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February 8th Potential Bomb Part II


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Dude, models are not right and wrong seasonally. Their biases are exhibited differently during different weather patterns. What might make the NAM decent in representing norlun troughs, for example, might also make it suck at handling the players that result in a coastal bomb.

the globals ended up being right last weekend, even thought it was thought that the high resolution nam and rgem were the only ones to look to in forecasting that norlun that never materialized. as I recall several posters said the globals were definitely going to be dead wrong showing no inverted trough signature
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In fact unfortunately there is a chance the models could trend toward the NAM and a later phase. I've seen it happen before. The model to modem runs aren't "trending" to themselves and aren't predetermined to do so...they simply calculate data and display it graphically. The NAM could be on to something at THIS point. At any rate...."consensus" was becoming possible for a 5-10" snow....closer to the 5" quite likely....a later phase would make it a 2-4 or 1-3

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In fact unfortunately there is a chance the models could trend toward the NAM and a later phase. I've seen it happen before. The model to modem runs aren't "trending" to themselves and aren't predetermined to do so...they simply calculate data and display it graphically. The NAM could be on to something at THIS point. At any rate...."consensus" was becoming possible for a 5-10" snow....closer to the 5" quite likely....a later phase would make it a 2-4 or 1-3

honestly with the late phase I wouldn't expect much. Yes we could get a couple inches of slop but really its kind of a wash if we don't get a timely phase. In terms of expectations we should all be aware of this.

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In fact unfortunately there is a chance the models could trend toward the NAM and a later phase. I've seen it happen before. The model to modem runs aren't "trending" to themselves and aren't predetermined to do so...they simply calculate data and display it graphically. The NAM could be on to something at THIS point. At any rate...."consensus" was becoming possible for a 5-10" snow....closer to the 5" quite likely....a later phase would make it a 2-4 or 1-3

honestly with the late phase I wouldn't expect much. Yes we could get a couple inches of slop but really its kind of a wash if we don't get a timely phase. In terms of expectations we should all be aware of this.

Yes....the tendency is of course to get worked up over the possibility of a huge storm....but we must keep in mind that this is a huge storm for New England....it is a significant storm here....that seems even more significant due to the lack of snow this winter

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Rgem was one of the best models for a snowy solution here....if its pulling away its not trending in the right direction. But wow....Boston really gets hit so hard

1 run does not make a trend though.

True true....but when we're on the edge of a phasing system "to phase in time or not" is the key here....if it doesn't then it's more like 3" rather than 10"

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I'm not hugging it, I'm treating it as an equal to the GFS, Euro, and GEM models. it's part of the model suite and should be respected. Just because its showing something different doesnt mean its *going* to be wrong.

This is true, brother, just because it is different does not mean it is going to be wrong; however I would look at what we have. A rather trustworthy model, the euro being very consistent. Other models caving to its consistency. Furthermore, the 00z nam didn't quite intialize correctly and looked to be having synoptic issues. This is esepcially problematic for the Nam since its a high res model. Furthermore I would expect the 4 km res Nam to follow suit as the even higher resolution would result in further complications due to initialization errors. While I think the Nam can be useful- at this point I would disregard it. If the 00z suite follows suit and shows a significant shift, then I would be a little more uneasy.

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