![]() December likely will find most of the country warmer-than-normal, although what’s true for the country doesn’t always hold true for New England. The latter half of November has shown an increasing amount of cold air in Alaska, and this cold has shown a tendency of dropping into Quebec – a pattern doesn’t look to stop. The big driver in this weather pattern has been a recurring, strong, stalled upper level storm (a jet stream trough) over the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea in Northern Europe. On a bigger picture, most of the United States has been warmer than normal for several months and we don’t expect that to change. 1, and our meteorologists have plenty of thoughts on the season ahead.įirst, some perspective: after three months of warmer than normal temperatures in the Boston area, November’s average temperature came in precisely at normal – 44.7 degrees. Precipitation was below normal by a wide margin, with only 1.34 inches, compared to the normal value of 3.66 inches, with no observed snow falling, which is shy of the normal of 0.7 inches in Boston. 21, at 10:59 a.m., but meteorological winter starts on Dec. The calendar may not show astronomical winter until the Winter Solstice on Tuesday, Dec. The first day of December, however, finds us not only at the start of a new month but also the beginning of a new season. ![]() The first weekday of each month, our viewers and readers know to count on our WeatheRate Certified Most Accurate in Boston First Alert Weather Team for a look at the month ahead. ![]()
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