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Moving past first week of January General Discussion/banter


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March is a volatile month...the baseline avg temp in the region is close to 35F so when you get an above normal month, it can feel like a total torch and below normal will often average near or below freezing for the month so it feels a lot more wintry.

 

 

 

This upgrade won't let me post an image but here are the monthly temps for MA in March

 

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4193/graphjan811024446041870.gif

 

 

We may not get a March 1916 again, but we will see our fair share of cold/snowy Marches to come. No guarantee we don't torch ridiculously again either for a 2nd consecutive year (just see 1945/1946)

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honestly ... i think perhaps some of you are so jaded (why that is, not sure ... considering we've had some winter excitement (sorry Scott :) ) ) that you are not looking at the 12z GFS the right way.  that enters the possibility of a long duration ice event there.   

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when is that?

 

Tuesday...the Canadian has it too. It definitely has synoptic signatures of an icing event, but it remains to be seen how much cold air drainage there is at the sfc. The Euro has been pretty gung ho on it too...though the Euro has made it more of a Wednesday event on its runs.

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Tuesday...the Canadian has it too. It definitely has synoptic signatures of an icing event, but it remains to be seen how much cold air drainage there is at the sfc. The Euro has been pretty gung ho on it too...though the Euro has made it more of a Wednesday event on its runs.

 

the gfs looked too warm synoptically...but if the confluence over nova scotia is stronger...than maybe that canadian high can push a bit farther south.  There's quite a battle with a big Atlantic high at the same time.

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Im not even sure my place hits 41 today. Will check when get home

 

The deeper snow cover areas will definitely be tougher to warm up today/tomorrow...but we'll still see more melting than recently because of the stronger SW winds. The low dewpoints help, but the stronger winds will help with sublimation with those low dewpoints. Ideally, we want those 38-39F days where there is very little wind and low dewpoints. Then you get nearly no melting/sublimating at all.

 

You'll hit 41 today easily though. Its already 38-40F over the N ORH hills with another hour or two of heating left. The mesonet tolland stations are in the low 40s now.

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The deeper snow cover areas will definitely be tougher to warm up today/tomorrow...but we'll still see more melting than recently because of the stronger SW winds. The low dewpoints help, but the stronger winds will help with sublimation with those low dewpoints. Ideally, we want those 38-39F days where there is very little wind and low dewpoints. Then you get nearly no melting/sublimating at all.

You'll hit 41 today easily though. Its already 38-40F over the N ORH hills with another hour or two of heating left. The mesonet tolland stations are in the low 40s now.

Yeah I'm guessing a 42 or so
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