This type of airmass is hard to dislodge in February especially. You’ve had decent cryospheric build-up all winter and now you are gonna try to run this low into Canada…not gonna happen that easily. The little messenger tickles in the secondary reflection weren’t too surprising.
You can tell he was just waiting for one of those winters where nothing melts there with tons of upslope while we’re for long stretches…and then when it does precipitate for us, it’s ptype issues everywhere.
Don’t see it. A few flakes maybe for N ORH County down to NW CT…upslope spots in Berkshires could pick up a bit of accumulation. But really nothing east of those areas. I guess a few flurries later this evening could happen.
18z NAM still trying to look threatening in clown range. Don’t think the 20-burger runs are returning but a decent hit for SE zones is well within play imho.
34 and rain. Worst kind of weather to be outside in. At least it’s not really melting anything except maybe some of the ice on the driveway…a little bit anyway.
Mean is getting some realistic QPF into SE zones despite good agreement on the southeast position of the lows…prob some decent upper air support like a pseudo-IVT
Despite the drizzle and rain at 33F-34F went outside and the snow still has a very sleety/icy crust on it. Not really that mushy on top yet. This stuff is gonna be ridiculous after the refreeze tonight.
I think we got a handheld at 65-67ish on the beach at CHH in Noel and that is obviously only 6 feet off ground and not 10m. There were def some hurricane gusts in spots during that.
Irene was pretty good on the Cape too. Earl was kind of a bust.
You have some random vorts rotating down east of the block over Hudson Bay. We need that to ease just a touch to allow the huge ULL to amplify the downstream ridging a bit more.
Remember all the damage when we drove back to my grandparents house in Yarmouth? It was damage everywhere. Really impressive storm that was. One of the few that lived up to the hype.
Wasn’t Noel. Noel was actually an epic chase. That was almost legit Hurricane conditions at CHH. We found that shit tavern that was open to get inside for cover. You literally couldn’t look into the wind because it was sandblasting everyone…that was despite downpours…wind was so strong it didn’t matter. It couldn’t mat the sound down enough and we’d just get blasted.
Yeah lot of heavy rain over SE MA. We’re mostly missing it so far thank god. Had a quick band come through about 20 min ago.
Not gonna escape that slug in NJ though.