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Feb 1-2 Upstate NY / North Country Major Winter Storm


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Thanks! You're our Euro guy. Getting cautiously more optimistic. There are still a lot of GFS Ensemble members that our too suppressed for my liking. I guess we'll know more Sunday morning after the sw makes landfall in California. BTW, I wonder where Andy is. Haven't heard from him in a while. He's probably super busy.

euro is the furthest north

its still predominantly snow with mixing along the southern tier roughly

precip is very uniform and all of NYS gets between 1.00-1.50 except for the the area north of ART along the international boder which is 0.75-1.00, including MSS.

highest amounts in western new york ROC BUF, and also down along the WNE/NYS border regions

ottawa and montreal are about 0.5-0.6

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12z ECM good bit west, safe to say we are still a ways away from any sort of consensus amongst the global models. That said, based on what I've been able to decipher from the early / inferior graphics, the 12z CMC / UKmet tend to resemble a GFS-like solution...

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Reminds me of Jan 28, 2009 (2 years ago today). Almost turned into a disaster as it mixed in the morning, but changed back with 13" of snow falling here and 16" in Jamestown (last synoptic system of note here). I'm not sure I want to try my luck with the 0C so close...

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They have not updated this since yesterday's 12z model runs. Rest assured this tone will be changing given the recent model trends from 0z / 12z...

OOPS, you're right. I saw this at the top

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

BINGHAMTON NY

109 PM EST FRI JAN 28 2011

But see that the long term was from yesterday. I was always a skimmer not a reader laugh.gif

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EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION

NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER CAMP SPRINGS MD

136 PM EST FRI JAN 28 2011

VALID 12Z MON JAN 31 2011 - 12Z FRI FEB 04 2011

...MAJOR WINTER STORM SETTING UP NEXT WEEK FROM THE ROCKIES TO THE NORTHEAST...

UPDATED MORNING PRELIMS USE A MULTIMODEL BLEND OF 00Z GFS/ECMWF/CMC/UKMET/GFS ENS MEAN. THE RESULT IS NEARLY IDENTICAL TO THE EARLIER USED SOLUTION.

12Z MODEL GUIDANCE FOLLOWS CONTINUITY AND A COMPOSITE OF THE RUNS WOULD CONTINUE TO YIELD THE BLENDED SOLUTION OF HPC. NO CHANGES FOR AFTERNOON FINALS.

AS SHORTWAVE ENERGY MOVES INTO THE FOUR CORNERS REGION EARLY TUESDAY AND ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE PLUNGES DEEP INTO THE PLAINS WITH GREATER THAN 20 DEGREE NEGATIVE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES. THIS WILL BRING STRONG UPSLOPE FLOW INTO THE CO ROCKIES FRONT RANGE WITH MDT/HVY SNOWFALL TO THE SRN ROCKIES SPREADING EWD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. MID LEVEL ENERGY SHEARS OUT EWD AND A MDT SFC LOW DEVELOPS OVER ERN TX BY TUESDAY. THIS LOW MOVES NEWD INTO KY/TN WED AND REFORMS OFF THE MID ATLC CAPES AND RAPIDLY MOVES NEWD OFF NOVA SCOTIA BY THURSDAY. MDT TO HVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL SOUTH OF THE LOW PRESSURE TRACK WITH SNOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND MAINLY NORTH OF THE OH RIVER AND MASON DIXON LINE INTO NEW ENG. HEAVY SNOW THREAT INDICATED BY OPERATIONAL MODELS QPF OUTPUT/ANALOGS AND FAVORABLE MID AND UPPER LEVEL JET STRUCTURE WITH ICING THREAT ALONG THE CHANGE OVER AND THEN THE DAMMED IN AREA IN THE MID ATLC PIEDMONT.

PACIFIC RECON FLIGHTS REQUESTED INTO THE CRITICAL UNCERTAINTY AREA AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM IN THE NE PACIFIC. IF A FLIGHT IS AVAILABLE THIS DATA COULD GET INTO THE MODEL SYSTEMS BY THE RUNS OF SUNDAY

00Z/12Z 30 JAN.

RAUSCH / ROSENSTEIN

http://www.hpc.ncep....ons/pmdepd.html

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BETTER THAN AVERAGE CONFIDENCE IN A POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANT STORM IN

THE EASTERN U.S. SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE TIME WINDOW OF LATER TUESDAY

THROUGH THURSDAY. CURRENT GUIDANCE TIMES THE BIGGEST POTENTIAL

NORTHEASTERN U.S. IMPACT LATE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NIGHT...BUT SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS THE POTENTIAL IMPACT GETS CLOSER.

INTERESTING THAT 2 YEARS AGO A BIG STORM WAS BEING ADVERTISED FOR

THE TIME PERIOD AROUND GROUND HOG DAY...THAT EVENTUALLY WAS ONLY A

MERE "SHADOW" OF WHAT SOME WERE SUGGESTING 4-5 DAYS IN ADVANCE. WITH

THOSE LESSONS IN MIND...SEEMS REASONABLE...WITH SUCH A CONSENSUS ON

THE SIGNAL FOR A SIGNIFICANT STORM...THAT IDENTIFYING THE POTENTIAL

OVER A VERY LARGE AND BROAD AREA IS O.K....BUT FINER DETAILS OF WHAT

IMPACT IF ANY AND WHERE WILL BECOME CLEARER AS THE IMPACT GETS

NEARER.

SOME SIGNALS IN CURRENT GUIDANCE AND ENSEMBLES THAT A RELATIVELY

PROLONGED PERIOD OF WARM ADVECTION AND FRONTOGENESIS RELATED

PRECIPITATION COULD PRECEDE THE MAIN UPPER DYNAMICS AND UPPER

DEFORMATION BY 1 OR MORE DAYS. THIS COULD CHANGE AS THE POTENTIAL

IMPACT GETS CLOSER...AND ELEMENTS OF THE STORM GET RESOLVED BETTER

BY GUIDANCE. WE MAY GET SOMETHING IN OUR FORECAST AREA...OR

NOT...BUT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE MID ATLANTIC OR NORTHEASTERN U.S.

SHOULD SEE MODERATE OR GREATER SNOW...SLEET AND/OR ICE NEXT

WEEK...NEVER ANY GUARANTEES THIS FAR OUT...THOUGH...SO STAY TUNED

LIKED THE HPC CONCOCTION OF SPRINKLING RATIOS OF GEFS MEAN AND 12Z

ECMWF MEAN INTO THE BLENDER. THE MIX SEEMS TO MAKE A GOOD FLAVOR

FOR THIS FORECAST CYCLE CONSIDERING ALL THE SPREAD AND UNCERTAINTY

THIS FAR OUT. SO MOST OF THE LONG RANGE FORECAST DURING THE

POTENTIAL STORMY PERIOD AND AFTER USES HPC GUIDANCE AS A FOUNDATION

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They have also taken this to the HWO...

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY

426 PM EST FRI JAN 28 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM IS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

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the trends on the 12z euro and the latest 18z NCEP is for the energy out west to come out a little less elongated.....as a result we are seeing a shift north as heights amplify moreseo out ahead of the storm.

these are positive trends.

lets see what the 00z models show.

What IF its ots?:(

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