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Second Winter Storm Threat - Oct 29/30


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Observing different regions from afar, and very interested in all of this...just an observation and question for the mets in here.

The guys in the DC area are VERY conservative on this, even to the north and west of the city...they all think 3-6 inches at most, even when 1.5 inches of QPF are being printed out by the models. They keep pointing to climo, and saying this can't happen....you folks up here have thrown out climo.

I can see the DC folks side...this is extremely rare, and it would be a once in 100-200 year event most likely. Is the reason that they are so leery to commit to any sort of large event is simply geographic, that they are further south. I mean, temps look plenty cold enough, even just outside of the DC area to support 6-10 inches of heavy, wet snow.

I guess my feeling is, whether it is January or October, if it looks like a duck, and acts like a duck, it is a duck....if you get what I am saying.

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I don't think it's been thrown out. Take a look at the BOX forecast, and the fact that the TV mets are refusing to publish maps. One ocean breeze and this whole thing goes to hell. If Mets go big on this one and are wrong, all the forecasts for the rest of the winter suffer.

Observing different regions from afar, and very interested in all of this...just an observation and question for the mets in here.

The guys in the DC area are VERY conservative on this, even to the north and west of the city...they all think 3-6 inches at most, even when 1.5 inches of QPF are being printed out by the models. They keep pointing to climo, and saying this can't happen....you folks up here have thrown out climo.

I can see the DC folks side...this is extremely rare, and it would be a once in 100-200 year event most likely. Is the reason that they are so leery to commit to any sort of large event is simply geographic, that they are further south. I mean, temps look plenty cold enough, even just outside of the DC area to support 6-10 inches of heavy, wet snow.

I guess my feeling is, whether it is January or October, if it looks like a duck, and acts like a duck, it is a duck....if you get what I am saying.

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I don't think it's been thrown out. Take a look at the BOX forecast, and the fact that the TV mets are refusing to publish maps. One ocean breeze and this whole thing goes to hell. If Mets go big on this one and are wrong, all the forecasts for the rest of the winter suffer.

Ehh...I wasn;t really talking about TV Mets and the NWS...they have to play it conservative a bit...I am sure that every single one of them is sitting there amazed at what is going on, and are all weenied out right now.

But I see Orh, coastal, and others going nuts on this, and then see the guys in the mid atlantic saying climo will win.

Just interested in the different perspectives.

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Observing different regions from afar, and very interested in all of this...just an observation and question for the mets in here.

The guys in the DC area are VERY conservative on this, even to the north and west of the city...they all think 3-6 inches at most, even when 1.5 inches of QPF are being printed out by the models. They keep pointing to climo, and saying this can't happen....you folks up here have thrown out climo.

I can see the DC folks side...this is extremely rare, and it would be a once in 100-200 year event most likely. Is the reason that they are so leery to commit to any sort of large event is simply geographic, that they are further south. I mean, temps look plenty cold enough, even just outside of the DC area to support 6-10 inches of heavy, wet snow.

I guess my feeling is, whether it is January or October, if it looks like a duck, and acts like a duck, it is a duck....if you get what I am saying.

There's more issues down there than up in SNE...we share some issues, but also have some we don't share...one is the mid-level temps...the NAM is plenty cold, but other models are a little warmer...and even with the colder ML temp models, it occurs during day time and not evening and night time...its a small difference but it matters at this time of year when every little factor can be the difference between slushy junk and actual heavy wet snow. Finally, the latitude matters as well when it comes to antecedent airmass and surrounding conditions like SSTs.

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kevin, you feeling as bullish for eastern areas of MA where there are currently no watches?

the NAM/EURO tonight are absolutely historic and have been consistently so, and the best mets here are balls to wall

. . . But we're still not seeing that kind of enthusiasm on public forecasts. look at Matt Noyes forecast for example, last night called for "3, 4, maybe 5 inches" in central CT, central Mass up to VT. seems like people are hedging given how unprecedented this is and unclear marine impact. just curious what your thoughts are since you were one of the first to call this as big as it looks it'll be...

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