Well, well, well....PHX did it again!!! 3-Peat baby! The Sky Harbor incubator allowed temps to shoot up to 83F once again setting a new high record for the day. Isn't that wild? 83F each of the past 3 days...how consistent!!! That's quite fascinating and hard to do in nature. I'm sure we'll hit another record today...keep ya'll posted. In other news.... While the pattern leading up to Christmas is not ideal for snow enthusiasts (except for a few in the GL's), I will say, the pattern thereafter, esp around New Year's Day, is REALLY looking promising for Winter Weather Fans. Who will Ring in the New Year of 2025 with snow flying?? New Year...New Weather Pattern....Let's freaking go! My LR call for a NYE storm is showing + signs among some of the operational runs and ensembles, more or less, located across the Upper MW/MW/GL's as a I do foresee a rather large storm system to traverse the region and most likely get blocked up in the GL's/Ontario area. @hawkstwelve @Minny_Weather @Beltrami Island you guys should be sitting in a good spot.

Week 3 and 4 from the CPC.

Interestingly, while the total daylight hours very slowly increase each day, I saw a chart that showed sunrises will continue to push out later in the morning till about Jan 14th, 2025 while the sunsets have already passed their earliest time at 5:20pm on Dec 10th out here. Here is a cool link you can use. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/phoenix?month=12&year=2024

Diabolical Canadian ridge coming up.

The official H/L yesterday at Grand Rapids was 30/23 there was 4.2” of snowfall melted down to 0.16” of precipitation. There was 4% of possible sunshine. The highest wind speed was 26 MPH out of the N For today the average H/L is 35/24 the record high of 60 was in 1967 the coldest high of 5 was in 1989 the record low of -8 was also in 1989 the warmest low of 47 was in 1918. The most rainfall of 1.26” was in 1949 the most snowfall of 7.9” was in 2008 the most on the ground was 15” in 1951. We now have 20 days of December 2024 in the record books and the mean so far is 30.2 that is a departure of -1.5 the high so far is 50 on the 8th 9th and 14th the lowest 10 on the 12th and 14th there has been 1.58” of precipitation and 19.6” of snowfall. While there is snow on the ground at this time there remains some doubt if there is enough snow to last for a White Christmas.