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NYC/PHL Jan 25-27 Potential Bomb Part 5


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Might be sleet at hour 60 itself, still a warm layer with east wind present, with a freezing layer nearer the surface. It should go snow in the next hour or two though.

Yup, the surface freezing line runs right slong i95 through nyc at hr 60, and then we have wet snow with wet ground, temps around 32..A real mess, but id say 5-6" or so for the city and our area this run verbatim, given all the issues I juyst mentioned

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Not quite asure about that just yet, but I'll check out bufkit. It looks to me that for a 5-8 hour period from roughly 60hrs out on give a heavy wet snow to the city

Precip still looks kind of screwy on the west side....5" line only gets as far west as a H-burg to High Point, NJ line, and looks like it should be more developed between the SE and NE (almost skipping over the area to some extent) If you 'connected' the dots (precip) a la EURO probably pretty close to the end result. Along I-95 (including NYC) a little snow, to mix/rain for a time, then to a heavy snow with the CCB.

Once 15 miles+ NW of I-95 mostly/all snow...

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From the GFS's perspective, the QPF shield associated with the CCB explodes as it heads toward/off the coast. Although inland locations are cooler and dominantly snow throughout the storm, it seems that (from this model run - and other indicators) that accumulations there would be mitigated by the lack of significant precip, which will be priming for the coast, even in dealing with a changeover.

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Still looks like coastal sections of NJ and Long Island will have quite a bit of liquid during the middle portion of the storm...mixed bag to rain back to snow before ending with several inches possible in the big cities with more N and W and less to the east toward the Jersey shore and Long Island.

Sounds a lot like both DTs and JBs current forecast

Of course this will change...

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not it doesnt...dont just look at the qpf print out...

unless you were expecting a 12+++ megabomb snowstorm, this gfs run isnt a letdown.

Maybe i worded it bad. It sucks in terms of wasting such good qpf to rain. The qpf printout is kosher to my eyes, the temps are just too damn warm.

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.85 out of how much total QPF? How much QPF is lost as liquid?

Hour 60 is what time?

i hate waiting for the changeover, seems like it rushes into the city/western queens and then stops usually and crawls through eastern queens and nassau

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.85 out of how much total QPF? How much QPF is lost as liquid?

Hour 60 is what time?

Wow, I want to help out and all, but a lot of this stuff is easy to look up on the nws model site. 60 hours is 00Z Thursday GMT so 7PM Wednesday EST. .85 of about 1.25 liquid is snow.

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.85 out of how much total QPF? How much QPF is lost as liquid?

Hour 60 is what time?

I think many on this board if current model overall ideas/outputs are correct (especially the EUR0) GFS is close (but it still is splitting the energy a little too much) will be VERY HAPPY with the CCB on this storm. Yes, some rain/mix at the start and the middle (depending on exact location) but the EURO advertises and the GFS is almost there, a significant snowstorm for most. Hate to put a number yet but right now Im expecting 5-10" for NYC & N/C NJ within 15 miles of I-95. More NW...

Not bad...

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i hate waiting for the changeover, seems like it rushes into the city/western queens and then stops usually and crawls through eastern queens and nassau

Its also very difficult to forecast on any guidance. One must leave wiggle room in other words 3 or so hours sooner or later makes a big difference. It usually goes for the opposite as well, cold can hang on and be delayed before being scoured out.

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With the trends, it's almost nearing a given that this will be light to moderate rain changing to a heavy wet snow near the coast. What is suspect though is how far west the precip shield develops. The GFS has been sheering QPF amounts significantly from extending far back to the NW of I95, which would put higher snow totals there in question. Of course, the EURO paints a different story... we'll have to see if this will be another storm featuring tight gradients or a more generous QPF field.

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I posted earlier the UKMET was a smidge warm at 850 for all the local stations around NYC AT 60 hours 7PM Wednesday but what I didn't realize was that the precip was just starting. Here is the ukmet at 60 hours. At 72 hours the soundings are still saturated enough to give snow which means its slower than the GFS and thus what falls after 60 hours for the next 12 hours is probably all snow. What I am driving at is IMHO the UKMET is a colder version of the GFS.

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