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2/1-4 Potential Part II


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It sounds like everyone has written this off already as a major rain or ice storm.....where have you all been for the rest of the winter?? Just wondering, because if I recall correctly, we have already been through all of this MANY times before during this season. Now, I know what your all going to say "look at the models". Well I have been, all winter long....and they keep changing....daily....Its been a discussion already, about a week ago, that the models aren't handeling the northern stream properly in this nina. Also, I remember the disco posted by someone earlier today from HPC about the evolution of this storm having much to do with what happens in B.C. So you mean to tell me that the models are handeling things occuring in canada with a lot of accuracy? Ok, I feel better now. With that being said, I don't think we'll really know anything until monday. Just like the rest of the winter has been.

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yeah just saw that....

let me get this straight- the first batch of precip appears to be solely WAA...

the second batch is from the developing storm of phasing streams out west....correct?

if so, i would love to see that 1052 hP cell drive EASt as opposed to south after 72hrs

the 994 low in western tenn doesnt bode well....

To tell you the truth I don't see any phasing at the end of the run.

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That HP can't slip east right away because of the PV and the -PNA. However, if that surface low just goes up the lakes like that, there won't be much precip as we would be dry slotted.

Still think this evolves into a different look than we are seeing now, not a snowier solution, but perhaps weaker and dryer after the WAA event.

Needs to cut up into MI instead of W PA in order to see that dry slot. Otherwise we are talking about 0.5" of rain easy.

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Not so sure surface temps are going above 0 in the next frame, in fact at 87 hours 925 temps are dropping. The surface low in the midwest may just die a slow death out there since it certainly isn't plugging through the fast easterly flow over southern canada.

What a mess.

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It sounds like everyone has written this off already as a major rain or ice storm.....where have you all been for the rest of the winter?? Just wondering, because if I recall correctly, we have already been through all of this MANY times before during this season. Now, I know what your all going to say "look at the models". Well I have been, all winter long....and they keep changing....daily....Its been a discussion already, about a week ago, that the models aren't handeling the northern stream properly in this nina. Also, I remember the disco posted by someone earlier today from HPC about the evolution of this storm having much to do with what happens in B.C. So you mean to tell me that the models are handeling things occuring in canada with a lot of accuracy? Ok, I feel better now. With that being said, I don't think we'll really know anything until monday. Just like the rest of the winter has been.

Unfortunately, we tend to model hug on every run while others can "see" the pattern and players on the field unfold before the models pick it up. Time will tell, of course.

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Unfortunately, we tend to model hug on every run while others can "see" the pattern and players on the field unfold before the models pick it up. Time will tell, of course.

We also have s/w out over the ocean, so this likely wont be resolved before Monday night.

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925mb temps on the NAM are literally right around 0C. This is a VERY shallow layer of cold. Almost like a radiation inversion.

Doug, it reminds me of that phenomenon back in 2008 I believe it was, when someone reported it was raining at the surface, but there was a very wet snow sticking to the treetops-- only in reverse in time.

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Nice write up by Upton

.SHORT TERM /6 AM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY/...

-- Changed Discussion --A WEAK 700-500 HPA SHORTWAVE TRACKS TO THE N ON SUNDAY...WITH

ENOUGH FORCING FOR SOME CLOUD COVER...BUT TO FAR N FOR ANY

PRECIPITATION. IT SHOULD ALSO BE DRY FROM SUNDAY NIGHT INTO

MONDAY EVENING AS WEAK RIDGING BUILDS OVER THE AREA.

WARM ADVECTION SNOWS SHOULD DEVELOP FROM SW TO NE OVER ALL BUT FAR

EASTERN ZONES LATE MONDAY NIGHT...AND THEN OVERSPREAD THE ENTIRE

TRI-STATE TUESDAY MORNING.

THE NAM IS AN UNUSUAL OUTLIER IN HOW QUICKLY IT WASHES OUT THE

DAMMING HIGH ON TUESDAY...GIVEN IN-SITU DAMMING AND MID-UPPER

LEVEL CONFLUENCE OVER NORTHERN UPSTATE NY/NEW ENGLAND WHICH

SUPPORT MAINTAINING THE DAMMING HIGH IN PLACE. THIS IDEA IS

SUPPORTED BY THE ECMWF/GFS/CMC-GLOBAL/SREF AND UKMET. FOR NOW USED

A 75% GFS-25% ECMWF BLEND OF LOW LEVEL THERMAL FIELDS (NOTING

ECMWF OF LATE HAS BEEN TOO QUICK TO WARM THE LOW LEVELS...AND

USUALLY BY TOO MUCH. AS A RESULT HAVE GONE FOR ALL SNOW

TUESDAY...EXCEPT FOR A MIXING IN WITH SLEET OVER THE COASTAL

OCEAN ZONES LATE. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ADVISORY LEVEL

SNOWFALL ACROSS THE REGION ON TUESDAY...WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS LIKELY

ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER...WHERE UPSLOPE COMES INTO PLAY.

FOR TEMPERATURES IN THE SHORT TERM...

BLENDED MAV/MET GUIDANCE WITH A MIX DOWN FROM 900 HPA (PER BUFKIT

SOUNDINGS) FOR HIGHS ON SUNDAY...TOOK THE LOWER OF MAV AND MET

GUIDANCE FOR LOWS SUNDAY NIGHT (RELATIVELY CLEAR SKY

CONDITIONS/LIGHT WINDS PLUS SNOW PACK). USED A MIX DOWN FROM 950

HPA FOR HIGHS MONDAY...AND COLDER MAV GUIDANCE FOR LOWS MONDAY

NIGHT...AS THEY CAPTURED THE IDEA OF EASTERN AREAS HAVING A GOOD

PERIOD OF RADIATIONAL COOLING MONDAY EVENING BEFORE THE CLOUDS

ROLL IN AHEAD OF THE WARM ADVECTION SNOWS LATE THAT NIGHT. FOR

HIGHS TUESDAY BLENDED MEX/MEX ENSEMBLE MEAN AND THE LOW MEX

ENSEMBLE MEMBER (TO REFLECT IMPACT OF SNOWPACK AND DAMMING HIGH).

TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE SHORT

TERM...WITH LOWS SUNDAY NIGHT AND HIGHS MONDAY ABOUT 10 DEGREES

BELOW NORMAL...WITH SINGLE DIGITS TO MID TEENS FORECASTED FOR LOWS

AND THE 20S FOR HIGHS. MONDAY NIGHT COULD SEE LOWS AROUND 0 ACROSS

INTERIOR PORTIONS OF SE CT.

-- End Changed Discussion --

&&

.LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...

-- Changed Discussion --ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM WILL BE IMPACTING THE TRI-STATE

AREA TO START THE PERIOD...FROM TUE NIGHT INTO WED. THIS TIME

AROUND THOUGH THERE WILL BE MULTIPLE P-TYPES WITH EVEN THE

LIKELIHOOD OF COASTAL AREAS GOING OVER TO RAIN.

LIKE MANY OF THE SYSTEMS THIS WINTER...MULTIPLE STREAMS WILL

INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER TO LEAVE SOME UNCERTAINTY IN THE

FORECAST TRACK OF THE LOW AND THE AMOUNT OF COLD AIR THAT WILL BE

IN PLACE ACROSS THE THE REGION. IN ADDITION...THE PRIMARY LOW TO

IMPACT THE AREA WILL TAKE AN INLAND TRACK WITH ANY SECONDARY

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT OCCURRING LATE ENOUGH TO SPARE THE REGION AN

ALL SNOW EVENT. A STORM SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE E PAC WILL MOVE

ONSHORE THE WEST COAST SUN...THEN PROCEED TO DIG INTO THE DESERT

SW ON MON. AN IMPULSE IN THE NORTHERN BRANCH OF THE POLAR JET

ACROSS WESTERN CANADA WILL DROP SE...PHASING WITH THIS SYSTEM OVER

THE HIGH PLAINS MON NIGHT INTO TUE. THIS LOW WILL THEN LIFT TO THE

NE ACROSS THE MS AND OH VALLEYS...TAKING A TRACK NEAR OR JUST

SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA WED. WHILE A DEEP-LAYERED W/SW FLOW

ALOFT WILL ERODE THE COLD AIR ALOFT...THE TRACK OF THE LOW AND

MAGNITUDE OF THE HIGH TO THE NORTH WILL DETERMINE HOW MUCH LOW-

LEVEL COLD AIR REMAINS IN PLACE TO PRODUCE A SIGNIFICANT ICE

STORM.

PREFERENCE AT THIS TIME IS TO GO WITH COLDER GFS AND GLOBAL GEM

SOLUTIONS. THE NAM AND TO A LESSER EXTENT THE ECMWF...SEEM TO

WEAKEN THE COLD AIR DAMMING TOO QUICKLY. A STRONGLY CONFLUENT FLOW

IN THE MID TO UPPER LEVELS DURING THIS TIME WOULD SEEM TO POINT TO

HIGHER PRESSURES OVER NEW ENGLAND...THUS MAINTAINING THE SOURCE OF

LOW-LEVEL COLD AIR. OF COURSE...SHOULD THE LOW TRACK TREND FARTHER

NORTH OF THE AREA IN SUBSEQUENT MODEL RUNS...THIS WOULD BE ALL FOR

NOT AS MARITIME AIR WOULD SCOUR OUT THE COLD AIR.

THUS...LOOKING FOR A FORECAST WHERE SNOW TRANSITIONS TO MIXED

PRECIPITATION TUE NIGHT AND THEN SPREAD NORTH THROUGH THE DAY ON

WED. A CHANGEOVER TO ALL RAIN IS LIKELY AT THE COAST IN THE

MORNING...WITH A POTENTIAL PROLONGED PERIOD OF FREEZING RAIN

ACROSS THE INTERIOR.

THE LOW PASSES OFF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST WED NIGHT WITH ANY

LINGERING PRECIPITATION ENDING AS SNOW. POLAR HIGH PRESSURE

FOLLOWS BEHIND THE STORM FOR THU AND FRI WITH UNSEASONABLY COLD

AIR ACROSS THE AREA. A REINFORCING COLD FRONT THEN MOVES THOROUGH

EARLY SAT. THERE IS ONE CAVEAT HERE IN THAT A COASTAL LOW WILL

BYPASS THE AREA TO THE EAST FRI NIGHT INTO SAT. THE 12Z ECMWF HAS

SPED UP WITH THIS SYSTEM FROM ITS 00Z RUN AND IS CONSIDERABLY

CLOSER TO THE COAST THAN THE GFS. GLOBAL MODELS ARE HAVING A TOUGH

TIME WITH ANOTHER PIECE OF ENERGY THAT CLOSES OFF OVER THE DESERT

SW MID WEEK AND THE EVENTUAL PROGRESSION OF THIS SYSTEM TO THE

EAST.

-- End Changed Discussion --

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18z Nam text soundings show the highest temp NYC sees is 30.9 through 84 hours. The bad thing is that at 84 hours, 850's go to 4.8 with the surface below freezing.

that is freezing rain...would prefer the surface gets above zero...no interest in ZR

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That discussion makes it sound like a juicier version of the snow to slop to rain scenario we had a few weeks ago. Changeover timings sound similar also. I had a sense of deja vu reading that discussion.

By the way, to whomever wrote that, if they're reading this thread (highly unlikely!) its "all for naught" not "all for not."

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