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December 19-20 Talking Points - Part 3


earthlight

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With all those nails put into the coffin, i'm pretty sure the coffin is wrecked.

There are many problems with this storm developing to its fullest potential. To list a few:

1. No cold high pressure to the north.

2. No typically positive PNA. It only goes slightly positive very briefly.

3. The overall pattern really does not support such a major east coast snowstorm.

4. The really cold air that is in place right now will not be as cold as the storm approaches (or doesn't). Therefore any slight change in track closer to the coast and there would likely be precip-type issues in more locations than the models are now showing, especially without the afformentioned cold high to the north.

All that said, there are always exceptions and hybrid storms. Tonight and tomorrow's modelling runs are extremely important in beginning to develop a true trend. Up until now, since all the models have gone back & forth, no true trend has really been established. I suspect this ends up being an event somewhere about midway in between what GFS showed at 12Z today and what ECMWF had shown. That said, we still cannot dismiss any of the outlier ideas.

WX/PT

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