January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread

[40/70 Benchmark]

1 hour ago, Torch Tiger said:

she gone 

Naso much.

[78Blizzard]

Euro has a nice snowstorm for the Cape on Friday.

[40/70 Benchmark]

Here it comes....you heard it here first last fall.

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-collapse-stratospheric-warming-february-2026-cold-united-states-canada-europe-fa/

[TheSnowman]

6 hours ago, Fozz said:

I was in Cumberland RI... that one was a heartbreaking screwjob. @TheSnowman probably remembers this one all too well.

 

Yes, because it was the ONE YEAR I was home during this period of NAMM and the Grammys since they were cancelled for Covid.  And WOULDN’T YOU KNOW IT….

 

A FAILED Disaster Storm happened.  Of Course.  FML.  

[dendrite]

-3°

roaring

[Damage In Tolland]

Thursday looks like a snow event with that clipper 

[codfishsnowman]

4 and Windy 

I'll take that calm wind fake cold any day!

[codfishsnowman]

17 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Thursday looks like a snow event with that clipper 

Good. Clippers are good. You usually do pretty well with your predictions on them.

[dendrite]

-30s around Watertown

Some -40s in MN/WI

-24 Flint

-5 here

[tavwtby]

-2 with gusts topping 30, 10 sustained is making for a frigid morning out there.

[mahk_webstah]

20 minutes ago, dendrite said:

-30s around Watertown

Some -40s in MN/WI

-24 Flint

-5 here

I was watching some coverage of those protest in Minneapolis with below zero temperatures and wind. I think the windchill was in the -40s. They can keep that kind of cold then I didn’t realize it was quite so cold in Watertown area

[moneypitmike]

I know the bulk of the cold was going to be west......but the ambient temps in much of Maine are far from extraordinary.  The minus-2 and minus-4 conditions are actually no colder--and even warmer--than several other mornings we've had this winter.

7* here in PVD.

[alex]

Only made it to -14F here which is pretty common on a good radiational night and quite far from our seasonal low of -29. The fact that it snowed a good chunk of the night probably had something to do with it... 

[kdxken]

 

[moneypitmike]

1 minute ago, kdxken said:

 

 

My ex-wife had a place on the Tug on Brantingham Lake.  Lowville was the nearest town to us.

[moneypitmike]

4 minutes ago, alex said:

Only made it to -14F here which is pretty common on a good radiational night and quite far from our seasonal low of -29. The fact that it snowed a good chunk of the night probably had something to do with it... 

I think my car had -5 on the way to work the other day.

[dendrite]

5 minutes ago, alex said:

Only made it to -14F here which is pretty common on a good radiational night and quite far from our seasonal low of -29. The fact that it snowed a good chunk of the night probably had something to do with it... 

if you were clear and calm you’d be -35° this morning. 

[klw]

-9f here at the moment but we were 4f at midnight so we get stuck with the midnight high.

[Kitz Craver]

I saw the OP’s lost the Feb 1rst coastal, still a signal on ENS?

[klw]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

-30s around Watertown

Some -40s in MN/WI

-24 Flint

-5 here

Hibbing MN currently -35 after a high yesterday of -11.9

https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KHIB.html

International Falls -36

https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KINL.html

[alex]

45 minutes ago, dendrite said:

if you were clear and calm you’d be -35° this morning. 

Well I’m glad we aren’t

[ariof]

5˚ at KBOS is the coldest in three years. Last year only hit 9˚. Only six other years have failed to reach 8˚. From xmACIS:

1	1084	2026-01-23
2	752	2003-01-17
3	728	2021-01-28
4	713	1954-01-12
5	660	1960-12-11
-	660	1932-11-26
7	573	1938-01-17

Might bottom out at 4 or even 3 today, and next week could get colder. (With the snow and calm winds, I wouldn't be surprised to see the rad pits at KOWD and KBED well below -10˚.

[ariof]

10 minutes ago, klw said:

Hibbing MN currently -35 after a high yesterday of -11.9

https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KHIB.html

I'll see your Hibbing and raise you a an Ely (KELO), -38˚ or Cook (KCQM); Cook also hit -38˚ last night. Lowest reported aside from a -45˚ in Wisconsin from a Coop but that is probably a windchill misreported. A number of weather stations are reporting -40˚ rn in Northern WI and MN. So we'll see what the PNS shows once it's updated. (They'll all tell you that this is nothing compared to 1996.)

Twin cities at -15˚, but were below -20˚ yesterday for the first time in 7 years.

[Layman]

Meh.  -0.9  Looking forward to the snow.

[cleetussnow]

1 hour ago, moneypitmike said:

 

My ex-wife had a place on the Tug on Brantingham Lake.  Lowville was the nearest town to us.

I had a camp up there for many years - coldest I experienced was -30.  Its terrible.  

[EastonSN+]

2 hours ago, Kitz Craver said:

I saw the OP’s lost the Feb 1rst coastal, still a signal on ENS?

February 3rd has some signal. Could be a coastal hugger too.