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NYC CWA January 26-27 OBS and Discussion Thread


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That was an awful setup as I recall. No source of cold air whatsoever and temps were in the mid to upper 40s. Plus by the time any cold air worked its way in the storm was long gone. I don't really recall which models besides the GFS showed the hit though.

we should probably keep an archive section of the board dedicated towards busted storm so we can learn what went wrong and try to find similarities in other storms

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RGEM is pounding Philly through NE NJ and towards NYC with a frontogenic band..the 700mb signature on it and the NAM (despite the NAMs funky QPF) scream thundersnow to me..somebody's going to be very happy tomorrow night.

That's what I thought I was seeing too. I'm also liking the CCB look giving us in the lower HV an extended finish.

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ODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT THAT PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP FROM SOUTH

TO NORTH AROUND 18Z ON WEDNESDAY...WHICH COULD BE AN HOUR OR TWO OF

LIGHT SNOW BEFORE CHANGING OVER TO A WINTRY MIX OR CHANGING OVER TO

A BRIEF PERIOD OF RAIN. BEST CHANCE OF ANY MIXING WILL BE ALONG THE

SOUTH SHORE AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF LONG ISLAND.

BY 00Z THURSDAY...COLD ENOUGH AIR IS EXPECTED TO WORK INTO THE

REGION THAT PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW...WHICH COULD

BE HEAVY AT TIMES. QPF VALUES OVERNIGHT EXPECTED TO RANGE BETWEEN

0.60 AND 1.00 WHICH SHOULD YIELD SNOWFALL VALUES BETWEEN 6 AND 10

INCHES.

FORECAST CONFIDENCE AT THIS TIME IS INCREASING.

It seems that most of long island will be all snow then...the south shore east end language is encouraging to us north shore folk...6-10...hell yea~

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ODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT THAT PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP FROM SOUTH

TO NORTH AROUND 18Z ON WEDNESDAY...WHICH COULD BE AN HOUR OR TWO OF

LIGHT SNOW BEFORE CHANGING OVER TO A WINTRY MIX OR CHANGING OVER TO

A BRIEF PERIOD OF RAIN. BEST CHANCE OF ANY MIXING WILL BE ALONG THE

SOUTH SHORE AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF LONG ISLAND.

BY 00Z THURSDAY...COLD ENOUGH AIR IS EXPECTED TO WORK INTO THE

REGION THAT PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW...WHICH COULD

BE HEAVY AT TIMES. QPF VALUES OVERNIGHT EXPECTED TO RANGE BETWEEN

0.60 AND 1.00 WHICH SHOULD YIELD SNOWFALL VALUES BETWEEN 6 AND 10

INCHES.

FORECAST CONFIDENCE AT THIS TIME IS INCREASING.

It seems that most of long island will be all snow then...the south shore east end language is encouraging to us north shore folk...6-10...hell yea~

That is what I was waiting to read from Upton. I do not expect much if any mixing in extreme Northeastern NJ at any point in this storm if what pretty much all the models are showing this afternoon verify.

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RGEM absolutely crushes almost all of us from the Poconos south. Tombo just posted the 36hr panel and it appears that NYC and Long Island are under 25mm (around 1")+ in 12 hours and the snow is still coming down hard at this hour. It looks a touch warmer than its previous run, introducing mixing concerns for LI, but everyone gets thumped majorly tomorrow night. 500mb low is closed east of NJ, ensuring a massive CCB.

I would throw out the NAM's precip printout verbatim, other models are much wetter up here and more robust.

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ODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT THAT PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP FROM SOUTH

TO NORTH AROUND 18Z ON WEDNESDAY...WHICH COULD BE AN HOUR OR TWO OF

LIGHT SNOW BEFORE CHANGING OVER TO A WINTRY MIX OR CHANGING OVER TO

A BRIEF PERIOD OF RAIN. BEST CHANCE OF ANY MIXING WILL BE ALONG THE

SOUTH SHORE AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF LONG ISLAND.

BY 00Z THURSDAY...COLD ENOUGH AIR IS EXPECTED TO WORK INTO THE

REGION THAT PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW...WHICH COULD

BE HEAVY AT TIMES. QPF VALUES OVERNIGHT EXPECTED TO RANGE BETWEEN

0.60 AND 1.00 WHICH SHOULD YIELD SNOWFALL VALUES BETWEEN 6 AND 10

INCHES.

FORECAST CONFIDENCE AT THIS TIME IS INCREASING.

It seems that most of long island will be all snow then...the south shore east end language is encouraging to us north shore folk...6-10...hell yea~

Keep it at the east end and maybe the eastern portion of the south shore :P That's the pattern we've seen all winter.

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Keep it at the east end and maybe the eastern portion of the south shore :P That's the pattern we've seen all winter.

The more of a northerly wind component we get the better, plus the drier air we get initially the better so we can wetbulb down. We won't have a problem changing over when the real dynamics hit the fan. On 2/25 last year we changed over earlier than we were forecasted to due partly to that.

I don't think all of the precip we get here will be snow, but hopefully the vast majority is, since when the dynamics crash in the temps will as well and it all easily goes to a thumping snow. Hopefully the initial warm push is just light rain/mixed showers and the real precip holds off until later so not much gets wasted.

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