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MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0107

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

0204 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2014

AREAS AFFECTED...PORTIONS OF COASTAL NEW ENGLAND...INTERIOR SRN NEW

ENGLAND...ERN TIP OF LONG ISLAND

CONCERNING...HEAVY SNOW

VALID 152004Z - 160200Z

SUMMARY...HEAVY SNOW...WITH RATES EXCEEDING 1 INCH PER HOUR...WILL

DEVELOP NEWD INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

DISCUSSION...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND SFC OBS INDICATE INTENSE

CYCLOGENESIS COMMENCING OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST...AS THE GAP

BETWEEN A POWERFUL SHORTWAVE TROUGH PROGRESSING NEWD OFF THE NC

COAST AND A COASTAL BAROCLINIC ZONE NARROWS. SFC LOW PRESSURE

ANALYZED OFF THE VA COAST WILL RAPIDLY DEEPEN THROUGH TONIGHT AS IT

DEVELOPS NEWD...WHILE STRONG/DEEP FRONTOGENETIC CIRCULATIONS

PENETRATING INLAND COMBINE WITH STRONG ISENTROPIC ASCENT OVER

SUFFICIENTLY COLD THERMAL PROFILES FOR HEAVY SNOW ACROSS MUCH OF THE

DISCUSSION AREA. MODERATE SNOW IS ONGOING ACROSS COASTAL SRN NEW

ENGLAND...AND HEAVY SNOW WILL LIKELY DEVELOP NEWD FROM THE ERN TIP

OF LONG ISLAND INTO SRN NEW ENGLAND AROUND 21-23Z. HEAVY SNOW WILL

SPREAD FARTHER NE THROUGH THE EVENING...ESPECIALLY AFFECTING AREAS

NEAR AND NE OF PORTLAND MAINE AROUND/AFTER 01-03Z. WITH THE STRONG

ASCENT INTERCEPTING 50-100-MB-DEEP DENDRITIC GROWTH ZONES CENTERED

AROUND H6...SNOWFALL RATES AOA 1 INCH/HOUR WILL BE COMMON INTO THE

EVENING.

COASTAL MA AND VICINITY -- ESPECIALLY E OF A LINE FROM BOSTON TO

PROVIDENCE INCLUDING CAPE COD -- WILL LIKELY BE THE FOCUS FOR THE

HIGHEST SNOWFALL RATES OF 2-3 INCHES PER HOUR...WHICH ARE EXPECTED

TO OCCUR AROUND 23-03Z. THESE AREAS WILL BE IN CLOSEST PROXIMITY TO

THE TRACK OF THE SFC LOW AND ACCOMPANYING STRONGEST ASCENT...AND AN

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT WITH THE HIGHEST OF THESE

RATES. RAIN MAY INITIALLY OCCUR WITH THE PRECIPITATION OVER CAPE COD

THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...DESCENDING WET-BULB FREEZING

HEIGHTS WILL GIVE WAY TO A HEAVY WET SNOW BY EARLY EVENING WHILE

SUB-FREEZING ISOTHERMAL LAYERS AOB H7 PROMOTE EFFICIENT SNOW

AGGREGATION. ALSO...STRONG WINDS NW OF THE LOW TRACK WILL YIELD

BLOWING/DRIFTING SNOW AND AREAS OF BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.

..COHEN.. 02/15/2014

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someone just shoot me now....and there are plenty of people who got plenty of snow in the last system who will get plenty again today

Yea I don't really care when SE mass rains because I remember all of these deals...and for those in ESNE who got snow the other day they're going to do well again today... just a screwjie for our area respectively this year... SWCT even cleaned up

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If you ignore the QPF on the models, they've done very well highlighting that blue shaded area for the last 24 hours.

Indeed. I went to now casting early this am by watching radar and obs. I pop in occasionally to see who is bridge jumping, tossing this model or that model. The emotions running very high in here today. LOL

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curious as to how far west this gets. ORH (at least NE side) has been snowing moderately now for about 1.5 hrs. Looks like we are on the westernmost edge of potentially 1" hr rates. NAM delivering up to 0.75? We'll see. What are the pros saying about the storm? In agreement with NWS map posting/ predictions, or, are they wacky? Its hard to follow the different reasoning here today.

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Yea I don't really care when SE mass rains because I remember all of these deals...and for those in ESNE who got snow the other day they're going to do well again today... just a screwjie for our area respectively this year... SWCT even cleaned up

there is nothing we can do about the weather but its the truth that it has been pedestrian at best considering how well just about everyone to the se and sw has done.....it will likely be a long time before we get this many chances again in the winter and this year we just havent done much with them....i had resigned myself to 3 or so inches for this one and now it looks like we may not even do that but i keep hoping for a miracle and keep being called a debbie by folks who are one to two hundred pct above climo lol
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I personally think it's funny. Logan is more likely to verify blizzard than BVY.

 

They just don't want to let the hype spin out of control with the largest city being in a blizzard, but like it or not people are going to call it a blizzard.

It's a completely ass backwards mindset. People are much more aware, cautious, and safe during a blizzard. However, they don't warn because they don't want the storm to be overhyped? Makes zero sense to me, absurd.

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there is nothing we can do about the weather but its the truth that it has been pedestrian at best considering how well just about everyone to the se and sw has done.....it will likely be a long time before we get this many chances again in the winter and this year we just havent done much with them....i had resigned myself to 3 or so inches for this one and now it looks like we may not even do that but i keep hoping for a miracle and keep being called a debbie by folks who are one to two hundred pct above climo lol

 

What comes around will go around...climo will even out over time.  It has been one helluva season for the coastal plain in general though.  Let 'em have it while they've got it.  You know a winter will come up when its raining every storm in those same areas, and snowing deep deep winter in the interior.

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It's a completely ass backwards mindset. People are much more aware, cautious, and safe during a blizzard. However, they don't warn because they don't want the storm to be overhyped? Makes zero sense to me, absurd.

 

I mean the warning should for the most part be objective. Do conditions meet criteria? I think BOS has a really good chance to hit blizzard. It's a little bootleg since the airport juts out into the water, but it is what it is.

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I personally think it's funny. Logan is more likely to verify blizzard than BVY.

 

They just don't want to let the hype spin out of control with the largest city being in a blizzard, but like it or not people are going to call it a blizzard.

 

It is funny how they leave BOS out of it all the time, haha.  That must drive the weenies nuts.  There's some odd satisfaction about being under a Blizzard Warning...really sets the mood for a storm.

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