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January 20-21 2012 Snowstorm OBS & Disco


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I'm in Selden (Suffolk Co.) and there's already a coating of snow and ice in the grass.

I haven't seen a flake of snow since October so this is surprising.

That was from yesterday's snow (Thursday)

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There are also some *very* rare occasions when a cold high will build in from the North / NE (very rare)...and draw cold air in from Maine and eastern Canada...I believe it happened a few times during the 1993-94 winter when rain changed to snow over the Twin Forks first as cold air was drawn in from the northeast...while it continued to rain over southern Nassau and western Nassau...

Key here is rare. 95 percent of the time MTK is going to change first. Where MTK makes up for its propensity to change over is in those events that are further offshore when we all get missed and they cash in on an outer band, we have seen that happen many times.

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The 0z NAM simluated radar shows the snow intensifying over NYC around 15z tomorrow before moving into southern CT/Long Island by 18z... that would probably help a little with the accumulations for places that do not see any changeover by then. FWIW, the RR also shows this after an odd dry slot where somehow NYC sees 1 inch less than central NJ and SE NY.

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The 0z NAM simluated radar shows the snow intensifying over NYC around 15z tomorrow before moving into southern CT/Long Island by 18z... that would probably help a little with the accumulations for places that do not see any changeover by then. FWIW, the RR also shows this after an odd dry slot where somehow NYC sees 1 inch less than central NJ and SE NY.

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Mixing problems do not arrive at JFK until 12:00-1:00 PM.

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From the computer printout of the 0z NAM...the warmest it gets in the tropsphere above JFK during the event is at Hour 18 (1:00 PM Sat) when the temp rises to +0.1 C @ 900 MB and the +0.2 C @ 850 MB...

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FWIW, the 23z HRRR has been showing a snowy solution for the area.

This is only to 15 hours, so there is plenty of precipitation still left to fall.

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3-4" in C NJ with more to fall.

There's that weird dry area over NYC that the RR also has... the HRRR has shown plenty of weird solutions before though and isn't a very reliable model so it's not something I'm really worried about.

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Talk about surprising, here is the latest TAF for JFK...appears the NWS is really backing off for tomorrow, very odd...

TAF KJFK 210234Z 2103/2206 02005KT P6SM BKN120 OVC250

FM210600 07005KT P6SM OVC050

FM210900 09007KT 2SM -SN OVC008

FM211100 09011KT 1SM -SN BR OVC005

FM211600 04011KT 2SM -SNRAPL BR OVC010

FM211900 35012G20KT P6SM BKN020

FM220000 01010KT P6SM FEW200

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From the computer printout of the 0z NAM...the warmest it gets in the tropsphere above JFK during the event is at Hour 18 (1:00 PM Sat) when the temp rises to +0.1 C @ 900 MB and the +0.2 C @ 850 MB...

Per 0z NAM, ISP, OKX, and even FOK (Westhampton) have the entire column below freezing throughout the event...though the printout only shows 6 hour increments...so it might slip above briefly in between...

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