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December 14/15 winter storm threat part II


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My final call is 6-10" here. Guidance is pretty much unanimous on mixing arriving at the pike region around 09-10z....this should give at least 5-6 hours of higher omega after the overrunning stuff in the afternoon/early evening. Then I suspect we'll get about a 2-3 hour period of heavy sleet with maybe some ZR to finish.

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BGM is half-mile moderate right now. 12F. LOL. that's awesome. would never want to live out there, but the winters in upstate NY are the real deal. some of those hill towns between BGM and ALB can get smoked. 

 

Amen to that.

 

I grew up just outside of Albany and half our school district was in the Hudson Valley, the other half hill towns. At least once a year we had a "half snow day" where we valley-dwellers had school, but school canx for the hill dwellers (school was in the valley, so it was a bus issue--we had a large school district). We would even have elevation storm situations where they had to suddenly send all the hill town kids home in the middle of the school day to make sure the buses could make it back. Good times.

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Those surprised by the early starting time for the snowfall and the early significant accumulations should take it as a sign the more inland solutions have some validity. Already we are seeing mid-level frontogenesis starting to squeeze out mesoscale snow bands that could drop some significant snowfall in the next 3-6 hours across CT, RI and MA. This band 24 hours ago was suppose to be a good 50-100 km south of where its affecting now. Heck we are on the edge of a snowband in ALB right now when we really aren't expecting any significant precipitation till after 18z. If there is a stronger upper-level system downstream, you would expect a corresponding increase in mid-upper level heights upstream helping to tighten up the temperature gradient against the arctic air (frontogenesis). This is what is happening right now.

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hopefully I can get into that OES in a couple of hours, lowering my expectations to 4-6" from 8-10" just not liking the trends, either way I'm happy, have not checked on the Tuesday system yet, hopefully another 2-3" from that.

You're still 6''+ on the NAM verbatim before you sleet. I wouldn't cave that far yet.

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not a fan of them in general...but the sref snow probs are horrible for SNE. not sure how the algorithms work. given high thickness event, could see where they aren't seeing the snow in SNE well, but geez.

The good news is this oes is accumulating. If bands can setup some should make hay today. Tonight is a lost cause I think for more than a quick few

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You're still 6''+ on the NAM verbatim before you sleet. I wouldn't cave that far yet.

 

 

The more NW solutions really haven't changed my forecast much...since we never really had a redeveloped mid-level center before them...save for maybe 1-2 weenie NAM runs. All it does it push the eventual "ending as sleet and ZR" line further north, but it doesn't really discourage the big front end thump. It might lower my accums by an inch or two at most.

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