I’d be pretty surprised if that happens at this point, but kinda moot anyway, bc as you said we have the close proximity of the front to our west right now. May make a difference in sensible weather for only an hr or two, at worst.
Seems like teleconnections are broadly shifting from terrible to mediocre. Have to strongly favor in and up until we get closer to the 20th and reassess...
Jeans and t-shirt weather. Vis Satellite shows sun breaking out for most over the next hour; most will be up into the 50’s when that occurs.
short term guidance continues to warm. PSM making a run for 60 today.
That would smash records. PSM on south has very little to no snow cover already. That area is primed to maximize that window. Timing wrt fropa is good as well.
Yea. I think this is one of those cases where the tuck really underperforms vs climo. We warm up to near 60 before the wedge makes its strongest push Sunday am. If we had cold at onset of developing wedge, I’d be a much bigger believer on being on the wrong side of the gradient for the duration. I’m thinking the 32F isotherm ends up from Portland to Lake Winne, and has staying power there. Maybe we hit 40ish Sunday morning but warm back up to mid 50’s as surface hp booted East and before fropa.
Sell the big wedge on the GFS. GFS did something similar last “tuck event” (Jan 4/5), while mesos never bought in. Similar story to last big ice event that struggled hugely to get 32F isotherm south of ORH. And this setup is a lot warmer still...Fade climo with ++AO, much less southward movement of cold; eastward trajectory predominates.
Selling that up to Lake Winne. Going against climo here but that -PNA with shortwave near the Gulf of Mexico is going to do some serious mid level ridge pumping over our heads...
With ++ AO/ +NAO, I’d sell that idea south of Bangor ME. Maybe you can hedge down to Portland, but I certainly wouldn’t include much else. The cold has much more of an eastward than southward trajectory with these conditions.
There is no tuck with this...weak frontal wave, no Quebec surface HP. The surface CF will be arriving from the northwest...
It’s a bonafied torch setup.
Okay didn’t realize that. But in the case of SNE, still looks quite unfavorable through the 20th —keep the shades closed but start peeking....Thinking trend is from crap pacific towards zonal flow pattern (first).
This looks just like the GEFS suite...Not sure what he’s talking about here, especially wrt the monster -PNA...
I’d feel pretty good about this if we could manage even a very modest -NAO. For now this still looks bad for most...
Seeing this less as a redeveloper and more of a continuous SLP that slides east from upstate NY to PSM, deepening gradually along the way...don’t see how this avoids gaining too much latitude for most of SNE. The WAR looks very problematic.