paulythegun

Really stinks for Virginia ski resorts if they can't get a nice clean snow to drizzle event. Seems reasonable. Not your focus, but the euro (and to a lesser extent, GFS) had some interaction with that trailing low that provided some hope for NYC/Boston.

ok this is just funny now.

CLASSIC surface level setup for an HECS on NAM. Got your three low pressure systems (triangle defense) chasing two weak highs off the continent

you beat me to this. whenever someone complains about a long range map, gotta up the ante with some CFS

Model trend momentum is accelerating toward some extreme snowmap colors Models were accelerating in another direction earlier today. But - as we all learned in meteorology class - model trend momentum is moving toward snow now.

So because I’m a hobbyist, my friends sometimes ask me about the outlook for snow, as they did tonight. I rely on the long range threads here to some extent to get a feel. Plus common sense, reading trusted voices on twitter, and my own access to ensembles. Tonight, when posed with the question about our snow chances, I told a story. I told them about how there’s this weather forum where people discuss the long range forecasts for signs of potential snowstorms. And i told them that for the last few years, they had to create a separate thread called “The Panic Room” where people who loved snow could go to have a meltdown without disrupting the discussion. They got a kick out of that.

Anybody know the history of this kind of west meandering cut-off low in late December? Feels extremely rare, but I don’t really know. I suppose we’ve had tons of big low pressure systems delivering warm temps in dc and blizzards in the Midwest around Christmas time. Remember Santabomb? But I can’t remember a cutoff low that drifted.

PANIC https://x.com/hotwxexpert/status/1740134509008281952

Days 15-20 looking like the best window for a pattern change that leads to snow.

Don’t worry folks. An SSW is on the way (maybe?) to disrupt the PV (maybe?), provoking sustained, upper latitude blocking (maybe?) in a location that leads to an arctic outbreak in North America (maybe?)

Thanks, I was wondering about that. 1996 keeps popping as #1.

90th percentile snow analog for funsies

A SSW will produce a cold air outbreak somewhere in the northern hemisphere. That’s our best shot for a late February pattern change that leads to anomalously cold coastal rain storms in March

We’re definitely not there yet (to the point of hopelessness) you’re totally right. We have recent data to confirm that. Tons of snow the last couple decades. It was always going to be a slow bleed. But at the same time: it’s objectively warmer, and that warmth is concentrated in the northern hemisphere, during winter. Bad! Haha.

Lava limits snow ratios. Don’t count on 10 to 1. We need the magnum rock to solidify and cool if it’s going to support accumulations.

warmbad2.mp4

Dec. 17 folks

If a model has 15 members out of 50 with a coastal storm with a nice track 300 hours out and 35 members with random stuff (like cutters), then the MEAN temperature is going to be worse than useless. It's going to be misleading! even if the temps were colder, it wouldn't mean much of anything because that could just relate to the timing of the cutter and associated cold front passage. think about 50 separate storms and how they average out on an ensemble map. it's like if someone said, "Well, the ensemble only has a 1000mb mean low pressure reading off the coast 300 hours out, that's not a very strong coastal storm, it's saying it's going to be a weak storm." No it's not! that's the average across a spatial domain!

#NEverForget the victims of El Nino: sailors boiled alive in the east pacific

yeah looks potent on 500mb. upslope snow in the blue ridge, maybe some inverted trough snow inland in new england when the surface low actually develops (too late for us).

Benny Hill Music (6z gfs, hours 132-270)

The latest euro weeklies suggest that January will either look like the euro weeklies or that their 0.001% added value will not prove useful beyond random dart throwing and climo

DC's snow drought started when the trump sons came to town and continued when hunter biden showed up. Is it possible that DC's snow is just being snorted away by presidential failsons?