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Again.....I'm sure saying west or northwest of 495 is dumbed down for the average person. You realize how many people have no conception even of the geography of their home state and where towns are situated relative to each other etc.... I know people that never pick up a map and if you have a car GPS and you set it so that straight ahead is always on top....you are led around like a blind squirrel and never will understand geography.

In some cases, saying ASH to ORH is a better line...but 495 is often good...but agreed. There are times when it matters. Sometimes like 2/24/10 when its more like AFN to ORH...but that wasn't even true in 12/7/96...in 12/7/96 the ASH to ORH line worked well...ASH got 13"...but Lowell got like 6" of slush...and you got like 3-4" of slop before the heavy rain.

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Again.....I'm sure saying west or northwest of 495 is dumbed down for the average person. You realize how many people have no conception even of the geography of their home state and where towns are situated relative to each other etc.... I know people that never pick up a map and if you have a car GPS and you set it so that straight ahead is always on top....you are led around like a blind squirrel and never will understand geography.

Most people in the BOS metro area who watch the news know where 495 is...the met points it out...you might not know exactly if you aren't from the area, but I can guarantee you anyone who watched the weather regularly...even a layperson...knows where 495 is because they show it on the snow maps...or its implied on the snow maps when they talk about 495 or 128. I think you are slightly underestimating the intelligence of the BOS metro viewers.

They know where 495 is....but I'm sure they don't know what the hell a 850 0C line is.

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Most people in the BOS metro area who watch the news know where 495 is...the met points it out...you might not know exactly if you aren't from the area, but I can guarantee you anyone who watched the weather regularly...even a layperson...knows where 495 is because they show it on the snow maps...or its implied on the snow maps when they talk about 495 or 128. I think you are slightly underestimating the intelligence of the BOS metro viewers.

They know where 495 is....but I'm sure they don't know what the hell a 850 0C line is.

They certainly don't know what lies in the vast wilderness beyond 495

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I was agreeing that they would knows where 495 was..... I was saying they might be confused if they used various names of towns to describe the rain/snow line.....even though that would be the best way to do it probably.

Same thing here...often they say south versus north of 90 .... Even though 90 gains latitude steadily from MA to about UCA....so it's imperfect.

Most people in the BOS metro area who watch the news know where 495 is...the met points it out...you might not know exactly if you aren't from the area, but I can guarantee you anyone who watched the weather regularly...even a layperson...knows where 495 is because they show it on the snow maps...or its implied on the snow maps when they talk about 495 or 128. I think you are slightly underestimating the intelligence of the BOS metro viewers.

They know where 495 is....but I'm sure they don't know what the hell a 850 0C line is.

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It's the same with Metro NYC people.... when it comes to Upstate NY. Once past Westchester and Rockland counties it might as well be Wyoming. LOL

Beyond 495 is complete wilderness to us inside 128. Even just outside 128, you start to get that 'country feel' :lol:

Not expecting much here...but it'll be nearly mid-Dec, so hopefully we can get some snow.

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It's the same with Metro NYC people.... when it comes to Upstate NY. Once past Westchester and Rockland counties it might as well be Wyoming. LOL

Very true! lol... According to my fam in the Bronx I live near Canada meanwhile im about a 1 hr drive door to door from my house here in western Orange County to the Bronx..

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I wasn't really payiing much attention to this storm but I just noticed how NW the ensembles are.. about half give good qpf here.

I think this will be a very difficult storm given the narrow area of cold air to work with, but I also feel it's worthy to track. The consistent se ridge makes me think it may not be a total miss...but on the other hand...it does not have much cold to work with. Even if it means a lousy rain to snow like the EC ensembles have...anything is better than this horrific pattern. It will be interesting to see what happens with the 00z suite.

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I think this will be a very difficult storm given the narrow area of cold air to work with, but I also feel it's worthy to track. The consistent se ridge makes me think it may not be a total miss...but on the other hand...it does not have much cold to work with. Even if it means a lousy rain to snow like the EC ensembles have...anything is better than this horrific pattern. It will be interesting to see what happens with the 00z suite.

I think you already know what the ulimate outcome will be.lol

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I think this will be a very difficult storm given the narrow area of cold air to work with, but I also feel it's worthy to track. The consistent se ridge makes me think it may not be a total miss...but on the other hand...it does not have much cold to work with. Even if it means a lousy rain to snow like the EC ensembles have...anything is better than this horrific pattern. It will be interesting to see what happens with the 00z suite.

Regardless, I think this may produce for someone. Hard to say exactly where, but my first guess would be Catskills, Berks, and Monads. Models have been all over the place, but given the strength of the SE ridge, I'm not sure I buy an OTS solution like the 12Z Euro. In fact, I'm a little more worried that this is a CNE and NNE snow event than an OTS whiff.

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I think this will be a very difficult storm given the narrow area of cold air to work with, but I also feel it's worthy to track. The consistent se ridge makes me think it may not be a total miss...but on the other hand...it does not have much cold to work with. Even if it means a lousy rain to snow like the EC ensembles have...anything is better than this horrific pattern. It will be interesting to see what happens with the 00z suite.

That's the big thing...even if it comes NW to a point where most of the region is into meaningful precip...we are left with one of these deals where we are trying to cool the column from a torched atmosphere and then quickly running waa back into it. Your left with a very small margin of error and probably a BL thats never able to get overly cold outside of the usual elevated distant interior.

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Regardless, I think this may produce for someone. Hard to say exactly where, but my first guess would be Catskills, Berks, and Monads. Models have been all over the place, but given the strength of the SE ridge, I'm not sure I buy an OTS solution like the 12Z Euro. In fact, I'm a little more worried that this is a CNE and NNE snow event than an OTS whiff.

Yeah I sort of question it myself..which is why I feel it may be worthy to track...but I don't think you can say much more. I defintely would not rule it out...but I don't completely buy a total whiff right now. We are in that who knows/cares stage right now and the next 24 hours will hopefully help figure this out.

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That's the big thing...even if it comes NW to a point where most of the region is into meaningful precip...we are left with one of these deals where we are trying to cool the column from a torched atmosphere and then quickly running waa back into it. Your left with a very small margin of error and probably a BL thats never able to get overly cold outside of the usual elevated distant interior.

Yeah I agree...but it's better than nothing. There is a pretty small margin of error with this. I could care less about the solutions right now...I'm just keeping that solution on the back burner.

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