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Snow/ice storm disco Feb 21-22


Damage In Tolland

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Of all people to hug the off hour GFS...

I've been saying this now for a few weeks. I think since the upgrade the GFS is better than the Euro with Northern stream systems. I likened it to a girlfriend you've had for a long time that was always there and you could always go back to when you needed it most..but she finally got old and it was time to find someone new.

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I've been saying this now for a few weeks. I think since the upgrade the GFS is better than the Euro with Northern stream systems. I likened it to a girlfriend you've had for a long time that was always there and you could always go back to when you needed it most..but she finally got old and it was time to find someone new.

 

I hope you haven't described it that way to your wife.......

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I've been saying this now for a few weeks. I think since the upgrade the GFS is better than the Euro with Northern stream systems. I likened it to a girlfriend you've had for a long time that was always there and you could always go back to when you needed it most..but she finally got old and it was time to find someone new.

 

I'd like to see a little longer period before I declare it a success, but I've been satisfied so far.

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There was some discussion about this yesterday and I came across it in Albany's AFD from early this am so I thought I'd pass it along.

 

SO...INDICATING SNOW BECOMING A MIX OF SLEET AND SNOW DURING THE
MORNING AND A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW...WITH A CHANCE OF FREEZING RAIN
IN THE AFTERNOON. THERE ARE QUESTIONS AS TO HOW WARM TEMPERATURES
GET ON SUNDAY WITH THE DEEP SNOW PACK AND BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW BEING
FROM THE SOUTHWEST. SOUTHWESTERLY BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW CAN HAVE A
DIFFICULT TIME MIXING DOWN TO THE SURFACE IN THE HEART OF WINTER
WHEN THE GROUND IS EXTREMELY FROZEN WITH DEEP SNOW PACK. SO...GOING
BELOW GUIDANCE WITH HIGHS SUNDAY...BUT STILL A LITTLE ABOVE
FREEZING FROM THE CENTRAL MOHAWK VALLEY TO SOUTHERN VT AND POINTS
SOUTH AND EAST. UPPER 30S IN MID HUDSON VALLEY AND NW CT.
TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID 30S COULD SUPPORT PATCHES OF
FREEZING RAIN DEPENDING ON HOW WARM ALOFT IT CAN GET OVER PARTS OF
THE REGION...AND HOW/IF SNOW PACK KEEPS TEMPERATURES MUCH COLDER
THAN GUIDANCE.

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With the snap of the whip, A weenie on crack,

Front to back, we add to the pack

Dig it like a shovel, I ween to a heavenly level

Bang the GFS, turn down the Euro

+1. Bloody Mary morning?

Have been thinking elevation gradient in these parts for a couple days now. I believe someone here might have mentioned it too. Would guess totals improve above like 700'.

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Maybe it's the deep snowpack doing it's dirty work?

I can't imagine that a 1-foot snow pack verse 3-foot snowpack would make a difference in regards to keeping a system colder, right? Unless its a conservation of energy thing where all the cold has to be sucked out of the pack first before temps can rise...or something along those lines...

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I can't imagine that a 1-foot snow pack verse 3-foot snowpack would make a difference in regards to keeping a system colder, right? Unless its a conservation of energy thing where all the cold has to be sucked out of the pack first before temps can rise...or something along those lines...

You work in Ellsworth? Where the hell is that?

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With the snap of the whip, A weenie on crack,

Front to back, we add to the pack

Dig it like a shovel, I ween to a heavenly level

Bang the GFS, turn down the Euro

Return of the pack,

It is,

Return of the pack,

Come on,

Return of the pack,

Oh my god,

You know that it'd be back,

Here it is.

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I've been saying this now for a few weeks. I think since the upgrade the GFS is better than the Euro with Northern stream systems. I likened it to a girlfriend you've had for a long time that was always there and you could always go back to when you needed it most..but she finally got old and it was time to find someone new.

Or maybe you get old and she dumps you cuz the viagra doesn't work well enough.  Sexist metaphor.

You may be trying to hump the GFS but she is giving you the hand and her face ain't listening

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Soon as models sniffed extent of fresh cold they started the shift. Remember this next time you try to rain to Maine in a similar setup

 

i wont deny the difference asnowpack can make at the surface and keeping low level cold especially when the system riding west is weak, but these actual weaker/southeast trends are unquestionably due to mid-upper level trends

 

It's not the snow Kevin. I said that earlier. Look higher up.

 

^ This

 

Look at the differences in just 1 run of the euro valid 00z sunday...

 

12z

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00z

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^ faster and weaker

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Essentially those weaker/southeast trends of northern stream features were what many here initially expected a couple days ago when models showed the inland solution, weve seen it happen a few times this winter, and combined with snow cover and antecedent cold air mass that comes in prior, you could say it would be difficult to scour out low level cold in NE...but it was hard not to bail when all guidance shifted in the other direction (further west and more amped) yesterday in a large way, and it was getting into the 72-96 hr range...

 

And like Scott said, lets not be all that shocked if they tick back west again today (though i def doubt we see the warm cutter solutions of 12z euro/canadian from yesterday return at this stage)

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