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I don't know the orographic climo of NY so much will depend on location and aspect of the ridges but yes, there is definitely a les look on both the gfs and euro. It would likely to be enhanced on the backside the the departing low d8 and beyond. I don't have access to surface maps with the euro but GFS shows a wnw-nw flow and a general area of light qpf in the lee of the lakes.

Much still up in the air but IF a decent slp wraps up and pulls ne then pieces of energy could easily rotate around with potential for lake enhancement. h5 maps on the gfs show some vorticity rotating around the vortex south of hudson bay but any details like that are useless to look at this far out. Just having the vortex spinning in that location would increase les chances.

Lakes are warmer than normal too and that can only help. IMO- if things go down as depicted on either the gfs or euro there will be a good round of les and upslope in vt. NY is tricky though because different areas are favored by different surface flow so you might want to pop into the upstate ny thread and ask some local mets and regulars. They can probably easily answer your question.

Thanks Bob....I appreciate your thoughts! I will ask on that board when we get a little closer. Keep me in mind and send me a pm if anything SCREAMS les to you in that 28th - 2nd time frame. Thanks again!!

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I don't understand why anyone even follows DT. Anyone who brashly disrespects, insults, and is repetitively condescending towards people on a regular basis should live a pretty solitary life. I only know half the story as other long term posters but his behavior towards people is unforgivable imo. I pay little mind to DT and when I do all I want is for him to bust and bust badly.

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I don't understand why anyone even follows DT. Anyone who brashly disrespects, insults, and is repetitively condescending towards people on a regular basis should live a pretty solitary life. I only know half the story as other long term posters but his behavior towards people is unforgivable imo. I pay little mind to DT and when I do all I want is for him to bust and bust badly.

I hear he's got a huge following around Richmond and southern VA in general. Calling for certain storms way before anyone else will do that. Also helps that he's bombastic and somewhat hilarious and looks like he can explain what he's talking about.

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I hear he's got a huge following around Richmond and southern VA in general. Calling for certain storms way before anyone else will do that for him. Also helps that he's bombastic and somewhat hilarious and looks like he can explain what he's talking about.

He gets put on local radio down here a lot. He gets a ton of following because our TV mets down here are WILDLY conservative, and he will usually mention a threat days before anyone else around here

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LWX's White Christmas run down:

http://www.erh.noaa....e_christmas.php

15% chance for DC, 20% for Baltimore.

Mine's better, and follows the 'rules'. They counted snowcover days 1"+ and any day with xmas accum.. which is fine if that's what they want to do I suppose, but it gives you somewhat high odds.. they are 5% over NCDC. Plus 6 of their years with snow on Christmas were less than 1/2".

http://www.washingto...991d6_blog.html

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I'm grandfathered in.

But on a serious note, I like the idea of a colder pattern around Christmas time. I still think we have to wait until 2nd week of Jan for anything good. I hope I'm wrong, but Dec looks like a shut out. I'm fine with that.

Damn are we already conceding half of the winter? Just when you thought last year was bad.. at least I seen snow in October already. Nary a flake to be found yet.

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around 12/15 is usually the time a delayed start is no longer cute or academic and we start to become irrational and suicidal....I am almost there...

GFS has a snowstorm day 14.....cold

im sorry but i lol'ed a little.

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I know the latest Euro is showing dry, but much colder weather to close out the year; however, can anyone with more knowledge tell me whether the Euro, as depicted, would give the areas in the lake effect snow belts any opportunities in that time frame? Are the 850's cold enough and the flow from the right direction? I am skiing in Western NY in that time frame. Thanks.

Bob's totally right about lake temps being warm, but so have surface temps on shore, and this season has sucked hard for LES so far. As a result, things have been pretty quiet in the WNY part of the Upstate forum. Last I checked, the Southtowns snow belt was already 12 inches behind normal snowfall to date.

I don't think temps will be a problem for Southern Tier ski country but flow is harder to pin down. For the Chautauqua ridge, strong NW flow, preferably with a Huron/Georgian connection, is what you want. You may want to keep an eye on the comments section at WIVB (Buffalo) met Don Paul's blog. He doesn't add posts often, but he exchanges comments with readers many times a day. Since you have a trip planned, just ask him on his blog what he's seeing in the 2 week out models for ski country. He'll give you a pretty solid answer.

Latest entry comments:

http://blogs.wivb.com/2012/12/05/no-extended-very-cold-spells-yet-but-not-as-dull-as-some-might-think/#comments

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Coldest night of the year....radiated nicely down to 20...loved the 0z gfs....hated the euro....sorta dont like the 6z gfs...to me the trend is....probably not...some good runs but mostly poopy ones...i pretty much blame Ian

He needs to go out of town.

28 this morning and apparently my tires need air because it was cold

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