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December 17th Clipper Discussion


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I figured this one is getting to about 3 days out now so its worth making a seperate thread for it. All guidance is in good agreement on a shortwave diving southeast from the Canadian Praries and bring a sfc wave with it that tries to redevelop south of SNE near LI....but to slightly varying degrees on the different models.

 

 

The 18z NAM posted here is just for illustrative purposes and shows a pretty amped up system....you can see the strong vortmax tracking south fo the region and the associated redeveloped sfc low tracking over SE SNE....this particular solution would be pretty robust for anyone north of that low track.

 

 

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The ECMWF ensembles are pretty enthusiastic about this one as well. Best guess right now is a couple inches for many...esp the further northeast you are as that will give a better chance to catch a bit of Atlantic inflow. But this could surprise too and be a bit higher end advisory type stuff...we'll have to watch and see if it becomes a Lance Bosart Special. :lol:

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Good call!  I was thinking about starting this myself. 

 

This is a sneaky critter lurking out there in the not to distant future.  The current bigger ticket item has most probably less into it.  But, for cycles now the globals and non-hydro have been hitting at a TON of DPVA running out under our latitude and that is really playing with fire.   Could be one of those exit stage right detonations that smokes eastern zones with 3 hours of heavy squalls. 

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Nice summary.  This threat feels like a freeroll... playing with house money.

It's comforting to have some intrigue from the EC ensembles.  The NAM has been steadily ramping up the amplitude of the approaching s/w... not so useful maybe at the end of its range for the particular solution, but possibly the trend.  SREF members starting to show a few mini-nukes.  Probably an inch or two for most regardless... but I like the threat as a possible surprise for EMA, SENH, and coastal ME.

 

Back when models were less sophisticated, a synoptic pattern like this one occasionally could evolve into a widespread major snowstorm.

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Was just talking about missing these redeveloping Clippers with you guys a week ago...and here we have one!

 

NAM goes crazy as surface low redevelops over LI, it keeps coming southward, but it doesn't stop surface temps from going above freezing even with 850mb temps below freezing.  Rapid cyclogenesis occurs.

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0z Navy Nogaps is pretty impressive.  Moderate snowstorm from PA to ME.  It's sharp and amplified aloft.  Gets the mid-level lows going pretty quickly over New England, with the heaviest precip in eastern areas.  Probably not the best mid-range tool, but still good to see.

 

I don't completely buy the Nogaps is west of guidance = guidance will trend west/stronger red flag idea since every synoptic setup is different and the model physics and atmospheric dynamics are way too complex for simple error corrections to be useful.  But it's there if you want to run with that.

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Still seems like a regionwide 3-6 or 4-8 fluff bomb type event

 

As it is now, I'd say the low-mid of your lower range from ORH-PSM.  I'd put that higher second range you offer might work from the mid-coast east.

 

For the rest of us, I'm sticking with 1-3".  Hopefully we'll see some sharper and earlier amplification.

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As it is now, I'd say the low-mid of your lower range from ORH-PSM.  I'd put that higher second range you offer might work from the mid-coast east.

 

For the rest of us, I'm sticking with 1-3".  Hopefully we'll see some sharper and earlier amplification.

Why are we no surprised you'd think that?  3-6 is easy for your area

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