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December 27/28 Storm Threat


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Nam is slow and definitely will sort of scoot east a bit. Not great south of the Pike for snow but would be good north I think.

Slooooooooooow too.

Hopefully it's an indication of models in general not picking up on CAD and a slower mid-level warm intrusion. Still certainly not an ideal end game for everyone but similar to what you alluded to in an earlier post about a good front end dump from Northampton N up the Valley to S.VT. CAD certainly held longer than modeled during last weeks sn/pl/fzra event.

Simply stated, still some confidence that a possible advisory/borderline warning event well N of the Pike/CNE is not off the table.

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Hopefully it's an indication of models in general not picking up on CAD and a slower mid-level warm intrusion. Still certainly not an ideal end game for everyone but similar to what you alluded to in an earlier post about a good front end dump from Northampton N up the Valley to S.VT. CAD certainly held longer than modeled during last weeks sn/pl/fzra event.

Simply stated, still some confidence that a possible advisory/borderline warning event well N of the Pike/CNE is not off the table.

The NAM is always deathly slow with systems it seems.

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Models always seem to struggle with cad until the last day or 2, Trends have been colder ea run for the most part

They never see front end snows usually til inside the last 48-72 hours, its no wonder all these storms years back were forecast to have 1 or 2 inches and had 6-7 before changeovers, the models then probably couldn't pick up on it even as it was occurring.

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for kicks, 18z NOGAPS continued SE trend

That would be a collective sigh of relief for most of the SNE posters looking at post-christmas toaster sales.

I'd like to see how the performance of christmas eve/christmas day plays out and how modeling responds to evolution and development of that system with regards to wed/thurs.

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They never see front end snows usually til inside the last 48-72 hours, its no wonder all these storms years back were forecast to have 1 or 2 inches and had 6-7 before changeovers, the models then probably couldn't pick up on it even as it was occurring.

We see this time and time again where some of these systems end up over performing because it ends up being a colder solution then modeled

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Speaking of the NOGAPS....I remember the time it shot down the Euro, GFS, and the rest of the suite. It was before the first significant snow of the 1999-00 season and it didn't come until 1/12/00....the first flakes in Boston. We've lived through some ratters...lol.

It picked it up and we ultimately ended up with something like 7 inches. Probably hasn't done anything close to that since....lol.

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Its amazing, when you look at the GFS at 500mb at 30 hours you'd never think in a billion years any storm was cutting west within 36 hours, there is a blocking ridge in Canada and 2 vortexes in SE Canada.

I was just looking at that, trough goes neutral in OK, it's the negative tilt later that flood us. Really doubt this goes west but inflow from the SE sucks.
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