White Christmas?

Jstas

Apparently, maybe.

After the "snow" that we had last weekend (1/10th of an inch....pfft!) I figured it's time to get the snow thrower ready. So last Saturday I spent an hour or so taking the mower deck off the tractor and putting the 42" snow thrower attachment on. (Hide the children and small pets!).

Mostly just to get ready for any big snow we might get early next year. However, Sunday, the National Weather Service weather nerds started saying that the conditions are going to be good for a Nor'easter this Christmas weekend. They are still sticking with flurries to a modest level of accumulation if we get snow at all. Things could change, it's a week away. If things keep going the way they think it will, the entire North East, from Maryland to Nova Scotia, could be in for a clobbering.

Normally, I don't go all ape poo over weather but these Nor'easters are nasty storms. More damaging than a hurricane. This time of the season, they can be extra bad because the water is still warm and when the warm air from the Jet Stream hits the cold air over the warm water, it's like inflating a pool float with a hand pump vs an air compressor.

So if you live in the North East and have family coming in to town this week/weekend for the holiday, better get prepared now. Better to have stuff ready and not need it than to be without in a emergency situation. I'm all for a White Christmas but not this way.

cnh

I really never heard of this term till I moved to New England. It was my understanding that these storms usually dump more up here than in the mid-Atlantic states where I grew up. In any case, weather patterns are a bit 'funky' these days. So I don't doubt that you 'mid' boys might get the whopper and those of us under Canada a mere dusting. We haven't had much snow at all. I don't remember a mid-December with almost NO snow covering up here in YEARS.

cnh

Jstas

No, NJ gets hammered by the pretty good. Granted, most of the times it's rain but if they come from Dec through to February, it stands a good chance of being snow. Hell, happened last year. Got like 22 inches of snow from that the week before Christmas. That movie "The Perfect Storm" was about a Nor'easter that plowed through the north east, cut across Massachusetts towards Nova Scotia and ran in to a high pressure front which pushed it southward and westward towards NJ/DE where it collided with Hurricane Grace and then went back up the coast right over NJ and across New England. We had no power for 3 days. Thankfully the weather was quite warm after that. In the 50's. so heat and AC wasn't necessary. NJ and Massachusetts took the brunt of the $208M+ in damages for that. That was around Halloween in 1991. I was off from school Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of that week due to concerns over the storm and a lack of power at the school. If that had occurred in December, instead of the 4-6 inches of rain we got, it would have been ~3 feet of snow.

gelinas

I'm in Md and they are calling for snow on christmas day for us. I too am all for a white christmas, that and using my four wheel drive whenever I get the chance.

thebluemonkey

It been white around here for the last month,the way the temps have been i dont think it going anywere anytime soon.

Midnite Mick

I have never experienced a non-white Christmas. Maybe some day soon. I hate snow.

greyford1979

Jstas wrote: »

Apparently, maybe.

After the "snow" that we had last weekend (1/10th of an inch....pfft!) I figured it's time to get the snow thrower ready. So last Saturday I spent an hour or so taking the mower deck off the tractor and putting the 42" snow thrower attachment on. (Hide the children and small pets!).

Mostly just to get ready for any big snow we might get early next year. However, Sunday, the National Weather Service weather nerds started saying that the conditions are going to be good for a Nor'easter this Christmas weekend. They are still sticking with flurries to a modest level of accumulation if we get snow at all. Things could change, it's a week away. If things keep going the way they think it will, the entire North East, from Maryland to Nova Scotia, could be in for a clobbering.

Normally, I don't go all ape poo over weather but these Nor'easters are nasty storms. More damaging than a hurricane. This time of the season, they can be extra bad because the water is still warm and when the warm air from the Jet Stream hits the cold air over the warm water, it's like inflating a pool float with a hand pump vs an air compressor.

So if you live in the North East and have family coming in to town this week/weekend for the holiday, better get prepared now. Better to have stuff ready and not need it than to be without in a emergency situation. I'm all for a White Christmas but not this way.

Well if you don't get any snow for Christmas, I can send you some in a large cooler. We have plenty of it here in northeast Ohio

mrbiron

I'm not worried about the snow.... per say
It's more the terrible North East drivers that, after 50 years of living here, still don't know how to drive in it.

Our snow is coming in due time. We're good for one or two good cripplers that usually stretch from virginia to maine, lasting 2-3 days. I as well started the snow blower this past saturday only to have 2 flat tires...probably should get those fixed.........probably......