Brisket stall question

[jokensmoken]

Whats the lowest temp you've had a brisket go into a stall? Mine CC temp is holding a steady 245° ish and my brisket seems to have stalled at 251 IT. It been there for well over 90 minutes. I've cooked dozens of briskets but this is the lowest stall temp.ive ever hit and is new to me and I'm curious.
On a side note, it's quite rainy this morning here. No real storms but a fairly steady drizzle, could that higher humidity be changing things up?

 

[kilo charlie]

Whats the lowest temp you've had a brisket go into a stall? Mine CC temp is holding a steady 245° ish and my brisket seems to have stalled at 251 IT. It been there for well over 90 minutes. I've cooked dozens of briskets but this is the lowest stall temp.ive ever hit and is new to me and I'm curious.
On a side note, it's quite rainy this morning here. No real storms but a fairly steady drizzle, could that higher humidity be changing things up?

I'm wondering if you have a typo in there.. you've said that the brisket stalled at an IT of 251 degrees??

 

[Chasdev]

I've had a few that went off the rails too.
The stall is where the amount of moisture exiting the meat (and causing evaporation cooling) equals the amount of heat surrounding the meat.
Ambient humidity and/or the amount of moisture in the meat and inside the cooker, from a water pan for instance, delays the internal temp rise until the evap rate/internal moisture lowers enough for the heat to start to rie again.

 

[SmokinAl]

It has happened to me too, that is why I smoke them at 270-280. At that temp you virtually eliminate the stall.
Al

 

[SmokyMose]

I cook at 260 plus and if I get any stall to speak of it happens around 170.
At those cooking temps 151 for a stall doesn't sound all that kooky...

 

[tallbm]

Whats the lowest temp you've had a brisket go into a stall? Mine CC temp is holding a steady 245° ish and my brisket seems to have stalled at 251 IT. It been there for well over 90 minutes. I've cooked dozens of briskets but this is the lowest stall temp.ive ever hit and is new to me and I'm curious.
On a side note, it's quite rainy this morning here. No real storms but a fairly steady drizzle, could that higher humidity be changing things up?

It is very difficult to accurately place the temperature probe in a brisket. I have used multiple probes aiming for the same spot from different directions and had over a 10-12F degree reading.
My guess is that you might have hit the perfect spot this time but maybe not so much in the past.

Here is a picture of 5 different probes in a brisket showing what I mean: