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Pattern December Doldrums 2025 🎄 ❄️

LukeBarrette said:
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View attachment 178694Snow squalls look mighty this afternoon into evening. NC mountains will get a nice period of snow in the early morning hours.
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won't be sustained enough to techinically qualify as a blizzard, but winds will be gusting past 40-50mph for many in the high country this evening. with snow already on the ground up there, visibility will be very poor and drifting will occur. a far cry from the almost perfectly still straight-down snowfall of monday up there. i think you'll find a handful of 4-7" reports at the high peaks & ski resorts with this one
 
GaWx said:
Thanks for that info. Do you know how long “freezing fog advisories” have existed at CHS, at Mobile, or at any NWS office for that matter?
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Having lived in Charleston for 8 years y’all just sent me on a search of Snowstorms in Charleston! It has been awesome to remember the 2010 snow when I worked at the TV Station with the Weather Team!


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GaWx said:
Do you know what and when was the record longest on record 50 or below streak for KGSP for late Nov into early Dec?
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not sure, but i can tell you that the past 2 weeks are the 2nd coldest 11/26-12/9 on record at KGSP going by max temperature, with an average of 47.7F, which is 10.0F below average for that stretch. going by average temp, T-10th coldest 11/26-12/9 (40.3F, 7.0F below avg).

our lows have not been breathtaking. most nights have been low-mid 30s, which is chilly, but not crazy. we're -7.7F for dec overall to date
 
NCSNOW said:
Think your gonna get back and forth first 2/3rds of winter. Rythym will flip every 10-12 days max between EC Trough/WC Ridge & Vice Versa. latest CFS shows this. We have had our stretch of EC trough/WC Ridge for 20 days if you go back into late November , as it will subside by 12/16 and they will flip. By 12/27 looks like we will have flipped back, ride it until 1/8ish and then flip back again.
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This is the typical scenario for most winters in the Southeast. Rarely do we get locked into a long term (two weeks or more) above normal or below normal temperature pattern. I guess we will just have take the slow ride to the top of the temperature roller coaster after this week through Christmas and after that we should be coming down again with, hopefully, some chances for winter precipitation around New Year's
Day. Didn't one of the models just the other day advertise a massive ice storm around that period?
 
Should be a fun rest of day into night up here where I'm at. Wish I could share the wealth with everyone. Beech Mountain has some good live cams if you wanted to check them out later. It's sunny and 34 degrees right now.
 
NCHighCountryWX said:
Get out an enjoy the snow tomorrow if you can get the time off. It may be quite a while before more comes down this winter.
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Up where your at, Id bet house money it will snow at least 2 more times before the new year rings in, despite the 12/15-12/25 garbage look on models. Im talking the 1-3 upslope variety. To many NS mini vorts. They cant dig and amplify for us, But you and central Apps have been the bullseye for the ole jet stream.
 
What a block! Why can't we ever get this in the near term? We'll see what the ensembles say in a bit, but the atmosphere has wanted to be rather blocky through the fall, so something like this wouldn't surprise me if it eventually showed up. Hopefully, when it does, we can get rid of the barftastic Pacific.

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Lol this is funny!!


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Excellent Golfing Weather here today, after bottoming out @27F this morning..
It's a gorgeous Day,, 56F & Sunny, very light winds here around the the Beaches
 
Newman said:
This is the 2nd time the Charleston WFO has issued a freezing fog advisory, the first being February 9, 2022
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I just found this map of the number of freezing fog advisories issued by each NWS office since 1/1/2006. This is as of 11/20/25. So, it excludes the ones just issued by Mobile and CHS. This shows that the one just issued by CHS was only the 2nd in 20 years. Pittsburgh just issued their first ever on Nov 20th. Also, three offices in NC had issued only one through then and CAE only two since 2006:
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Mitch West said:
We have been so focused on the warm possibly coming that a trend South to much colder temperatures with this Arctic airmass slipped a bit under the radar. Especially after losing it an earlier this week. Looks frigid early next week. View attachment 178704
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always too much fantasy land watching in the wx community. This is looking like the coldest airmass yet
 
Mitch West said:
We have been so focused on the warm possibly coming that a trend South to much colder temperatures with this Arctic airmass slipped a bit under the radar. Especially after losing it a earlier this week. Looks frigid early next week. View attachment 178704
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That is good to see. 21 would be pretty chilly for December but I remember 2022 Christmas eve was in the single digits here..like 5..that was memorable!
 
Picked a great weekend to go camping. Might need to light a fire under the gray water tank to empty it Monday morning. 😂

Also had some wacky freezing frost evaporating once the sun came out and started heating up the grass. Wouldn't call it fog because there was none before. Had a crazy amount of ice accrete on the commute this morning because of it.
 
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