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Flaking Our Way Into MLK Weekend 1/17-1/18


Clinch Leatherwood

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The more I look at this, the more I think that the precip generated over my area is from the northern stream interaction with the southern stream. Inverted trough type of stuff. The stuff over CC is more associated with the southern stream system.

I have said this for 4 days!!!!!

 

overcast 39/27

dewpoint creeping up

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i've never seen the OP euro wetter than every gfs ensemble member at this range

 

that's a concern for sure if you're west of the CP.  Too early to tell, but there is going to be a lot of dry air inland.

 

Check this out Forky.  When the Euro does lock in it really is an amazing model.  Note how the upper low is compressing from the NW in these last few frames...it's no longer a pretty tight circle.  The euro nails this right down to the general structure of the system...others not so much.  

 

RAP isn't on board yet with the Euro totally in the northern stream.  It holds back that energy a bit longer than the Euro and no doubt that's why it's not getting the precip NW like the Euro

 

Check out this loop...

 

http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/satellite/displaySat.php?region=ALB&itype=wv&size=large&endDate=20130117&endTime=-1&duration=4

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HRRR looks reasonable. Close, yet so far away:

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It's not terrible as we approach 0z by any means (the HRRR)

A very tame and realistic forecast from the usually robust weenie hrrr, nice little storm for the cape:)

That doesn't seem unreasonable as of right now..measurable from about Duxbury to New Bedford. But, I like the HRRR as much as the SREFs

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Wouldn't it be funny if rained on the Cape and snowed in interior SNE in the biggest positive bust ever ?

wuh wuh wuhhhhh

You know.. I've been wondering just that because it's still 39 degrees with some very warm water around. I guess we'll see.

I don't think you'll have much of a problem. Things may start wet but you should be OK with time.

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Local office on the ball. 

 

MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT THERE WILL BE ACCUMULATING SNOW
OVER THE CAPE/ISLANDS TONIGHT BUT THERE IS UNCERTAINTY HOW FAR N
AND W THE STEADIER SNOW GETS. THINK THE ECMWF PUSHES THE SNOW TOO
FAR NW INTO THE DRIER AIR SO WE ARE ADJUSTING THIS SE CLOSER TO
THE NAM/GFS WHICH BRINGS BACK EDGE ROUGHLY TO BOS-PVD CORRIDOR.
FOR ACCUM...WE ARE GOING WITH 2-4" FOR ACK...1-2" CAPE COD AND A
COATING TO AN INCH SE MA AND S RI. WE ARE ISSUING A WINTER
WEATHER ADVSY FOR ACK. HOWEVER...THERE WILL LIKELY BE A SHARP QPF
GRADIENT AND THERE IS STILL A CHANCE HIGHER ACCUM COULD SHIFT NW
WHICH WOULD REQUIRE A NW EXPANSION OF THE ADVSY. THIS WILL HAVE
TO BE MONITORED CLOSELY TONIGHT.

THE OTHER CONSIDERATION IS OCEAN EFFECT/ENHANCED SNOW OVER THE
OUTER CAPE LATE TONIGHT AS ARCTIC AIR IS PULLED SWD OVER THE
OCEAN RESULTING IN EXTREME INSTABILITY. DELTA T BETWEEN SST AND
TOP OF THE MIXED LAYER INCREASES TO 20C+ LATE TONIGHT SO THERE
WILL BE ENHANCEMENT/OCEAN EFFECT SNOW AND NORTHERLY TRAJECTORY
FAVORS THE OUTER CAPE ROUGHLY FROM HYA E.
 

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Local office on the ball. 

 

MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT THERE WILL BE ACCUMULATING SNOW

OVER THE CAPE/ISLANDS TONIGHT BUT THERE IS UNCERTAINTY HOW FAR N

AND W THE STEADIER SNOW GETS. THINK THE ECMWF PUSHES THE SNOW TOO

FAR NW INTO THE DRIER AIR SO WE ARE ADJUSTING THIS SE CLOSER TO

THE NAM/GFS WHICH BRINGS BACK EDGE ROUGHLY TO BOS-PVD CORRIDOR.

FOR ACCUM...WE ARE GOING WITH 2-4" FOR ACK...1-2" CAPE COD AND A

COATING TO AN INCH SE MA AND S RI. WE ARE ISSUING A WINTER

WEATHER ADVSY FOR ACK. HOWEVER...THERE WILL LIKELY BE A SHARP QPF

GRADIENT AND THERE IS STILL A CHANCE HIGHER ACCUM COULD SHIFT NW

WHICH WOULD REQUIRE A NW EXPANSION OF THE ADVSY. THIS WILL HAVE

TO BE MONITORED CLOSELY TONIGHT.

THE OTHER CONSIDERATION IS OCEAN EFFECT/ENHANCED SNOW OVER THE

OUTER CAPE LATE TONIGHT AS ARCTIC AIR IS PULLED SWD OVER THE

OCEAN RESULTING IN EXTREME INSTABILITY. DELTA T BETWEEN SST AND

TOP OF THE MIXED LAYER INCREASES TO 20C+ LATE TONIGHT SO THERE

WILL BE ENHANCEMENT/OCEAN EFFECT SNOW AND NORTHERLY TRAJECTORY

FAVORS THE OUTER CAPE ROUGHLY FROM HYA E.

 

4-6" Cape

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4-6" Cape

 

Need to watch the dry air.

 

Right about now is when the Euro started to develop the precip off NJ and over LI and that's starting to happen...that expands into SNE over the next few hours.  You can see the beginning of this over LI right now.  But will it reach the ground or is that QPF going to get mauled?

 

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=N0R&rid=box&loop=yes

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I hope you guys get something down there. You've been just as bad as up here, even given climo.

 

The Jan '87s and Feb '89s of the world will again reappear sooner rather than later.

 

My hours were off above...Euro kind of swings that band we see out over the water NW in the next 2-3 hours and gradually develops it.  That becomes the NW edge and precip develops SE of it as the low gets going.  Still a few hours from really having a good idea of which way it's going.  The composite is okay, but most of it is getting mauled.

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Played around looking it's so hard to tell.  The Euro starts to unravel the upper low to the south first...that's clearly underway.  http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/satellite/displaySat.php?region=US&itype=wv&size=large&endDate=20130117&endTime=-1&duration=4

 

At the same time it was faster shunting the northern energy eastward by Chicago.   Looks to me it may not have been far off, who knows.

 

I think the precip shield it develops this evening has a northern and southern bound as seen on the composite already.

 

 

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No, you said you would know why you did, why would you get 1-2 what is the science behind it?

Oh well I just think warm air advection and subsequent frontogenesis way aloft would be strong enough to overpower any dry air for a long period of time......if I did get 1-2".

See you have to remember something too. Model resolution is not always good enough to show a sudden cut off to QPF such as what we'll see tonight on the nw side of the snow shield. Sure it can model a sharp drop off but in reality, the cutoff can be even sharper. That will also come into play. I have no problem eating crow, but just my hunch....with similar views from the mets in here. Maybe new London county over to PYM can get a little lucky.

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Just looking at soundings on the latest RAP - appears the massive dry layer centered around 700 mb doesn't really moisten up enough until around 5Z (midnight?) so hopefully we get a coating or something around then.  Even at that time there's still some dryness but it's mostly saturated and wetbulbed.

 

RAP brings the darkest greens up to around Brockton and maybe Quincy.

 

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

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