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2-1-15 to 2-2-15 Snow and Mix to Snow Storm


Clinch Leatherwood

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What's the likelihood, based on current models, for changeover in the interior? HFD, ORH, BED, etc?

What about the BOS area? PVD?

 

 

I think BOS-ORH northward is probably not going to taint...or if they do,it is maybe just briefly.

 

South of the pike may taint, but we'll need to see the other trends...NAM trended slightly S while GFS obviously taints to the pike. Euro suite was well south of both, and I expect it to come north...but I'm not convinced of the GFS yet.

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The 00z GGEM offers enough gradient too, for nearing blizzard conditions believe it or not..

 

Prolly not ... just sayin'. 

 

I was musing this last night.  It's a coincidence that [maybe] falsely atones to how times have changed; the climate we swim around in year to year is different now than we remember growing up.  

 

"When I was a kid...,"  my old grand-pappy used to start off ... followed by the cliche vamp about up hill barefoot in three feet of snow, both ways.  This is different than that, and I'm not grandpa.  

 

There were great storms as I recall in my youth.  I lived in two places during the less than 30-years of age times: Michigan and Massachusetts.  Both locations have experienced record-breaking Meteorological events, both subtle and gross.  When I was just 11-years of age, I witnessed an (at that time) F3 tornado bore a path of blithe destruction right down the business thoroughfare of Kalamazoo. Two years prior the Great Lakes was visited by the great Cleveland Superbomb of Jan 1978, which set the inland North American, low barometric pressure of an eye-popping 951mb!

 

I moved to Massachusetts in an utter culture shock, going from cow schit and corn stalks to gray walls of cold abyssal North Atlantic curling into thunderous applause upon the shores of Rockport Mass.  

 

Rockport .. There are always exceptions to any rule, but in general it's an arty town-community of high brows and old money, picturesquely jetting out into the Atlantic at the tip of Cape Ann. Interestingly juxtaposed just next door by the more provincial fishing culture of Gloucester's clam chowder, Crow Nest taverns, and the smell of pogey refinery type factories. One must traverse the proletariat to tour the privileged. The place is a dry town in self importance, with a cultural underground of hipsters and liberals ... usually the type that engage in that life-style by virtue their trust funds.  

 

Where I had come from, Kalamazoo, there were liberals, too. But there was also racial tension, drugs, ...the typical on-going tension between the decay of unionized America and preventing urban blithe. My parents decided that it was easier to guide these children in communities with better prospects so we made the move.  

 

In the Midwest the weather passion was all about convection.  Boy did I love crispy cauliflower TCU on the distant horizons, and dreamt of the storms they must have been producing. To this day, even in Massachusetts, if the smell of the Michigan lea mixes with summer humidity, I think of a distant thundercloud's array.  

 

There are similarities in the weather between Michigan and Massachusetts... Obviously being temperate climate zones, we experience the four seasons. But indigenous to their respective geographical locations, do to the position relative to hemispheric scaled features, they have comparatively modulated versions.  But one thing that was always common between the two was the 'storm than wait' rule of thumb.  You waited lengthier times through weather ennui; you transpired through excitable eras, ..perhaps cashing in a big event; then, you resumed the next era in wait of the next era.  

 

I don't know if this is a sign of the changing climate?   But, witnessing a solid regional-scoped 15"-30" historic event, followed not barely four days later by what is really appearing to be a 15" albeit short duration, but higher impact event from a synoptic scaled system was always next to impossible.

 

Yet here we are.   I can think of many great storms over the last several decades, and the vast majority of them required putting in the time before the next celebration.  It seems that management has run out on the hotel... 

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GFS is a torch aloft to ORH and BOS  lol..What dung

 

it doesn't have to be wrong, necessarily.  Even the cold NAM ... the FRH grid shows that the coldest part of the column is actually below the 875 (~) mb sigma level.   Usually when you have a -8, -5, -3C type of looking, you have to wonder what is going on just above the 800mb level.  I have actually seen 9,000' tall sleet columns before. 

 

Not saying that is happening here ... just that it is not impossible. 

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GFS also overamped some of these lows in the 48-60 hr timeframe before. Not saying it's wrong, but I don't know enough about the "new" version to react on any shift one way or another.

Good point but I'm still concerned this is another short term bust for fairfield county. I'd like the rgem to tick south now to feel more confident.

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