Tuesday December 24 2024 Forecast (8:23AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (DECEMBER 24-28)

A band of snow showers will cross the region from west to east this morning, producing a minor accumulation (generally under 1 inch), except it will struggle to do that the further southeast you go due to a bit less snow and a bit “milder” air there, and may be mixed with rain across Cape Cod. This exits with the passage of a cold front trailing low pressure going by to our north this afternoon, and dry weather returns for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as high pressure starts to build in. This more tranquil weather then holds into late week as high pressure dominates.

TODAY: Cloudy morning with a period of snow showers – accumulating a coating to 1 inch – except rain and snow showers Cape Cod. Clouds break for partial sun this afternoon. Highs 31-38. Wind SW 5-15 MPH shifting to NW.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy except mostly cloudy Cape Cod. Lows 16-23. Wind N 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY (CHRISTMAS DAY): Partly sunny. Highs 28-35. Wind N 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows 20-27. Wind N up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 33-40. Wind N up to 10 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 18-25. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

FRIDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 35-42. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 17-24. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

SATURDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 38-45. Wind variable up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (DECEMBER 29 – JANUARY 2)

Low pressure coinciding with milder air aloft brings a rain chance late December 29 and December 30 (may have to watch for inland icing for part of the event). Another precipitation threat comes January 1 and/or 2.

DAYS 11-15 (JANUARY 3-7)

Colder trend. Mid to late period potential storm threat.

86 thoughts on “Tuesday December 24 2024 Forecast (8:23AM)”

  1. Here at WHW, the snow started at 8:00 a.m. and we have a new dusting atop the couple inches we have on the ground. I figure about 1/2 inch tops will do it here at my location, all done by about 11:00 a.m., a bit sooner NW, a bit later SE.

    The radar will show snow over you briefly before the flakes reach the ground.

  4. Snowing at a good clip up here in central Maine. Will be a white Xmas, wouldn’t have been without this system as all the previous snow had melted.

  5. Good morning and thank you TK.
    Nothing happening yet. Hope to see a few flakes before
    it is out of here. 🙂

    I can’t believe Christmas is tomorrow already!!!

  7. Thanks, TK.

    The same temperature today in London when I arrived, 50F, as when I started my trip to London Heathrow in August, on my way to Boston where it was 89F. To say London has a temperate climate is putting it mildly. The birds are out in full force. The grass is incredibly green. The skunks are out, too. Daffodils as well. Now I understand why palm trees can do quite well here.

  11. Thanks, TK!

    Light snow just started here a few minutes ago!

    Remembering an unexpected White Christmas 50 years ago in 1974.

    Wishing everyone at WHW here a very special and happy Hanukkah and Christmas. I think it’s so beautiful that both holidays are on the same day this year!

    Whatever holiday you celebrate (or both!), please enjoy special times with family and friends! 🙂

    1. I remember that 1974 Christmas. My grandmother got me my first Weather Radio! I was in 9th grade, freshman in high school. 🙂

      Not certain though if it technically was a WHITE Christmas. I don’t remember if it started snowing before 7:00 am. Yes I do know that it was a surprise snow event. A few inches iirc. ❄️

  12. A little humor from Meteorologist Steve DiMartino
    Based on the long-range guidance, if anyone wants to get me a Christmas present, coffee would be greatly appreciated! lol

  16. The snow has come to an end here in Woburn. 0.3 inch powdered sugar atop our existing 2 inch snowcover. 🙂

  17. Thanks TK.

    The period of snow has started and ended here in Coventry. And it’s up to a balmy 26F.

    Just went out with my yard stick and measured 0.5” fresh snow on the nose 🙂

    It will be an official white Christmas here tomorrow with more than an inch of snow on the ground though likely not at a BDL where the official records are kept.

  18. Well, I think the atmosphere has spoken the last few weeks.

    Clippers to our north with light snowfall, an overachieving ocean effect event, sustained decent early season cold and now this rather innocuous event dropping a little something.

    The early January time period looks like at least some cold and maybe storminess to boot.

    Seemingly headed to a different 90 day stretch than we have experienced the last 2 cold seasons.

    2. I have to laugh when I see things like “remember when it used to snow?” posted on social media. There’s an actual term for that perception: recency bias. We ALL have it. Nobody is immune. But the scientist will step back and analyze beyond that.

      We’ve had many stretches of overall “lean winters”. Our recent stretch is not regionwide. 2 recent winters that were nearly snowless in southeastern New England featured ABOVE normal snowfall as nearby as north central MA and all of northern New England.

      Not long ago, we just ended the SNOWIEST 30 YEAR PERIOD on record.

      You’ve heard me talk about the “snow drought years” from the winters of 1978-1979 through the winters of 1991-1992. Yup, there were a few good storms here and there, but what a long period of overall below average snowfall, blows away the one that southeastern New England just went through.

      2. Absolutely. All I was saying is that so far this season has been better than the last 2. 🙂 🙂

        It remains to be seen what the final result will be.

      3. As I’ve mentioned plenty of times, I have snow data for Lowell back to the winter of 1928-29. In that period, Lowell has received 10″ or more in a single storm 118 times. Only 9 of those storms occurred during the period between 1978-79 and 1991-92. We had 13 of them between 1992-93 and 1996-97, none from 1997-98 through 1999-2000, and 31 between 2000-01 and 2019-20.

      4. I remember snow every winter except one which would have been mid 1960s. That is from 1951 till late 60s. I remember skating on large ponds that were frozen solid in December and ice houses out on Lake Wini. I remember loving the sled dog rides at the base of cranmore. I thried to train our mini poodle to pull a sled. I wasn’t very successful. My dad spoke often of skiing Tuckerman on Memorial Day. Then I remember the lean years where the ski areas struggled driving lift tickets from $7 into far higher numbers. Hotel costs too. It is really good to see them getting back to longer ski seasons. At least for now.

  20. https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gfs&p=500h_anom&rh=2024122400&fh=384&r=na&dpdt=&mc=

    https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_full&p=500h_anom&rh=2024122400&fh=360&r=na&dpdt=&mc=

    Gfs and euro sending signals for high latitude blocking in the long term, with below avg heights in east and southeast Canada. Accompanying that may be a lot of polar and arctic air over or just to our north.

    Meanwhile, hints of a southeast ridge and we might end up in the middle battleground but with support from a lot of cold air nearby.

  21. This line of snow the last 5-10 mins has been steady if not moderate.

    Getting more than I expected for my local area.

        1. Good for you guys on lower South Shore! Sorry you got skunked on that bigger event.

          Quincy must have been the cutoff line. Plenty here, almost as much as Boston.

          Boston 5.2”, Quincy 4.0”

          1. Hey Philip, did you see my message to you regarding the typo with your name . I’ll get to see how the snow is up that way as I’m picking up Chinese food in East Milton Square this afternoon.

          2. JP had More. Hadi measured 7.2 and I concur. That is a GOOD number for JP. 🙂
            We really got the MOST our of that event. 🙂

            1. Figures that when I leave Boston, it starts “snowing” again, lol. Still looking at nice white landscape here though. 🙂

    2. Good for you. NOT so much here. Seriously, it was a bit of a let down, but then I am NEVER SATISFIED. 🙂 🙂 🙂

      1. Realistically even a half inch would have been a stretch JPD. The forecast was as I expected AFAIC. ❄️ 🙂

  25. Now we’ll be in the DOLDRUMS (or at least NOSNOWDRUMS)
    until on or about 1/5 give or take. I hate these SLOW periods,. but alas, all part of Winter. It doesn’t and it can’t SNOW every day!!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

    THINK SNOW! LET IT SNOW!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Fast forward to 1/5 please.

    1. Nothing is guaranteed. W e’ll have to wait and see.

      I am looking for a biggie, the likes of which we haven’t seen in some time. A 2 footer or more. LOVE those. In my lifetime,
      there have only been a handful of those.

      In 2 Winters I can remember, I witnessed 2 of them.

      one was the Winter of 1968-1969 where I lived in Millis there
      were 2 of them. Both in February. (Boston did not make 2 feet with the 1st of these as I think they recorded 16 inches or so, but where I was it was 2 feet or more. I know I shoveled it!!!)

      The other was much more recent, Winter of 2014-2015

      There were other 2 footers across the years, but I “think” these were the only ones that happened in the same Winter. Possible I missed a Winter? I don’t know.

  29. NY recorded 1 inch from this system. Did BOS record any snow?
    If I am wrong with the current standings please let me know
    BOS 5.5
    NY 2.8

  30. FACTOID

    The color of snow is not scientifically white. It is translucent. The snow crystals reflect the full spectrum of colors and our eyes, which cannot pick up the full spectrum, see it as white. Snow crystals … I think … do a better job of absorbing red colors than blue colors.

    I believe there have been instances of brown and orange snow in different parts of the world. I can’t remember everything I read about this whole subject.

    Anyway, I doubt we will ever hear someone say “I hope it’s a translucent Christmas.”

  32. We also got a dusting here earlier on. Unhappily, it came just as I was navigating a grocery store parking lot, and the reduced visibility didn’t help!

  33. To TK:

    Written by AI (I don’t like it all that much. I think Brian’s band can do a whole lot better! And make it funny!!)

    (Verse 1)
    The snow is falling, crystal clear,
    Not white like they say, but it’s bright this year.
    Through every flake, the light will shine,
    A prism of wonder, a gift divine.

    (Chorus)
    It’s a translucent Christmas, soft and true,
    The world aglow in a shimmering hue.
    Through the glassy snow, the stars align,
    Reflecting the magic of this heart of mine.

    (Verse 2)
    The icicles glisten, the frost takes flight,
    A dance of shadows and refracted light.
    Every snowflake whispers, “We’re all unique,”
    A silent reminder, soft and sleek.

    (Chorus)
    It’s a translucent Christmas, soft and true,
    The world aglow in a shimmering hue.
    Through the glassy snow, the stars align,
    Reflecting the magic of this heart of mine.

    ETC

  37. Will look at model runs later. So far NOT impressed. Just shows a whole lot of CRAP and more CRAP….

    Yes, I know these are the operational runs. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  38. Thanks Vicki for the Santa Tracker post. Santa is now in Krakow and is close t0 delivering 4 billion packages.

    1. I always track Santa off and on, even tho my kidlets are now well into being adultlets. 😉 On this night, we’re all kids again. 🙂

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