December 2025 Forecasts and Discussions

[wetcoast91]

Seriously? Do you have some maps to go with that?

I like looking at the WRF models for our region. The NAM was showing a similar track with a compact preasure field.

[Bonovox]

You still have access to WB snowmaps? Vancouver Island snowstorm is back in play!

Yeah, no kidding. So close, but yet so far.

[wetcoast91]

Yeah, no kidding. So close, but yet so far.

White Christmas for Monty and Michael1.

Still 24 hours to see this play out. A wobble eastward with a weaker low would be just enough to bring the snow to the LM.

[Bonovox]

I like looking at the WRF models for our region. The NAM was showing a similar track with a compact preasure field.

It is a scenario where I would hate to be a forecaster. NAM is pure trouble for the region, yet the EURO and HRDPS say don't worry. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, as far as warnings are concerned.

[Bonovox]

White Christmas for Monty and Michael1.

Still 24 hours to see this play out. A wobble eastward with a weaker low would be just enough to bring the snow to the LM.

[Michael1]

White Christmas for Monty and Michael1.

Still 24 hours to see this play out. A wobble eastward with a weaker low would be just enough to bring the snow to the LM.

We'll see. It'd be great, but... seems to good to be true lol

[Canada Goose]

Siberia has just overtaken the Yukon with -58.8°C.

Meanwhile, in Vancouver...

[wetcoast91]

Siberia has just overtaken the Yukon with -58.8°C.

Meanwhile, in Vancouver...

All that bitter cold is going to the Eastern CONUS. Seems like we always see prolonged West Coast ridging every January.

[Canada Goose]

Seems like we always see prolonged West Coast ridging every January.

Great... if it verifies.

Otherwise, Vancouver could have its first frost-free December, and there is a good chance that it will be the warmest December ever recorded.

[Heavy 254]

NAM and GFS are look pretty bad. SW Metro Vancouver could see sustained 50-70km/hr winds but gusts could reach 120km/hr. I feel that might be conservative though.

I think the Euro/GEM are wrong in showing this fizzle out.

When Nito?

[Granddaddyp2233]

Batten down the hatches Granddaddy2233.

No snow forecasted just boring winds. Would be nice to be in Montreal right now. Even the Habs look good this year

[AbbyJr]

It is a scenario where I would hate to be a forecaster. NAM is pure trouble for the region, yet the EURO and HRDPS say don't worry. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, as far as warnings are concerned.

I’d be inclined to side with the Euro and HRDPS but it’s going to be a very tough forecast. Strange to see such major model differences at this range. But windstorms are very hard to predict here.

[Typeing3]

-55.7°C Braeburn, Yukon

LOWEST TEMPERATURE RECORDED IN CANADA IN DECEMBER SINCE 1975 [-56.7°C]
ALL-TIME RECORD FOR THE STATION

-52.5°C Faro
-52.2°C Nursery & Rabbit Kettle, NT
-51.8°C Carmacks
-50.5°C Pelly Ranch
-50.2°C Beaver Creek

Incredible cold in Yukon this month. Seems like this will be a top 5 coldest December on record for many locations up there. Even the far north in BC has gotten in on it... Fort Nelson and Dease Lake for example.

Further south in Fort St. John and the southern Peace Region, it's one of their snowiest months on record already IIRC.

One would think the dam will break at some point, but there are instances of past winters that have been brutally cold up there and failed to deliver here.

[Glacier]

Incredible cold in Yukon this month. Seems like this will be a top 5 coldest December on record for many locations up there. Even the far north in BC has gotten in on it... Fort Nelson and Dease Lake for example.

Further south in Fort St. John and the southern Peace Region, it's one of their snowiest months on record already IIRC.

One would think the dam will break at some point, but there are instances of past winters that have been brutally cold up there and failed to deliver here.

Currently the 6th coldest at Dawson. 11th coldest at Old Crow.

Anyone in the top 5 doesn't have records as long as Dawson.

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[tyweather]

Record warmth in the US and arctic