Damage In Tolland Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 This probably will be hit or miss and not even coat the ground, so hopefully Kevin doesn't get his hopes up too much. LOL..not hopeful at all. This does remind of an Xmas Eve back in the ealry 1990's when there was a strong arctic front with some some nice moisture convergence and onshore flow and much of CT got a widespread 1-3 inches that evening. I distinctly remeber that because it was largely unforecast It could even have been much of SNE that got it that nite..I just know CT did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 This probably will be hit or miss and not even coat the ground, so hopefully Kevin doesn't get his hopes up too much. 3 days of continuous snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 LOL..not hopeful at all. This does remind of an Xmas Eve back in the ealry 1990's when there was a strong arctic front with some some nice moisture convergence and onshore flow and much of CT got a widespread 1-3 inches that evening. I distinctly remeber that because it was largely unforecast I think 1992? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 These almost never work out for our latitude. Better NE MA and northward as the low blows up just a tad too far north and probably ultimately even further north given this year's trends. It might be a band or two of squalls...with maybe a more defined band of precip over the Cape as the low develops well to the se. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think 1992? Could have been 92..i know it was the early 90's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think 1992? I think I remember that event. First Christmas in our new, big house and I remember a couple inches of cold snow Xmas Eve while TWC tracked Santa on radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Could have been 92..i know it was the early 90's I think you and I are thinking the same. We had like 0.75" of fluff where the moon was visible the whole time. I looked back at KBOS metar but they don't have it....it might have been just a south of the Pike thing..thought it was 1992 but I may be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think you and I are thinking the same. We had like 0.75" of fluff where the moon was visible the whole time. I looked back at KBOS metar but they don't have it....it might have been just a south of the Pike thing..thought it was 1992 but I may be wrong. Maybe it was even the late 80's..I just remembe watching the local tv met that night and they showed this general blossoming band of light snows moving east out of NY state and stating it wouldn't amount to much for us.. But we ended up with around 2 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Maybe it was even the late 80's..I just remembe watching the local tv met that night and they showed this general blossoming band of light snows moving east out of NY state and stating it wouldn't amount to much for us.. But we ended up with around 2 inches I could be mixing years up. I just remember we had the moon vis with these massive ULL type dendrites falling around 10 or 11 at night. Come to think of it...it may have been Christmas Night. I'm almost positive it was in the early 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Windex is tough to blow. With the transient pattern of torch and then quick blast of cold i wouldnt be surprised to see more of these events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Mighty cold tomorrow...even mid winter would would respect it. 20s all day I think for many of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted December 23, 2011 Author Share Posted December 23, 2011 Mighty cold tomorrow...even mid winter would would respect it. 20s all day I think for many of us. cold weekend overall...actually right through monday by the looks of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Maybe it was even the late 80's..I just remembe watching the local tv met that night and they showed this general blossoming band of light snows moving east out of NY state and stating it wouldn't amount to much for us.. But we ended up with around 2 inches There was one of these when Bill Hovey was still on WCVB. Exactly what you said...just get expanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Mighty cold tomorrow...even mid winter would would respect it. 20s all day I think for many of us. Perfect xmas eve weather... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think you and I are thinking the same. We had like 0.75" of fluff where the moon was visible the whole time. I looked back at KBOS metar but they don't have it....it might have been just a south of the Pike thing..thought it was 1992 but I may be wrong. I'm wrong...the one I'm thinking of was Xmas Eve 1993. (my memory is off...getting old sucks. Looks like that was < 1/2" for MHT/CON). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I'm wrong...the one I'm thinking of was Xmas Eve 1993. (my memory is off...getting old sucks. Looks like that was < 1/2" for MHT/CON). Bingo...I was off by a year too. I lived in Brockton at the time. I looked at KPVD and they had light snow at 11pm. That was it. 4 days later....epic-ness began. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston-winter08 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 bit OT, but does anyone remember what date it was several years back (maybe early 2000s) that a narrow band of heavy snow set up from north/south from KASH to about PVD and just stalled from about 7pm to 12am.... localized areas between 495 and 128 ended up with between 8-12" of snow when mets were calling for a dusting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmanmitch Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I like the chances of getting some minor accumulations here Sunday night associated with both the WINDEX and upslope. That is a potent vortmax. Due to orographic enhancement sometimes these things have a way of over-performing here with a quick 1 to 2 hour burst of +SN yielding a quick 3" of wind blown powder, while the Pioneer Valley gets some snow showers and a coating. If we're lucky, we may get some lingering lake effect enhancement on a WNW flow, keeping snow showers going longer. This is more likely to happen if the low-levels remain somewhat moist for a while behind the front. We had a lot of these in the cold, dry January 2004 stretch and actually built up a minor snowpack as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 For you old folks.... Bob Copeland just under 2 minutes and Bob Ryan on Channel 5...I never knew that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 <p> I like the chances of getting some minor accumulations here Sunday night associated with both the WINDEX and upslope. That is a potent vortmax. Due to orographic enhancement sometimes these things have a way of over-performing here with a quick 1 to 2 hour burst of +SN yielding a quick 3" of wind blown powder, while the Pioneer Valley gets some snow showers and a coating. If we're lucky, we may get some lingering lake effect enhancement on a WNW flow, keeping snow showers going longer. This is more likely to happen if the low-levels remain somewhat moist for a while behind the front. We had a lot of these in the cold, dry January 2004 stretch and actually built up a minor snowpack as a result. Yep you just might get ALB afds like this oldie from 2006 Main area of concern from late this afternoon through the overnight period is upslope flow and enhancement of snow shower activity on west facing slopes of Taconics...southern Green Mountains and Berkshires. 500 mb low passes over southern Berkshires late tonight accompanied by strong vorticity axis. Fairly strong frontogenetic forcing aligns itself across southern Green Mountains at 06z dropping into northern Berkshires by 12z. Expect any single crystals will change to aggregates with dendrites fairly quickly as snow growth region drops to 2-4 kft by late tonight. Snow to liquid ratios expected to increase to at least 15-20:1 with a 3-6 hour period of at least 0.5 to 1 inch per hour snow rates expected. In addition northwest winds will increase to 10 to 20 miles per hour with gusts to 30 miles per hour thus blowing and drifting snow will be a problem. Have thus issued a Winter Weather Advisory instead of a Snow Advisory for this reason. Expect total accumulations by early Friday morning of 3 to 8 inches in advisory area. Snow activity is expected to dissipate fairly quickly Friday with passage of upper trough. Lake effect will lift into western Mohawk Valley and perhaps southern portions of western Adirondacks by late Friday afternoon although instability by this time becoming conditional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 cold weekend overall...actually right through monday by the looks of it. Just in time for a torching 50 degree rain Tuesday night. This winter wouldn't have it any other way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Just in time for a torching 50 degree rain Tuesday night. This winter wouldn't have it any other way As long as parts of Texas and New Mexico get their white Christmas, I'm happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think I remember that event. First Christmas in our new, big house and I remember a couple inches of cold snow Xmas Eve while TWC tracked Santa on radar. Our first Christmas in the house we're in now was 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Normally I would look at this and think a nice little 1-3 inch clipper was on its way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 For you old folks.... Bob Copeland just under 2 minutes and Bob Ryan on Channel 5...I never knew that. The back story is channel 5 was originally (I think) whdh and then went to wcvb. Bob Copeland was caught in the middle and lost his job...apparently a breach of contract. He prevailed and was on the air with wcvb with probably alot of back pay. In his day, he'd tilt his head...and say "It's gonna be quite wintry" and weenies would rejoice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston-winter08 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 18z GFS looks a tad more impressive than 12z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 18z nam actually looked pretty decent for a nice quick thump of snow for eastern areas sunday night. sim radar was pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Is this favoring all of SNE or just NW Mass and SNH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 WINDEX parameters are pretty solid actually...the best we've seen thus far in the pathetic cold season Big LI spike...check Good low level and even mid-level RH...check Good lapse rate between BL and about 750-800mb...check The strong PVA should help with extra omega as well. I haven't looked at BUFKIT yet for details, but hopefully tonight at 00z it looks good. These things can sometimes turn to crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Is this favoring all of SNE or just NW Mass and SNH? Cool..thanks for all the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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