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I def. do not know what I am doing. What I sort of do, with some of the clown maps, is take what they show and divide by three, then keep my weenie crossed. That sort of hurts ya know.

And I agree when the clown maps look putrid, time to move on. We did that a lot this season.

I'm surprised no one has started a post mortem on Wonter 2011-2012 yet. Still holding out on the bookend I suppose...lol

I would, but I embrace challenges... and a writeup on that pathetic season would be far too easy.

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I def. do not know what I am doing. What I sort of do, with some of the clown maps, is take what they show and divide by three, then keep my weenie crossed. That sort of hurts ya know.

And I agree when the clown maps look putrid, time to move on. We did that a lot this season.

I'm surprised no one has started a post mortem on Wonter 2011-2012 yet. Still holding out on the bookend I suppose...lol

It's an easy post mortem. Strong +AO in the form of an AK vortex kept the jetstream progressive and well the the north in Canada. As a result, little in the way of jet amplification to get storms going along the East Coast. Also, no arctic intrusions mean the fuel for storms (temp gradients or baroclinicity) lacked. Hence a big reason why we could not get much in the way of strong coastals or even Lake Cutters.

As far as the clown maps go, you could do just fine if you looked at things like soundings or QPF. Clown maps sometimes are too bullish in borderline airmasses. Even the best snow algorithms are sometimes weenie products that don't help much. I normally don't look at them too much..just use my best judgement with the data given to me. Although, if I have a bunch of cities to worry about in the northeast, they certainly make your life a bit easier.

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even if we were to get a nor'easter off the coast, we would need 850s well below 0C, probably -3C or lower, before we start talking about accumulating snow. the sun angle is too high and boundary layer temps are too toasty...

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Blackflies out in force while doing yard work.

I love using hedge trimmers!

Pretty tough to kill blackflies with those... ;)

Only the "sweat lickers" out at my place - look like slightly smaller houseflies, and a bit irritating as they crawl on my sweaty arms mopping up liquid. Was pretty hot going thru the puckerbrush on the woodlot yesterday, especially on the wet soils, where each footstep included the odd combo of crunching the dry litter followed by the sucking sound of the boots being pulled out of the mud underneath.

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even if we were to get a nor'easter off the coast, we would need 850s well below 0C, probably -3C or lower, before we start talking about accumulating snow. the sun angle is too high and boundary layer temps are too toasty...

Up my way gfs has marginally okay BL temps and -3/-4C h8s, maybe enough for some after dark accum Sat and Sun nights. (If the model verifies - a real big if.)

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CITY           SKY/WX    TMP DP  RH WIND       PRES   REMARKS
BOSTON         MOSUNNY   78  37  22 NW14G24   30.01R
BEVERLY        SUNNY     78  39  24 NW10G21   30.00R
LAWRENCE       SUNNY     77  38  24 NW12G18   30.03R
BEDFORD        SUNNY     77  39  25 W17G25    30.00S
BLUE HILL        N/A     76  41  28 NW15G23   30.02R
NORWOOD        SUNNY     79  38  22 NW10      30.01R
MARSHFIELD     SUNNY     81  48  32 NW12      30.01S
PLYMOUTH       SUNNY     78  49  35 VRB7      30.01R
TAUNTON        SUNNY     80  39  23 NW12G20   30.01R
NEW BEDFORD    MOSUNNY   79  43  27 MISG      30.01R
$$

MAZALL-171600-
CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS

CITY           SKY/WX    TMP DP  RH WIND       PRES   REMARKS
FALMOUTH       LGT RAIN  75  50  41 NW12      30.02S
HYANNIS        SUNNY     77  51  40 N10       29.99S
CHATHAM        SUNNY     79  52  38 VRB6      30.01S
PROVINCETOWN   SUNNY     73  55  53 NW10      30.02R
NANTUCKET      SUNNY     75  54  47 NW10G18   30.01S
MARTHAS VNYRD  SUNNY     79  48  33 N10       30.02R

pretty sure it's not raining in falmouth. otherwise...wow.

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CITY		   SKY/WX	TMP DP  RH WIND	   PRES   REMARKS
BOSTON		 MOSUNNY   78  37  22 NW14G24   30.01R
BEVERLY		SUNNY	 78  39  24 NW10G21   30.00R
LAWRENCE	   SUNNY	 77  38  24 NW12G18   30.03R
BEDFORD		SUNNY	 77  39  25 W17G25	30.00S
BLUE HILL		N/A	 76  41  28 NW15G23   30.02R
NORWOOD		SUNNY	 79  38  22 NW10	  30.01R
MARSHFIELD	 SUNNY	 81  48  32 NW12	  30.01S
PLYMOUTH	   SUNNY	 78  49  35 VRB7	  30.01R
TAUNTON		SUNNY	 80  39  23 NW12G20   30.01R
NEW BEDFORD	MOSUNNY   79  43  27 MISG	  30.01R
$$

MAZALL-171600-
CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS

CITY		   SKY/WX	TMP DP  RH WIND	   PRES   REMARKS
FALMOUTH	   LGT RAIN  75  50  41 NW12	  30.02S
HYANNIS		SUNNY	 77  51  40 N10	   29.99S
CHATHAM		SUNNY	 79  52  38 VRB6	  30.01S
PROVINCETOWN   SUNNY	 73  55  53 NW10	  30.02R
NANTUCKET	  SUNNY	 75  54  47 NW10G18   30.01S
MARTHAS VNYRD  SUNNY	 79  48  33 N10	   30.02R

pretty sure it's not raining in falmouth. otherwise...wow.

Just did a ten mile bike ride with the Mrs along the canal and back. You'd be hard pressed to find a better day. No wind to speak of, everything flat calm. Scusset Beach has maybe 30-40 cars in the lot...more like early June.

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Not for Powderfreakville...

Haha...we'd want 850s of -5C or -6C or lower to actually get it to snow in the low elevations of my backyard...the big hill out back though could do it with 0C.

That past upslope storm was like -3C and that got the snow level down to 1500ft in heavy precipitation along with upslope cooling...so I'd want -6C to even have a chance at 1000ft and below if we aren't getting .1-.2" in the bucket each hour.

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86 in my office, like a sauna. No breeze FTL and no air conditioner ready FTL.

we will likely never see anything like this again. It's just not normal.

GFS thru 138 extrapolates to a soaker... details will change from run to run but overall pattern screams widespread drought busting rains. :)

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