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


Mikehobbyst

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The models will adjust colder at the 850s as we get closer surface temps on the gfs for the sat event are a few degrees eithr side of 30 . this wil not trend warmer but colder . at no point this year was low level cold air involved , this time is different the models will trend colder not warmer

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This time you are dealing with low level dense cold air at the surface that the models always underestimate .

Secondly the 850`s will trend south and more importantly surface temps will b adjusted downward as we get closer you will warm air advect and Snow will break out as far as ACY to start

From i 80 and NYC north - inc north shore of LI and Coastal CT I think this is mostly Snow that may end as FRZ . i am of the belief this a typical model error when figuring out the strength of low level cold air

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What is your basis for saying this? Your are wishcasting.

This time you are dealing with low level dense cold air at the surface that the models always underestimate .

Secondly the 850`s will trend south and more importantly surface temps will b adjusted downward as we get closer you will warm air advect and Snow will break out as far as ACY to start

From i 80 and NYC north - inc north shore of LI and Coastal CT I think this is mostly Snow that may end as FRZ . i am of the belief this a typical model error when figuring out the strength of low level cold air

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The Nam is still in the long range. I would not take it seriously until it gets closer. The Ukie has been really warm for this upcoming system.

Ant -- Robbbs just supported your viewpoint on the other board and said this is a legitimate threat to track.

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NAM has been horrid. Poor or not good does not even describe it. I think the upgrades made it worse.

wrong. It is without a doubt improved. Like all models, it has ups and down, and yes, outside of 60 hours it is very jumpyt, but is overall from the upgrade to this point is absolutely improved.

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The 12z UKMET and NAM would support snow in NYC, if precip came at 12z. The thing to watch for, is if the models are underdoing the WAA precip during the early morning hours, that would keep the column cooler longer and delay a changeover to rain:

That would be the best scenario for getting some light accumulations at the coast before any changeover occurs.

It's certainly cold enough for a snowy start should the precip begin earlier.

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Not wishcasting .Think back to the past 2 Sundays when the models were beaten by the low level cold air .

The models are notorious for not seeing low level dense air til inside 24- 48 hrs

The numbers at the surface get beat with direct arcitc air for a reason , the model bias is to quickly warm the boundary layer and is usually right when its polar pacific air ( WHICH OVERWHELMED THE PATTERN IN NYC SINCE DEC ) , but it really has a hard time in low level air ( AND THIS TIME THE AIR IS ARCTIC IN NATURE and has been the last 2 weeks when the models missed those past wknd temps

ive seen this happen a lot in my life following the weather here in NYC so i think we trend colder as the models start to see the temp busts in the midwest that will occur over the next 2 days

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Sometimes the heavy precipitation keeps dragging the cold air in place to it to allow it stay as snow and that is what happened with the 2/22/08 storm. If it the case then this could be mostly snow with some mixing with sleet before tapering to light sleet or freezing drizzle. Expect higher amounts of accumulation for even NYC/LI.

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