January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread

[HoarfrostHubb]

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

35⁰ rain looks like Hubbardston wins the ice ring for the day 

Yeah. Still sitting in the 20s right now.   Ice ice baby

[weatherwiz]

39 minutes ago, BrianW said:

Yeah. Nice January thaw coming up. 

Lol on Goff Law sponsoring NBC's weather graphic with an embedded ad.  

Goff Law has about 95% of the highway advertisement billboards  

[40/70 Benchmark]

Get that mid-month signal into the weekend and I'll start writing.

[NittanyWx]

Seems a pretty straightforward setup for back half Jan, rebuild source region in western Canada late next week/weekend, likely leaking cold into the northast at times with GOA ridging (-EPO) beyond.  Chances for coastals during transition periods, and perhaps a more active southern stream from MLK and after.

[CT Valley Snowman]

32 as I left with patches of ice.  

[ORH_wxman]

Temp has actually dropped a full degree here since 6am. It was about 30.5F and now it’s 29.5F. There’s def a bit of a cold tuck going on with BOS and PVD winds out of NNW

[jbenedet]

15 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

1000mb mean pressure at this range is actually pretty significant.

The big ridge out west and trough to the northern gulf will happen, but we have to watch the western Atlantic for too much ridging—speaking for the southern 2/3 of the forum…

[Lava Rock]

1.8" will probably do it. All fluff, no taint

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Get that mid-month signal into the weekend and I'll start writing.

yup...my thoughts exactly. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Temp backing down below 32 here at 31.7

[Great Snow 1717]

14 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Precisely as planned AFAIC....only wrinkle so far has been the huge -WPO ridge making December even colder than thought.

I want to file a complaint with the person responsible for the planning...

[40/70 Benchmark]

7 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

The big ridge out west and trough to the northern gulf will happen, but we have to watch the western Atlantic for too much ridging—speaking for the southern 2/3 of the forum…

Absolutely. You've done a good job this month.

[40/70 Benchmark]

3 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

I want to file a complaint with the person responsible for the planning...

Def. somewhat less snowfall than I expected to this point....was referencing the pattern.

[Typhoon Tip]

this would have been an "ice storm" opportunity if the fall rates were more - tho could argue the length of the event is challenged, too.  There's an established drain/ageo flow ongoing that is just about perfectly balanced against melt layer overrunning aloft.  

We're glazed to perhaps .1" ... shrub and twigs starting to do that day glow look.  Car windows are mottled and there's icicles forming along the edge of the awnings.   But the puddles in the salted streets are barely patterning rings.  Rad is a bit more robust coming, moving in from the west but it may not last long.

[Snowcrazed71]

Yeah my whole driveway was a sheet of ice. My daughter is of the age now at 12 where she wants to walk the bus stop on own ( I'm perfectly fine with that unless it's raining real hard ). But, this morning she took a few steps outside, turned around and asked me if I could drive her to the bus. But of course I couldn't wait with her. I had to just drop her off. She said she had it from there LOL

[40/70 Benchmark]

[HoarfrostHubb]

Cleared of our daughter’s car for her to head to work the lifts at Wachusett.  Very little ice on the trees but probably 0.15-0.2 on her car.  
 

smart call to close schools up here in the hill towns.  

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Two hour school delay here today. Pretty good coating of ice on everything.
It’s actually snowing currently.  31°.

[weatherwiz]

Mixture of freezing rain and snow here but becoming more skewed towards snow

[dendrite]

25.6° -SN

Accums are probably done outside of a new coating. 

[ariof]

Sidewalks in Cambridge/Somerville were treacherous in places, fine in others. Roads mostly fine (I wound up walking in them) as they've seen some salt. 32 feels warm after the past few weeks.

[metagraphica]

34. Rain and fog. Looking forward to a warmish, sunny day tomorrow.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

59 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

The big ridge out west and trough to the northern gulf will happen, but we have to watch the western Atlantic for too much ridging—speaking for the southern 2/3 of the forum…

Ya I don't like the ridging and the lack of 50/50 for that time period of interest 15/16th.. 50/50 shows up after that period which is why I like post Jan 18 better.. 

[weatherwiz]

all snow now...coming down pretty good

[Typhoon Tip]

2 minutes ago, metagraphica said:

34. Rain and fog. Looking forward to a warmish, sunny day tomorrow.

Yeah, tomorrow has a soupcon of being a nape day ... It's hard to do that in January, because the sun's just too darn feeble.  Need to breach the solar transition entry times ( first week of Feb) and then the affect is much more noticeable.   

Otherwise, feeble west wind at +5C in the 980 MB level on the NAM grid, with < 30% RH in the cloud column is going to feel pretty amazing to those that don't suffer the negative SAD form of that disorder.  haha.    Anyway acclimation/seasonal relativity is going to make that 48F stroll across parking lots, while the sun's feeble warmth is still warm nonetheless, feel even warmer and more invigorating.

[Pennfisherman]

Snow starting to mix in here. 32.1 degrees. Icy mess

[dryslot]

Another 0.5", Now at 1.8", Same total as yesterday.

[Typhoon Tip]

12 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Ya I don't like the ridging and the lack of 50/50 for that time period of interest 15/16th.. 50/50 shows up after that period which is why I like post Jan 18 better.. 

Yeah, that's the unfortunate Miller A trade off...  the pattern foot doesn't come with that.  

The 50/50 thing is the Miller B or variant thereof. It's need for it circulates cold into the antecedent environment ...typically waiting to the last second to then scoot out of the way and make room for the coastal coming. 

Miller A's tend to be progressive.  Heck they're really more like needle thread storms, their just arriving from a steeper azimuth.  The difference is, since they are coming from a huge heat and moisture source, they tend to just be bigger and by default affecting a larger area.  But they do tend to be progressive for lacking blocking vortex in the Maritime of Canada.

[ineedsnow]

16 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Mixture of freezing rain and snow here but becoming more skewed towards snow

Just talked to my mom in Agawam and she said they got big flakes coming down

[mreaves]

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

Another 0.5", Now at 1.8", Same total as yesterday.

2" here, about the same as yesterday and Saturday.