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Can this storm can any further west or is the greater risk the storm going more to the east?

The amount of blocking and the strength of the polar vortex to our north over southeast canada suggests this storm likely has the potential to slide east with delayed amplification. I don't think there is much support for a further inland track unless there are some very significant changes aloft.

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Say.. west of the CT River.

i would say your fine, the low goes from the pt of long island to boston, east of the ct river would likely change over. at hr 174 the frz line goes from sw corner of the state to the northeast corner of the state going right over hfd, 850s are souteast of that. 180 the storm is over bos and the frz line is on the eastern border of ct and rhode island. If you do even change over you get a havey front end dump and a good bit on the back end.

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Tombo...N. Ocean/S. Monmouth in NJ, does this look like an all heavy wet snow event right around 32 the whole storm? seeing that 850s remain East the whole duration (according to this run of course)

yea you should be all snow your abv freezing, but 850 are well to your east. Its hard to say, but you should be with that type of track. As long as your not within 5 miles of the ocean you should be fine.

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i would say your fine, the low goes from the pt of long island to boston, east of the ct river would likely change over. at hr 174 the frz line goes from sw corner of the state to the northeast corner of the state going right over hfd, 850s are souteast of that. 180 the storm is over bos and the frz line is on the eastern border of ct and rhode island. If you do even change over you get a havey front end dump and a good bit on the back end.

Okay, thanks for the info tombo. Of course, it's safe to say this will change a few times between now and next weekend. :lol:

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The amount of blocking and the strength of the polar vortex to our north over southeast canada suggests this storm likely has the potential to slide east with delayed amplification. I don't think there is much support for a further inland track unless there are some very significant changes aloft.

Yes. I also think the greater risk is too far east, with the less amplified ridge out West.

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HPC sees it...

EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION

NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER CAMP SPRINGS MD

225 PM EST SUN DEC 12 2010

VALID 12Z WED DEC 15 2010 - 12Z SUN DEC 19 2010

THE BASIC SURFACE ISOBARIC PATTERNS AND METEOROLOGICAL REASONING

WERE LEFT UNCHANGED IN OUR FINAL EDITION.

THE MODELS ARE SHOWING AN UNUSUALLY ANOMALOUS UPPER HIGH

RETROGRADING FROM GREENLAND TO CENTRAL CANADA DURING THE MEDIUM

RANGE PERIOD. FAIRLY DEEP MEAN TROFS OFF EACH COAST THIS PERIOD

WILL BE BOOKENDS TO A VERY FLAT MEAN RIDGE OVER THE ROCKIES. THE

NEW SET OF 00Z/12 ENSEMBLE SPAGHETTI PLOTS SUPPORTED THE REASONING

OF THE PRELIMS. AN UPPER CYCLONE OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA SLOWLY

PIVOTS TOWARD THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WHILE ASSOCIATED SHORTWAVE

TROUGHS ON ITS S SIDE MOVE ACROSS CA/THE GRT BASIN/THE ROCKIES.

GUIDANCE SHOWS CONSIDERABLE SPREAD DEVELOPING WITH THESE SHORTWAVE

FEATURES THU AND BEYOND IN THEIR TREK ACROSS THE LOWER 48 STATES.

BELOW NORMAL TEMPS WILL PREVAIL MOST PLACES OVER THE ERN HALF OF

THE CONUS WHILE MILDER AIR OVER THE WRN STATES STRUGGLES TO

PENETRATE THE COLD PATTERN OVER THE EAST. THE MAIN THRUST OF

MILDER AIR MAY BRING PRECIP TO THE SERN CONUS THU OR FRI. THE

PACIFIC NW WILL SEE FREQUENT INTERVALS OF PCPN IN ONSHORE FLOW

WITH HEAVY PCPN EXPECTED AS FAR S AS THE NRN HALF OF CA BY FRI DAY

5. FARTHER E...LAKE EFFECT SN WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER STORY UNTIL

THU...WHEN AN ILL-DEFINED YET SIGNIFICANT AREA OF PCPN DEVELOPS S

OF THE OH RIVER IN CONNECTION WITH WHATEVER WAVES MIGHT BE

CROSSING THAT REGION.

12Z MODELS: THE MAIN PROBLEM CONTINUES TO BE RESOLVING THE PACIFIC

SHORTWAVES CROSSING THE CONUS UNDERNEATH THE RETROGRADING CANADIAN

BLOCK THU DAY 4 AND BEYOND. THE 12Z/12 GFS IS FAIRLY CONSISTENT

WITH ITS OWN 00Z/12 CONTINUITY IN MOVING A NRN STREAM UPPER

LOW/SHORTWAVE ACROSS THE NERN QUARTER OF THE NATION DAYS 3-5 AND

DOWNPLAYING THE SRN STREAM. ON THE OTHER HAND...THE NEW

CANADIAN/UKMET SUGGEST OTHERWISE...COMING UP WITH A FORECAST QUITE

AT ODDS WITH THAT OF THE GFS. THE UKMET AND CANADIAN BOTH ROUGHLY

FOLLOW OUR PRELIM ECMWF/ECENS MEAN CONTINUITY THU/FRI...YET STILL

DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY FROM EACH OTHER THOSE DAYS. THE UKMET GIVE A

BETTER FIT TO OUR CONTINUITY DAY 4 WHILE THE CANADIAN GIVES A

BETTER FIT DAY 5. THE UKMET APPEARS TO TRACK A WAVE TOO FAR NE FRI

DAY 5 GIVEN THE MEAN DEEP TROF OFF THE E COAST. THE NEW 12Z ECMWF

SUPPORTS THE FLATTER CANADIAN SOLUTION. THESE MODEL DIFFERENCES

LEAD INTO THE UNCERTAIN TIME FRAME NEXT WEEKEND OFF THE SE COAST

OF THE CONUS. AM NOT TERRIBLY CONFIDENT OF ANY SOLUTION NOW. THE

NEW 12Z ECMWF HAS ITS MAIN ERN CONUS SHORTWAVE ENERGY SLOWER DAYS

5-6 THAN THE CANADIAN...SLOW ENOUGH TO LEAD INTO THE CHANCY

CYCLOGENESIS OFF THE SE COAST NEXT WEEKEND DESCRIBED BELOW.

00Z/12 ENSEMBLE 500MB SPAGHETTI PLOTS HIGHLIGHTED AN AREA OF

POSSIBLE CYCLOGENESIS OFF THE SE COAST OF THE CONUS LATER SAT 6

AND BEYOND. IT WAS MOSTLY ECMWF ENSEMBLE MEMBERS THAT WERE

SUPPORTING CYCLOGENESIS OFF THE SE COAST NEXT SAT OR SUN. THE

06Z/12 GFS RUN SEEMED TO BE PICKING UP ON THIS POSSIBILITY FOR

NEXT SAT/SUN....BUT THE NEW GFS RUN HAS GONE BACK FLAT. RECENT

RUNS OF THE ECMWF HAD EARLIER SHOWN A CHANCE FOR CYCLOGENESIS NEXT

WEEKEND OF THE SE COAST BUT THE MOST RECENT RUN HAD BACKED OFF

FROM IT. NOW THE 12Z/12 RUN OF THE ECMWF IS BACK ON

BOARD...DEVELOPING A MAJOR SNOWSTORM NEXT WEEKEND FROM INTERIOR NC

TO NEW ENG. IF CORRECT...IT COULD LAY DOWN A HEAVY BLANKET OF SNOW

IN THE SAME AREAS AS THE BIG SYS LAST YEAR...ALMOST TO THE DATE! A

WHITE CHRISTMAS FOR THAT AREA 6 DAYS LATER WOULD BE HIGHLY FAVORED

IN THE PERSISTENT COLD PATTERN.

FLOOD

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