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December 17th Clipper Discussion


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I remember a friend of mine, Jeff, at NEC telling me at the corner of the Prudential Center and Huntington Ave. 1 entire week before that he heard a huge storm was coming.  I hadn't heard of it, and told him to talk about a Big storm 1 week out is nuts.  8 days later I was under 27" of Snow.  

 

So yes, some had it figured.  I remember the amounts went from 10-20, to 20-30 and then the morning of Saturday went to 2 to 3 Feet which I verified.  

 

But not 2-4 or so.  

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Ah, Middlesex Co is huge... When you get into meso distributions of unfairness, Woburn and Acton can be in different galaxies.

You're right. Sometimes there are huge differences within Woburn itself because of its boot shape. North Woburn by the Wilmington line is a whole different world than the weta side by the Winchester line.

GFS not a nuke but looks good.

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They didn't only get 6" in this blizzard of 2005. He must be thinking of anaother system. They got "only" about 12-14" at the lowest while surrounding areas got over 20 inches.

 

 

The lowets total I can find in Middlesex country is 13.5"...but I could see maybe an ionch or two lower if somewhere got really scred

...MIDDLESEX COUNTY...   MELROSE               36.0   116 PM  1/23     CAMBRIDGE             30.0   258 PM  1/23     WAKEFIELD             28.0   400 PM  1/23     BILLERICA             27.5   917 PM  1/23     NORTH WOBURN          27.5   224 AM  1/24   ST  6 FT DRIFTS   BURLINGTON            27.0   850 AM  1/24     SOUTH CHELMSFORD      27.0   114 PM  1/23     EVERETT               26.5   300 PM  1/23     BELMONT               26.0   918 PM  1/23   ST   WINCHESTER            25.8  1104 PM  1/23     EAST ARLINGTON        25.0   400 PM  1/23   NORTH BILLERICA       25.0   100 PM  1/23     WILMINGTON            25.0   137 PM  1/23   ST   NORTH CHELMSFORD      24.0   440 PM  1/23   WOBURN                24.0  1040 PM  1/23   NATICK                22.0   700 AM  1/24   CO-OP OBSERVER     WAYLAND               22.0   340 PM  1/23     WESTFORD              22.0   526 PM  1/23     MAYNARD               21.7   812 AM  1/24     LEXINGTON             21.0   249 PM  1/23     STONEHAM              21.0   123 PM  1/23     CARLISLE              20.8  1113 AM  1/23     AYER                  20.3   330 PM  1/23   ST   LITTLETON             19.0   241 PM  1/23     CHELMSFORD            18.5   219 PM  1/23   ST   DRACUT                18.2   220 PM  1/23   ST   DUNSTABLE             18.0  1245 PM  1/23     PEPPERELL             18.0   249 PM  1/23     TOWNSEND              18.0   402 PM  1/23   ST   SHIRLEY               14.0   105 PM  1/23     HUDSON                13.5   300 PM  1/23  

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/climate/snowrpts/snowstormJan2224-2005

 

 

 

 

Maybe he is thinking of PDII in Feb 2003?

 

It's possible, Will (you know I have the worst memory when it comes to that sort of thing...).  But you are right...  12-14" (if that is what we had) did make that system more standard issue for us.  I'm sure I'm thinking of Jan 2005, tho -

 

I'll also add, I think Acton, Hudson, and Maynard all touch one another... Notice Maynard with over 21 and Hudson only 13 and a half.  It shows what meso-boning can do.

 

Fine, I was singled out by the gods of weather to get missed a tad there.  It happens.  

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I moved the December pattern disco to the December pattern thread....keep this one focused on Dec 17th clipper threat.

 

 

We already got OT once with blizzard of '05 talk. :lol:

 

Dendrite will be happy.

 

R/GGEM introduce temperature issues along the coast.

 

http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/cmdn/pcpn_type/pcpn_type_gem_reg.html

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LOl models everywhere and not the best agreement.

 

 

I would ordinarily toss the RGEM being so north relative to most of the other models minus the GGEM but I'm wondering if pperhaps because this thing is coming out of data sparse Canada as a clipper if those models may be onto something, there is virtually zero support from the GFS ensemble members though, all 12 agree with the Op and none are remotely near the RGEM.

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check the sounding and bufkit, Woodford was 18 inches, we know they did not have 1.4 qpf

 

Ehhh, ALB had 1.23" of QPF and that's in a pit of a valley...Wouldn't be hard to imagine Woodford at 2,000ft to ALB's NE getting up to 1.5" out of that.  How do you know they didn't get 1.4" of liquid?

 

Up here J.Spin's data was near 12:1 with over 3/4ths of an inch of QPF.

 

Banking on ratios is hard...it does work from time to time, but if that's the reason for the forecast its just another thing that can go wrong, haha.  But conservative is no way to forecast or live ;)

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