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


Mikehobbyst

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It's funny...because the 850's might actually be a hair warmer than the 00z run initially. But it's farther southeast with the surface low...going in the direction of the 00z globals from tonight.

Nams always playing catchup,its always late to the party.

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Despite the poor looking thicknesses the NAM is snow through 60 hours and the event is ending by then. Here's the precipitation type at 60 hours. But notice on the radar depiction that the storm is almost over. By this time around 0.40" has fallen...depending on where you are.

Radar: http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/NAMSFC4_6z/rad60.gif

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Finally...here's the rough snow map from ewall. 2-4" for everybody...more inland.

http://www.meteo.psu...S_6z/snow60.gif

the ewall totals seem a bit high compared to instant wx maps and SV....and especially since the 850 runs north of NYC in the first few hours of the event (and before the main brunt of precip moves in).

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Upton is being kind of bearish for the Saturday event. They say that the GFS and Euro only deliver sub-advisory level snowfall (less than 3") for NYC. I'm a bit baffled.

Upton is always conservative at first BUT the snow will start accumulating right away since the start time is early in the day and temps below freezing - so more then likely advisories will be issued because the roads will become snow covered and slippery fast since its saturday morning with much less traffic then normal.and public works departments don

t react as quickly as during the week

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Upton is always  conservative at first  BUT the snow will start accumulating right away since the start time is early in the day and temps below freezing - so more then likely advisories will be issued because the roads will become snow covered and slippery fast since  its saturday morning with much less traffic then normal.and public works departments don

t react as quickly as during the week

That's reasonable from Upton; however, Bill Evans on ABC is giving this second event the middle finger. On his snowfall map this morning, he essentially drew the 1" contour well N&W of NYC. :axe:

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snowgoose mentioned that tactic last year for 1 of the storms and atown took it to the grave, lol.

I knew someone would mention that 00Z NOGAPS, if this was still 5-6 days out I'd be more concerned, but given we're quite close now I think we can ignore the NOGAPS being where its at. Also the NOGAPS was not necessarily more amplified, it was just warmer, had it been notably more phased at 500mb that would be a red flag more so.

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