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D6 event....blizzard, flizzard, rain, or partly cloudy?


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I've talked to our main guy about the pattern, and even he stated the questions about the Nina's of yesterday and the nao. I've also talked to Joe D'Aleo as well. Joe was laughed at some years ago for bringing up solar, and now look at what's happening. Some say he is biased, but the guy brings a lot to the table.

Joe D is one of those out of the box thinkers who I admire. Usually those types and I include myself get scorned and ridiculed until the outlandish becomes norm.

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I think that ultimately, NE RI, interior SE MA, and downeast Maine get warning criteria snow, with zilch west of ORH.

I don't know...the ECM is pretty close to a full PV phase and the GFS has a significant lobe of the PV involved. Skier and I were talking on the phone, and he was saying that he was worried about rain/mix at his house in Southeast CT; I tend to agree that we could see a significant westward adjustment if we have a monster phase with the PV, which would make this storm a big hit for Pete and me but not as much in BOS/ORH where there'd be a huge front end dump but then rain/sleet. The 18z GFS does appear to change BOS to rain for a bit as 850s look slightly above freezing despite fairly northerly surface flow.

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I talked with Gibbs for awhile today. He said there is not 1 met than explain what is happening this month in regards to the extreme blocking and -AO. He said noone can offer a legit explanation as to why. He is baffled. Said he doesn't buy just compositng the 1950's. It's really bothering him how noone can offer a good explanation

Well some also ripped the 80's and 90's too. This blocking has been unprecedented...I agree. However, we've have -nao in Nina's before. To say that mdt-strong Ninas must mean +nao are false. We just don't know yet. It will be interesting to see of this continues, or do we switch to a more + regime.

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Well some also ripped the 80's and 90's too. This blocking has been unprecedented...I agree. However, we've have -nao in Nina's before. To say that mdt-strong Ninas must mean +nao are false. We just don't know yet. It will be interesting to see of this continues, or do we switch to a more + regime.

Well its led him to change some things around in his winter forecast. I asked if maybe it was volcanic ash and he said that would argue for a + AO.

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I don't know...the ECM is pretty close to a full PV phase and the GFS has a significant lobe of the PV involved. Skier and I were talking on the phone, and he was saying that he was worried about rain/mix at his house in Southeast CT; I tend to agree that we could see a significant westward adjustment if we have a monster phase with the PV, which would make this storm a big hit for Pete and me but not as much in BOS/ORH where there'd be a huge front end dump but then rain/sleet. The 18z GFS does appear to change BOS to rain for a bit as 850s look slightly above freezing despite fairly northerly surface flow.

You'll need a pretty large adjustment westward on the phase if you get a scenario where interior SNE changes to rain.

The Ukie basically split and dropped the PV into the southern stream and still didn't produce that much qpf for your area....while the low tracked from the BM NNW into S ME and dumped like 2 feet of snow on BOS even.

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I don't know...the ECM is pretty close to a full PV phase and the GFS has a significant lobe of the PV involved. Skier and I were talking on the phone, and he was saying that he was worried about rain/mix at his house in Southeast CT; I tend to agree that we could see a significant westward adjustment if we have a monster phase with the PV, which would make this storm a big hit for Pete and me but not as much in BOS/ORH where there'd be a huge front end dump but then rain/sleet. The 18z GFS does appear to change BOS to rain for a bit as 850s look slightly above freezing despite fairly northerly surface flow.

well the authorities have spoken.

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I don't know...the ECM is pretty close to a full PV phase and the GFS has a significant lobe of the PV involved. Skier and I were talking on the phone, and he was saying that he was worried about rain/mix at his house in Southeast CT; I tend to agree that we could see a significant westward adjustment if we have a monster phase with the PV, which would make this storm a big hit for Pete and me but not as much in BOS/ORH where there'd be a huge front end dump but then rain/sleet. The 18z GFS does appear to change BOS to rain for a bit as 850s look slightly above freezing despite fairly northerly surface flow.

I agree with all these points. Hence my 12/30/00 fears despite the reassurances.

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I don't know...the ECM is pretty close to a full PV phase and the GFS has a significant lobe of the PV involved. Skier and I were talking on the phone, and he was saying that he was worried about rain/mix at his house in Southeast CT; I tend to agree that we could see a significant westward adjustment if we have a monster phase with the PV, which would make this storm a big hit for Pete and me but not as much in BOS/ORH where there'd be a huge front end dump but then rain/sleet. The 18z GFS does appear to change BOS to rain for a bit as 850s look slightly above freezing despite fairly northerly surface flow.

GFS clown maps show the marine intrusion but its thermal layers always run warm so NBD. This has much more of a chance of skirting east than cutting inside the BM but an overly quick phase would do that. Every things on the table , fair to say no one has a clue.

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Joe D is one of those out of the box thinkers who I admire. Usually those types and I include myself get scorned and ridiculed until the outlandish becomes norm.

While I agree in principal, one can't deviate from science on a hunch although in wx I supposed you can. I certainly can't and SHOULD NOT EVER in my world if I don't have reasonably sound science behind me.

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Here is a question I have....and I think it has some validity. All the MJO composites are from 1974 onward. So, what did the MJO composites look like during the -nao phase? One has to wonder if they would look different during the 50s and 60s.

Is the MJO really much of a factor right now though or has it been as of late?

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Here is a question I have....and I think it has some validity. All the MJO composites are from 1974 onward. So, what did the MJO composites look like during the -nao phase? One has to wonder if they would look different during the 50s and 60s.

I always had issues with data which does not include decadal signals.

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