Our local NOAA is embarrassing. They should be well knowledgeable to take the output of the models and look at reality to make a more educated forecast, but they can't do it. Its the same reason why there is such garbage data recording across the state.
I blame DEI and the influx of Gen Z in to the work place.
I am sure we reach 70 before the weekend is over. Contemplating switching to "cooling" on the A/C.
48 out of 50 years this happens and it's normal.
Outside of the mountains I don't recall too many times we've gotten snow in Dec. Winter wx chances are generally best late Jan into Feb so I'm not sure where all of pessimism is with no wintry precip in Dec comes from.
the funny thing is the 2 biggest snows I've seen were in December (2017) and March (1993).
How tall are you?
He is 9ft
Snow is excellent for recharging soil moisture and ground water. It's like running a giant drip irrigation system over all the land. It's pretty, too.
All we can see is maybe 10-14 days out with any reliability. And it looks mild. Not what you'd call hot for this time of year but not cold either. End of December is just speculation at this point. If I was a betting man I'd go warm. Not because I know for certain but I'm just betting the odds. It wants to be mild in the SE in winter anymore regardless of what the signs point to. It's always a fly in the ointment that ruins it.
Late December to early January still looks good for snow in the northeast.
Yep. Hard to imagine a way this month was going to be BN or even close to normal unless we had a lingering stubborn block the first half or potentially if the last 10 days go gangbusters.
