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January 25-26 Flurries Part II


Mr Torchey

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Well, luck was not on our side during this cold outbreak, wish we had some blocking around and things might have been different, nws says less than an inch down here now, I am just hoping to see a period of light snow that lasts more than a few minutes. It will be a real shame to come away from this stretch with absolutely nothing but the same crappy brown landscape that we had entering it.

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Well, luck was not on our side during this cold outbreak, wish we had some blocking around and things might have been different, nws says less than an inch down here now, I am just hoping to see a period of light snow that lasts more than a few minutes. It will be a real shame to come away from this stretch with absolutely nothing but the same crappy brown landscape that we had entering it.

Yeah if it's going to be cold at least put some snow on the ground. No more than 3" though b/c I'm not a snow junkie. We were never really progged to get much anyways. Couple weenie runs made people interested but most runs have put us in the back row to get any snow.

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Yeah if it's going to be cold at least put some snow on the ground. No more than 3" though b/c I'm not a snow junkie. We were never really progged to get much anyways. Couple weenie runs made people interested but most runs have put us in the back row to get any snow.

What good is less than 3"? It just blows and sublimates away. Obviously any snow is good snow, especially over the past 2 years, but the more the better. Learn to love it.

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Purely for commiseration's sake:

 

This hardly counts as a "snow pack" out there along R2 in Mass.  There are bare regions, and what is white is this popcorn, granular stuff with a mix of powdered sugar on top.  Mostly, it's just cold, dry, barren, boring, eventless ennui.

 
The pattern is pulling off the abject.  We've been dusted by so many chances, and even transpire through a week of arctic chill, only to have the entire mass field flip around to mid April by this time next week, then ... 2 days later, slips back into the arctic chill, and we don't see more than .2" in QPF during that entire 10 days of b-banging.  
 
The shear odds of that much INactivity, particularly for that much mass transitioning, is nothing shy of astounding to overcome - yet, this seems so utterly easy right now.  
 
Ah well - that's why you can't care about the weather.  You can be interested in it, but don't let yourself care, because the weather is a horrifyingly abusive spouse, period! 
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What good is less than 3"? It just blows and sublimates away. Obviously any snow is good snow, especially over the past 2 years, but the more the better. Learn to love it.

Yeah well I don't mind one or two big snowstorms but I really just hate the cold and I get tired of the snow fast. I'm looking forward to this torch at the end of the month preceding a monster low barreling through northern Great Lakes/Ontario/Quebec. End of the month is looking messy according to the Euro. 

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I guess we can use this thread to continue a "discussion" on this itsy bitsy event.

 

I think it's a generally inch or less for most areas. Interior Mass. may see little to no snow. Could see isolated 2" reports, mainly along and SE of BDR-GON-PVD-TAN. MAYBE 3" on the Outer Cape and Islands is my guess, but even that may be a stretch.

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One of the problems is for whatever reason we yet again have a s/w complex versus strong s/w's.   Look above ND, three or maybe 4 visible circulations spinning in a general mass.   They stay that way as they dive east.   My thought is it's the progressive, fast flow preventing the consolidation of these systems as they move across the Pacific into Canada.  There's really nothing to slow them down anywhere SW of NS so they fly along disjointed until they're forced to come together offshore, too late for us.  Lack of a traditional -NAO is really hurting for storminess in this pattern.

 

I feel a coating to an inch or two is still quite possible Boston to Hartford but obviously areas to the SE have the best probability.  The Euro was close enough to a better hit to keep an eye on it.  It was actually a touch stronger than the earlier run and we have the extension of QPF to the north and later NW that we'll have to watch.

 

In short I'm a little encouraged in the 12z non NCEP guidance.  Just a little.

 

If you go back and look at the system that gave Phil 3.7" a week or so ago there are some similarities in the northern stream.  We're waiting on a late s/w to attempt to pull the redevelopment closer which fails in all cases.  At 48 it's diving through the Lakes, who knows it's coming out of northern Canada at a terrific pace, maybe we can get lucky and some areas pull off a better snow.  There's nowhere near the moisture source that we had last time with the bowling ball s/w in the south, but it is what it is.  Timing could also change for the worse and we end up with a total whiff.

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