February Discobs 2026

[MN Transplant]

5 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Deep winter weekend, no way to argue that, but the extreme temp forecasts definitely underperformed. 

The GFS has outperformed the Euro on temps for the globals, and the NAM has been much better than the HRRR.

One thing that I noticed that was not surprising was that the AI models did not handle the wind gusts well.  They were too muted, as is to be expected with more extreme events.

[kgottwald]

When it gets back into the mid-forties on Tuesday it's gonna feel like midsummer. Might wear shorts and a T-shirt.

[pazzo83]

6 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

The GFS has outperformed the Euro on temps for the globals, and the NAM has been much better than the HRRR.

One thing that I noticed that was not surprising was that the AI models did not handle the wind gusts well.  They were too muted, as is to be expected with more extreme events.

feels like they do well at a lower resolution (getting the big picture right), but at a higher resolution (getting the details), they are quite poor.

[pazzo83]

low was 14F at DCA, 12.2F here.  Central Park did hit 3F, and Watertown NY was -36F.  So the extreme cold was up there lol.

[CAPE]

High of 19 after a low of 9.

Currently 17

Forecast low of 7 tonight. Got a fire going and sipping a stout and watching the mostly annoying SB pregame crap. 

[aldie 22]

Down to 2.5 degrees was it supposed to get this cold this morning?

[WVclimo]

+ 1° here.  Still a shot at zero in the next hour.

[snowfan]

Impressive what you can do when the wind lays down.

 

[aldie 22]

16 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

Down to 2.5 degrees was it supposed to get this cold this morning?

Dipped to 1.3 before starting to rise. The melt this week should bring quite the mud pit

[mitchnick]

7 imby

[snowfan]

Canaan doing canaan things

 

[dailylurker]

5 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

Dipped to 1.3 before starting to rise. The melt this week should bring quite the mud pit

Getting our early for one last mud and slop free hike before our normal winter returns this week lol. It's been a fantastic winter. Three in a row in the lowlands. I just need a few inches of slop and I'll be at climo again this year. 

Temp 9

[Wxtrix]

overnight low of 1–coldest night this winter.

now i am ready for it to warm up.

[SnowtoRain]

9.3 

[wxdude64]

Low was 5.4 degrees, a new record for the date, beating 1995's 7 degrees. Currently 7.3/1.0 at 8 am. 

[Terpeast]

Low of 9

[North Balti Zen]

11 in Fallston. Colder than I was expecting unfortunately. Ready for the ice box to back off a bit personally.

[87storms]

Pretty wild that the sleetpack is still visible on satellite two weeks later: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=ne&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12

 

Looks like NC has already lost most of theirs.

[wxmeddler]

Impressive

[GramaxRefugee]

10 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

Impressive

That Clarksville station seems to run strangely cold, (0 deg). I remember it was a -7 outlier on Jan 30 (when I attended a funeral in Clarksville)

[katabatic]

Very cold low of -12.3 this morning. Second coldest low so far this season (few weeks ago it was -16.8). 

[RIC_WX]

1 hour ago, katabatic said:

Very cold low of -12.3 this morning. Second coldest low so far this season (few weeks ago it was -16.8). 

I find this typical of the backside of an arctic air mass, good radiational cooling and the winds finally decouple.  My place was -8.5 this AM, but already rebounded to 27.  We hovered around zero the previous couple nights with a lot more wind.

[WEATHER53]

Low of 9 in kemp mill and frigid minus 2 in Frederick 

[pazzo83]

12.4F here, 15F at DCA

[aldie 22]

Took this just now of my north facing side of the house. Not bad after over two weeks 

[87storms]

I’m officially ready for the “warmup”.

[dailylurker]

36 minutes ago, 87storms said:

I’m officially ready for the “warmup”.

I'm ready for the next ice age lol. 

Looks like the warm front is coming. Clouds are showing up after a spectacular blue bird morning. 

[wxmeddler]

5 hours ago, GramaxRefugee said:

That Clarksville station seems to run strangely cold, (0 deg). I remember it was a -7 outlier on Jan 30 (when I attended a funeral in Clarksville)

It's in a mini-cold sink. Cannan of the Maryland Piedmont

[87storms]

34 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

I'm ready for the next ice age lol. 

Looks like the warm front is coming. Clouds are showing up after a spectacular blue bird morning. 

Today actually was pretty tolerable. I can sense a warmup is incoming. Can’t wait for these faux snow mountains to melt. But I’m game for a real snowstorm…though it’s not looking good, that’s for sure.

[rjvanals]

Looking at the 3k NAM it'ss interesting to see areas near ice covered water struggling to get above freezing tomorrow