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potential for a few (million) mangled flakes part 2


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It's going to be close here. Im far enough west but I'm not sure about far enough north-west. I'll take whatever I can get.

dude dont be greedy. your sitting pretty right now. its us on the island that will be happy with a coating

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Some very severe over reactions in this thread initially.

The posts by eduggs and jm are spot on. This is not going to be all snow. It's October. However, the track is absolutely classic. We have some warm boundary layer temps to fight off initially but you can't deny what's going on here.

Although the GFS is warmer, it's still showing the rapidly deepening low pressure offshore and very impressive frontogenic forcing and the potential for instability in banding and very impressive dynamic cooling.

The westward tilt with height and the tuck northwest as the low is kicked by the h5 pva is classic. It's going to be a rain/snow transition event, but once it flips..it's going to feel like mid-winter.

Johm, thanks for the sane post; yes classic cyclogenesis going on and there are impressive dynamics driven, reminds me of February 5, 2001 and December 2002 Christmas storm when once it flipped to heavy snow, it all came together.... Still, if this was December, we would be going nuts over all snow version; a la December 2009 version of tremendous cyclogenesis going on.

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I see your in Danbury.. Dont hesitate to post in the HV thread.. The inland crew welcomes you!! :snowman:

thanks, will do.

i guess climo here is somewhat similiar to the HV, albeit a little SE so deff more warm air influence off the Long Island sound.

i lived in CNJ all my life, pretty much, so this is pretty big new transition for me.

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I said I'll take whatever I get. Doesn't get less greedy than that.

i guess i phrased it wrong, your getting 2-3 inches no matter what, which is def more than us here, so we are in the position of taking what we can get, you should be sleeping like a baby tonight

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It's going to be close here. Im far enough west but I'm not sure about far enough north-west. I'll take whatever I can get.

Yup, hopefully the 15 miles we are away from the city makes a good difference this time. If its going ot matter it's going to matter with this storm. I know 5 miles to my NW is golden for at least 4"+...but who knows NYC might get that as well.

Im tempted to go 2-4" for both of us right now....

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We'll probably turn out a little colder than the GFS, but not as cold as the NAM, in that case. The NAM's higher res is allowing it to pick up on dynamic cooling. However, the NAM is also probably overdoing precip intensity.

This post is too reasonable to have come from you. :lol:

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The NAM's westward push made me extremely nervous... but the GFS coming in a bit east and smidge cooler was calming. Still will wait a while before making travel plans...

the nam is father west than the gfs right now. yet, it's got the dynamics cooling the entire column away from the coast.

the gfs resolution likely won't grasp this in its entiret. but the nam may be slightly overdone. I still would take its thermal profile with more weight than the gfs.

the truth probably lies between the two, which is where the euro will likely go. if it goes strongly in either direction, we've got a problem.

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Someone already mentioned it, but, for emphasis--

Central Park is at 44 degrees, at noon on October 28th under clear skies. 44 degrees!!!!

And dp temps are in the low and mid 20s throughout the region! This is basically a winter airmass in the northern mid-Atlantic. I'm really starting to think that forecasters should treat this as a fairly typical winter storm scenario away from the coast.

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Some very severe over reactions in this thread initially.

The posts by eduggs and jm are spot on. This is not going to be all snow. It's October. However, the track is absolutely classic. We have some warm boundary layer temps to fight off initially but you can't deny what's going on here.

Although the GFS is warmer, it's still showing the rapidly deepening low pressure offshore and very impressive frontogenic forcing and the potential for instability in banding and very impressive dynamic cooling.

The westward tilt with height and the tuck northwest as the low is kicked by the h5 pva is classic. It's going to be a rain/snow transition event, but once it flips..it's going to feel like mid-winter.

This is an interesting discussion from NYNJPA Weather - says no snow accumulation in NYC Metro

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