December 2015 Observations & Discussions

Got to 67 here

Frank if the temp in Central Park gets to 70 degrees over the next 3'days which it could is their any significance to That being that it happened also just 2 years ago in December?

Starting the day at 48.7* - can't stand it, looking forward to a chill next weekend

Yes the chill next weekend being normal December temperatures for a few days.

When Al tells us yesterday that a cold front is coming through and highs will be in the 50's??? you just have to shake your head and say, wow this is about as bad as it gets.

I'm about to the point where I'm ready to embrace this rather than fight it.

There's an old story in one of the positive thinking books:

A lone kid in his back yard with a ball and a bat, before throwing the ball up in the air to hit it declares, "I'm the greatest hitter in the world", he promptly swings and misses. He goes through the same routine five times with the same result, after he misses the fifth time he then declares, "Wow I'm the greatest pitcher in the world".

And this is the attitude I will now take with this winter or lack thereof.

Central park tied the record high of 64 earlier this morn.
The next update will prob be a new record

DelMar Weather says...

"A lot of talk about this monster storm system that will settle into the Bering Sea. What Is very important with a storm in this region is the effects of a week or 2 in the future. This will cause a significant pattern change to occur around the 19th of December with much colder air across the country.

The science behind the location of this storm lies within a large buckling of the jet stream. This allows a ridge in the western US with a deep trough in the eastern US. Direct shot of arctic air should funnel down the pipeline."

elkiehound wrote:DelMar Weather says...

"A lot of talk about this monster storm system that will settle into the Bering Sea. What Is very important with a storm in this region is the effects of a week or 2 in the future. This will cause a significant pattern change to occur around the 19th of December with much colder air across the country.

The science behind the location of this storm lies within a large buckling of the jet stream. This allows a ridge in the western US with a deep trough in the eastern US. Direct shot of arctic air should funnel down the pipeline."

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/powerful-bering-sea-storm-potential-record-breaking-fairbanks-anchorage-alaska/54125652

Feels more humid today.
65* with hazy sun, nearly calm winds.
time for bike ride to Randalls Island.

elkiehound wrote:DelMar Weather says...

"A lot of talk about this monster storm system that will settle into the Bering Sea. What Is very important with a storm in this region is the effects of a week or 2 in the future. This will cause a significant pattern change to occur around the 19th of December with much colder air across the country.

The science behind the location of this storm lies within a large buckling of the jet stream. This allows a ridge in the western US with a deep trough in the eastern US. Direct shot of arctic air should funnel down the pipeline."

Thanks for posting. Here is a look at the monster stoem the article is referring to.



940mb low. VERY strong. Here is another look. Draw your attention to the Baring Sea, west of Alaska over Aleutians. 935mb low!




I didn't read the article but what this cyclone is doing is basically turning out EPO from positive to negative. The higher heights over Alaska allows cold air to stream into the central and eastern US. We'll see this happen over our area next weekend. We'll probably not get out of the 30's one day and 40's another day. Here's a look at the positive heights over Alaska and cold entering US.



The cold next weekend will not last. The cyclone dissipates and is replaced by a ridge. A trough moves back into the western US and a ridge follows over the east by Christmas week.

Currently at 71° it's got to be a record

72*. A beautiful Spring day. Reminds me Memorial Day and the beach are just a few weeks away!! Oh, wait  . . .

Look at CPK daily High/Low for the month, and if the lows were highs instead, it still might avg above normal.

Toped out at 74 along the shore what a great day is winter coming?

http://m.accuweather.com/en/us/anchorage-ak/99501/satellite/346835

Zoom out once or twice and animate, wow

to add insult to injury with this crap "winter weather" we are in desperate need of rain and the NWS just cut down our expected totals for this week by almost half. Now tonight looks like only a quarter of an inch when this morning the forecast was for .5 to .75. Just can win in this "hell nino'" (Doc)

syosnow94 wrote:to add insult to injury with this crap "winter weather" we are in desperate need of rain and the NWS just cut down our expected totals for this week by almost half.  Now tonight looks like only a quarter of an inch when this morning the forecast was for .5 to .75.  Just can win in this "hell nino'"  (Doc)

Has been raining all day in Plymouth. Gray WFO had WWA up for Central Maine, and WSW up for Northern Maine. They had some decent accumulations.

Personally I don't see any rain really coming for the area is a tiny little strip of a line of may be embedded thunderstorms but that's about it from what I can c

Summer like downpour right now

And it's almost over...

Thunder and pouring rain here now - is this May???

I don't know if anyone is paying attention but the temperature in Central Park just hit 67.This breaks a record for today and probobaly tomorrow .Thats 3 days in a row of record highs.What in the world is going on?

It tied a record.

Another chance Thursday