December 10, 2024 Tuesday Weather Update
Powerful storm system across Great Lakes and Northeast
December 2024 was the 4th-warmest December in the 131-year national record (1895–2025), at 38.1°F against a 1991–2020 normal of 34.3°F (+3.8°F).
December 2024 was the 64th-driest December in the 131-year national record (1895–2025), at 2.4in against a 1991–2020 normal of 2.5in (-0.1in).
NOAA/NCEI Climate at a Glance, contiguous United States. This is the observed record for the month, not a score of anything said in this piece — the forecast ledger begins 2026-08-17 and cannot reach earlier posts.
Tuesday Headlines
A frontal system is slowly developing across the eastern Great Lakes into the Northeast with boatloads of moisture in the warm sector. Later on Wednesday, the low pressure intensified and damaging wind gusts likely along Arctic front. Cooler temperature blast in behind the storm with yet more Lake Effect snow for the Great Lakes. Rainfall totals could be 2-3”+ across New England, and well over a foot of snow in Michigan by end of Wednesday.
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