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December 9-10 Coastal Storm Threat


Zelocita Weather

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The GFS is notoriously warm in the BL when precipitation is falling.

 

This looks like a rain scenario to me til at least 74 hours...after that I don't know...its totally saturated at 60 hours when precip arrives, no room for evaporative cooling and winds have been ESE....I am somewhat worried about that 63-70 hour period because winds are 010-030 yet no cooling occurs in any layer...that could be dangerous if it occurred in reality.

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This looks like a rain scenario to me til at least 74 hours...after that I don't know...its totally saturated at 60 hours when precip arrives, no room for evaporative cooling and winds have been ESE....I am somewhat worried about that 63-70 hour period because winds are 010-030 yet no cooling occurs in any layer...that could be dangerous if it occurred in reality.

What do you mean dangerous?
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This looks like a rain scenario to me til at least 74 hours...after that I don't know...its totally saturated at 60 hours when precip arrives, no room for evaporative cooling and winds have been ESE....I am somewhat worried about that 63-70 hour period because winds are 010-030 yet no cooling occurs in any layer...that could be dangerous if it occurred in reality.

That is a good point, but if we get NW winds with the CCB, that's good for cold air advection and arguably more importantly, dry air advection to further help cooling when precipitation is falling since we can lower dews that way.

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any wrap around snows?

I don't have access to those maps but just the solution itself is odd..

 

First cuts off at ACY and then retrogrades south towards oc md, then another wave forms and comes in LI and then retrogades towards TTN and at a certain point 850 temps are minus 5-8 and thicknesses sub 534 and raining with temps in the mid 30s

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The 6Z GFS gives the immediate metro a few inches of snow out of this system - going to be interesting to see where the 12Z model runs go with this since this is such a dynamic situation developing - makes sense since the storm is being blocked by the huge banana high to the north - these types of setups can deliver some unexpected results here especially now that we are getting a little deeper into December

 

http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/gfs/2014120706/gfs_asnow_us_15.png

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You meant the other guidance.

THE OPERATIONAL ECMWF APPEARS TO BE THEPREFERRED SOLUTION WITH ITS TRACK UP THE COAST. IT SHOULD BE NOTEDHOWEVER THAT EVEN THE ECMWF HAS SLOWED DOWN SLIGHTLY WITH THESURFACE LOW TRACK UP THE COAST OVER THE PAST 3 RUNS...WITH THISSOLUTION ALONG WITH THE UKMET BEING A GOOD COMPROMISE BETWEEN THENAM (CLOSEST TO THE COAST) AND THE GFS (FARTHEST OFFSHORE) WITHTHE LOW TRACK THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THEREAFTER...THEOPERATIONAL ECMWF/UKMET/NAM SOLUTIONS SLOW CONSIDERABLY THROUGH12Z WED...WITH THE SFC LOW MORE OR LESS STATIONARY JUST OFF THENJ-LONG ISLAND COAST. GIVEN THE PREFERRED FORECASTTRACK...THERMAL/THICKNESS FIELDS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT ACCUMULATINGSNOWFALL FARTHER INLAND FROM THE COAST...I.E. WEST OF THE BIGCITIES AND I-95 THROUGH SOUTHERN MAINE. 
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The bust potential either way is larger then the Thanksgiving storm IMO since it is not very clear where that LP is going to track and stall out for how long ??? This is a work in progress and those WPC maps will probably change over the next day or 2

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