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17-12-2015, 09:34
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
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17-12-2015, 09:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Port Ludlow Wa
Boat: Makela,Ingrid38,Idora
Posts: 2,049
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
There are three words that give us our cue regarding snow in the low lands of the PNW. "Frazier River Canyon" If a high can slide north of a low to the south and into north central BC. We can get a flow out the canyon that runs under the moist air of the low and voila! a couple feet of snow. So far this year, el nino and the blob have forced systems out of the gulf of AK north of Van Isle. Alas no snow is likely. 
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17-12-2015, 10:02
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Boat: Island Packet 35
Posts: 207
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
long range forecast calling for 2 deg on the positive side of zero here on the most Easternly tip of north america, The Rock!!
5 cm on the ground now but hoping for the warm southerly winds to keep the snow in the form of liquid this winter, usually not.
May even get out to the boat for some maintenance over the season, last year there was several feet of snow to contend with.
I really envy everyone who will have their hook set in that tropical sand over the holidays: 
Anyone wanting any snow for xmas, there is medication for that!!! LOL
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17-12-2015, 11:46
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: puget sound washington
Boat: 1968 Islander bahama 24 hull 182, 1963 columbia 29 defender. hull # 60
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
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Originally Posted by IdoraKeeper
There are three words that give us our cue regarding snow in the low lands of the PNW. "Frazier River Canyon" If a high can slide north of a low to the south and into north central BC. We can get a flow out the canyon that runs under the moist air of the low and voila! a couple feet of snow. So far this year, el nino and the blob have forced systems out of the gulf of AK north of Van Isle. Alas no snow is likely. |
But great snow in mountains 80 inches at mt baker and whiteoit conditions on snoqualmie pass today at just over 3k ft.
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19-12-2015, 19:26
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Florida
Boat: Macgreggor Venture 22
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
Mine will be warm and sunny! Love a Florida Christmas! Lol
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19-12-2015, 21:13
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Naples, FL
Boat: Gemini 105M 34
Posts: 318
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
4" of snow, 1" of ice, 18 degrees...
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19-12-2015, 22:08
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Between Caribbean and Canada
Boat: Murray 33-Chouette & Pape Steelmaid-44-Safara-both steel cutters
Posts: 8,876
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
It's the Rosby Waves, AKA Jet Stream, getting destabilized. A couple of years ago we had a lot of record higs in the spring. Same pattern as now. Last year the trough got stuck off the East Coast, causing that bitter winter. We were down to 1°F at the boat and weeks well below freezing. This year it will be 72 on Christmas Eve and 59 on Christmas Day.
Wilmington, DE area, just South of Philadelphia.
Last year there were many days when we were below or just above Bonavista, NL, where we have a cabin and family.
Earth Wind can show the Jet Stream and how destabilized it has become.
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
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20-12-2015, 00:40
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
Posts: 21,521
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
If our Christmas is white and snowy, my navigation is way worse than I thought. Ann will fire me, and I would contemplate ending it all...
but then, there WAS snow on Mt Wellington in Hobart just a few days ago!
For those that like it... good luck. As for me, snow is something for other folks to shovel!
Ann and I hope that all good CFers have a good holiday season wherever their anchors are set.
Jim (now in East Boyd Bay awaiting tonight's southerly change)
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20-12-2015, 06:46
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Home port Kemah, TX Currently in Brunswick Georgia
Boat: Hunter 36
Posts: 1,524
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
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Originally Posted by Jim Cate
If our Christmas is white and snowy, my navigation is way worse than I thought. Ann will fire me, and I would contemplate ending it all...
but then, there WAS snow on Mt Wellington in Hobart just a few days ago!
For those that like it... good luck. As for me, snow is something for other folks to shovel!
Ann and I hope that all good CFers have a good holiday season wherever their anchors are set.
Jim (now in East Boyd Bay awaiting tonight's southerly change) |
Merry Christmas Jim and Ann! No snow for us in the Florida Keys....Loving the 80* temps here.
Ralph
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20-12-2015, 07:00
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lived aboard & cruised for 45 years,- now on a chair in my walk-in closet.
Boat: Morgan OI 413 1973 - Aythya
Posts: 8,497
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
I had snow on my deck in 1971,- that won't happen again!
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20-12-2015, 07:02
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,307
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
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Originally Posted by Hudson Force
I had snow on my deck in 1971,- that won't happen again! |
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20-12-2015, 07:06
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
The last forecast I checked for New England was cold, wet and rainy, no snow. 
Wouldn't mind a white Christmas as long as it doesn't come until we get to Massachusetts and don't get stuck in an airport somewhere.
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Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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20-12-2015, 08:47
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2015
Location: edmonton alberta
Boat: 1992 lagoon 42 tpi
Posts: 1,738
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
Chances are good!
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20-12-2015, 09:23
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: Will your Christmas be white and snowy
not a chance in hell in my neighborhood--is why i relocated to tropical waters. no freeking snow. thank the gods, and my intelligence and sensibilities.
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