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2/19 East Coast Winter Storm Threat (Part 2)


OKpowdah

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some thoughts:

(1) my own inexperience: I just can't believe with such potent southern stream energy emerging off NC/VA, a +NAO, a poorly positioned high pressure and weak-appearing confluence, and at least 3 pieces of energy to interact with in the northern stream, that this wouldn't track even further NW than the bomb GFS runs... I expected the Euro to flip further NW when it eventually would catch on to a phase, and I was wrong.

(2)That said, I'm still holding out hope. With so many northern stream pieces of energy, we still have a slight chance at a phase to bring home a bomb. Models can shift dramatically with 48hrs to go. And as always, give me futility, or give me blockbuster.

(3) the suckiness of this winter feels inescapabe: Astonishing to look back at the euphoria and confidence that most had here, including many Pros / Mets (no need to list names, but the posts are all there), Tues PM-Wed AM. This seemed to be the best signal we've had, if not one of the best synoptic setups, for a SNE snowstorm. The mood was this would be different from all the previous miraculous fails we've had, including Feb 11.

Yet another miraculous fail: northern stream energy was too fast to phase, slow enough to push away the southern stream energy.

(4) neweathereye = SnowNH (with an eye infection)

(5) big props to Messenger, WxWatcher91, ORH, CoastalWx, TT, Snowgoose69, Ginx, Dendrite, Earthlight, CapeCodWeather and others... totally awesome analyses throughout

Amazing actually, it almost looks like a strung out meh spring time LP now, nothing powerhouse about it. Oh well

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of course-no cold air. DC and BWI could be in trouble with the current one too for the same reason....

It's amazing how the CONUS has just been totally torched this winter, especially the northern tier, which is exactly the opposite of what you expect in a La Niña winter. You have to look all the way up to the Canadian Archipelago to find the -20C 850 isotherm on most of the 18z GFS, horrible for mid-February. Could be an early spring with the way the cold seems to have permanently retreated to Asia. 12z ECM also showed a monster SE ridge developing by the end of the month.

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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result...

Christ, does anyone have the energy to even care at this point? egh. just go away winter. Just go away -

I could not be ready more for spring - so much so that I'll risk April to get rid of this winter. It's just ad nauseam at this point.

Yet we've got 2 weeks of February and all of March...seems like April 1 was last week :axe:

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It's amazing how the CONUS has just been totally torched this winter, especially the northern tier, which is exactly the opposite of what you expect in a La Niña winter. You have to look all the way up to the Canadian Archipelago to find the -20C 850 isotherm on most of the 18z GFS, horrible for mid-February. Could be an early spring with the way the cold seems to have permanently retreated to Asia. 12z ECM also showed a monster SE ridge developing by the end of the month.

I suppose we were due. But singularly the USA outside of AK has been warm. Europe had record cold and snow. My friend's mother in Pescara, east of Rome on the Adriatic was snowbound in her home. We have bare ground in most of the country. I agree...it could be warm this spring and even summer given the dry soil that will occur unless we have a serious pattern change. That said, the Euro ensembles look pretty good for cold and potential snow. Normally I'd be optimistic but everything that could fubar a winter lover's pattern happens this year and frankly I give up.

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posted this in futility thread... it is possible to Trace our way to spring:

anyone (Will) know what happened 1924-25?

1924 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.2 20.7 T T T 0.0 0.0 [21.4]

T for Feb-Mar-Apr

0.7 for Oct-Nov-Dec

seems like trace monthly snowfall wall-to-wall for kbos except for an anomalous January 1925 with 20.7"

teleconnectors that year?

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Let's see...Boston is at 7.8" of total snow since last July 1 - I'm assuming that everything since then counts...

9" total was a 1934-1935 least snowfall record. I got to figure the way this year goes ... and how fitting it would be, that we HAVE to eek 1.3" out of some source just to maximize this butt banger journey - HAHA.

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