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Ending out December with a Potential Pattern Change


CoastalWx

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Thanks for answering my last question. My next question is when does the para GFS become the only gfs?

Jan 14th I believe is the date.

 

Para looked good leading up to it, but ends up shearing it out, light snow verbatim hours 84-90 and then out. Sort of a weird evolution considering that it looked good aloft coming up to the event at H5. Another run, another solution.

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So the heights go from above to below to

Above In AK. Yeah ok. Classic weeklies. Meanwhile the week 1 and 2 forecasts have trended over 200 meters higher in AK compared to Monday's forecast. Good luck dry jumping those forecasts.

Yeah something just didn't seem right there. It rebuilds the -EPO week 4 but wk 3 seemed weird. Maybe they consumed too much eggnog.
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Last year in late December and early Jan I ranted about the winter just sucking wind and was told to be patient.....there was some rebound and winter dud show for a few weeks but it wasn't long before the Forsythia bloomed.....with a few min left on this holy night before the 0z GFS comes out i'd just ask for a few reassuring words from the vets on here....Ginxy and Fella perhaps....that all is not lost....suks so bad that December has been lost....in a short 6 weeks we'll be whistling Dixie on a light SW breeze wondering WTF happened to winter....not a lot of time left folks....before you know it Morch will be here and we'll be holding our collective weenies in our hands wondering how we got here....

Waiting For Winter....Worse than Last Year.....

Patience Grasshopper
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Jan 14th I believe is the date.

Para looked good leading up to it, but ends up shearing it out, light snow verbatim hours 84-90 and then out. Sort of a weird evolution considering that it looked good aloft coming up to the event at H5. Another run, another solution.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas.....buuut onnnnly at H5...
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I still love the pattern going forward. It kind of sucks to miss 12/30 if that's where it ends up heading. But I'm not going to judge this pattern on the first attempt. There should be multiple shots in the next two weeks. If we are shutout and looking bleak on models on January 10th, then I'll be ready to start worrying.

But then again, I'm probably more patient than most weenies as long as the pattern looks favorable.

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I still love the pattern going forward. It kind of sucks to miss 12/30 if that's where it ends up heading. But I'm not going to judge this pattern on the first attempt. There should be multiple shots in the next two weeks. If we are shutout and looking bleak on models on January 10th, then I'll be ready to start worrying.

But then again, I'm probably more patient than most weenies as long as the pattern looks favorable.

Agree 100%. I was just setting Jan 10 as a deadline myself.
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I've been saying 1/10 for 2 weeks. But at this time I'm feeling ok that real winter is just ahead of us. Point being that. If despite the guidance we come to 1/10 empty we may want to consider the ratter portential. As of all the guidance I'm seeing, it looks good for the first half of January. One has to hope the Atlantic does it's share at some point. The EPO conintues in the longer range GEFS.

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Giving up here . Worst case scenario keeps playing out. Finally get our pattern change ... to cold and dry. It will still snow some because it is New England but my ground will be bare on jan 1 for the first time I think since I moved here in 2008. Disappointing winter. Could have a nice stretch at some point I guess, but another 6-8 week winter sucks. I hope March is warm and I can plant early. Another winter and weenie biting the dust.

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Look at the warmth ahead of this system . Sometimes the models have the tendency to underestimate the strength of the ridge and the warmth and bring the cold front too far south and suppress a system only to bring it back in the near term. The northern stream system intensifying will bring down the cold air and push the cold front through but if the push is not quite as much as modeled and the southern stream wave is a bit more amped than SNE could see some type of light-to moderate event we will have to see.

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I've been saying 1/10 for 2 weeks. But at this time I'm feeling ok that real winter is just ahead of us. Point being that. If despite the guidance we come to 1/10 empty we may want to consider the ratter portential. As of all the guidance I'm seeing, it looks good for the first half of January. One has to hope the Atlantic does it's share at some point. The EPO conintues in the longer range GEFS.

Jerry, you are far too quick on the ratter trigger. 2012-'13 was very meager heading into mid January. I think that the higher end thoughts may need to be reevaluated at that point, but I wouldn't go overboard.
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LOL.  Plow services who have people locked in contracts FTW.

 

Just took a drive into the hinterlands, still several inches of snow and temp at 29* up there at 1500' and  higher.

I know people (mostly commercial) who are "locked" in, but that doesn't mean that they pay a monthly fee or anything.  It just means that they get plowed by a specific contractor for a storm, and are guaranteed to get plowed.  If it doesn't snow, they don't pay.  Anyone locked in to some shifty deal where they are paying but not getting plowed are idiots, and deserve to lose their money.

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Jerry, you are far too quick on the ratter trigger. 2012-'13 was very meager heading into mid January. I think that the higher end thoughts may need to be reevaluated at that point, but I wouldn't go overboard.

Its becoming increasingly unlikely of a blockbuster winter. Ideas of around 50-60 inches are where people should start wrapping heads around. Anything higher than that this year is going to be unattainable since we lost a whole month
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