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12/30 Coastal - Snowing Our Way Into NYE


Clinch Leatherwood

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This will be big for most of SNE...even up to my area. Already beginning to see the winds of change on the NAM. We are not needing a huge correction. This slight shifts to the NW result in significant changes for a lot of areas. But we already know this....

For Norlun events it's actually better if the low stays further east. Just need a better western disturbance to pick up the leftovers.

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Had a longer post typed and yet again this site cannot seem to post correctly in IE 10. WTF. RGEM drops about 10mb in 5 hours after 42/43 hours. the storm is ripping along but there would be a very intense band of snow in SE NE in that situation - as the RGEM shows. NAM still is barely missing. It's quite a bit further north than the earlier GGEm, there is zero doubt about that.

I've been following the RGEM in the NYC thread and noting its trend and QPF today. Another jog NW and we can legitimately start talking about the model depicting widespread 6" snows. But for now this still has the feel of a 2-4 type deal. Unless something drastic happens, the SLP will be moving out hastily, with fast steering flow. But I have seen this type of look rapidly morph into something much more substantial, even at this short range. I guess we all have... esp the older amongst us. I can remember having an epic argument with DT many years ago (of course he had many many arguments with amateurs over the years), about how a particular storm just could NOT come further north. I argued that the model physics implied that it could. I think he had ALB pegged for less than 1" in his first guess and they ended up with something like 18".

I like the temperature profiles for this one (outside of the Cape, but even they aren't too bad). Snow growth could be favorable and we don't need too much QPF to lay down a solid cover.

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I've been following the RGEM in the NYC thread and noting its trend and QPF today. Another jog NW and we can legitimately start talking about the model depicting widespread 6" snows. But for now this still has the feel of a 2-4 type deal. Unless something drastic happens, the SLP will be moving out hastily, with fast steering flow. But I have seen this type of look rapidly morph into something much more substantial, even at this short range. I guess we all have... esp the older amongst us. I can remember having an epic argument with DT many years ago (of course he had many many arguments with amateurs over the years), about how a particular storm just could NOT come further north. I argued that the model physics implied that it could. I think he had ALB pegged for less than 1" in his first guess and they ended up with something like 18".

I like the temperature profiles for this one (outside of the Cape, but even they aren't too bad). Snow growth could be favorable and we don't need too much QPF to lay down a solid cover.

It's screaming along on the RGEM/NAM. I'd thought 1-3, would probably have gone 2-4" here (I'm right near the cape cod/land cutoff), but the GFS may be going the other way, so who knows. We'll see.

EDIT: Was not looking at tonights 0z. Which looks good, amped up from the 18z for sure. 3 models, 3 more intense than their earlier runs.

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I cannot see the accumulated QPF but by my math it would have to be over .4" down here. It's considerable further NW and stronger vs even the 18z. We're trending towards a low deepening very quickly. GFS is 8mb in 6 hours or 12mb in about 8 hours etc.

Some of that may be boundary layer issues, but you would flip to snow. We'll see what the rest of the guidance does.

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Some of that may be boundary layer issues, but you would flip to snow. We'll see what the rest of the guidance does.

I think so far most of the models are pointing towards BL problems near the immediate coast. The GFS dropped the low this run right where it had a max QPF bubble on the 12z run at 48ish hours. That's probably playing into some of the variability which may explain why the ensembles have been a little more aggressive. Fast moving storm. Inlaws are riding in on their horses at sunup, I'll be up north with 2-4" of mood snow in the mountains.

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