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December 9-10 Coastal Storm Threat


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This has all the ingredients of a NNE/CNY/NNY big time snow storm. Backed in powerhouse storms deliver to higher elevation areas especially with a retreating HP east of maine. SNE is the battle ground with this storm IMO. stale air mass and flow E from the HP system will be the fly in the ointment

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Depending on the exact evolution of the storm, longitude might be more important than latitude. The Catskills might snow while northern NH rains. While this looks nothing like 2010, it still retrogrades west on the Euro and will likely be an interesting storm to follow regardless of what it does for our area (probably not too much).

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00z UKMET

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A cold rain for the coastal areas, and frozen inland. No ideally cold HP located near quebec. Unless you want to bank on "dynamic cooling" to cool all columns to the coast. This is purely a NE/NNE/CNY event IMO

Id be putting down the KU cookbook for the next couple weeks from what the pattern is for next 10-14 days. Unless its a thread the needle event

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A cold rain for the coastal areas, and frozen inland. No ideally cold HP located near quebec. Unless you want to bank on "dynamic cooling" to cool all columns to the coast. This is purely a NE/NNE/CNY event IMO

Id be putting down the KU cookbook for the next couple weeks from what the pattern is for next 10-14 days. Unless its a thread the needle event

 

If the EURO/UKIE are correct you dont want to be in New England outside of NW Mountains. NJ/PA/NY State would have better chance...

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You can get a strong backend snow if the 500mb low closes off and the low occludes. 0z Euro was pretty close to doing this.

See Dec. 2002 for an example of how a warm and rainy storm can quickly turn into heavy snow.

http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/NARR/2002/us1225.php

Ideally for this to work you want the 500mb Closed LP to east of LI. That occured in the Xmas 02' storm where parts of LI saw up to 12" of snow in less than 6 hrs in that wraparound band. Winds may also be a factor here on LI as well, however i am not relying on backend snows as Xmas 02' was really the last time a true backend snow event occured from NYC-east
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You can get a strong backend snow if the 500mb low closes off and the low occludes. 0z Euro was pretty close to doing this.

See Dec. 2002 for an example of how a warm and rainy storm can quickly turn into heavy snow.

http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/NARR/2002/us1225.php

Yes. A further east 00z Euro evolution would work. Notice how the 00z Euro dumped lots of CCB snow to our west and north. It's like a 2/26/10 type of evolution. You get the storm to phase with the polar energy, supplying cold air aloft, but retrograding and occluding further east. That way you can get a CCB via CAA on NW winds, as a 500mb low would close off to our south.

Otherwise snow is going to be very tough to get for coastal areas.

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This has all the ingredients of a NNE/CNY/NNY big time snow storm. Backed in powerhouse storms deliver to higher elevation areas especially with a retreating HP east of maine. SNE is the battle ground with this storm IMO. stale air mass and flow E from the HP system will be the fly in the ointment

 

This is a soaking rainstorm for SNE.. Think of 2/26/10. This looks to have a very similar setup

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It's about to consolidate and close off all that energy.

The 500mb low on the GFS closes off over Buffalo, the EURO over Pittsburgh, a few hundred miles SW.

 

The GFS develops a crappy low on the front and quickly accelerates it North.

 

Like I said, it looks confused, and still not digging the energy like the other models.

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Even yesterdays12z  Euro was a rainstorm at the coast with less than an inch at NYC and that

was colder than 0z.

 

https://www.facebook.com/WxRisk/photos/pcb.784650314915562/784650268248900/?type=1&theater

It would eventually change to snow as the low occludes. If the low bombs out further east, this could mean more wintry precip for the coast.

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It would eventually change to snow as the low occludes. If the low bombs out further east, this could mean more wintry precip for the coast.

 

Only at the very end which wouldn't be very much due to the initial warm push.

That's why the 0Z Euro had under an inch in NYC.

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Only at the very end which wouldn't be very much due to the initial warm push.

That's why the 0Z Euro had under an inch in NYC.

Banking on any type of wraparound/backlash snows at this storm is premature. HI-RES models like the EURO/RGEM/HRRR are pretty good at nailing these signatures under 48 hrs. (24 hours or less with the HRRR)

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Banking on any type of wraparound/backlash snows at this storm is premature. HI-RES models like the EURO/RGEM/HRRR are pretty good at nailing these signatures under 48 hrs. (24 hours or less with the HRRR)

When you close off at H5 like that you're dealing with a horse of a different color. 2/26/10 basically snowed itself out overhead. Think of it the same way you do a cut off low in Spring.

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When you close off at H5 like that you're dealing with a horse of a different color. 2/26/10 basically snowed itself out overhead. Think of it the same way you do a cut off low in Spring.

Agreed but the location of where the 500mb LP closes off as well is of utmost importance as well (2/25/10 & 12/25/02 prime examples)

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When you close off at H5 like that you're dealing with a horse of a different color. 2/26/10 basically snowed itself out overhead. Think of it the same way you do a cut off low in Spring.

 

This is nothing even close to that day. For one we don't have and record breaking AO of -4.266 for the month.

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