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If only this thing was tucked about 100 miles further in and got going a bit earlier. Close but also so far.

10:1 isn’t happening. Use Kuchera. NYC is at best 3-6” on the euro unfortunately. Going to be right on the cusp - nature of the beast with a late forming Miller B. NYC is the swing zone. I’ll be Rockland county (new city) for this one and models are all over the place in that area. The gradient is very steep in the Rockland / orange / westchester zone. 3-6 to 12-20 when moving 20-30 miles in a given direction is a dangerous game to be playing. We should get more clarity on where this low bombs out and gets captured after wave 1 passes through

Canadian did the exact same thing. 20” at my parents, 5” a mere 10 miles to their SE and squat along the coast. Weenie suicide watch in full effect. Maybe I won’t travel to my parents place for this one. Jesus. That gradient is criminal.

12z UKMET. Takes away feet of snow for NYC LI Boston and eastern New England. Last nights run showed 40+ from the lower Hudson valley into CT and MA. At least we stayed at 0 [emoji23]

Mood in the NYC metro thread certainly took a nose dive with todays runs [emoji23] talk about a pullback. UKmet went from 20+ at 00z along the coast near NYC LI to 2-3”. Inland still gets rocked. The gradient is intense. My parents place 30 miles inland gets over a foot while southern westchester gets a few inches. Classic marginal setup with a 87/287 fall line. I’d hate to be on the wrong side of that gradient.

We’ve had a lot of days in the 40s-50s. Some 60s. We didn’t torch really at all (70s+) .

Any shot we see a few changes after wave 1 passes by? Not insinuating we see massive changes that lead to significant snow for us, but enough to get a couple inches into the area. 6z euro was a step in our direction as far as getting some snow into NW zones. Models are locked in on the idea of a major Northeast / New England snowstorm (although NYC is currently modeled between 3-20” depending on the model - nature of the Miller B beast for them) but I feel there’s enough wiggle room with where the primary tracks and the coastal gets going to impact us. I know many would take a 2-4” storm in a heartbeat if it trended that way. Long shot I know, and it’s rare we see a trend in our direction these days, but one can hope.

I The ultimate kick in the testicles for our area if this pans out. Good fucking lord. 10:1 ratios not going to occur but still…. Second run in a row NYC to Boston gets absolutely buried. Euro isn’t far off just warmer. GFS is the outlier versus globals showing an interior special. I hate this hobby. NY, here I come. Max: 46.9 (likely way overblown but wow)

Yep. Going to my parents for this one. Wild

It really does help ease the pain we’ve felt all winter long. Experienced a 10” storm in Saratoga springs and a foot in Schenectady and it was 100% worth it. Nothing quite like getting shellacked at home, but close enough. Especially up in the mountains.

Oof. Perhaps I’ll hold off on making plans to travel to my parents house in Rockland NY given the euro and gfs today. GFS says eastern NE bomb as it gets its act together too late Euro drops 9” at my parents place but only 3-4” a mere 10-15 miles to their SE and 25” 20 miles to their NW. I’d be salty being on the wrong side of that gradient.

I feel like the “due factor” has finally kicked in for the West. From 2000-2015, the east coast experienced a bunch of above average to even epic winters. Lots of cold and snow for the major east coast cities. Some better than others in our area, but NYC and points NE cashed in BIG TIME. Each winter seemed to have at least one KU during that period. I lived in the Hudson valley in NY until February 2015 and we went through a 10+ year streak of getting at least one 12”+ storm per season, sometimes more. Meanwhile, the west was pretty much always warm with prolonged / record droughts year after year. Especially in the wintertime. This year, the west is seeing record cold and snow as the east has been relatively warm and dry. I know there’s a ton of factors (niña, AGW, etc) at play, but overall, it feels like the rubber band has finally snapped back and we find ourselves 7 years into a prolonged snow drought, with the exception of one outlier winter where PSU over to my area saw 40-50”. Even so, the nearby cities saw a fraction of that. Hopefully we break the cycle next year. This blows for real. Hate having to travel to see accumulating snowfall.

It’s snowed in march. Numerous times. It’s march 2023 though [emoji24] This SERIOUSLY blows. We’re likely about to watch NYC (more likely the immediate suburbs) up to BOS get crushed. Possibly twice. I’m honestly thinking about taking the trip up to my folks house starting this weekend to be there for winter’s last hoorah next week. I have off from work for the entire week. Might as well. If the latest euro is correct, wowza. It tracked wave 2 from the benchmark to just south of LI before getting captured and looping offshore for 12+ hours. The low bombs out south of LI down to 970ish millibars. The city could have some temp issues, but the immediate suburbs of NY into SNE would likely get crushed. It has a different evolution, but the GFS also dumps nearly a foot from the nearby suburbs into SNE. ICON was very weird with its evolution but same result. They even get 3-5” from wave 1 on the GFS. Lucky bastards man.

Euro gets purple over my house between now and the 15th. That’s something I guess My parents in SENY get dumped on with 24+. Of course. Said this a week or two ago. Lived in the lower Hudson valley for 25+ years. This setup, late season especially, is almost always a slam dunk for them. We need some serious luck here to score big on waves 2,3, and I guess 4? (22nd-23rd) Not impossible I guess but man, it’d be torture to watch NYC get 2+ feet as we get white rain.

If it unfolded as the 6 EPS mean depicts (just under day 6), you’ve gotta think we’d see some snow. Low doesn’t bomb out but pretty good placement.

6z EPS MSLP mean hr 144

6z EPS MSLP mean hr 138

06z WB Euro** and yep, not impressive. That is only wave 1 but still.

As MJO phase 8 settles in and strengthens and wave 1 passes us by… have a feeling we’ll see wave 2 and beyond trend more favorably for us. Especially if we pop that ridge out west like some models are hinting at. Had a few runs where a Boise ridge popped up leading into waves 2 & 3. We’ve got an active pattern with 3+ waves to track between now and the 21st. Hard to imagine models will have a clear picture on waves 2 and beyond before wave 1 is out of the picture. If wave 2 looks awful on Saturday, then I’ll reassess. It’s march.. so naturally the climb is steep for us, especially closer to the coast… but i’m nowhere near giving up on this window, especially waves 2 and 3, which have been our best chances all along. Ideally, the setup that gets ushered in after wave 1 should be the tee up for waves 2 and 3 to work their magic. [emoji1696] One can only hope at this point.

Hi-Res Euro. Very similar low placement as the ICON. It too doesn’t gain enough latitude and slides east. Close but no cigar.

ICON as well. Miller B setup with a primary redeveloping off NC. Primary gets too far north into SW PA. Close but not quite.

RGEM is a near miss for wave 1

That cold enough aspect is a huge problem though. Areas closer to the coast will need to rely on rates in mid march with 0c 850 temps — this will at best be unfolding in a marginal airmass. It’s certainly possible but it’s definitely tougher now than December - February. If we had that 1050+ high that was being depicted on models last week, we’d be talking about a potential HECS and would have less to worry about in the temp department. It’s going to take good timing and a well timed / placed low bomb out for this to produce the type of snow many of us are starving for. If the desired outcome is areawide pink on the clown maps, it’s going to be very difficult to achieve. Think folks need to be realistic about this one, especially SE of 287/87

Already giving up 8-9 days out. Oy. I swear, at this point the snow gods are just fucking with us and fulfilling the it’s never going to snow prophecy [emoji28]

No. There’s a 5-6” zone from his house to mine lol NW Baltimore county over to NE Carroll