Today: first day of winter or spring?

Posted By: TheMaineMan  Posted On: Dec 21st, 2010  Filed Under: Weather

My calendar says today is the first day of winter, but it was 40 degrees, rainy, and all of my snow melted. Sounds more like the first day of spring to me.

I'm still waiting for the storms that wjp forecast in February 2010. Yell You know, the ones that bring straight snow and not mix/rain!

At risk of yet ANOTHER brown Christmas. :(

  1. stuffradio says:

    I'm getting the second green christmas in a row :(

  2. HoustonSnow says:

    well here in houston it was 82 degrees :(

  3. MSSouthernGirl says:

    Yesterday our high was 67. It was weird having that “spring feeling” on the first day of winter.

    Was just reading NOAA's weather discussion for our area. They are forecasting a white Christmas for us, which is amazing. From the National Weather Service:

    “ONE OF THREE SCENARIOS WILL PLAY OUT. ONE IS THE NORTHERN STREAM
    WILL COMPLETELY MISS THE SOUTHERN ONE…THE SOUTHERN ENERGY WILL
    DIVE TOO FAR SOUTH…AND THE MIDSOUTH WILL BE SPARED OF ANY PRECIP.
    ANOTHER IS WHAT THE MODELS ARE CURRENTLY SHOWING…KEEPING THEM
    FROM PHASING BUT KEEPING THEM SUFFICIENTLY CLOSE TO STILL PROVIDE
    A LIGHT-MODERATE PRECIP EVENT. THE LAST AND MOST UNLIKELY SCENARIO
    PHASES THE TWO PIECES OF ENERGY MUCH FASTER AND GIVES US A MORE
    SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM. NONE OF THE MODELS HAVE EVER SHOWN THE
    THIRD SCENARIO. SINCE THE NAM…CANADIAN…ECMWF…AND 00Z GFS
    ARE LEANING TOWARD THE SECOND SCENARIO…THAT IS WHAT I USED FOR
    THIS FORECAST PACKAGE.”

  4. AR_Country says:

    Sorry to disappoint you MSSouthernGirl but they are saying it is unlikely for a snow event to happen.  You will recieve a chance of rain.  I wish myself it would be a white Christmas here.  But I will be going to KY, so I might get that chance of snow on Christmas.

  5. PlowmanOhio81 says:

    Maineman… looks like your getting your white Christmas now according to radar. What's your accumulations up to now?? :)

  6. MSSouthernGirl says:

    Ar Country I am afraid you are correct. Yesterday morning's forecast gave me some hope but by last night, of course, it had changed.  Hate it when that happens.

    MaineMan from what I saw last night it looked like your brown Christmas would be a bust! Hope you're seeing the flakes falling!

  7. TheMaineMan says:

    Amazingly, the temperature managed to drop to and stay around 29 as the storm tracked further westward, brought some heavy snow bands, and gave me 5-7 inches of heavy wet snow (lots of drifting)! A little bit melted today as the storm dragged in warm air behind it (40 and sunny) but it suddenly looks great for a white Christmas. At least the storm left me with more snow than I started with…at one point snow was falling from the sky as my snowpack was DEcreasing, heh, but then it accumulated well afterwards!

    Now I just hope the snow will stick and not melt like it did last winter!

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