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our first nudge towards autumn comes thursday through friday


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I guess I shouldn't have said region wide being busted.. I didn't check NYC GFS MOS too much lately.. Not sure why Albany is continually busting low for such a long period of time now.. it's really just on overnight temps. It is has been doing OK on daytime highs... Overall though.. in Albany, it's performing horrible.. out of 30 participants, it is almost dead last in temp forecasts for the 12, 24, 36, and 48 hour periods.. interestingly, it is performing the worst in the 12 hour period.

It seems like the times NYC is able to beat the guidance on the low side is during very strong CAA events especially in the winter when strong winds stay up all night.

The MOS was too warm for the quickly falling temperatures in the evening yesterday but did well with the lows once the winds and rate of temperature decline slowed.

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Here's the gradient being discussed. It actually lessens a bit by this evening, and consensus is for h850 temps around 4 C through the night. Winds are forecast to be relatively calm as well with a northerly component. I think the interior will radiate well tonight..the city will probably be a degree or two warmer than last night.

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Looking ahead to the weekend objectively, I think we have some issues with the pleasant weekend being forecasted on the news and radio. I actually heard them proclaim "glorious weekend" on the radio this morning on the way to work. There's a mid level disturbance moving west to east from the lower Great Lakes by Saturday Morning and the models are hinting at a good amount of mid and high clouds. After this, the disturbance actually cuts off aloft (see the image below)..when I think we could see some scattered showers on Sunday. Not completely overcast, but I think the mid-high clouds could hold temperatures down a bit on Saturday...and we could see some spotty showers on Sunday if the forecast guidance has the right idea here. Just something to look out for.

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And it was just as obviously wrong 3 days ago as it was today.

Exactly, and he could have updated it if he wanted to. Not one piece of guidance was that warm, and even factoring in UHI, that was a bad forecast. He always does the same thing, forecasts the opposite of what is reasonably expected to occur.

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I think we need to take up a collection to move you to a new point in the nyc metro. I feel bad for you always being the bridesmaid, never the bride.

Yes, please. I'll take some donations. Well... on a bright spot, I did jackpot on the freakish 8/22 - 8/23/2010 rain event with over 6 inches of rain. Otherwise, I'm pretty much a loser. I'm embarassed to share my snowfall totals sometimes.

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Yes, please. I'll take some donations. Well... on a bright spot, I did jackpot on the freakish 8/22 - 8/23/2010 rain event with over 6 inches of rain. Otherwise, I'm pretty much a loser. I'm embarassed to share my snowfall totals sometimes.

Do what 99% of people on this board do, inflate them.

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Looking ahead to the weekend objectively, I think we have some issues with the pleasant weekend being forecasted on the news and radio. I actually heard them proclaim "glorious weekend" on the radio this morning on the way to work. There's a mid level disturbance moving west to east from the lower Great Lakes by Saturday Morning and the models are hinting at a good amount of mid and high clouds. After this, the disturbance actually cuts off aloft (see the image below)..when I think we could see some scattered showers on Sunday. Not completely overcast, but I think the mid-high clouds could hold temperatures down a bit on Saturday...and we could see some spotty showers on Sunday if the forecast guidance has the right idea here. Just something to look out for.

definitely something to watch out for. What's interesting is that the GFS is much later with the timing of cutting off the system than the NAM. The difference maker looks to be in the Atlantic. You could see the westward extent of a blocking ridge of high pressure on the NAM whereas the GFS, the feature looks to be further east... but the net result in both models is to eventually form a cutoff upper low within the general vicinity of New England. Regardless, there looks to be at least some high clouds.. at least per the NAM. If anything, it would keep things cooler than currently forecasted.

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Sweet dude, that's a winner!

When I first moved into Villanova 3 years ago, I thought "oh boy, now I'm in for Philly wx, and I'll be on the outside looking in at the weather in the NYC metro." But luckily for me, it's been very good the past few years. We had 70" in the 09-10 winter here and 45" last winter. Another favorable aspect which I initially overlooked is the elevation, eclipsing even Mt. Zucker, at about 475ft. So when PHL's at 34F and rain, that 500ft can make the difference b/t frozen precip or plain liquid rain. We had a couple of those last winter when everything iced up pretty good (Feb 2nd '11?).

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Re high clouds -- we've got plenty around today -- sky has that milky white look right now. The forecast called for mostly sunny, so we've already got more debris than expected today. In addition, the visible satellite to our west certainly doesn't look promising for a sunny weekend. Probably partly to mostly cloudy at times (agree with the earlier posts on this).

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