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Snow potential Thursday night and Saturday 1/19 to 1/21


Mikehobbyst

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The 0z NAM adds sleet/freezing rain into the picture for north/west areas this run... with hour 69, 850mb temps are above freezing, but surface temps are still slightly below freezing. The freezing rain also ends up affecting southern CT and SE NY this run. It's still too far out to know exactly who gets any sleet/freezing rain, and it's still the NAM's longer range so it could change, but it does highlight that the potential could be there for sleet/freezing rain to become involved.

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Low levels trending cold is a distinct possibility which I alluded to yesterday. Notice the disconnect now between the 850mb 0c line and the 0c 2m temp. The mid levels can warm very easily in this set up...while the boundary layer cold can sometimes over perform.

I could see this trending closer to SWFE climo, but I hope not as well. Even up this way, the mid levels may warm well into CT.

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The 0z NAM adds sleet/freezing rain into the picture for north/west areas this run... with hour 69, 850mb temps are above freezing, but surface temps are still slightly below freezing. The freezing rain also ends up affecting southern CT and SE NY this run. It's still too far out to know exactly who gets any sleet/freezing rain, and it's still the NAM's longer range so it could change, but it does highlight that the potential could be there for sleet/freezing rain to become involved.

Snow to Sleet as per the 0z NAM.. Surface temps never get above the low 20's

http://68.226.77.253/text/NAM80km/NAM_Kmgj.txt

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Snow to Sleet as per the 0z NAM.. Surface temps never get above the low 20's

http://68.226.77.253...km/NAM_Kmgj.txt

The soundings on Twisterdata keep Orange county with sleet, although there's probably freezing rain involved somewhere with this storm on this run. The 925mb/surface temps are much colder this run, even 18z Thursday still looks like sleet and/or freezing rain in NE NJ despite 850mb temps near 2-3C.

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I could see this trending closer to SWFE climo, but I hope not as well. Even up this way, the mid levels may warm well into CT.

Id be willing to bet it trends that way. Weve both seen this synoptic setup (generally) a million times. The shortwave to the north over southeast Canada could be a bit of a wild card in this set up.

It looks like the higher res models are trying to develop a cooler surface flow while precip is still ongoing. The NAM cools things towards the end too. Just something to watch.

This area just isn't favored in these type of events at all. The mid levels warm way too fast...I'll always see more sleet and rain than snow in this setup..that is gaurunteed.

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Id be willing to bet it trends that way. Weve both seen this synoptic setup (generally) a million times. The shortwave to the north over southeast Canada could be a bit of a wild card in this set up.

It looks like the higher res models are trying to develop a cooler surface flow while precip is still ongoing. The NAM cools things towards the end too. Just something to watch.

This area just isn't favored in these type of events at all. The mid levels warm way too fast...I'll always see more sleet and rain than snow in this setup..that is gaurunteed.

I said it before, this is likely one where Boston and SNE start to rack up their snow totals while we watch with an icy mix and/or rain. We just have to hope the precip arrives fast enough and heavy enough before it goes to crap aloft. Miracles can happen at NYC's latitude but they're rare. This looks like a number of the 07-08 type events.

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Id be willing to bet it trends that way. Weve both seen this synoptic setup (generally) a million times. The shortwave to the north over southeast Canada could be a bit of a wild card in this set up.

It looks like the higher res models are trying to develop a cooler surface flow while precip is still ongoing. The NAM cools things towards the end too. Just something to watch.

This area just isn't favored in these type of events at all. The mid levels warm way too fast...I'll always see more sleet and rain than snow in this setup..that is gaurunteed.

It's the achiles heel of Mt. Earthlight.

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It's the achiles heel of Mt. Earthlight.

Definitely. When we had the winters in 06/07/08/09 when there were more SWFE's than sunny days...I routinely came in with the lowest totals of anybody. No complaints though...I have had it coming for a while...I'm surprised it's taken this long to get some SWFE's going. Climo, baby.

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