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Hurricane Sandy


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lol. Well, folks up north think the Euro is phasing too early. Would like to get a Met's thoughts on this.

Well it is possible, but it is a little stronger with ridging out west and also downstream of it near NewFoundland. Put it together and you have that track...although it may be a wee bit phase happy.

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what is the ideal track for us to get a snowstorm of this? Eye going over State College like JMA has?

The 12z GGEM track but with the tighter wound characteristics of the Euro would do it, but that is wishing for an abolutely perfect 1 in a million situation. The GFS track is pretty good but the problem is the storm characteristics on the GFS are not right. It has to be the right track, but also a very tightly wound storm like the Euro. But just to fan your crazy fire, you are looking for the Euro to be right with the dynamics of the storm, but for the track to shift north about 200 miles, say landfall over Northern NJ then moving WNW into northern PA.

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I wonder how the windspeeds from the Euro track (if it materialized would compare to Irene). The winds got cranking late during Irene, I believe DCA had a gust over 60 mph. I'd have to assume similar or greater wind speeds if we were that close to the center and the storm was reasonably close to Irene in strength.

I think even more importantly would be the duration. Irene kept moving at a good clip. So did Isabel. And there wasn't a strong cold front with 1030+hp to the N and W. Heck, combine that with potentially a sub 950 cyclone and it really means business. It's not just about the cyclone when it comes to winds with this. Also, our area mixes down really well with caa to the N&W. This is no joke no matter which way you slice it.

Another thing that we typically see with a landfalling cyclone is a quick deterioration of the precip sheild on the SW side of the center. This one is a bit unique because of the phase enhancement. The NE side will of course have the most precip but man, this could be wild because of the interaction with the front and cold hp to the nw.

Another thing that I have been thinking about is instability. If it stays warmcore (looks like it will) at landfall it still has to transition. Not only will the pressure gradient be one largest I've been around for on the EC but also the temp difference on opposing sides of the cyclone. The storm will be sucking in cold air and wrapping it all the way into the center (euro solution is the starkest example of this). What does that translate to irt to instability and dynamics? Does anyone know what this means irt sensible weather at the surface?

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Another thing that I have been thinking about is instability. If it stays warmcore (looks like it will) at landfall it still has to transition. Not only will the pressure gradient be one largest I've been around for on the EC but also the temp difference on opposing sides of the cyclone. The storm will be sucking in cold air and wrapping it all the way into the center (euro solution is the starkest example of this). What does that translate to irt to instability and dynamics? Does anyone know what this means irt sensible weather at the surface?

That's a great point. You would think what? Increased electric activity? Or maybe large hail? And maybe a rapid injection of cold air causes it to collapse especially fast after landfall? So many interesting possibilities here.

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I'm liking Sandy's the recent signs of core re-organization that it was lacking for most of the day.

Though it's such a large storm, i can't imagine how it can become well organized over the next 24-48 hours. She has to much body to maintain, even with the gradual signs of increased convection all round the storm.

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