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October 2012 Observations & Discussions


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What a great day felt like I never left LA when I came home. Very california-like out there today. Now there's a nice chill in the air more northeast style.

Looks like we ride cotinue warmer than normal through the end of next week with the las tfew days of the month potentially chilly.

Yeah had the firepit going tonight, beautiful and chilly out there. Down to 49 now after a high of 70.

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Yeah had the firepit going tonight, beautiful and chilly out there. Down to 49 now after a high of 70.

This cool night is nothing compared to the cold building in the long-range with the double block (-NAO/-EPO).

It's interesting that the pattern since August has been rather Niña-ish, with cold air pouring into Central Canada and the Plains/Upper Midwest while the West Atlantic High/SE Ridge keeps us warmer than average. Still not much sign of a Niño pattern where the Southeast sees the coldest departures while the Northern Tier torches. It'll be interesting to see if we have a strong poleward Aleutian High as we did during Winter 10-11. That could create a decent gradient and some very cold airmasses, though global temperatures are doubtless warmer than that winter.

Anyway, down to 53.5/45 here after a high of 69.6F.

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That's an old run of the Euro from 10/15.

The new run, however does it show it very cold in the Intermountain West/High Plains around Day 7-8. 850s are -15C near the MT/Canada border; with snowcover, temperatures could easily get near 0F in the higher areas of the region. The coldest air does retreat from the US however as the trough looks to cut off while the main vortex migrates to Hudson Bay/Manitoba with 850s near -20C. Hopefully that starts the freezing of the Bay so our cold isn't modified by early December.

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It's going to be fun tracking the tropical development with so much blocking to the north coupled

with the deep trough that the models are bring in near the end of the month. It will be interesting

to see what the models come up with once this is declared a TD or TS by the NHC.

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The 6z GFS is also honing in on the CMC's idea of phasing the tropical system with the trough in the east, though it is somewhat weaker than the CMC. It has a pretty substantial, (and cold) system for that matter for our area.

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The GFS has temperatures in the mid to upper 30s to the low 40s when it is precipitating.

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It's going to be fun tracking the tropical development with so much blocking to the north coupled

with the deep trough that the models are bring in near the end of the month. It will be interesting

to see what the models come up with once this is declared a TD or TS by the NHC.

It sure is. The 12z GFS now has the tropical system being lifted north up the East Coast by 192 hours with a bit of a weaker trough over the Central US...but still a potent system and a threatening look to it.

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It sure is. The 12z GFS now has the tropical system being lifted north up the East Coast by 192 hours with a bit of a weaker trough over the Central US...but still a potent system and a threatening look to it.

I see 1954 hazel comparisons on twitter& on the main forum, what do you think earthlight?

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The 12z GFS has ~970mb system that dumps anywhere from 10-15in of rain over 100 hours. Could only imagine the impact that this would have in terms of flooding, wind, beach erosion etc.

And now the GFS, CMC and to some degree the Euro have a tropical system that interacts with a trough. Wild solution for sure.

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It sure is. The 12z GFS now has the tropical system being lifted north up the East Coast by 192 hours with a bit of a weaker trough over the Central US...but still a potent system and a threatening look to it.

The wind field really begins to expand on the 12 GFS when it is over the Bahamas. The models are showing the STJ

cutting under the system and a coupled jet structure developing. If this verified, this would be a very large and powerful

storm with the effects being felt a good distance from the center. It will be really interesting to see how the storm

interacts with the trough coming in from the west beyond 120 hrs.

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Woahh...those hi-res images give a better idea of the storms strength. 960, with a 1032 high sitting in central canada. Geez. I think winds would beat March 2010, if this solution (or CMC with 954 over DC) verified. Its fun to look at but lets see some consistency. Its great we all have something to follow for a wk or so now though.

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The wind field really begins to expand on the 12 GFS when it is over the Bahamas. The models are showing the STJ

cutting under the system and a coupled jet structure developing. If this verified, this would be a very large and powerful

storm with the effects being felt a good distance from the center. It will be really interesting to see how the storm

interacts with the trough coming in from the west beyond 120 hrs.

Great maps and illustration. One of the things I would watch carefully are the modeled height anomalies over the North Atlantic and even the extent of the high latitude blocking...both in relation to the tropical system moving north and the big trough forecast to shift through the Central US and capture it.

At this range, both of those are so uncertain and that makes the entire solution complete fantasy at this point, still. Although, I will say it is very interesting to see the big global models all showing the same idea.

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Earthlight it isnt very often we see this many globals on board with a solution 10 days out. These runs taken as is would produce a storm to remember for lots of people, but tons of stuff to iron out as we head through this upcoming week. If the cold air is there we could certainly also see some good snows with this well inland.

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Great maps and illustration. One of the things I would watch carefully are the modeled height anomalies over the North Atlantic and even the extent of the high latitude blocking...both in relation to the tropical system moving north and the big trough forecast to shift through the Central US and capture it.

At this range, both of those are so uncertain and that makes the entire solution complete fantasy at this point, still. Although, I will say it is very interesting to see the big global models all showing the same idea.

Yeah, the blocking part of this story will be an important part of resolving the ultimate track and when the

trough interaction occurs. I don't think that I have seen a TC coming north through the Bahamas with

the type of 500 mb high latitude height anomalies that the models are showing.

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Yeah, the blocking part of this story will be an important part of resolving the ultimate track and when the

trough interaction occurs. I don't think that I have seen a TC coming north through the Bahamas with

the type of 500 mb high latitude height anomalies that the models are showing.

I can't recall one either. The hype should really get going in the community if this stuff continues to be shown on the long range guidance tomorrow. The GFS has been pretty good in the medium range over the last couple of weeks, but the GEFS height anomalies have been a little overdone, or at least they were with the last positive height anomaly episode in the high latitudes. That being said, there is both a ridge over Greenland which extends towards the Davis Straight, and another being modeled north of the Aleutians with + anomalies extending even over the pole. So this could get pretty interesting .

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