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Our first torch of 2011 April 11-12th


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Actually the place to be on Wednesday may be Canaan Valley Resort in WV where I was a little while back...3500' base elevation. Too bad they closed for the season. ;) The latest NAM continues to shift the closed 5H low west more so maybe BTV is still in the game, but it has removed most of ENY and SNE......

Internal forecast has 2-4" here above 1,500ft from 00z Wednesday to 18z Wednesday. Maybe another snowfall before the season ends?

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Southerly winds in April suck, if we get a SW drying wind this afternoon with some clearing, game on, lots of cloud debris upstream right now. Was hoping for a decent outdoor day for the work cell project.

12z NAM brings 80F 2M temps to EWR and keeps SE CT in the 50s. Gotta love April.

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I'll admit it..This appears to be a bust for most of SNE. Still cloudy everywhere with temps in the 50's..but a very muggy feel to the air.

If the sun's not partially out by noon it's a PHAIL and I lose.

You can actually see why that is happening... If you loop the high res sat imagery you can see that the cloud elements are tending to curl anticyclonically toward the SE as the mass comes east of the Berks... What that tells us is that the ridge axis aloft is slightly west of us, and that means that the warm front has loses impetus in moving NE. That ridge axis needs to get E of SNE, then the warm front will accelerate NE really quickly.

We have seen 20F temperature spikes up here in SNE with warm fronts - it can happen, but it is tough to imagine that taking place in April.

I recall one of my favorite severe days ever in June of 1988. It was 63/63 at 11AM with thunderstorms in the area. By 1pm, partial sun was breaking out and the convection was receding seaward. By 2:30 it was 82/74F, and by 5 ...86/74F, and an MCS was developing near ALB, which eventually roared down the Mohawk trail with 70mph winds and large hail.

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That was a nasty humid month overall as I recall. I was working a summer job cooking chicken in the hot back kitchen of a Roy Rogers fast food joint. They kept playing Rick Astley and Pebbles endlessly on the top 40 station on the boom box...hideous. LOL But in late July I escaped to Europe to visit relatives and said bye to the heat on a 97F day at KJFK.

You can actually see why that is happening... If you loop the high res sat imagery you can see that the cloud elements are tending to curl anticyclonically toward the SE as the mass comes east of the Berks... What that tells us is that the ridge axis aloft is slightly west of us, and that means that the warm front has loses impetus in moving NE. That ridge axis needs to get E of SNE, then the warm front will accelerate NE really quickly.

We have seen 20F temperature spikes up here in SNE with warm fronts - it can happen, but it is tough to imagine that taking place in April.

I recall one of my favorite severe days ever in June of 1988. It was 63/63 at 11AM with thunderstorms in the area. By 1pm, partial sun was breaking out and the convection was receding seaward. By 2:30 it was 82/74F, and by 5 ...86/74F, and an MCS was developing near ALB, which eventually roared down the Mohawk trail with 70mph winds and large hail.

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I'll admit it..This appears to be a bust for most of SNE. Still cloudy everywhere with temps in the 50's..but a very muggy feel to the air.

If the sun's not partially out by noon it's a PHAIL and I lose.

W CT will get warm. Your torch for eastern areas has already phailed lol

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Socked in with fog and drizzle here, although a contact in Westchester says winds have picked up and clouds thinning, so maybe we can get into that in a bit, but thinking Upton's low 70's here are going to be stretch....

Not sure how far you are from the water there....

Sat imagery now shows more robust clearing in eastern NYS moving into western Mass and CT... That "thinning" may well go to partly sunny... HPC 13:30 z surface analysis shows the warm front SW of the area, but recent looping (last hour's worth actually) shows that the anticyclonic motion to the mid/ul deck is diminishing... With these observations it may be that we manufacture late highs from SW to NE across SNE. Could almost see FIT-BED-CEF region snapping from 64-ish to 79/61 around 5:30pm.

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1) north 2) east 3) south 4) dissapated

Hopefully better luck this afternoon

Some pretty impressive soundings X NY and PA from 12z today. Albany's is the best. Could be interesting across VT and WMA westward this afternoon. Also have a bit of thermal/lee side trof X CNY south thru CPA. May be the focal point for some pre-frontal action. Storm motion could be incredibly fast, too > than 45 kts for individual elements. Lines (that will probably form) moving @ 35 maybe 40 kts.

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Some pretty impressive soundings X NY and PA from 12z today. Albany's is the best. Could be interesting across VT and WMA westward this afternoon. Also have a bit of thermal/lee side trof X CNY south thru CPA. May be the focal point for some pre-frontal action. Storm motion could be incredibly fast, too > than 45 kts for individual elements. Lines (that will probably form) moving @ 35 maybe 40 kts.

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Nice day for bowing !

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Your first forecast is what folks remember..not your revisions.

You had 80 on here..on air..on your blog and on Twitter

Yes.... on Friday morning. lol

You were forecasting that as of yesterday afternoon.

And either way BDL may certainly get into the mid 70s.

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The wavelengths are shorter this time of year, so a West Coast trough actually teleconnects to an East Coast trough. In any case, the Euro and Euro ensemble have a positive PNA next weekend into early next week.

It's really interesting how a -1SD PNA is somehow meaning nothing on the pattern over N/A. These runs that keep doing this have no business existing, but... eh, maybe the domain is a mess because of the shortening wave lengths or some shiz.

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Hazy sun has broken through here now. The temperature has now risen to 63 rather quickly.

Some pretty impressive soundings X NY and PA from 12z today. Albany's is the best. Could be interesting across VT and WMA westward this afternoon. Also have a bit of thermal/lee side trof X CNY south thru CPA. May be the focal point for some pre-frontal action. Storm motion could be incredibly fast, too > than 45 kts for individual elements. Lines (that will probably form) moving @ 35 maybe 40 kts.

Soundings

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Not sure how far you are from the water there....

Sat imagery now shows more robust clearing in eastern NYS moving into western Mass and CT... That "thinning" may well go to partly sunny... HPC 13:30 z surface analysis shows the warm front SW of the area, but recent looping (last hour's worth actually) shows that the anticyclonic motion to the mid/ul deck is diminishing... With these observations it may be that we manufacture late highs from SW to NE across SNE. Could almost see FIT-BED-CEF region snapping from 64-ish to 79/61 around 5:30pm.

I'm about 3 miles inland...agree with your thoughts....wind is still dead calm though right at the moment, but I think we break out in the next hour....

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Some pretty impressive soundings X NY and PA from 12z today. Albany's is the best. Could be interesting across VT and WMA westward this afternoon. Also have a bit of thermal/lee side trof X CNY south thru CPA. May be the focal point for some pre-frontal action. Storm motion could be incredibly fast, too > than 45 kts for individual elements. Lines (that will probably form) moving @ 35 maybe 40 kts.

Soundings

Some really decent mid level lapse rates. Impressive elevated instability. All we need is a few hours of decent heating, and with moist low levels we're off to the races.

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