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Congrats Boston. Longitude FTW in a late bloomer storm like this. And no the NAM absolutely sucked. This morning’s 12z run had 8” here, and I’ll likely end up with 0.2” that lasted an hour on the grass before it melted.
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This wasn’t a bust. Maybe one last shot at some accumulation overnight when the trough swings through but other than those who swung at the NAM high on crack runs, it’s doing as expected. It’s an eastern New England/Boston late bloomer snowstorm and some fun elsewhere from the inverted trough, otherwise another lame fail. Boston almost certain to break their 4” drought-radar looks great there.
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We’ve essentially had a Nina background state in the Pacific since late 2018 because of the very warm W Pacific. Even the strong official El Niño last winter couldn’t really dislodge it. It goes to show that sometimes there’s too much attention to how warm/cold the E Pacific gets when the W Pacific is the other half of the equation. The warm W Pacific has kept the convection in the MC for the most part since late 2018, MJO in unfavorable phases and supercharged the Pacific jet.
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The meat of the precip with the coastal low on radar looks like it’ll clip SE Mass. and Boston perhaps. The snow associated with the trough west of the low looks like it’ll favor NJ. Guess I got 0.1 or 0.2” with the snow band earlier but it’s melted now. But generally something to make it wintry for an hour and nothing more here. Boston has a good shot at breaking their 4” snow drought, this is the kind of late bloomer system that can develop in a fast pattern like this and they have the longitude to cash in.
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Perma-Nina for 6 years now. The El Niño last winter just added a lot more subtropical juice to it.
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Every other short range model has the CCB precip starting at maybe the twin forks longitude, and this precip off NJ is associated with what IVT develops. It would be an epic bust if they’re wrong this close in. We would need for them to be wrong by 100 miles for it to reach NYC and pray the clueless NAM somehow pulled out a rabbit.