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NYC/PHL: December 24-27th Potential


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i dont know- the upper air pattern on the GFS went into the toilet after hour 84 on this run....

Well, I guess I meant from a very general point of view.. I mean.. good ridge out west, digging, amplifying trof in the east. Relative to prior model runs, yes, it would appear that this is in the toilet compared to the perfect H500 maps... but if we saw this 12Z run as the very first run of a possible event coming, I don't think we would be too displeased with the potential of the overalls synoptic set-up.. we're now comparing it classic blizzard runs.

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It's not getting sheared out. It's not phasing and leading to the initial cyclogenesis off the coast.

that's correct.. you want to look at the spreading or divergence of height contours on the east side of the trof. This will give you an indication of surface pressure falls. In this particular run, without a phasing, we had a more open and broad upper low so the height contours did not spread... until it hit the north atlantic where the vorticity maximum strengthened upon phasing, and really spread the height contours out. We saw this happen for the NYC area in the 00Z model run because we had a strong and tight upper level low.

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It diverges greatly from what the NAM was showing around that time frame. They were very similar up until that point.

that was point...the base of the trough gets real rounded....i would think it needs to be sharp for it to shoot up the coast....

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Well, I guess I meant from a very general point of view.. I mean.. good ridge out west, digging, amplifying trof in the east. Relative to prior model runs, yes, it would appear that this is in the toilet compared to the perfect H500 maps... but if we saw this 12Z run as the very first run of a possible event coming, I don't think we would be too displeased with the potential of the overalls synoptic set-up.. we're now comparing it classic blizzard runs.

oooh i agree- at h84 on the 12Z GFS the h5 maps look real solid...then 12 hours later its just a rounded trough with no energy in it...what the hell happened?

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Or it could be right, too, especially for PHL south. This run should have been farther west at the surface given the H5 pattern, but it still only would have been hit for NYC north. It's still very touch and go for the 40N south crowd.

Agree 500mb closed off further north which is a killer down here.

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hour 120 - it's way out to sea.. I don't buy it though given the upper level pattern. I'm not gonna go into panic mode :thumbsup:

Stupid question - why do we trust the upper level details more than the surface details? Do they verify better? I mean, why not say look it slides off the coast, the upper air is depicted faulty.

Thanks! Trying to learn !

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Stupid question - why do we trust the upper level details more than the surface details? Do they verify better? I mean, why not say look it slides off the coast, the upper air is depicted faulty.

Thanks! Trying to learn !

There's no friction up there, for one thing. And it's always a good idea to look at the upper levels first. If they don't look like the surface, then something's probably wrong with the surface depiction.

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Or it could be right, too, especially for PHL south. This run should have been farther west at the surface given the H5 pattern, but it still only would have been hit for NYC north. It's still very touch and go for the 40N south crowd.

I agree 100%. This pattern reeks of something again that would go OTS too far south and the loop back up to hit SNE.

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lol It seems everytime we've gotten close to a consenus with this event...BAM utter chaos breaksout :thumbsdown: I'm alot more worried about the GGEM not showing a hit than I am the GFS.

It's funny it seems like the models have been more consistent in the D 5-8 range than they have D 3-5. :lol:

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lol It seems everytime we've gotten close to a consenus with this event...BAM utter chaos breaksout :thumbsdown: I'm alot more worried about the GGEM not showing a hit than I am the GFS.

What time does the 12z euro start?if that one starts showing a miss then ill get a little worried because that model has been as of now the most consistent upper levels and the surface

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