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Mid FEB through March Threats/Snow Storms


mitchnick

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Not sure the point... I know everyone here is rooting for a cold and snowy March lol. I've already pretty much given in to a crappy Mar/April. Pattern will break down for a while at some point I'm sure. Signs moving forward past next week have hinted at more risk of warm storms.

My only point is the weeklies haven't been very useful for d15+ pattern forecasting. I stopped looking at them. I'm not really rooting for anything. I've stopped worrying about d10+ stuff. Whatever happens happens. A month or so of a +pna before a breakdown seems reasonable.

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I think most LR guidance is fairly useless on its own. I definitely wouldnt anticipate a prolonged early flower causing torch or anything. But the look is progressively less cold with time.. Could be pushed back. We need anomalous cold in about 2 weeks to have a lot of hope.

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There's a chance. It's "complicated" but at least energetic. All guidance has showed snow here on Sat but mostly T-2" kind of stuff. We need the closed ull to dig further south. Not sure how possible that is considering where it's coming from.

I think we want the Thursday system to be as strong as possible to push heights lower on the east coast

every little bit will help but it can still come up short as I know most know, if not expect

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Here's a glass-half-full stat- there's only been two winters in BWI history that had a complete shutout of accumulating snow in both February AND March: the first was 2002, the second was... 1977 (this was a shock to me).

Well good thing BWI already has accumulating snow in February so we don't have to worry about adding to that stat. 

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Here's a glass-half-full stat- there's only been two winters in BWI history that had a complete shutout of accumulating snow in both February AND March: the first was 2002, the second was... 1977 (this was a shock to me).

 

the stinger with this winter is that we've had the cold around for most of it.  i think it's easy to forget that we've had a number of winters where the highs are often in the mid to upper 40s.  looking at the gfs is hilarious.  an arctic front followed by a borderline rain/snowstorm a few days later.  i don't remember a winter where the timing has been so off.  it's 2/10 now...the clock is beginning to tick on our snow chances.

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3-4" or so, I would guess....The track is fraught with red flags about how it might progress. Having an inverted trough to our west with no HP to our north...this isn't our 1st rodeo.

It's a weird one. We're benefiting from confluence and leftover really cold air keeping the track suppressed. H5 looks decent with the pass.

I'm pretty happy with a south solution. It was a good 12z suite.

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I don't understand what the EURO is showing, looking at the shortwave and the vorticity, it runs through Lake Erie, you'd think the low would be farther North, kind of reminds me of the storm 2 weeks ago that suddenly trended North. The low doesn't match the 500mb patter at all, can another met. chime in here and help me out on why it looks ridiculous to me. 

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Right around the start of the month. Argues for above much of the first half of Mar. May be wrong but I think there have been other hints of the same around then.. probably not long lasting if it happens given the persistent pattern overall. But even so any relaxation around then is badly timed if you want snow since avgs are getting pretty mild by Mar 1. 

Goodness. Still chasing the two weeks away. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. March does not do DC much good anyway, it snows, next day it's 45 and day after 55. 1993 did have the following day in the 20's but once every 20-25 years is not much to bank on. Already considerable modification in the cold shot this week and the Sunday one that is showing daytime highs in the teens simply will not happen.

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