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NYC/Tri-State Area: Stumbling into January Disco


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The models usually have a hard time with pattern changes. Lets see if this is the case here.

The models are likely correct on the pattern shift, but the bad Atlantic setup looks like it still may be a problem, we may get the AK block and -AO but the problem may still be the PV wanting to sit too far north.

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Fast forward to the 06Z GFS, it has possibly the warmest setup ever in one of the best high latitude blocking patterns across NP, Canada, and AK you're ever going to see.

Does that seem likely? For me the more important thing would be to focus on the high latitude blocking. The cold should show up and there is good snowcover in Canada for homegrown cold. Of course I am in central New Hampshire so it's easy for me to get cold.

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at least the height anomolies across much of the east are at least neutral to fairly negative according to the latest long range ensembles. There's been such a dominant positive height anomaly for so much of the country for such an extended period of time. The high latitude alaskan ridging is promising.. but just a piece of the puzzle.

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I liked the look of the GFS past 180 hours. 6z GFS has a low just offshore when it is cold.

So? We have had countless lows offshore so far when its been cold enough to snow. We are still skunked.

This is what happens with Nina with no blocking. The cold and precip rarely line up.

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So? We have had countless lows offshore so far when its been cold enough to snow. We are still skunked.

This is what happens with Nina with no blocking. The cold and precip rarely line up.

Cutter, hugger, or suppressed have been the storm track menu choices since it snowed at the end of October.

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So? We have had countless lows offshore so far when its been cold enough to snow. We are still skunked.

This is what happens with Nina with no blocking. The cold and precip rarely line up.

yep... pattern has been way too progressve.. you can see it by the drastic temperature swings we've had lately too.. I think it's taking it's toll.. a water pipe burst this morning a few houses down from me.. had to call the water company

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Pray the GFS is wrong, Alaskan Vortex comex back big time.

And the pole is back into the freezer.

It's tough to know with the GFS ensemble mean much past the 192 hr truncation what will actually happen in AK.

The Euro ensembles looked better there but it's still an early call.

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It's tough to know with the GFS ensembles much past the 192 hr truncation what will actually happen in AK.

The Euro ensembles looked better there but it's still an early call.

looked at the full euro ensemble suite out to 360

very gradient like with not much help over greenland and questionable over Alaska.

Way too close for comfort in terms of the gradient and evidence the SE Ridge builds back in.

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988mb low east of NJ in early/mid January and no one's snowing per the 12z GFS. If that actually happens, you know the pattern blows chunks. I have a feeling we'll see a lot more changes wrt that mid week storm, but regardless, it looks to be the event to get the ball rolling toward a more favorable regime.

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12Z CMC has the cutter going over Detroit next week and sends most of the US into the cold after.

Can only see to hour 180 on ewall, but afterwards it forms a pseudo vortex spinning over the Great Lakes for a couple days.

that would actually help the NAO go negative for a little bit and maybe we get a window here, but like all our windows so far, they close as soon as we point them out.

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988mb low east of NJ in early/mid January and no one's snowing per the 12z GFS. If that actually happens, you know the pattern blows chunks. I have a feeling we'll see a lot more changes wrt that mid week storm, but regardless, it looks to be the event to get the ball rolling toward a more favorable regime.

The vort after this cutoff is much better looking and more interesting on this run. Unfortunately its 180 hours out.

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