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Early spring...or poorly timed thaw...


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I think that N NJ and s CT could get away with referring to this winter as epic if they didn't see another flake, but I think that for most of sne it would have to be considered a good winter with an epic 1 month stretch.....meh on CC, great on the immediate east coast and good everywhere else.

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I never said it will be a definite, just that a mdt event or two is possible. I don't see any significant changes right now. The possibility is there that it could be more of a mix too.

Gotcha.

I know that is the safest bet for the pros, since it's your livelihoods, but I just don't like calling for "potential".......I'd rather just take a look at the pattern and couple that with a hunch.

Maybe one or two more light events 3" or less this month and then one more decent stretch next month.

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Yeah, it's not much but at least we can keep with the theme of snow falling within a week of the last snow. Haven't gone a week without some kind of snow falling since before the boxing day storm.

Did you get any of that squall last night, pretty good here. Snow depth 20-22 in exposed areas, 24 in shade. Ice everywhere on the paths 3-5 inches thick. Made some more drainage points for thaw days. Snow is super fast, lots of Powdah underneath the top 4 or so ice laden.

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What do you think our nighttime lows will be Thurs and Fri mornings?

Thurs morning should be near freezing....maybe low to mid 30s. Fri morning will be awful, probably upper 30s. This is speaking for the hilltops and not the usual sheltered spots. Luckily it looks like we get the front to move through early Saturday, so the torch is really only 2.5 days or so. It will melt the snow down decently for sure, but not nearly enough to get rid of it except the south facing hillsides.

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Thurs morning should be near freezing....maybe low to mid 30s. Fri morning will be awful, probably upper 30s. This is speaking for the hilltops and not the usual sheltered spots. Luckily it looks like we get the front to move through early Saturday, so the torch is really only 2.5 days or so. It will melt the snow down decently for sure, but not nearly enough to get rid of it except the south facing hillsides.

The one, laregely trivial advantage that I hold over ORH, living in a sheltered swamp. :lol:

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Gotcha.

I know that is the safest bet for the pros, since it's your livelihoods, but I just don't like calling for "potential".......I'd rather just take a look at the pattern and couple that with a hunch.

Maybe one or two more light events 3" or less this month and then one more decent stretch next month.

It seems like a classic gradient pattern, but we have to keep an eye on the -PNA. That could potentially hurt us, however it does have a chance to deliver after the 20th or so. Because it's one of those things where 100 miles mean everything...just too early to determine if we cash in or get screwed. I do like the pattern for now.

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Yeah that is going to limit the melting power of this torch. Its not a huge lakes cutter with 50F TDs and fog. We may see a brief spike in tds before the fropa on late Friday night or early Saturday.

I agree. This isn't a Jan 1996 48F dew point fog eating snow. That said... if we can break out in the sun on Friday and if temps can really soar with some downsloping the valleys and coastal plain could see some really fast snow melt. Not sure we'll be able to do it... but partly sunny and 60 at BDL is going to eat this stuff away fast.

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I agree. This isn't a Jan 1996 48F dew point fog eating snow. That said... if we can break out in the sun on Friday and if temps can really soar with some downsloping the valleys and coastal plain could see some really fast snow melt. Not sure we'll be able to do it... but partly sunny and 60 at BDL is going to eat this stuff away fast.

Only in direct sun

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This snow is not like the Feb 2007 snow...you'll still have snow in your yard when it gets cold again next Satuday. You'd better hope you do...Otherwise the house will be stained with mud from the dog

You mean Feb 2006.....my Feb 2007 snow was just like this because it was a sleet-bomb.

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There is also a chance we may have a "junky" atmosphere later Thursday and Friday, especially near and north of the Pike. What I mean by junky, are those mid level clouds coming in around 15,000ft or so.

It's similar to what we talk about in the summer when we get those heat domes coming in. They all look great and everyone is talking about record highs, only to have altostratus ruin it.

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