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The control run of the 12z Euro turns this thing this weekend up the coast, keeping the precip light here, only around .1 or so, but the .25 is not that far away, and it would definitely be all snow. It would seem that there is some potential there. Some of the ensemble members of the GFS were also showing this and the UKMET is practically over us with the low. It also has a Christmas eve snow for us.

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Interestingly today at the 1 hPa level there is some stratospheric warming starting to take shape in the Arctic Basin, possibly associated with the increasingly negative QBO.

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The ECMWF and the GFS both show a SSW in the coming days, so seeing the statospheric layer warming in the Arctic Basin is definitely encouraging for a pattern change to say the very least.

this is the kind of stuff that should be in the discussion thread, not the banter thread.

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96 covered a much larger area and it was soooo long that its still to this day, considered the grandfather of EC snowstorms. however, boxing day last winter was more intense...just in a smaller area.

i still rate 96 as #1, boxing day #2. but they are really close for IMBY...but i could understand folks that prefer boxing day.

Both storms show that a major storm can occur during a moderate-strong La Niña. Prior to that the only modern example was March 19-20,1956. Last year, we had 3 or 4 (I forget which) KU storms. I felt Boxing Day was more dramatic, though both are highly memorable.

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Only to reload and dump on us from late January to April, non stop.

Not really non-stop. We had major torches during most of January 1996, and much of late February 1996. The storm that was most memorable was March 8, 1996. I was watching my older son being born and the staff told me not to watch the procedure, which was a Caeserean. That type of thing doesn't bother me. I said, "don't worry, I'm watching the snow. I'm a weather buff". After watching it bomb snow (and sneaking a look at the procedure) I said "look like it (my son) is a red head. They said "you weren't supposed to be looking" and "you should ask if he's breathing". Luckily within seconds he was and is now my spitting image, 15 3/4 years later. And he's seen lots of snow.

He was away in California during Boxing Day though.

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Banter,

I am astonished on how much disrespect JB gets here. I don't know much about DT, and the others that are lumped with him, but I do know that most of the on air mets don't breath the same air as he does. I don't subscribe to his sites. I don't care how successful he is. I also know that there are a lot of people with his ability around, some we know some we don't. Discrediting professionals with good track records(and far from perfect), unless it is in the proper spirit, shows arrogance.

This time last year he was calling for a snow filled northeast December. He took heat right up to 12/27. What is the argument about his abilities? Is it personal or professional? Would a newbie weather hobbyist not learn anything from JB?

In my opinion,he is as good as anybody out there.

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That block brings tears to my eyes

it brings a tingle to my loins!! haha.

that year was just unreal. Almost a complete opposite of what we're dealing with currently. I do remember people saying(myself included).. " i'll never complain if we never get another snowstorm again" yada yada yada. lol!

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That, IMO, should have rivaled all the big ones that came about here.... We were a bit too mild to start, all the levels were cold enough, but the sfc low did not bomb quickly enough (BWI got 19.5" of snow because the H500 low came SE of them).

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Watch the loop of Dec 19-20, 2009.... The explosion of moisture is quite remarkable. The sfc low went a bit too far east as it went ENE, instead of NNE.... If, it did go NNE, we would, also be covered with 18-24-30" amounts. Would have been a category 4 on the scale; maybe even 5.

SNE got 12-24" also.

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meh, should have seen that the whole system was setting up just a bit too far to the s and e, you can see it there with the 500mb position. good for LI, not much else.

All bark and no bite for 99% of this subforum.

Haha right...99%? im pretty sure all of nassau and suffolk got slammed...population 7 million...id say 20% of the subforum is long island...it was an amazing storm snowing3.gif

Being in western suffolk for that baby was sweet...i remember that CCB drifting across the island, my god was it amazing, those snowfall rates were absolutely insane, 3-4 inches an hour easily...AMAZING STORM.

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Haha right...99%? im pretty sure all of nassau and suffolk got slammed...population 7 million...id say 20% of the subforum is long island...it was an amazing storm snowing3.gif

Being in western suffolk for that baby was sweet...i remember that CCB drifting across the island, my god was it amazing, those snowfall rates were absolutely insane, 3-4 inches an hour easily...AMAZING STORM.

We ended up with 17 from that puppy in huntington

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Haha right...99%? im pretty sure all of nassau and suffolk got slammed...population 7 million...id say 20% of the subforum is long island...it was an amazing storm snowing3.gif

Being in western suffolk for that baby was sweet...i remember that CCB drifting across the island, my god was it amazing, those snowfall rates were absolutely insane, 3-4 inches an hour easily...AMAZING STORM.

More like 3 million, but who is counting 4 million people? But I do get the point a lot of people were affected.

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