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Potential Storm 11/7-11/8


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The northerly and stable wind component over land (areas that will see snow) will be the saving grace there. The gusty winds aloft are much more likely to mix down over the immediate shores with a NE wind direction (still not good).

This includes NYC Metro doesn't it?axesmiley.png

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this is shaping up to be a terrible start to the cold season. usually Id say its a superb start, give me a split flow blocking pattern all winter, but not when so many are still recovering. i really hope the euro ticks E, saving the coast from the highest winds possible. though looking on WV loops, this is really digging...

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this is shaping up to be a terrible start to the cold season. usually Id say its a superb start, give me a split flow blocking pattern all winter, but not when so many are still recovering. i really hope the euro ticks E, saving the coast from the highest winds possible.

Im a HUGE snow lover but I love New York and its people more. Not torn here. Just let this one go out to sea. Ill wait a month for my snow till everyone has had time to breathe, Lord knows we need it!

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FWIW, 12Z NOGAPS is a swing and a miss for the entire area, except probably far eastern LI. The actual low track isn't that far off the benchmark, but the QPF fields are weak and disorganized. The lowest the pressure gets is 1000mb.

NOGAPS is one of the most useless models out there, throw it in the trash. It's time now for the shorter range models like the RGEM in my view.

What's sad is that some headway is finally being made in Long Beach, since power in a few areas was turned on today (although I also read that so far 10% of homes inspected by the city's buildings department are being condemned and 50% more need electrical work before being re-powered, there's a green=good, yellow=needs work, red=condemned grade scale). This could undo all of it and create even more flooding problems.

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FWIW, 12Z NOGAPS is a swing and a miss for the entire area, except probably far eastern LI. The actual low track isn't that far off the benchmark, but the QPF fields are weak and disorganized. The lowest the pressure gets is 1000mb.

Thats exactly what you want to see right now if you want snow, the NOGAPS is falling right into its bias...if anything it may be too far west too feel comfortable in NYC because the NAM/GFS may not be far enough west just looking at the NOGAPS and its usual bias.

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Im a HUGE snow lover but I love New York and its people more. Not torn here. Just let this one go out to sea. Ill wait a month for my snow till everyone has had time to breathe, Lord knows we need it!

for sure...this is a totally waste of winter energy. I would not care for a 2ft blizzard right now let alone a couple of wet inches.....

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Thats exactly what you want to see right now if you want snow, the NOGAPS is falling right into its bias...if anything it may be too far west too feel comfortable in NYC because the NAM/GFS may not be far enough west just looking at the NOGAPS and its usual bias.

Great post. It's a useful model when its bias is considered and compared to other models. Hopefully other can pick up from this.

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The Nogaps was great with sandy but then once within 48 hrs it shot sandy way to the east .

At one point it was the only model in the same camp as the Euro. For a time the GGEM was alos in that camp before it also shot east. With all due respect, the GFS had Sandy around Cape Cod less than 48 hours out, while almost all the other guidance was clearly much further SW. I'm not bashing the GFS, it certainly has been the better model at times.

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The combination of some mid level dry air working in after the initial thump...and the models hinting at a warm layer ~900 hPa suggests a flip to snow during heavy precip and return to rain during the lighter stuff. So long as the storm doesn't come west with huge precip amounts, the main story should continue to be the wind along the coast and the potential for gusts to 60 there.

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Very tricky forecast especially in terms of actual accumulating snows. Conditions are much less favorable than they would be even two weeks from now. I feel like 1-3" is not a bad call. This is your pretty typical north and west of the city event, the keys are how far NW do you have to be, and how much QPF will fall in that region.

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