January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread

[codfishsnowman]

Chunks of icy snow and little beads of sleet in East Longmeadow at work. Wiz has snow just north of here.... Didn't see any mention of that in the point and click.   Nice glaze on sidewalks and driveways this morning. Kind of a wintry system even here just no real significant accums but enough to be slick.

[wxeyeNH]

25.8F  Moderate snow.  About 2" or a little more with this event.  My birch trees, although ice free are still bent.

[Damage In Tolland]

1 minute ago, codfishsnowman said:

Chunks of icy snow and little beads of sleet in East Longmeadow at work. Wiz has snow just north of here.... Didn't see any mention of that in the point and click.   Nice glaze on sidewalks and driveways this morning. Kind of a wintry system even here just no real significant accums but enough to be slick.

Some snow/ sleet mixing in here now with the ZR. Sitting at 31

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

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

yeah the flake size was pretty big as those heavier echoes moved overhead. 

[codfishsnowman]

3 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

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

Same here now

[codfishsnowman]

1 minute ago, codfishsnowman said:

Same here now

I thought the sun was supposed to be out by now

[mahk_webstah]

22 minutes ago, dendrite said:

25.6° -SN

Accums are probably done outside of a new coating. 

What about that precip to our south and west?  I don’t think it’s forecast to get up here, but it looks like some of it might.

very small flakes or freezing drizzle right now

[Typhoon Tip]

wow. 

Not intending to troll the timing here but ... I was just looking at the 12z NAM grid.  If those numbers are right for Friday, we're going above MOS and probably human interpretation on that day.  It's too early in the returning insolation to expect much assist, but +8C at 900 mb would send the temperature to 72F if this were mid February.   Don't know about January 9th... proooobably not.  Gossamer snow pack will prevent some recovery, too.

If that NAM thermal profile is right, ton of midday sun and light WSW wind will be interesting for the temperature nerds like me. 

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, weatherwiz said:

Goff Law has about 95% of the highway advertisement billboards  

You know who the brother is right?

[weatherwiz]

This may be the best snow growth so far this winter  

Coming down moderate with pretty big dendrites...this is awesome. Too bad it can't do this for 8 hours straight 

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said:

You know who the brother is right?

I don't know for 100% but I've always wondered if there was a relation. Is it the QB? 

 

[512high]

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

wow. 

Not intending to troll the timing here but ... I was just looking at the 12z NAM grid.  If those numbers are right for Friday, we're going above MOS and probably human interpretation on that day.  It's too early in the returning insolation to expect much assist, but +8C at 900 mb would send the temperature to 72F if this were mid February.   Don't know about January 9th... proooobably not.  Gossamer snow pack will prevent some recovery, too.

If that NAM thermal profile is right, ton of midday sun and light WSW wind will be interesting for the temperature nerds like me. 

If it burns this ice shit then I'm all for it.....

[ORH_wxman]

Problem for Friday is cloud cover and weak mixing. 

[ineedsnow]

Over to snow now

[Damage In Tolland]

6 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

wow. 

Not intending to troll the timing here but ... I was just looking at the 12z NAM grid.  If those numbers are right for Friday, we're going above MOS and probably human interpretation on that day.  It's too early in the returning insolation to expect much assist, but +8C at 900 mb would send the temperature to 72F if this were mid February.   Don't know about January 9th... proooobably not.  Gossamer snow pack will prevent some recovery, too.

If that NAM thermal profile is right, ton of midday sun and light WSW wind will be interesting for the temperature nerds like me. 

Sell

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour 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.

Negative WPO was in the cards starting appearing beginning of November as many here pointed out. All signs pointed to colder solutions.  After a thaw can we make it a Pete Repete .Tack on the deep negative EPO balls cold. As the STS ramps up too. The elusive East Coast Mauler this year? 

[Ginx snewx]

5 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I don't know for 100% but I've always wondered if there was a relation. Is it the QB? 

 

Yes he has been on a couple commercials 

[Ginx snewx]

9 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

wow. 

Not intending to troll the timing here but ... I was just looking at the 12z NAM grid.  If those numbers are right for Friday, we're going above MOS and probably human interpretation on that day.  It's too early in the returning insolation to expect much assist, but +8C at 900 mb would send the temperature to 72F if this were mid February.   Don't know about January 9th... proooobably not.  Gossamer snow pack will prevent some recovery, too.

If that NAM thermal profile is right, ton of midday sun and light WSW wind will be interesting for the temperature nerds like me. 

Cloudy upper 40s

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said:

Yes he has been on a couple commercials 

That's awesome...I had a feeling. Explains some of the advertisements too. Her ads are great BTW...always enjoy them. She knows how to do it

[dendrite]

There could be some breaks in the afternoon/midday. I wonder if the CON-MHT-ASH-LWM corridor verifies warmer with SW flow off the higher terrain. 

[Typhoon Tip]

15 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Problem for Friday is cloud cover and weak mixing. 

yeah, I'm just referencing the NAM RH levels.   Haven't looked at other guidance, but 18z had < 50% over Logan, which is typically sun soaked.  It may be cloudier western areas, sooner.

Plus, it's the NAM for period 4

[Typhoon Tip]

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

There could be some breaks in the afternoon. I wonder if the CON-MHT-ASH-LWM corridor verifies warmer with SW flow off the higher terrain. 

I think it's a temperature nerd's first day  - call it a "warm up" for the impending MOS bust season.  lol

[SouthCoastMA]

7 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

That's awesome...I had a feeling. Explains some of the advertisements too. Her ads are great BTW...always enjoy them. She knows how to do it

"No, Goff Law Group and Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff are not related by family, but they have a professional marketing partnership where he appears in their advertisements, leveraging their shared last name for catchy slogans like, ""Join Our Family" and "We Will Bring You to the End Zone,"," according to Hartford Business Journal and Goff Law Group. Brooke Goff, the law firm's founder, is a football fan and former player, which led to the successful campaign"

[Lava Rock]

28 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

25.8F  Moderate snow.  About 2" or a little more with this event.  My birch trees, although ice free are still bent.

cut them in Spring. They never seems to pop back

[HoarfrostHubb]

Charlton must get getting whacked right now.  
tiny snow and sleet grains here

[Typhoon Tip]

Actually the MET was 50 at FIT for tomorrow off the 00z output.   I'm surprised a MOS product was that high.  

[UnitedWx]

Snowing lightly again in Simsbury. 

[Cold Miser]

1 hour ago, weatherwiz said:

Goff Law has about 95% of the highway advertisement billboards  

Sh.it is everywhere in CT.  Every few months the firm changes the billboards with a new theme.  Right now they're in some kind of Jets football theme.  They've had famous actors and athletes represented on those advertisements for years, including Jared Goff, who is not related to founder Brooke Goff, but the clever marketing off of the same last name is pretty smart.  

[adam038]

Decent slug of freezing rain and 30 degrees on the Auburn/Worcester line. We went from a 2 hour delay to closed around 8 AM, and it was the right call (my students had no idea a delay might be in the cards until I mentioned it yesterday).


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[tamarack]

6 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

cut them in Spring. They never seems to pop back

The 1998 ice storm left a nice-looking white birch bent nearly 90°.  The tree was 7-8" diameter and had been 45-50 feet tall.  When I noticed it was lifting a bit, I tossed a rope over it about 25 feet from the stump, attached the rope to my come-along and to another tree.  Every few days I'd cinch up the rope and by mid-April the tree was back to nearly vertical.  We then moved to New Sharon on May 15 so I've no idea how that birch is doing now.

About 2" here, with off-on light snow, temp low 20s.