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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:12 PM, Ji said:

that's the storm I'm kinda looking for

making a run for #1 storm all time for DC in late March would be epic 

 

also Matt Rogers would verify on his 40" for DC call. 

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:15 PM, Ian said:

making a run for #1 storm all time for DC in late March would be epic 

 

also Matt Rogers would verify on his 40" for DC call. 

 

The ingredients for a real storm have been there for days. I'm not really sold on the squashed idea. GEM is obviously on crack but it wouldn't shock me much if something organized starts showing up with more consistency over the next few days. Still a low prob event until it becomes high prob. lol

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:09 PM, Ian said:

I dunno.. probably not. My girlfriend has been bugging me to go somewhere not chasing involved for like 3 years. I doubt she'd be excited to cut it short to see snow.

that kind of storm...you dump her and leave her in new Orleans
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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:18 PM, Bob Chill said:

The ingredients for a real storm have been there for days. I'm not really sold on the squashed idea. GEM is obviously on crack but it wouldn't shock me much if something organized starts showing up with more consistency over the next few days. Still a low prob event until it becomes high prob. lol

We might have a good storm but a storm like that? lol. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say no chance this run verifies. 

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:22 PM, Ji said:

that kind of storm...you dump her and leave her in new Orleans

Maybe snow on Friday will cancel my flight and we will have to stay here. I'm all nervous about missing a HECS now. :<

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:18 PM, Bob Chill said:

The ingredients for a real storm have been there for days. I'm not really sold on the squashed idea. GEM is obviously on crack but it wouldn't shock me much if something organized starts showing up with more consistency over the next few days. Still a low prob event until it becomes high prob. lol

 

March 25 is the new December 5

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:24 PM, Ian said:

We might have a good storm but a storm like that? lol. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say no chance this run verifies. 

 

 

Ha, definitely not a storm like that. A solid late march elevation storm with enough scraps for us to call it a snowstorm seems like the most probable event if something even happens at all. Or we continue the heater and get pasted with a 4-8/6-10 kind of deal that goes down in the books as one of the biggest late march storms.

 

If anything happens I'm rooting for enough confluence to keep it entirely intimate to the MA.  

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:25 PM, Fozz said:

What kind of storm is it anyway? (tropical tidbits is running slow)

 

Coastal? Or an inverted trough like March 1942?

a slider that becomes snowmageddon.. 1" liquid in 6 hrs ending 12z. might stick. 

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:26 PM, Ian said:

Maybe snow on Friday will cancel my flight and we will have to stay here. I'm all nervous about missing a HECS now. :<

You know it would be white rain since it's a week away.

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:25 PM, Fozz said:

What kind of storm is it anyway? (tropical tidbits is running slow)

 

Coastal? Or an inverted trough like March 1942?

 

Stream phase. Looks like 1 southern and 2 northern vorts all spin up together and h5 closes off just off the delmarva. Massive 50/50 keeping it all in line and slow enough. 

 

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  On 3/18/2015 at 4:58 PM, Bob Chill said:

It has to be posted. This includes the 3-4 on Fri but still. I'll take the severe under. 

 

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For half a second I though that was depicting temperature (in degrees F) instead.  My mind simply could not grasp snow accumulations of that magnitude.  Had to look twice...totally LOL-tasitc, but would be great of course!

 

"And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Most Absurd Snow Map Oscar for the 2014-15 winter season goes to ..." (drum roll, please) "...the GGEM, for its depiction of Snowmageddon in late March!"

 

Bob, you've got to save that image for posterity...seriously!

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:09 PM, Ian said:

I dunno.. probably not. My girlfriend has been bugging me to go somewhere not chasing involved for like 3 years. I doubt she'd be excited to cut it short to see snow.

 

I was in New Orleans just prior to the bust of March '13 and flew back early for nothing.. sack up!

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  On 3/18/2015 at 4:58 PM, Bob Chill said:

It has to be posted. This includes the 3-4 on Fri but still. I'll take the severe under. 

 

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Hmm... still time for a north trend.  ;)

 

That's the storm that the crazy ensemble member was showing at 00z.  It reminds me of the April Fool's day storm in Boston.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fool%27s_Day_Blizzard

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  On 3/18/2015 at 6:15 PM, Bob Chill said:

Euro pretty much in line. .20-.30 by 7am. Surface in the low 30s. Flip around 15z (guessing. don't have 3 hr panels). Supportive of 1-3" for the corridor if it falls fast enough. 

Flip from snow to rain?

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  On 3/18/2015 at 5:30 PM, Bob Chill said:

Stream phase. Looks like 1 southern and 2 northern vorts all spin up together and h5 closes off just off the delmarva. Massive 50/50 keeping it all in line and slow enough. 

 

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The key of course is that massive 50/50.  Without that, its nothing.a la GFS

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