8 at Walpack.  Was 16 when i left at 6.  Pretty sure it was still dropping though.

EDIT: Now down to 6 at Walpack

14.9 here this am. Still windy. had a gust to 17 overnite. Would of been colder if it had stoped.

Did I miss something or is this cold shot colder than what was inticipated. I do not recall any reports on the news of the coldest air of the season to hit the upper mid west and northeast. Last night on local channels some mentioned coldest air to come in but it seems like it just was not well advertised. Temperatures are near zero in some locations from here to Minnesota. Some areas of Minnesota hit 20 below last night before the clouds moved in. I know the forecast was for cold but this may be record cold in many locations. After all it is still the beginning of December.

20 F here.

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Coldest low of the season up here as well

Low of 0.5 here
11 back at home

Last night, Stormchaser mentioned that there's a strong possibility that the models are incorrectly downplaying the cold.  On today's extended forecast on Metro, all 50 degree temps have been taken off the board; even the upper 40's are gone.

What Storm was referring to was the fact that almost all of Canada was very cold, in fact brutally cold in many areas. Snowcover there is very widespread and pretty deep and that's abetting the cold. So his thoughts were the models could underestimate the weightiness of that cold thereby not showing it progged far enough south. It has happened often in the past when cold air was very dominating but the jetstream was zonal. The cold air doesn't dive in the way it does in typical arctic fashion. It sought of sinks in the way a balloon expands further than you think it can. In short term paterns like the one that is setting up next week the boundary zone in temp profiles can become very far apart over short distances on either side of the boundary. For example Boston could be 20 with snow while NY is 45 with rain or NY can be 25-30 with snow or sleet while DC pushes 50 with rain. It's hard to say exactly where those boundaries set up but typically they are between Philly and Boston. This morning models show us on the warm side with temps that can push 50 a few days. But I would hardly trust that.

Beyond that the GFS makes the cold air win in a more traditional way and gives us several exciting major snowstorm possibilities. Let's hope it holds on for several runs before trusting it and the storms that are possible in it. Keep in mind the GFS looked hopeless 48 hours ago. I'd love to see the GFS verify, not just because I love snow but I'd love to see JB explain how winter didn't end when he said it would.   

the low here was 15.

low of 15 here in harriman

20 here