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December 19th-20 Storm Thread III


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Pattern recognition and persistence >>> Model guidance

We have a long way to go until the current computer models can truly predict East coast bombogensis accurately. A winter of lakes cutters followed by suppressed OTS tracks is becoming more and more likely. Throw in the occasional retrograding North Atlantic system, and we may finish a bit under average. A foot of snow cover over the NE corridor on Monday would have had the potential to modify the inevitable but an early snowcover over NC and VA will be useless for us here in New England. This will be an Upper Midwest and Lakes winter....

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That was an interesting few days. Once in a lifetime I'm afraid. I remember that battle royal in the chat with DT which we laugh about now. Larry C too. That wasn't so much that a storm did a 180, models were focused on the wrong system s/w all along. NAM picked up on the developments first, then slowly the others came into line but this was all inside of 36-42 hours.

Actually if you recall...you and Brian were calling it, both getting slapped around by the mets and others. Everyone went to bed (like now way too late...). Forecast the night before the event (5PM package) was nada. People in DC woke up to a huge snowstorm. Dewey Walston, may he RIP, wrote some great AFDs for LWX.

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Pattern recognition and persistence >>> Model guidance

We have a long way to go until the current computer models can truly predict East coast bombogensis accurately. A winter of lakes cutters followed by suppressed OTS tracks is becoming more and more likely. Throw in the occasional retrograding North Atlantic system, and we may finish a bit under average. A foot of snow cover over the NE corridor on Monday would have had the potential to modify the inevitable but an early snowcover over NC and VA will be useless for us here in New England. This will be an Upper Midwest and Lakes winter....

You should work for NWS, there is no better.

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looks like gfs will get some light snows into se ne, the trend has been ever so subtle west tonight, I think the trend continues as models consolidate into one lp theme, 300-700mb continues to improve as well, this was damn close.

Still think a light snowfall is possible for all of sne.

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looks like gfs will get some light snows into se ne, the trend has been ever so subtle west tonight, I think the trend continues as models consolidate into one lp theme, 300-700mb continues to improve as well, this was damn close.

Still think a light snowfall is possible for all of sne.

Yup, I concur.

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By Sunday night you'll have mixing issues and the interior will get thumped.lol

I actually deleted that post. I'm having a lot of trouble today with twister showing old pages/wrong pages. Will clear everything tonight and see how it goes. It was showing a run from a few days ago, there's really not much movement. It's a close scrape but we're screwed so long as we have that disjointed low early.

Weathafella, is Drag still at taunton?

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I actually deleted that post. I'm having a lot of trouble today with twister showing old pages/wrong pages. Will clear everything tonight and see how it goes. It was showing a run from a few days ago, there's really not much movement. It's a close scrape but we're screwed so long as we have that disjointed low early.

Weathafella, is Drag still at taunton?

Psyche.

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I actually deleted that post. I'm having a lot of trouble today with twister showing old pages/wrong pages. Will clear everything tonight and see how it goes. It was showing a run from a few days ago, there's really not much movement. It's a close scrape but we're screwed so long as we have that disjointed low early.

Weathafella, is Drag still at taunton?

Mt holly for our loss

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No doubt the fish are going to get dumped on. Surprising that people gave up so easy. Being so late in the game odds of a reversal is = / <1% I would give a zero chance but until the energy moves of the playing field...

So friggin close.

Always next weekend and we'll do this all over again. Oh joy, same posters with the same posts :axe:

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I actually deleted that post. I'm having a lot of trouble today with twister showing old pages/wrong pages. Will clear everything tonight and see how it goes. It was showing a run from a few days ago, there's really not much movement. It's a close scrape but we're screwed so long as we have that disjointed low early.

Weathafella, is Drag still at taunton?

He moved for a lady and is now at Mt Holly working with rainshadow and others. That's also a great office.

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He moved for a lady and is now at Mt Holly working with rainshadow and others. That's also a great office.

Ah, I gotcha....read that first that he gave up his slot for a lady which tells you how highly I think of him. You mean he moved to be closer to an important someone. I'm betting he looked at an experimental 10 year model that showed no snow and got out of dodge.

Still a lot of convective crap going on to the southeast of the low.

It's a significant problem for those near the low. Note the northern low postion isn't changing run to run. What those maxes are probably doing is underplaying the amount of precip they'll see in NC/VA/SE DELMA where they are currently forecast to get something.

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Well....I"m starting to look forward to my FL conference next month. I'm wintered out and it hasn't really happened here yet outside of cold.

I just cannot believe in a different overall pattern from last year we are getting the same ****e.

Piddly dink features that cause lows to congeal way too far out to sea/take too long to get going until they are already due south of us. Garbage!

At least it's still close....and it's stopped going east.

How close is crazy ukie?

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300-700mb continues to improve as well

Yeah even at 12z 300-700mb looked so much better than 850 and the surface.

Not that it's gonna be vertically stacked, but the vorticity maxes looked to be literally hundreds of miles apart at the different levels.

I could still well see this being a 1-3" east of the CT/RI border, and 3-6" for the cape and islands. Its going to take a major reversal for me to see anything at all, and I'd rather keep my 7T" and a 0.0" than a worthless .8" or something.

Weenie or not though, I still am not willing to throw in the towel altogether, but I do expect Ivan Drago Euro come put me down like Apollo.

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Yeah even at 12z 300-700mb looked so much better than 850 and the surface.

Not that it's gonna be vertically stacked, but the vorticity maxes looked to be literally hundreds of miles apart at the different levels.

I could still well see this being a 1-3" east of the CT/RI border, and 3-6" for the cape and islands. Its going to take a major reversal for me to see anything at all, and I'd rather keep my 7T" and a 0.0" than a worthless .8" or something.

Weenie or not though, I still am not willing to throw in the towel altogether, but I do expect Ivan Drago Euro come put me down like Apollo.

I agree. Just worth monitoring and let's face it the death blow one way or the other will be complete in the next 12 hours. We'll see a major move at 6z I think, maybe 12z either towards a clean cut miss or it will drift west.

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