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1/25-1/26 Storm Disco Thread


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Not always the case, Feb 2006 we only got about 3-5" of wet muck from the initial system from the west, then the deform band blew up right over our area and dropped another 4-8" real fast.  There was a storm in Feb 1996 very similar and the Christmas Day snow in 2002 come to mind just off the top of my head.  It might not happen often but if the coastal gets going quickly and south of our latitude we can get in on the deform band. 

well it has a center of circulation over SC/NC which helps..a coastal isnt probably going to help us...we want to see 40N get screwed to be safe, plus seeing them get screwed is always preferable anyway

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it is incredibly concerning

The reason we get screwed with Miller B's typically is that they are often northern branch dominant, and thus the track is too far north for our latitude.  There are examples, RARE, of miller b's that tracked far enough south that even DC did ok.  The key is how far south the system tracks.  As long as the SLP passes to our south, we will do ok.  If it morphs into a SLP into SW PA and then a redevelopment off NJ...then not so much. 

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The good thing about this solution is the vortmax manages to get south of where Jan '05 tracked in that area, so you'd do better. It tracks through VA whereas 1/05 tracked basically over your head.

We were forecasted for 6-10" in 1/05 up until the snow started falling. I don't remember all the model outputs leading up to the event, but I would guess the models were showing "south" for the 500 mb features too at this time-range.

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We were forecasted for 6-10" in 1/05 up until the snow started falling. I don't remember all the model outputs leading up to the event, but I would guess the models were showing "south" for the 500 mb features too at this time-range.

 

 

Yeah that can happen....given the time frame, nobody should be tying nooses or spiking the ball yet, no matter where you live. Its just one run. The handling of the PAC energy that comes on shore about 48h from now will be pretty key.

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We were forecasted for 6-10" in 1/05 up until the snow started falling. I don't remember all the model outputs leading up to the event, but I would guess the models were showing "south" for the 500 mb features too at this time-range.

I think there were some models still showing a nice hit, but I saw enough from the data the day before to know we were screwed and it was a philly north special.  Never understood why NWS was going with the snowier forecast. 

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Yeah that can happen....given the time frame, nobody should be tying nooses or spiking the ball yet, no matter where you live. Its just one run. The handling of the PAC energy that comes on shore about 48h from now will be pretty key.

Well there's no noose-tying nor ball-spiking in the subforum right now. It's just the kind of sinking feeling you get after you see two-- one from the GFS, and one from the Euro-- of the multiple ways that snowstorms can screw our area. The verbatim Euro output is great, but when we look at going from 0.6" DCA to 0.74" BWI to >0.75" NYC to >1.4" Boston, there's obviously a chance that that *could* end up much worse for our region.

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you are starting to become incredibly tedious....this redevelops well off the coast of Jersey...it is of no help to us as depicted...doesnt even come close to helping you....I dont care about your academic examples...we all know about different setups

keep in mind I have not "seen" this run like you have  yet, so I don't know where it develops the secondary.  My point is still the same, if the primary tracks south of us... we will do ok.  North and east may do better, but we would still be ok.  We really get screwed with the primary tracks right over us or to our north... because we dry slot.  If the track is what the euro is showing we are fine. 

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January 2005 may have been the nastiest and most miserable 6" storm I've experienced, not just because it underperformed, but the dry slot ended it so damn early. Sure, compared to some I was lucky to get 6" but I wanted 8-14 which was what LWX called for. I was a 14 year old kid who started despising New England that day, thanks to that storm.

Seeing 40N with a MECS on the euro while we're relatively left behind, brings back these haunted memories. Being on the edge is never fun, especially in a miller B type scenario. Having said that, at this point I'd take 6" in a heartbeat, even January 2005 style.

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I'd take a couple inches snow along with this cold airmass and be content for the remainder of the winter.

 

However, this is an ENSO Neutral winter so its going to be super tough to even get 1-2 inches in a snowstorm this year.

 

So - I'll stick with persistence and expect light snow showers and/or light sleet showers with a coating on my car top.

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