Yeah that whole area from Buffalo/Niagara over to Hamilton and Toronto got absolutely trucked. That band was pushing 50 dBZ when it came through Buffalo.
My friend in Oakville sent me these pictures, he estimated 18"
There has been evidence of a pattern change showing up on longer range models around the 1st of the month, more into a neutral PNA slightly negative PNA regime, if that were to be the case it should help a lot of us out as the southeast ridge doesn't flex too much.
Are we still calling this a decent winter like some were eluding to last week? We have actually had some snow here in SE MI and it still has been a shit winter.
I have been on a couple surveys myself and know that these offices are not staffed enough right now to thoroughly do these surveys. It's just a fact that they don't have the time available. So it is entirely possible that corners were cut, not on purpose obviously. I respect other NWS mets but they are human at the end of the day as well.
Yes but we aren't there so thats apples to oranges. Also most places west of the lakes still have a 6" storm a year. Except for cedar rapids, they are the San Diego of the midwest.
Tbf though, what is good for Ohio isn't for most of this forum except for southern Indiana. Plus there has been a lot of butthurt over the years because we 'steal' their snow. Having them in their own thread is much better for the sanity of the rest of us.
The NAMs are easy tosses, they are too amplified. Everything else except the ukie is south, and the ukie is worthless as well. Locally my concern is we hang onto a bit of low level warmth but I do think the models are underdoing the CAA a bit especially with the strong high pressing in from the north.
Looks to be the furthest north solution at this point, has a pretty weird hump to the snowfall in Missouri as well which i don't expect based upon low ejection.
There are several things that are dictating this, the location of the lead wave, when/if it will phase, where the block across canada sets up, and how strong the front is with that system that travels across Canada.
Yep, tbh looking at the 12z eps and the 18z GEFS there was a massive shift in the spaghetti plots of amplifying that trough out west. When everyone jumps all at once so fast run to run like that, it gives me pause. This run of the Euro trended back to less amplified out west.