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2/9 - 2/10 light snow observations


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Huge pet peeve with those forecasts because that's a huge difference when you're talking delays, cancellations, and other issues. There's even more discrepancy when we see 5-10, 6-12, 10/12-18, and various other ranges. It reminds me of when they made fun of March 2001 with the potential for 3 to 33 inches of snow. Lower the range as more information comes about and we get closer to a storm. 

On LI this year our two largest storms gave us a range of 6 - 12" of snow.  So in those cases what would be wrong with such a wide ranging forecast of 6 - 12". 

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Wait so one guy says juiced and moderate snow...yet someone else posts the gfs cut back to .11

Yep. Well, "juiced" and "moderate" are kind of ... subjective descriptions? .11 is a little more objective. Depends upon what you want to use as your information, I suppose.

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Yep. Well, "juiced" and "moderate" are kind of ... subjective descriptions? .11 is a little more objective. Depends upon what you want to use as your information, I suppose.

That can still be 1-3" with decent ratios. I'd say that's a good guess for now. Maybe it can enhance a little more with the model runs tonight/tomorrow. But the trough looks too sheared out for this to be of much consequence.

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Huge pet peeve with those forecasts because that's a huge difference when you're talking delays, cancellations, and other issues. There's even more discrepancy when we see 5-10, 6-12, 10/12-18, and various other ranges. It reminds me of when they made fun of March 2001 with the potential for 3 to 33 inches of snow. Lower the range as more information comes about and we get closer to a storm.

It may be easy for you to criticize these forecasts but the fact is that many times a lot depends on where exactly the heavier bands set up as they can create large ranges over short distances, and it is very difficult to predict where exactly they will set up ahead of time. It's better to prepare people for all possibilities than to catch them off guard.

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It may be easy for you to criticize these forecasts but the fact is that many times a lot depends on where exactly the heavier bands set up as they can create large ranges over short distances, and it is very difficult to predict where exactly they will set up ahead of time. It's better to prepare people for all possibilities than to catch them off guard.

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Well said  :snowwindow:

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