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February 8th Potential Bomb Part II


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This could go bad for Boston in multiple ways. She could come inland and put Boston in the dry slot or on the east side, or she could stall out south of Long Island and become vertically stacked before the really strong CCB arrives up that way.

Or this can go really bad for us at 0z.  I have seen events like this turn sour in a heartbeat.  This is a real complicated storm and alot can go bad when the new data comes in tonight, not saying don't be excited, but this isn't a lock for very heavy snowfall yet, we are talking about the 18z gfs here...

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It's definitely a little warm near NJ and NYC, but it flips to a bomb. Western CT would win here, but remember the little nuances with these systems over 48hrs out.

At least over the last few years, I've noticed the GFS tends to be a degree or sometimes even two degrees too warm in these dynamic cooling bomb situations...and usually the western/northwestern 1/3 of the QPF bomb end up with a paste snow bomb.

We'll see...this was a big trend towards the CCB really going off on top of our area and extending up to SNE.

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This could go bad for Boston in multiple ways. She could come inland and put Boston in the dry slot or on the east side, or she could stall out south of Long Island and become vertically stacked before the really strong CCB arrives up that way.

 

 

The only thing that could really go wrong for them is the coastal front that loves forming there does so and sneaks 2-3 miles inland for a period, thats always a concern at BOS in a dynamic system but anyone back near the "beltway" there its gonna take a catastrophe at this point for this storm to really bust.

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At least over the last few years, I've noticed the GFS tends to be a degree or sometimes even two degrees too warm in these dynamic cooling bomb situations...and usually the western/northwestern 1/3 of the QPF bomb end up with a paste snow bomb.

We'll see...this was a big trend towards the CCB really going off on top of our area and extending up to SNE.

 

Yeah it flips you over big time and agree with the dynamics. Either way enjoy! It wouldn't shock me for you guys to get hit hard.

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I think this is really all we can ask for at this point. We've been talking about the trends, and what we need to get this to be a biggie for the area. The 18z gfs shows the result, albeit the mesoscale dynamics while incredibly large, are somewhat underplayed because of its lower resolutiion allowing temps to appear warmer than what might truly occur.

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Long Island still looks like it will still change over to rain during the mid morning period Friday and last thru the mid aft period Friday before changing back over to snow after hr 48. This will hold down accumulation for the Island.  

 

Hr 42

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/cgi-bin/gen_grbsnd.cgi?id=kfrg&mo=gfs_avn_us&pl=out4&ft=h42&cu=latest&pt=parcel&size=640x480

 

Hr 48

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/cgi-bin/gen_grbsnd.cgi?id=kfrg&mo=gfs_avn_us&pl=out4&ft=h48&cu=latest&pt=parcel&size=640x480

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At least over the last few years, I've noticed the GFS tends to be a degree or sometimes even two degrees too warm in these dynamic cooling bomb situations...and usually the western/northwestern 1/3 of the QPF bomb end up with a paste snow bomb.

We'll see...this was a big trend towards the CCB really going off on top of our area and extending up to SNE.

 

Thats more or less what busted the 12/25/02 system, ETA wanted no part of the CCB and the AVN/GFS had it but appeared too warm and everyone bit on it.

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Long Island still looks like it will still change over to rain during the mid morning period Friday and last thru the mid aft period Friday before changing back over to snow after hr 48. This will hold down accumulation for the Island.  

 

Hr 42

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/cgi-bin/gen_grbsnd.cgi?id=kfrg&mo=gfs_avn_us&pl=out4&ft=h42&cu=latest&pt=parcel&size=640x480

 

Hr 48

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/cgi-bin/gen_grbsnd.cgi?id=kfrg&mo=gfs_avn_us&pl=out4&ft=h48&cu=latest&pt=parcel&size=640x480

 

Yeah alot of that will depend on what sort of snow rates/accumulation can drop early, if you can get a good few inches down quick like 12/5/03 and have heavy precip rates it can make it very tough, especially if winds are starting to come around more NE to get that warm layer in.

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Love to see NYC's all time snow record from a couple years back (the one that replaced 1947's) broken then I'll swear off snow for a year.

 

Do any models even hint at a Biblical snowstorm for NYC/LI?

 

Apparently the RPM is your friend there. And maybe the RGEM. And the NAM Hi Res. A pretty motley crew.

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