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Everything posted by ORH_wxman
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Yep. And this thump is at night time so I’m not worried about insolation eating away at accumulations. That really wouldn’t matter anyway in heavy rates…but it might in something just a little more marginal like 3/4 to 1/2 mile vis type snow. If the thump ends up being most 1 mile vis light snow, then it wasn’t worth getting stressed out about anyway. You cost yourself like an inch of snow. The faux sfc layer isn’t going to be the difference between 6” and 2” tonight.
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Wetbulb temp is like 31F at ORH and that’s with asos running a bit warm. I typically look at it this way….if there is going to be precip/snow worth really getting excited about, it’s going to wipe out that faux near-ground warm layer pretty quickly. If it can’t wipe it out, you weren’t missing much to begin with. Maybe you get 1-2” of glop instead of 3” of baking soda over 5 hours. But we were going to rip 6” in 5 hours, it’s mostly gonna happen even with the warmer sfc to start. You maybe lose a fraction on the front end, but otherwise dumping 0.15-0.20 per hour in the bucket is gonna wipe out the BL very quickly.
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Child’s play. We had one a few days ago that had like 70 inches over NE Ma. Lol
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Normally I’d like seeing things collapsing SE near the islands but the problem is the midlevel centers get initially too far north so we can’t really crush +SN for 6 hours like we normally might. We’re getting hammered by an easterly 850 flow while we’re dryslotted aloft…maybe midlevels collapse faster as we get closer….but we’d need it to really take advantage. Still thinking 3-4” of crud here mostly from the thump.
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The pattern is reminiscent of some Marches that produced huge storms (1958, 1960, 2001, etc). But it doesn’t mean we’ll cash in the same way obviously. We’ve had exceptional March blocking produce nothing too.
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Classic SWFE with the DGZ way up high. If only we actually had some nice low level arctic air then the baking powder would accumulate way easier. This year has been putrid for lowest levels. Even in events where 925 is like -5 or -6, I’ve had several times where it translates to 33F here when probably at least half the time or even more we’d be inverted and even colder at the sfc…not this season though.