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March 18-20 Storm Discussion


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I'm a lot more excited for my former stomping grounds in Central PA and the rich-get-richer SNE crew than I am for the immediate area-looks very borderline and very short lived in terms of when and how we can get snow around immediate NYC and the coast. North/northeast/west can score a few inches or so hopefully. It would take a lot though to shift the goods much further south than there though. I would expect maybe an hour or two of mix then just rain for much of the immediate metro area and places near the coast.

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I'm a lot more excited for my former stomping grounds in Central PA and the rich-get-richer SNE crew than I am for the immediate area-looks very borderline and very short lived in terms of when and how we can get snow around immediate NYC and the coast. North/northeast/west can score a few inches or so hopefully. It would take a lot though to shift the goods much further south than there though. I would expect maybe an hour or two of mix then just rain for much of the immediate metro area and places near the coast.

Going to be a dramatic contrast between your area and mine on this event. I wouldn't expect more than a coating to an inch at Long Beach whereas Westchester could easily get 3-6". I could see elevated areas in Northern Westchester staying all frozen as surface temperatures could be slower to rise than 850s.

 

The 12z ECM was a pretty nice thump though....heavy precipitation falling at 0z Tuesday and NYC still has -3C to -4C 850s...you'd definitely be snow through that time frame on the Euro. It mostly falls at night which is a big advantage as we saw with today's event...didn't really stick here until that last heavy band around 5:30pm which gave us our half inch. 

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Going to be a dramatic contrast between your area and mine on this event. I wouldn't expect more than a coating to an inch at Long Beach whereas Westchester could easily get 3-6". I could see elevated areas in Northern Westchester staying all frozen as surface temperatures could be slower to rise than 850s.

 

The 12z ECM was a pretty nice thump though....heavy precipitation falling at 0z Tuesday and NYC still has -3C to -4C 850s...you'd definitely be snow through that time frame on the Euro. It mostly falls at night which is a big advantage as we saw with today's event...didn't really stick here until that last heavy band around 5:30pm which gave us our half inch. 

It looks like this is setting up to be an event where NE and NW suburbs could see a nice (3-6" maybe more if everything works out just right(although that's a long shot)), event, while the immediate metro gets mostly rain. I'd be suprised to see anywhere in this subforum except for maybe Orange County being all frozen, but Northern Westchester would be a good place to be for this one.

-skisheep

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Going to be a dramatic contrast between your area and mine on this event. I wouldn't expect more than a coating to an inch at Long Beach whereas Westchester could easily get 3-6". I could see elevated areas in Northern Westchester staying all frozen as surface temperatures could be slower to rise than 850s.

 

The 12z ECM was a pretty nice thump though....heavy precipitation falling at 0z Tuesday and NYC still has -3C to -4C 850s...you'd definitely be snow through that time frame on the Euro. It mostly falls at night which is a big advantage as we saw with today's event...didn't really stick here until that last heavy band around 5:30pm which gave us our half inch. 

The Euro has been a little cold on the major events this winter, it was a degree or two cold on the 2/8 storm which was the difference in my immediate area between hours of sleet that could have been heavy snow. It might be different this time and other models seem to be getting colder little by little but I would still hedge on a solution just a bit warmer than the Euro. CAD often manifests itself last-minute on the models, so that could portend well for places just inland.

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NAM is below freezing at the surface even at hour 42 for NW NJ and Putnam, Orange counties in NY.  850's move a little North of the area at that time so maybe sleet?  But shows some decent snow before that up here.

What time would the changover be occuring here in Putnam?  How much snow?

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By hour 42 at least on the regular NAM, the precip has largely stopped.

 

at HR 51 the 4KM NAM brings some more precip into the area but the temps are warm. The freezing line seems to run vertically through West Milford to Trenton

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Does anyone have nam snow map, I would think from 78 north verbatim 2-3" then ice/sleet, maybe some rain...but I would be surprised if temps get much above 33 or so for most in north jersey

Not the most accurate, but here you go!

Looks like around 4" or so here.

-skisheep

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The RGEM looks snowier than last night's run. Really nice front end thump for most places, including the city.

No kidding, it's probably close to warning criteria here(10-15 mm, which is 4-6" and I'd guess we are on the upper edge of that considering the city is also in the same 10-15 zone, plus add in some ice before the rain, and it's probably verbatim a warning event for the burbs)

total accumulated snow map through 48 is below, reason that northern locations are so low is that precip reaches them later than us. also keep in mind the maps usually run a touch warm.

-skisheep

 

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No kidding, it's probably close to warning criteria here(10-15 mm, which is 4-6" and I'd guess we are on the upper edge of that considering the city is also in the same 10-15 zone, plus add in some ice before the rain, and it's probably verbatim a warning event for the burbs)

total accumulated snow map through 48 is below, reason that northern locations are so low is that precip reaches them later than us. also keep in mind the maps usually run a touch warm.

-skisheep

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Looks like a general 4-6 inches from Route 78 northward. Nice run.

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Looks like a general 4-6 inches from Route 78 northward. Nice run.

Nice indeed, probably close to our best case scenario, I think that in order to see anything more than that, major changes have to take place, which given now that we are inside of 48 hours seems unlikely. Still a very nice storm for the end of march.

-skisheep

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