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Thanksgiving week transient cold shot and the pattern beyond


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Either way you slice it, the geographic area that gets snow with this storm looks like it'll be very small, a thin ribbon on the northern end. I could see a decent mix zone that sees just about everything from rain, sleet, snow and ZR. The ZR threat will depend on how cold the lowest levels are but I bet even where H85 goes above freezing, there'll be a layer below that which stays sub 0C. Maybe some nice 33F IP/RN mix.

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That 'whiff storm" was my favorite becuase it didn't just 'underperform' it utter implosion. I remember we were taking my daughter to "bright nights" in Springfield and the radio was giving their forecast saying a warning with 5--10" blah, blah, blah. I looked at the radar before bed having thrown in the towel, but it wasn't until the next morning that I learned EVERYBODY whiffed. All we could do was laugh. I don't even remember what happened with it.

36.3/23

Nothing worse as a budding weather enthusiast to get a big snow boner raging for a big multi-day, multi-warned bible buster, go to bed with the snow and wind just kicking in ...and summarily wake up to sun shining through milk cirrus. As your eyes open and the sun pours in the window ...it's, no words.

The 1980s were famous for serving up a ton of that kind of crap. One of them was a January bomb in either 1987 or 1988, that blasted Cape Code with 70mph winds, 18" of beach sand and snow, while Middlesex County - originally slated for 24" of 1978 comparison porn - wound up with 2.4 inches that was barely detectable due to it being super fine pixie dust in brutally cold winds. The sun's orb shown mockingly through. By early afternoon it pretty much completely cleared out up our way, albeit very cold, and a solid wall of thick cirrus could be seen on the SE horizon. Right away after school the Weather Channel showed that whiteout still raged on the Cape.

That was the infamous blizzard warning issued for a D2 event, for much of interior eastern Mass, RI and eastern CT, ghost storm of immeasureable frustration to the point of out and out ire. So deep did that wound of incompetence cut that it taught us never to get emotionally invested in a storm. Until this day, I don't.

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That 'whiff storm" was my favorite becuase it didn't just 'underperform' it utter implosion. I remember we were taking my daughter to "bright nights" in Springfield and the radio was giving their forecast saying a warning with 5--10" blah, blah, blah. I looked at the radar before bed having thrown in the towel, but it wasn't until the next morning that I learned EVERYBODY whiffed. All we could do was laugh. I don't even remember what happened with it.

36.3/23

Confluence.

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I take it we went the wrong direction weeks 2-3 on the Euro ens?

No not really, just that we torch heading into the last week of Novie. The euro ensembles have a gradient look to them at the end of the run, but the colder air doesn't really want to make it much farther past the border of Canada.

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