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  1. Ah, I was wondering what the term for this was. I remember Anthony Masiello on twitter talking about this during the Jan 2018 storm.
  2. Loving the midlevel jack from CON through ALB and NE PA and the coastal plain jack from the cf
  3. Subtle positive changes in the ridge out west these past 5 or 6 runs on the GFS, corresponds to slightly deeper trough and the s/w digging further south it seems
  4. look at all the crap subsidence zones. very splotchy map
  5. That was an epic storm, what I would give for this one to go down like that...
  6. Comforting to be in between CAMs and globals at this point.
  7. I always hear of WAA. Is that referring to the temperature inversion I see on the skew-Ts at like 900-700 mb?
  8. WPC early morning disco: ...Appalachians/Mid-Atlantic to New York and Southern New England... Major winter storm on tap for portions of the central Appalachians, the Piedmont area of the Mid-Atlantic and much of central/southeast NY and southern New England as a nor'easter develops and lifts up along the East Coast Wednesday into Thursday. The wave that crosses the southern Plains today will eject through the Mid-South tonight as a reinforcing trough brings on a negative tilt as it turns east-northeast across the southern Appalachians on Wednesday. This will promote cyclogenesis along the Carolina Coast with low pressure then lifting north and strengthening along the Mid-Atlantic coast Wednesday evening before shifting east-northeast offshore and south of Long Island. Meanwhile, a cold, 1038mb high will be focused over Quebec and will be nosing south down across the interior of the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic with a rather classic cold air-damming event expected to be in place as the low center moves up east of the surface ridge and along the coast. As strong warm-air advection/isentropic ascent occurs ahead of the upstream trough along with increasingly moist Atlantic inflow over the cold air, a large swath of moderate to heavy snow is expected to develop for portions of the central Appalachians and the adjacent Piedmont areas of WV/VA/MD and PA on Wednesday with the focus west of the I-95 urban corridor, and generally west of Washington D.C. and Baltimore and just north or over Philadelphia. By Wednesday night and early Thursday the focus of heavy snow will overspread areas of southeast NY and southern New England including the New York City and Boston metropolitan areas. There has been a bit of a northerly shift in 00Z model guidance earlier on Wednesday before shifting east offshore as before. Still expect a rather strong comma-head/deformation zone impacting especially areas of central/eastern PA, southeast NY, northern NJ and southeast New England on Thursday as the low center further deepens and then begins to edge east-northeast and farther offshore. Meanwhile, down across areas of northwest SC, western NC, southwest VA, and southern and central WV, the cold air will be much more shallow by comparison with freezing rain and locally some sleet as the event ensues on Wednesday. The thermal profile supports sleet spreading up near or just west of I-95 as well from Washington D.C. to Philadelphia and toward NYC. But the threat of ice north of Philadelphia is notably lower. WPC QPF for this event is a multi-model blend weighting heavier with the 00Z ECMWF, and lesser weighting to the 00Z NAM/GFS. Overall this essentially shifts the heavy QPF focus farther west over the northern Mid-Atlantic compared to the previous forecast. Thermally, a blend of the 00Z ECMWF (which is rather warm now in the central Mid-Atlantic), 00Z GFS, and 00Z 3kmNAM was preferred. Based on this combination of moisture and thermals, the possibility for maximum storm total snowfall in the 18 to 24 inch range is from the eastern WV Panhandle, western MD and south-central to east-central PA and closer to a foot for far southeast NY and southern New England. Where freezing rain occurs, the greatest ice accretions are expected over northwest NC up through southwest to central VA and from southern into central WV where Day 1.5 ice probabilities are 30 to 40 percent for a quarter inch of ice.
  9. the only true weenies are the ones who need sleep meds while tracking.... my innoculation of choice is NyQuil
  10. Maybe, I was pretty young. It was my first real hellacious widespread 2ft miller B. 'Twas epic.
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