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My weather app alerted me that it’s snowing back at home. Cameras at home verify snow is indeed falling in Union bridge. Nice sized flakes too!

The fact that Rockland county has no advisory or watch up is insane to me. I get that the forecast there is very much up in the air… but the GFS has a solid 6”+ event, and the EURO / NAM both dump over a foot… no watch to warn people!? That’s ridiculous. .

The fact that the NAM & Euro both drop over a foot and the GFS says 7-8” at my parents place but there’s no watch or advisory up is pretty wild. Not sure I’ve ever seen such uncertainty this close to a storm for their area. They are typically right around the fall line (87 - NYS thruway is about 7 miles to their south) A true nowcast situation. Hope it doesn’t fail. I’m bringing mid Atlantic mojo with me afterall [emoji23]

Latest NAM. Wild. 10:1 is overblown but they get destroyed by the CCB. On my way up to my parents place as we speak. Euro is on board but not as heavy with the QPF and the GFS says about 8”. 0-20”…. What a forecast. [emoji23]

I saw 45” down at my old house in Montgomery county MD. Amazing storm. .

I’d hate to be a weenie or NWS in the nyc metro area. The euro dumps 12-18” at my parents house. NAM dumps 20”. The RGEM and CMC say mostly rain. Less than 12 hours out from start time too.

Nam is being decommissioned for a reason. It sucks balls. .

I’d hate to be NWS right now. Euro and Uk show a foot or more for Rockland county and their snow map has 2.8” for new city with no watch up. They seem to be leaning toward the warmer solution and climo - understandably so, but damn! Tough spot to be in if the euro and Ukmet are indeed correct.

Watch for 1-2 feet in the capitol region in NY. What a crazy march for them. They’ll get more snow in an hour than we’ve seen in 4 months. Can only laugh at this point.

Gfs still hammers places inland. Rockland and westchester are also mainly wet on that run. Albany and points east into the western MA elevations jackpot.

1-2” IMBY on that clown map. Sad that that would be the biggest event of the season. [emoji23]

00z NAM said… what storm? Lmao. Complete lack of a SS feature to phase up and it’s a total miss. .

NYC would have been an idiotic place to go to for this storm. Inland? All day. Rain/snow line keeps pushing NW on models. Looks like another Albany special is on tap. Have a feeling Worcester MA will be ground zero.

Gfs was WEIRD

00z gfs = the dagger for nyc. Ouch.

Rockland county and northern westchester are legit in the who the F knows zone for this one.

Yep. Every strong niño seems to reset things, and for the worst. We need a moderate niño

The lack of clarity surrounding the evolution of this storm is astounding. The most important period of this entire evolution occurs around 36-48 hours and models are still all over the damn place with it. The NAM gets close to even giving the mid Atlantic some snow. Go figure. Pretty surprising to see so many changes from run to run on every model. Just goes to show you how delicate this setup is.

NAM almost makes you think for a moment that snow is heading our way… but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that dynamics shift east shortly after this frame. The southern vort is more consolidated and digging looks improved, but the positive results of that will probably only bear fruit to our NE.

Pretty much the first time all winter where we have a SS born storm with the 540 line WAY south of us leading in. On march 20th haha. This solution ends up being suppressed like the GFS, but the 00z last night tracked that storm directly up the coast with heavy snow for most of us. The euro also looks to be hinting at this same general idea. We do tend to see big storms pop up at the tail end of good patterns as they begin to break down, and it is the end of march so clashing air masses are bound to pop a big storm somewhere. The question remains whether or not we can get things to line up just right. GFS looks like it wants to brew another big storm in the gulf around the 27th. Our time is short but the pattern is certainly active and the window isn’t fully closed just yet. Especially for inland areas. I won’t be tracking as closely over the next few days, but my interest is still there for the 17th-27th window.

00z Canadian last night also had that look at day 10. Big storm up the coast with heavy snow. At least it was a Miller A for a change [emoji23]

If the Albany NY area gets the 12-20” models are hinting at for the 14th storm, they’ll be above 60” for the winter. That would be their third foot plus event in the past couple weeks. My parents are currently located roughly 35-40 miles NW of NYC and are barely in double digits for the season. Another 20 or so miles to the NW in orange county NY, they are above 25” (below average but much closer) NYC is facing potential futility. The Ohio valley over to Chicago has had a rough winter in terms of lack of snowfall as well. The west coast has been getting dumped on as we all know. 30-40 feet on the ground in some areas. The coastal plain and areas within 50 or so miles of it has definitely been the most impacted, especially up in NE. Niña played a big part, but it also feels like the scales tipping back toward the norm. I can recall plenty of winters from the early 2000s through 2015 where the coast fared better than inland areas during nor’easters due to an overall lack of coastal huggers. I remember plenty of storms where Long Island and SE CT got buried while the lower Hudson valley saw a few inches, despite much better climo. There was one storm where Long Island saw 2 feet and my parents saw 3-4”. Best dynamics were further east and such. CAPE fared better than inland areas in our neck of the woods not too long ago as well. It’s only natural that we see winters where inland areas fare much better than the coast. It’s really hard to pinpoint exactly what’s going on in a general sense because the outcomes vary so much from year to year. 2010 and 2015 seem like an eternity ago, but they really weren’t in the grand scheme of things. It’s become pretty obvious that we now need a more perfect setup to cash in and that it’s harder to snow via good timing in a bad to average pattern, but we definitely need more data before sounding the alarm too loud IMO. I really want to see what a moderate niño winter looks like going forward. If we can break above climo, all hope is not lost… we just know our down years will be especially crappy. Seems like we’re heading in a all or nothing direction. It’s entirely possible that we could still have winters where we see two or more big storms that put us well above climo, but also see more winters where we don’t break double digits, keeping our annual average roughly the same. I hope we get at least one decent event before this winter ends. This will still be one of the worst winters ever, but at least all of the tracking we’ve done won’t be for absolutely nothing.

I’m with you til’ the end man. You’ve been saying the 17-22 window is our best shot all along. Going to be tough for dc and points south, but I haven’t given up hope for our neck of the woods. Give me ONE flush hit and then I’ll gladly close the door on this winter and look forward to winter 23-24

I’m beyond frustrated that it looks like we’re FINALLY going to enter a more SS dominant regime as climo is eroding quickly. Perhaps that leads to a last second score for our latitude, but man… if only we could have had this setup during peak climo. I honestly would not be shocked if your area over to mine and PSU scores during the final week of march or we get an April Fools storm. That’d be completely appropriate given this winter.

12z euro is colder and more dynamic than the Ukie. 10:1 is very unlikely but a range of 0-12” for Boston and the immediate NYC suburbs sounds like a fun time for Mets up there trying to make a forecast for a storm that’s only a few days away. I don’t envy NWS or local Mets trying to inform the public on this one.