Pattern December Doldrums 2025 🎄 ❄️

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

Anytime see Alaska cold . That’s not good

I was just about to post about this. When it’s -58 on the Alaskan border the writing is on the wall. Same concept as last year when it snowed in the gulf and Alaska was complaining about “there’s no snow here. It’s never going to snow or be cold here again.” Well, here you go

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

and then at the tail end of fantasy runs we’ve got -60’s along the AK Canadian border. So if you think this can’t get worse before it gets better think again

 

[LukeBarrette]

Congrats @LukeBarrette CJ throwing out BRINE on this threat already. He’s got the ju-ju marinating early View attachment 179253

The pure aura of SW VA this winter is causing me to get tagged in everything

 

[North GA Weather Nerd]

An oldie example of how a west-based -NAO/-PNA can work in our favor if we play things right:

This is the 1922 Knickerbocker Storm which caused a roof collapse to the first movie theater in America. Also dropped 3 feet of snow in Roxboro, just a very slow moving and amped storm.

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Dang, went deep in the files for that one. Good look

 

[BIG FROSTY]

I hear if you like it cold in January, then today's Euro Weeklies you are not going to like. Cold forecast for January may be in trouble... Per #bamboys
#natgas

 

[BIG FROSTY]

I was just about to post about this. When it’s -58 on the Alaskan border the writing is on the wall. Same concept as last year when it snowed in the gulf and Alaska was complaining about “there’s no snow here. It’s never going to snow or be cold here again.” Well, here you go View attachment 179266

It'll dislodge and pile drive the Southeast in March, and give us some late frost/freezes! #bookit

 

[Ollie Williams]

Anytime see Alaska cold . That’s not good

Better than a blowtorch over Alaska and the United States with completely zonal flow

As frustrating as it is to remove the snow-cover over the northern tier of the US, we can recover if we keep the snow cover in NW Canada… if the circulation pattern changes

 

[Chazwin]

Better than a blowtorch over Alaska and the United States with completely zonal flow

As frustrating as it is to remove the snow-cover over the northern tier of the US, we can recover if we keep the snow cover in NW Canada… if the circulation pattern changes

Yeah I guess I might be in the minority but I don’t ever get disappointed to see cold like that building in Alaska and NW Canada. To me that means that the cold air is relatively close by and we don’t have to depend on a cross polar flow to inject a Siberian air mass into the pattern.

 

[Tarheel1]

Gusts to 50 mph, temp 17 WC -13
Snow!

 

[Prestige Worldwide]

Unfortunately this is too appropriate

 

[weatherfide]

Yeah I guess I might be in the minority but I don’t ever get disappointed to see cold like that building in Alaska and NW Canada. To me that means that the cold air is relatively close by and we don’t have to depend on a cross polar flow to inject a Siberian air mass into the pattern.

There won't be a "pattern" to inject it in to. The conditions that create the "pig" are not going to change in the next two weeks, maybe longer.

 

[Wild Weather Monger]

Be of good cheer. Here's a little CFS porn to soothe the weenies.

 

[NBAcentel]

1 of these 3 days is gonna trick the sensor in Raleigh into a 80F reading

 

[Chazwin]

There won't be a "pattern" to inject it in to. The conditions that create the "pig" are not going to change in the next two weeks, maybe longer.

The point though is that you don’t have to have the perfect pattern to tap into it like you do with a cross polar flow.

 

[JHS]

Yeah I guess I might be in the minority but I don’t ever get disappointed to see cold like that building in Alaska and NW Canada. To me that means that the cold air is relatively close by and we don’t have to depend on a cross polar flow to inject a Siberian air mass into the pattern.

I wonder if this could play out like late January into early February of 1989 did. Alaska had extreme cold, then a major cold snap into the central US, and then finally a quick hitting cold snap for NC, and SC. Some of us got down close to 10 degrees with that one.

 

[J1C1111]

I wonder if this could play out like late January into early February of 1989 did. Alaska had extreme cold, then a major cold snap into the central US, and then finally a quick hitting cold snap for NC, and SC. Some of us got down close to 10 degrees with that one.

I hate waiting so long for it because of wasting some or all of January but that is still up in the air at this point as of now but I think February might be our time later this winter. Will see how it shakes out.

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

A few days til Christmas and we’ve got heavy rain almost into the Hudson Bay

 

[SD]

Rain busting here lolz