December 2025 started out cold and snowy. My neighbor Rob and I each got out our electric snow blowers to have some fun moving the day’s accumulation.
I had hoped we would get amounts as in the preceding decades, and just maybe we would have a white Christmas this year. But no! We have something called GLOBAL WARMING. So, I shouldn’t expect too much.
And, sure enough, just before the holidays, along came a rainstorm with temps in the 50s and there went most of the snow. This after such a promising winter start to the month with all but one day below average. The skiers loved it.
Checking the month’s first half figures, it would have been the second coldest this century (after 2000) had it continued. But overall, the month finished the 6th coldest with most of the days below average and we did get some more snow blowing in. Christmas night into boxing day, another 6 inches fell. The total for the month was 16 inches, and melted snow plus the rain brought the total water content to about three and a-half inches, which made it the 11th wettest this century.
NOAA and the state hydrologists in Boston and Albany are mainly concerned about water content. That is why weather observers like me melt snow and ice. The total water content of snow and ice and rain for 2025 was the lowest in 10 years. We average about 49 inches a year. This year we accumulated 42 inches. Only the drought year of 2016 had less.
As I write this letter, a snow squall has blown through Great Barrington blowing in another inch plus of snow on 20 mph winds.
I must admit I love it. However, those seed catalogs make me think of greener times ahead.
Have a great month
P.S. BIG THANKS TO THE A.R.M. OF ANDERSON STREET. YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST.
December 2025 daily weather statistics
