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March 24-25 Potential Bomb Part Deux


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Not as good as the Nam but still impressive amounts for March.

 

The thing about this system is, there's nothing to really even track yet.  It's going to come down to the wobble of a minor vortmax to the NE of us and whether or not that's enough to change heights over New England enough to allow the southern system to do it's thing.  Almost every single storm in this past 45 days has come north.  This one has a hard ceiling, but it could push right up against it and clobber quite a few of you in the meantime.

Also, I've found the GGEM to be a little better than the RGEM even in tight not sure why.  So, keep that in mind. 

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To me through 24 the RGEM...looks like the confluence is a bit further NE than the last run (main run at 12z). You can see right away it's weaker on the western side with the old ULL to the northeast of us.

It's right there with the NAM as far as the lead vort max having some space to move northward up the coast. The Euro refuses to buy into this. The wave spacing has a lot to do with this but It's also the positioning if the vort itself.

One concerning thing is that the NAM shifted the entire height field southeast over the TN Valley earlier in the run. So that was a lean towards the Euro despite the differences with the confluence. When I was watching the Euro earlier I was thinking that it seemed south and east of NCEP guidance with the shortwave as a whole. Which makes it even harder to get it north...when it's starting farther south to begin with.

It'll be really interesting to see how this goes...and even more of a headache if the cutoff sets up right over the NYC Area.

Lets not forget about the warm boundary layer.

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The GFS precipitation shield is slightly suspect, and I'm the last person who will question the surface reflection of a forecast model. It's good to see the tick northwest with the surface low position. That's all we can really take out of the GFS run.

 

The NAM and RGEM are tucked in near the coast with plenty of precipitation. We'll see where the later 00z runs take us. 

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So once again the NAM and GFS flip Flopping on total Precip. Seems like these 2 cant be on the same page with this storm.GFS looks like 1-3 while Nam looks like 8-12,RGEM looks like 6-10..Not sure of Eukie, JMA or GGEM and of Course Euro later on.

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The GFS precipitation shield is slightly suspect, and I'm the last person who will question the surface reflection of a forecast model. It's good to see the tick northwest with the surface low position. That's all we can really take out of the GFS run.

 

The NAM and RGEM are tucked in near the coast with plenty of precipitation. We'll see where the later 00z runs take us. 

 

GFS has been pretty useless whenever there's convection involved.  It made the move towards the mesos but seems to be choking with the qpf max it develops over the Delmarva which oddly puts the normally fast GFS on the slow side aloft.  UK has normally choked as well.  I could be totally wrong, but I'd pay much more attention to the GGEM.

 

It's interesting to me that all models so far have initialized the feature to the NE in our favor.  IE just a little further north, and a little more out of the way in terms of what's swinging down to the west.   GGEM could be off to a good start at 0h.

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GFS has been pretty useless whenever there's convection involved.  It made the move towards the mesos but seems to be choking with the qpf max it develops over the Delmarva which oddly puts the normally fast GFS on the slow side aloft.  UK has normally choked as well.  I could be totally wrong, but I'd pay much more attention to the GGEM.

 

It's interesting to me that all models so far have initialized the feature to the NE in our favor.  IE just a little further north, and a little more out of the way in terms of what's swinging down to the west.   GGEM could be off to a good start at 0h.

Maybe I was a little quick calling this off for NYC...

 

What a convoluted setup we have ourselves here.

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John you are going to nail the whole sharp cutoff call from a few days ago. The biggest issue is are those in the .5 or less areas going to see hard enough snow to actually accumulate.

The AO and extreme blocking was a dead giveaway to me. The shortwave and confluent vort timing helped but any storm at this time would've hard a sharp cutoff on the north end.

It's fitting that it might set up in the NYC Area. Should make for a PITA forecast.

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Maybe I was a little quick calling this off for NYC...

 

What a convoluted setup we have ourselves here.

 

I kept saying miracle up by my area (keep in mind I'm pretty much right on the south coast by the Cape well south of BOS).   I guess the better term would have been good luck.  It'll just take a wobble or two from vortmax in the flow to the NE to change the height field enough for this to happen for you guys. 

 

There's so many little variances in the flow around this big old block models will struggle right up to inside of 24 hours.    A little bit of luck and you guys get the potential to be buried.  A little more luck and it makes it up into CT and southern RI.   The nature of the flow may still make it tough for me even if parts of CT and RI get smoked.

 

I'd like to see the GGEM come north a bit tonight from it's earlier run, Euro too.

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