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Significant Ocean Storm March 6-8 2013 Discussion Part III


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A consensus of the GFS, RGEM, Ukie, and Euro yields around 2-4" for the NYC area, with a little more to the east, and decently more as you head northeast. 

 

There really is no point in using the NAM at this point...but I guess you can use the mesoscale models to say that there is the potential for more. But I wouldn't actually weight them in a forecast at this point. 

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He didn't look at hours 36-48 where NYC and NNJ get 5-8mm.

OK, found it hard to believe NYC got nothing.

 

When you all say more NE, how much more NE are you talking about? I'm about 35 miles NE of the city, would I make it into the bigger totals on RGEM/UKIE?

-skisheep

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OK, found it hard to believe NYC got nothing.

 

When you all say more NE, how much more NE are you talking about? I'm about 35 miles NE of the city, would I make it into the bigger totals on RGEM/UKIE?

-skisheep

If you are in Stamford you are definitely in better shape than the immediate metro area and have a shot of seeing decent snow. 

btw no one has mentioned this but boundary layer temps are going to be a problem for NYC  despite what the snowmaps are showing. 

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I'm kinda surprised that so many people are on here tonight. This was probably one of the worst outcomes in AW or WW board history.

It was dreadful, the models were dreadful, the forecasts were awful, I can't compare this to March 2001 because this was never going to be a 1-2'+ monster, but as far as the models go and the short term forecasts, it was atrocious.

This is why the public laughs at meteorologists and says things like they are always wrong, they have no idea what they're talking about, and why they brush off warnings that should've been followed.

The technology needs to step up, we should be further along than this. The funding needs to pick or millions to billions of dollars will be lost for a misleading forecast.

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The modeling was terrible. However, by this afternoon, I got harassed after I called bust. As a educated meteorologist, one does not have to "sit and watch." Sometimes the evidence is right in front of you. The writing was on the wall all day with this bust. Plain and simple. People are already preparing themselves for bust #2 tomorrow night. Here's a hint...NYC will be lucky to land 1-3 in. which the inverted trough.

 

It was dreadful, the models were dreadful, the forecasts were awful, I can't compare this to March 2001 because this was never going to be a 1-2'+ monster, but as far as the models go and the short term forecasts, it was atrocious.

This is why the public laughs at meteorologists and says things like they are always wrong, they have no idea what they're talking about, and why they brush off warnings that should've been followed.

The technology needs to step up, we should be further along than this. The funding needs to pick or millions to billions of dollars will be lost for a misleading forecast.

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Lonnie Quinn isn't one to hype, I'm surprised he went so high.

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Did you forget to use an emoticon?  LQ might be the worst ever - not a met and you can tell he's clueless by his little misstatements, which betray his lack of knowledge.  And he had NYC metro area in a 6-12" swath last night, if I recall correctly. 

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ggem looks less enthused for nj/nyc with the trough..

 

 

00z  NYC

 

SREF:  0.50

NAM:  1.25 +

GFS:  0.25  - 0.25

RGEM:  0.25 - 0.50

UKMET:  0.25 - 0.50

GGEM:  0.10 - 0.25

Its almost comical to see how much wetter the NAM is to all other guidance available. Looks like the consensus is 2-5"

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ggem looks less enthused for nj/nyc with the trough..

00z NYC

SREF: 0.50

NAM: 1.25 +

GFS: 0.25 - 0.25

RGEM: 0.25 - 0.50

UKMET: 0.25 - 0.50

GGEM: 0.10 - 0.25

Have a good feeling those will continue to drop. These things always setup further to the NE, the low is too far away for it to setup over us.

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NAM needs to be upgraded or completely trashed...its an embarrassment to the United States 

 

 

Its really only useful now for convection season. Its complete loss of thermal profile superiority in the winter this season (from whatever upgrade it got) has made it a bargain basement model now for winter weather forecasting.

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Did you forget to use an emoticon?  LQ might be the worst ever - not a met and you can tell he's clueless by his little misstatements, which betray his lack of knowledge.  And he had NYC metro area in a 6-12" swath last night, if I recall correctly. 

 

 

I assumed he was joking with that post.

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