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December 17th Clipper Discussion


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NAM soundings look unstable below 700mb for a period tomorrow morning... near or just below the dendritic snow growth zone.  Dry air above in the mid-levels.  As usual, I don' trust the coarse GFS forecast soundings... they always look better than reality (i.e. deep saturated layer).

 

I wonder if the precip shield tomorrow could be banded instead of a solid area of precip.  Might be clear winners and losers.

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Thanks. the way I was reading some of the posts and people laughing..it seemed like maybe it would just be flurries over much of E Ct up into C Mass

 

No one was laughing, just pointing out what models show.  Dare I speak the truth about what models have been showing and have people thinking I am wishing their snow away. 

 

For the jackpot fetish people, I see N & W of BOS/PVD as the place to be.

For the QPF fetish people I see CC, LI, and all of the South Coast as the place to be with around 0.5" melted.

For the CF fetish people, I see just N of BOS down to PVD and along the South Coast of CT where the 32F isotherm makes it

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NAM soundings look unstable below 700mb for a period tomorrow morning... near or just below the dendritic snow growth zone.  Dry air above in the mid-levels.  As usual, I don' trust the coarse GFS forecast soundings... they always look better than reality (i.e. deep saturated layer).

 

I wonder if the precip shield tomorrow could be banded instead of a solid area of precip.  Might be clear winners and losers.

GFS actually has more vertical layers than the NAM.

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GFS actually has more vertical layers than the NAM.

Then I think the plotting software on Plymouth and Twisterdata isn't very good.  Comparing to actual airport soundings, the GFS forecast soundings are usually way too smooth and in precip events saturated through a much deeper layer than reality.  I've noticed this going back several years.

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LOL--that has 5" at AQW.  25:1 ratios for that to happen.  Let's take the under.

 

18.9/8.  Bummer for my daughter--they don't let them out for recess if it's under 20*.  Those kids have a great sledding hill at Buckland-Shelburne Elementary.

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MODEL DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION

NWS WEATHER PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD

128 PM EST MON DEC 16 2013

VALID DEC 16/1200 UTC THRU DEC 20/0000 UTC

...SEE NOUS42 KWNO (ADMNFD) FOR THE STATUS OF THE UPPER AIR

INGEST...

AN EVALUATION OF THE 12Z CMC/UKMET/ECMWF ALONG WITH FINAL

PREFERENCES/FORECAST CONFIDENCE...

THERE DID NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY INITIALIZATION ERRORS WITH THE 12Z

NAM/GFS DEEMED SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO IMPACT THEIR FORECASTS.

...UPPER TROF AMPLIFYING ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES BY MIDDAY

TUESDAY...

...SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING OFF THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND COAST ON

TUESDAY...

FINAL PREFERENCE: BLEND OF THE 12Z NAM/GFS/ECMWF

FORECAST CONFIDENCE: AVERAGE

A DEEP UPPER TROF CURRENTLY OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL CANADA WILL

CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD WHERE IT WILL FURTHER AMPLIFY OVER

THE GREAT LAKES REGION ON TUESDAY. GUIDANCE DO VARY EARLY IN THE

PERIOD WITH REGARD TO THE INDIVIDUAL SHORTWAVES WITHIN THE BROADER

SCALE UPPER TROF. WITH THE RECENT 12Z GUIDANCE ARRIVING...THE

DIFFERENCES SEEN ARE SMALLER THAN BEFORE WITH THE CMC NOT LOOKING

AS OUTLANDISH AS BEFORE. WITH REGARD TO THE COASTAL LOW

DEVELOPMENT OFFSHORE OF NEW ENGLAND...THERE IS A GENERAL CONSENSUS

THROUGH 18/0600Z ALTHOUGH THE 12Z UKMET APPEARS WEAKER WITH THE

INTENSITY OF ITS LOW CENTER. AS THE SURFACE LOW LIFTS NORTHWARD

TOWARD NOVA SCOTIA EARLY WEDNESDAY...THE MODELS CONTINUE TO

ADVERTISE A DEEPENING PROCESS WITH THE 12Z UKMET REMAINING ON THE

WEAKER SIDE. GIVEN THE NEW CONSENSUS IS SLIGHTLY CLOSER TO THE

COAST...PER THE 12Z NAM/GFS/ECMWF...WILL FAVOR A COMBINATION OF

THESE MODELS FOR THE PREFERENCE.

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showalter index. just a quick and dirty way to see elevated instability...and sometimes diagnosis a little rumble of thunder during the cooler seasons.

 

Thanks--the LI in the same sentence threw me.

 

 

Gives me a deuce.Take what I can get.  I'd have thought he'd give more of CT a bit more.

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Not bad

 

 

Snowy PM Tues in teens and Lwr 20's will mean snow ratios of 15-1 or 20-1. Snow could be close to 6" in spots. pic.twitter.com/bjtaF0Skr3

 

 

Meh, lazy meteorology. Surface temps have nothing to do with the ratios. NAM/GFS have a pretty good warm nose (to -5ish C just west of BOS). That will have a much larger impact on ratios. I would expect regional average snow ratios from this event (maybe a tickle higher at the onset of precip).

 

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