For eastern areas, the much bigger event is Friday night/Saturday morning, but probably going to be a precip “hole” in Central NE.
Some, near the Connecticut river will be on the margin of both systems, and won’t get much precip at all…
This storm was the great opportunity missed because of late Nov climate and antecedent warmth.
This was the storm.
This isn’t your table setter or pattern changer; it’s the one to cash in on. And we missed it.
@bluewave You really don't see the regional off-shoots (Western/Eastern Maine coastal current) of the labrador current in the current SST profile. It seems like there's the Nova Scotia current, but relatively warm, and mostly confined to Cape Breton Island area....Not seeing it extend much into the GOM at all...
I've been tracking this mostly in our backyard for how the Labrador current is responding.
Does anyone have good historical data for SST's around NS, Cape Breton island and Downeast Maine? I'm still seeing SST's 49-50F in this area, which seems exceedingly warm...
What's most odd to me is you don't see any clear temperature footprint of the labrador current as SST's much further south off the coast of NH and MA are in the low 50's...Usually you see a steep drop off in SST's around mid coast ME...
We are tracking to have least amount of pack on the ground by December 1st in our overall region; combining Ontario, NB and the northeast US.
I know it’s mostly due to dry conditions, in the colder locations in Northern Maine and Canada…but it’s something important to note as we head into met winter.
I guess the point here is, you really narrow the potential for BN if with -AO and - - NAO --as is now-- and we still generally ++ AN.
What's the recipe to land the seacoast of NH into BN territory with some consistency? It's a rhetorical question...
The best mid level height falls are already progged over the mid Atlantic.
The -NAO will be significant enough to send the whole anomaly south of NNE. So it wouldn't surprise me to see the interesting wintry weather more over elevations of PA, West Virginia and NJ, while near normal mid level heights are over northern NNE.
The landmass there is least wide, and also flat wetlands. SST's are also quite warm. This combination won't allow for much --if any--- weakening before affecting the densely populated areas of Miami dade county.
It's one run, but I'd caution against this as an optimistic scenario, especially if it comes in stronger at that angle.
Not for nothing the MJO just had a solid pass through phase 8, if we're not scoring some near normal temps, given that backdrop....we are absolutely cooked.
Upcoming pattern looks AN and dry. Not bigly AN, as seen in recent weeks but +5ish...
The pacific is skunked and the -NAO that develops looks to be significant to the point that the pressure tendency in the northeast US is the Canadian surface highs hooking up with the western Atlantic ridge.
UL confluence but cold airmasses no where near our region.
Clearly see that the obs were with a freeze in the seacoast region but the neighborhood flowers that remain seem unaffected. My rose bush in full sun area is still flowering…Will see if it still looks the same by this time tomorrow.
Why would we take measurements here—in the sub tropics???
I think what they found is what we should have expected; but it doesn’t explain anything. The theory is the current/circulation is slowing (with time) from north to south, NOT south to north….
A similar study should have been performed much further north/east, closer to the Azores—upstream of the cold pool.
Overall a very average feel to the air and look to the sky. But with the sun breaking, we will have another AN day incoming. +2. “Behind the front” in the sea coast area.