia

[GaWx]

 A half hour ago I finished walking at the park in 35 invigorating degrees. To sort of borrow a phrase from DT, yes, I was the only sick, twisted cold wx freak out there walking. But I was bundled up and had extra energy giving me an extra spring in my step. Winds were calm with clear skies allowing for Gainesville, FL-like ideal radiation. I could even see some cool looking steam fog over water. Dewpoints were only a couple of degrees lower.

 Today’s high was only 45, which is 20 below normal.

[Met1985]

2 hours ago, GaWx said:

 A half hour ago I finished walking at the park in 35 invigorating degrees. To sort of borrow a phrase from DT, yes, I was the only sick, twisted cold wx freak out there walking. But I was bundled up and had extra energy giving me an extra spring in my step. Winds were calm with clear skies allowing for Gainesville, FL-like ideal radiation. I could even see some cool looking steam fog over water. Dewpoints were only a couple of degrees lower.

 Today’s high was only 45, which is 20 below normal.

Yeah a cold one here in North Charleston.  I think today's high was only like 40 degrees and we are currently setting at 30 degrees which is freaking cold for down here. We've had a marine layer here since Sunday with no sun at all.