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Euro guidance brings it in Monday and Monday night, while GFS brings it in Tuesday night into Wednesday. I'm on the later GFS camp, but I could see Tuesday as when the front perhaps sags south through SNE. Euro ensembles bring it through Monday, but the thermal fields sort of argue for a little lag with the cold air. IMHO, I would wait until at least Tuesday to be on the safe side. I could see some sort of wintry event next week..maybe a mixed bag of sorts? Could end on an active note.

Euro doesnt show any arctic front, at least not on the 0z run. We breifly cool down to -2 to -6 which is still abover normal before torching back up to +6 ahead of a cutter at the end of next week. Is relighwx not updating? It looks like an overall torch from now till the end of 240hrs on the OP EURO.
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Euro guidance brings it in Monday and Monday night, while GFS brings it in Tuesday night into Wednesday. I'm on the later GFS camp, but I could see Tuesday as when the front perhaps sags south through SNE. Euro ensembles bring it through Monday, but the thermal fields sort of argue for a little lag with the cold air. IMHO, I would wait until at least Tuesday to be on the safe side. I could see some sort of wintry event next week..maybe a mixed bag of sorts? Could end on an active note.

Not bad at all. Lets hope Euro ens timing is right. Then get that winter event middle of week
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One thing to note going forward is that the GFS totally got schooled by the Euro in handling the southenr energy for later this week. GFS didn't hold it back...and the Euro did and it was speculated that the Euro was having its typical bias of holding back SW energy too long...turned out Euro was correct.

 

Not sure how that will affect anything later in te forecast period, but I'm keeping in mind that the Euro hanging back energy over the SW doesn't have to be wrong when it comes to the frontal passage early next week. It could be wrong...nobody can really know for sure 7-8 days out, but it was on its own this week with the slower SW energy and it turned out correct.

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One thing to note going forward is that the GFS totally got schooled by the Euro in handling the southenr energy for later this week. GFS didn't hold it back...and the Euro did and it was speculated that the Euro was having its typical bias of holding back SW energy too long...turned out Euro was correct.

Not sure how that will affect anything later in te forecast period, but I'm keeping in mind that the Euro hanging back energy over the SW doesn't have to be wrong when it comes to the frontal passage early next week. It could be wrong...nobody can really know for sure 7-8 days out, but it was on its own this week with the slower SW energy and it turned out correct.

Great pickup. Now my interest is piqued.

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One thing to note going forward is that the GFS totally got schooled by the Euro in handling the southenr energy for later this week. GFS didn't hold it back...and the Euro did and it was speculated that the Euro was having its typical bias of holding back SW energy too long...turned out Euro was correct.

 

Not sure how that will affect anything later in te forecast period, but I'm keeping in mind that the Euro hanging back energy over the SW doesn't have to be wrong when it comes to the frontal passage early next week. It could be wrong...nobody can really know for sure 7-8 days out, but it was on its own this week with the slower SW energy and it turned out correct.

 

I think that was more for next week when we were talking about it. The 00z run from yesterday on the euro was all screwed up with the trough early next week while the GFS kept the trough more in tact and positively tilted, thus a torch.

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Happened to be out and about at 3 a.m. this morning--temp was 29, which was disheartening.  Got back up at 7 to find it had dropped to 27--wouldn't it normally be colder in the wee small hours? 

Wellesley/Natick line.

 

Colder air is actually moving in, and also low temps tend to be right near sunrise. So, not too surprising.

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Colder air is actually moving in, and also low temps tend to be right near sunrise. So, not too surprising.

It's been a nice post frontal temp drop up here. I left work with a coating of snow and 31F and it's down to 24.7F now. We should stay in the 20s the rest of the afternoon.
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i don't want to be DD...but i have my worries going forward. maybe just gunshy. i don't know. 

 

Well it's all NAO dependent. If we see a formidable -NAO..I think we are ok. If it's just a little weenie ridge poking into the NE Greenland ice sheet...then it will be active..but obviously you know the risks. I'm going to hold any thoughts until perhaps the end of the weekend. We should know how it will shake out by then, at least have an idea.

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Most of the time we have failed to cash in on a big -EPO/-NAO pattern, it was because of suppression or a general lack of precip. There are a few exceptions...the coast got screwed in Feb 2007...mostly because Vday went too far west.

 

Most of the time it turned out very well for us though. As long as we actually get that pattern, there is plenty of reason to be optimistic. The EPO has not been overly reliable though, so we'll see how it shakes out. It has tended to break down quickly when it goes negative, though this is certainly the most promising looking progs yet...probably since 2010-2011.

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Well it's all NAO dependent. If we see a formidable -NAO..I think we are ok. If it's just a little weenie ridge poking into the NE Greenland ice sheet...then it will be active..but obviously you know the risks. I'm going to hold any thoughts until perhaps the end of the weekend. We should know how it will shake out by then, at least have an idea.

 

i hope the pacific doesn't screw it up. 

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