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NYC/PHL: December 24-27th Potential


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Today's ECMWF looks totally out to lunch to me...way too strong a srn stream vort trying to plow into shortwave ridging in NM/TX Thu night/Fri and way too much phasing of streams thereafter. Taken verbatim its forecast of a snainstorm would still not excite me in the least here on Long Island.

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Today's ECMWF looks totally out to lunch to me...way too strong a srn stream vort trying to plow into shortwave ridging in NM/TX Thu night/Fri and way too much phasing of streams thereafter. Taken verbatim its forecast of a snainstorm would still not excite me in the least here on Long Island.

Would you prefer a blend of the GFS/EURO, or the GGEM?

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The Euro is consistent right now, and it's almost in its deadly range. If it's still showing the same thing at 12z tomorrow, then this is the probable solution. Just wow.

But it won't...with the s/w coming on shore tomorrow, it will spit out, hopefully, a more realistic sol'n.

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GFS may be too suppressed. Adjusting the mean surface low track of the more northwestern cluster of its ensemble members 100 miles NW would take a 985-ish low from Hatteras to 39/70 rather than 40/70, which would at least mean all snow, but with the higher amounts across eastern Long Island.

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New AFD from Upton:

.LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/...

MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THAT THE TRI-STATE SHOULD BE DRY

THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...AFTER THAT THINGS DIVERGE. THE GFS IS THE

MOST PROGRESSIVE WITH THE STORM FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK...THE ECMWF THE

SLOWEST AND THE CMC-GLOBAL IN BETWEEN...BUT CLOSER TO THE

ECMWF...NOTING THAT THERE IS A GENERAL TREND IN THE MODELS TOWARDS A

SLOWER SOLUTION WITH THIS SYSTEM...USED THE CMC-GLOBAL AS A

COMPROMISE FOR TIMING.

NW FLOW ALOFT INTO FRIDAY GIVES WAY TO WEAK RIDGING FRIDAY

NIGHT-SATURDAY. CLOSED 500 HPA LOW DIVES INTO THE CENTRAL

APPALACHIANS BY SUNDAY MORNING...SUPPORTING A STRONG SURFACE LOW

NEAR THE NC/VA CAPES. THE LOW THEN LIFTS NE...ALONG WITH THE 500 HPA

LOW. THE CMC GLOBAL LIKELY IS TO FAR NW WITH ITS LOW TRACK...GIVEN

THE STRONG BAROCLINIC ZONE NEAR THE NORTH WALL OF THE GULF

STREAM...BUT WITH MODEL CONSENSUS GROWING TOWARDS A TRACK INLAND OF

THE N WALL...OPTED FOR A ECMWF TRACK WITH THE STORM...TAKING IT

INSIDE THE 70/40 BENCHMARK...BUT PER ECMWF THERMAL FIELDS...JUST FAR

ENOUGH OFFSHORE TO KEEP ANY RAIN/SNOW MIX JUST OFFSHORE. BASED ON

CMC TIMING...WOULD EXPECT THE LOW TO BE NEAR CAPE COD MONDAY MORNING.

THE GFS HAS FLIPPED FLOPPED FROM ITS 18Z RUN GOING FROM THE LOW

LINGERING OVER THE WESTERN CANADIAN MARITIMES...TO RIDGING BUILDING

IN...AS THIS IS INCONSISTENT WITH A LIKELY CUTOFF LOW...OPTED FOR A

SOLUTION CLOSER TO THE ECMWF MONDAY...WITH THE REGION IN CYCLONIC

FLOW BEHIND THE STORM.

IN TERMS OF TIMING OF THE PRECIPITATION WITH THE STORM...HAVE SLIGHT

CHANCE POPS OVER THE SW 1/2 OF THE CWA SATURDAY

AFTERNOON...INCREASING TO CHANCE OVER ALL BUT THE FAR EASTERN

PORTION OF THE AREA BY LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. THEN HAVE CHANCE POPS

SUNDAY/SUNDAY NIGHT...WITH CHANCE POPS W/SLIGHT CHANCE POPS EAST

MONDAY MORNING...THEN DRY MONDAY AFTERNOON (THERE COULD BE SNOW

SHOWERS IN THE CYCLONIC FLOW MONDAY AFTERNOON...BUT DID NOT WANT TO

GET TO FANCY THIS FAR OUT GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY).

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Would you prefer a blend of the GFS/EURO, or the GGEM?

An early first guess deterministic forecast for me would be something like a GFS/ECMWF blend...snow with higher amounts more likely out east. Per my earlier posts I think the ECMWF is wrapping this storm up too tightly (and therefore moving it too slowly as its upper levels cut off), and that the GFS may be too suppressed and too fast.

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An early first guess deterministic forecast for me would be something like a GFS/ECMWF blend...snow with higher amounts more likely out east. Per my earlier posts I think the ECMWF is wrapping this storm up too tightly (and therefore moving it too slowly as its upper levels cut off), and that the GFS may be too suppressed and too fast.

Thank You.

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I still think the ECM/CMC solutions seem quite realistic, nothing has changed since last night. GFS alters the CAA eastward too quickly given the weak PV the models are phasing.

the only thing with the euro thats alarming is that it slows everything down so much more than any of the other models i believe. You speed this up a little bit and you have a further east solution and maybe ots. I think the gem might be more realistic imho

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