1998 was the Christmas miracle for our area. The first 3 weeks of December torched (we set a monthly record of 73 twice during that first week), and as late as the morning of the 22nd, it was a (then-record) 64 degrees: 1998-12-01 62 44 53.0 10.5 12 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-02 61 37 49.0 6.8 16 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-03 67 44 55.5 13.6 9 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-04 73 52 62.5 20.9 2 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-05 66 53 59.5 18.2 5 0 T 0.0 0 1998-12-06 69 47 58.0 16.9 7 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-07 73 51 62.0 21.2 3 0 0.03 0.0 0 1998-12-08 52 49 50.5 10.0 14 0 0.26 0.0 0 1998-12-09 50 36 43.0 2.8 22 0 0.05 0.0 0 1998-12-10 50 32 41.0 1.0 24 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-11 49 37 43.0 3.3 22 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-12 47 29 38.0 -1.5 27 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-13 46 42 44.0 4.8 21 0 0.09 0.0 0 1998-12-14 45 34 39.5 0.5 25 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-15 50 27 38.5 -0.2 26 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-16 49 35 42.0 3.5 23 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-17 45 36 40.5 2.3 24 0 0.04 0.0 0 1998-12-18 44 31 37.5 -0.5 27 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-19 54 35 44.5 6.8 20 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-20 53 43 48.0 10.5 17 0 T 0.0 0 1998-12-21 58 45 51.5 14.2 13 0 0.00 0.0 0 1998-12-22 64 24 44.0 6.9 21 0 0.05 0.0 0 Then, a cold front came through on the 22nd. Temperatures tumbled during the day, leading to the snowstorm on the 23rd and 24th:

A colder, snowier run of the King and we have near 100 members on and 3 pages of posts in like 45 minutes. It's coming

I mean…It would be insane not to get anything good with this and I cannot remember a time since I have been following the PNA where I didn’t have flocked white trees with this look…

EPS trended colder around the 22nd-24th. Really nice change there. Longer range pretty close to 00Z. Slight reduction in heights especially over western Canada.

not out yet for today