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Must be above 90 and dews above 70 for me to consider shorts. It gets cool at night, even in summer…unless it’s tropical and lows stay in the upper 60’s or 70’s

I've always wondered too, is it at all possible that increasing model resolution may actually have some negative impact on model performance moving forward in-time? I could see where I am wrong in this because the equations (deltas in change in wind/direction over time, temperature, pressure, density, etc/) usually only deal with certain scales and I'm sure there are equations built in to perhaps assist with this but I have to wonder if sometimes the increased resolution adds some sort of negative feedback within the extended range.

Well said. And now that we are moving into Spring we're going to see the hype train transition over the the severe track. Obviously it will go unnoticed with our region but over the next 2-3 months it will be nothing but Supercell Composite/Significant Tornado Parameter charts circulating all over social media and hyping every trough ejecting into the southern Plains as the next 5/3/99 or April 2011. Back to the research side of things, if I get time this summer I really want to dig into the last 3-4 winters and do a more in-depth comparison to previous winters, winters which produced and winters which didn't. I know this research exists out there and there are people who are already well advanced in this topic already, but what I really want to focus on are pattern transitions and pattern evolutions. This is at least the 3rd winter in a row where we've been tantalized by "good looks" in the extended range with little return. Yes, good looks doesn't guarantee anything but that answer just doesn't suffice with me. We get too caught up in just static plots...we can look at monthly 500mb height anomalies in the Arctic domain for some of the most negative NAO January's on record and make some conclusions...but the reality is, its not the averaged pattern or the averaged anomalies which count, its how you transitioned to that point. If you look at the last several years (maybe not so much this year) but all these "good looks" that developed, those favorable patterns occurred on the back end of cutters or back end of weather systems moving off the East Coast and then its a quick transition to not so favorable patterns ahead of the next system...that isn't going to cut it. I know there are statistics which correlate teleconnection phases, ENSO, etc. to temperatures, precipitation, and snow but none of those correlations are strikingly high. I have to think through the means of additional research and critical thinking, we can probably increase forecasting accuracy, even if there is little improvement in model skill in the medium range.

With alot of the recent changes this may not be as feasible anymore, however, I wonder if there was alot of work/research going into the GFS in the extended range and what is causing it to struggle mightily with the northern stream and why there is a tendency towards the evolution of snow storms within the Northeast. I'm sure there had to be because this is how upgrades are performed but this tendency is often enough there must be something within its physics...but this goes welllll beyond the ability of my brain comprehension. Anyways...its not good. Its not good for the field and its not good for those involved in forecasting professionally. There were the last storm we got and someone I work with said, "Weather is always changing, look at this storm we just got. My wife a few weeks ago saw something where we we were supposed to get 30" and look, we got like 8". I know exactly what he was talking about...it was the one storm where the asshole snow maps were getting tossed around all over because they were showing 20-30 inches over a huge chunk of the region. But there is just so much hype generated in the 6-10+ day time frame it's absolutely ridiculous. It really drives me to the point to where sometimes this isn't fun anymore, there is no more science its just pure hyped garbage. Just like when you read content posted...and from meteorologists, "This isn't a forecast and I'm not saying this is happening but a possible solution" captioned above something clearly meant to drive hype. WHAT POINT IS THERE POSTING SOMETHING LIKE THAT? There is none outside of generating clicks, likes, and followers...that is it. But the field is getting watered down by pure senseless garbage.

The one I was interested in for like 20 minutes and thought "we had a chance I'll take this though...its time to move on from winter

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Wow, that’s awesome!

Nice!!

Yes

I was getting calls all week and voice mails saying it was T-mobile. Asking if I was Brain and if not, press 1. Then later in the voice mail it had my name. This is from reading the transcript though, I didn’t listen to the message. I just ended up blocking the number. If it is T-Mobile they can email me.

I bet a good amount of people fall for them.

There are two ways to grade. if grading off the pretty blues and “good looks” then A+ if grading off results, D.

some stray flakes falling

Have to check obs but it seems like the wind is even more impressive now than it was earlier and that's saying alot.

That wind is ROARING.

My thinking is the models are overmixing. We're certainly going to mix and have steep lapse rates, but winds at 850mb aren't anything eye popping. What's happening is with the over-mixing, that is tapping into the base of the 700 jet so we're seeing some big numbers atop the mixed layer. But with this said, I think we see widespread 35-45 mph gusts and upwards of 50 for higher elevations but this 50-60+ potential from bufkit I think is overdone.

It is noteworthy seeing the NAM/GFS so well-mixed but that degree of mixing almost seems overstated here...I mean it has us mixing a good 5-6-7K. I can certainly buy 5K but upwards of 7K...seems a bit overstated for our region, no? Difficult to even do that during the summer.

I know tomorrow is going to be windy but holy wow bufkit gone wild has to be overdone

Friday looks windy

I get those too and the ridiculous I have tolls texts.

So the NAM was right yesterday and Kevin was wrong.

I can't wait to start looking at CAPE maps.

Anyone else getting destroyed with spam calls this week?

We're going to need a wet spring.

Well spring is here, baseball spring training games well underway, the NHL trade deadline is a few days away, the Bruins have started selling off, I've heard lots of birds chirping today, we set the clocks ahead Saturday night. Curtains closed on winter...except NNE where I'm sure they'll sneak in another 20-30 inches by the end of April