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February 13/14 VD Storm discussion


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Euro is OTS. Do we toss?

Not tossing anything, and the EURO cannot be ignored after the sucess it had with this. Inclined to toss the GFS, but it's been locked into this storm for a few days now, sort of like how the EURO was with this one we just had. Not expecting anything major, but think advisory snow down here is a good possibility. Would expect the EURO to meet the GFS in the middle, and see maybe something like 3-5" down here? My guess is that CT sees low end advisory(2-4") snow from this, but nothing more.

 

-skisheep

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EC ens must have a few really good members. The op doesn't get measureable into NJ, but the ens have 0.10" up to BML and 0.25" from BDR to BOS.

 

 

Speak of the devil - 

 

 

 

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SREF onboard as well according to NYC forum. What's the GGEM and the UKIE have? Right now it seems to be GFS/GEFS/NAM(according to NYC)/SREFS vs EURO ens vs EURO.

 

See some decent poential here for advisory snow IMBY, would not be suprised to see a 4-6" type deal out of this.

 

-skisheep

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There seems to be validity to the statement that the Northeastern US states sees another snowstorm in the near future.  We have several model cycles to look at, but none of them truly with perhaps the exception being the 00z GFS, show true amplification of the upper level trough downstream of a building PNA ridge regime.  With the exception of blocking in the North Atlantic showing up in this pattern, the PNA pattern looks favorable for amplification of downstream troughing over the eastern USA.  Several areas of guidance looking at operational for this post first.  GGEM, shows less amplitude of the eastern US troughing.  Now the model seems to have a secondary northern stream disturbance in the flow disrupting the backside amplitude of the eastern us trough where no digging is likely.  The lead northern impulse therefore does not dig into the eastern US to close off a mid level low in the northern stream phasing with the southern stream disturbance.  The GFS shows this to a degree but amplifies the southern stream and the EURO also shows secondary northern stream impulse riding overtop of the ridge to set up our PD storm.  It seems like models are choosing one or the other and not both.  Enough amplitude should suffice in the southern stream, but northern stream ridging is lacking between the two disturbances over the northern USA.  Therefore I think credence to the second disturbance as being the better system to watch for Northeastern US cyclogenesis sometime in the PD time period.  I do not think the system next wednesday will suffice to bring us anything more then cloud cover, but will keep an eye out on the Valentine's Day potential.

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84h nam looks like it would be a big storm. Euro esnembles take it about 100 SE of the BM. Its a threat, but I'd keep it at an outside shot for now. 

 

 

I was just going to comment on that Will - haha.

 

Yup... And, there is a little innocuous and probably not seen little N stream impulse up there dangling in the eastern Dakotas, and that would also likely get infused... It's like where this last one was a weak southern stream wave with a powerful N stream capture, this next one is a powerful southern streamer with a much weaker N stream counter-part.  

 

Anyway, got to watch this because ALL this is inside the NAM's domain already, and whether it is fun to trash the model and is warranted or not, it does tend to do better when it is not reliant on relays.  

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I could use a little further west. :)   But with our luck it would cut too much.

 

Looks like a quick thump Monday maybe ...snow/sleet then a little ZR....

It also bombs out our PD storm as well over New England, this is another thread the needle with the trough idea, because too far west and amped we all turn to rain.

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Another analog for this storm could be 2/5/11, but that cut west of us. The only reason I say this because the synoptic pattern resembles that a couple days prior with a strong midwestern storm like we are seeing tonight and tomorrow for the northern plain states. I'm hoping the result isn't the same.

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