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Upstate NY/North Country + adjacent ON, QC, VT: End of Fall/Into Winter!


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After a dull rest of the week and unfortunately some melting/rain this weekend, things look really interesting starting next Monday.  I hope models trends hold of showing arctic air over the GL's with cyclonic flow.  A long way to go, but a nice signal there for lake effect.  

 

Re: the Blizzard of 66...my in-laws gave me a new book on that for Christmas.  It's mostly personal accounts, but a very interesting read.  My mother-in-law is actually quoted in the book - her parents were stranded in Oswego for a week after dropping her off at the college (they made it right as the storm was hitting).  Thing about that storm that is really impressive to me was the extreme snow amounts across so much of Upstate NY.  Oswego was obviously ground zero (100+ inches!), but everywhere from BUF east to the 'Dacks and even down across the southern tier seem to have gotten well over a foot from that storm.  Absolute perfect track for both synoptic and lake effect/enhanced snow for W/CNY.

I was 11 and living in Little Falls in the Mohawk Valley during the Blizzard of '66. It was one of those storms that really stoked my interest in meteorology. Schools were closed for a week. One of the characteristics of the storm was high winds that persisted for days. That made clearing rural roads almost impossible as they drifted back in immediately after being plowed. I believe it was one of the first times in New York that snowmobiles were needed to provide food and fuel to people stranded in the countryside.

Buffalo Bumble, what is the name of that book? I might be interested in getting it.

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I was 11 and living in Little Falls in the Mohawk Valley during the Blizzard of '66. It was one of those storms that really stoked my interest in meteorology. Schools were closed for a week. One of the characteristics of the storm was high winds that persisted for days. That made clearing rural roads almost impossible as they drifted back in immediately after being plowed. I believe it was one of the first times in New York that snowmobiles were needed to provide food and fuel to people stranded in the countryside.

Buffalo Bumble, what is the name of that book? I might be interested in getting it.

"Voices in the Storm." http://oswegocountytoday.com/voices-in-the-storm-recounts-challenges-struggles-on-50th-anniversary-of-blizzard-of-66/  

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Go look at Buffalos latest forecast discussion! Pretty much what we talked about today.

HOWEVER...THE PATTERN BEGINNING MONDAY AND POSSIBLY THROUGH A GOOD

PORTION OF NEXT WEEK LOOKS WELL SUITED FOR A POSSIBLE SIGNIFICANT

LAKE RESPONSE. 850MB TEMPERATURES DROP FROM AROUND BETWEEN -10C TO

-20C DEPENDING ON THE MODEL...DAY...AND FORECAST SHORTWAVE TROUGHS

NEXT WEEK WITH A WESTERLY OR SW FLOW...AGAIN DEPENDENT ON DAY AND

MODEL. AN UPPER LEVEL LONGWAVE TROUGH OR LOW NEAR JAMES BAY WITH A

RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN US IS SIMILAR THE OVERALL PATTERN OF THE PAST

TWO WINTERS...WITH HISTORICAL RESEARCH SHOWING THAT THIS PATTERN

SUPPORTS THE POTENTIAL FOR LONG-LIVED LAKE EFFECT EVENTS...ASSUMING

THE LOW LEVEL FLOW AND AVAILABLE MOISTURE DO NOT MEANDER TOO MUCH.

THIS NOTABLE PATTERN SHIFT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED HERE SINCE AT LEAST

SATURDAY. WE WILL HAVE TO WADE THROUGH THE VARYING FORECASTS FOR

NEXT WEEKEND PRIOR TO THE COOL DOWN...BUT AS DISCUSSED IN EARLIER

DISCUSSIONS...THIS IS A CLEAR SIGNAL...SO CONFIDENCE FOR A LAKE

EFFECT EVENT...POSSIBLY A PROLONGED ONE...LOOKS REASONABLE WITH THE

USUAL UNCERTAINTY TOWARD LOCATION THIS FAR OUT.

 

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Where is that ocean effect guy? The cape and southeast mass

are getting clipped pretty good right now. It's a nice setup, he should be all jacked up.

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He's near the outside of the "elbow" of the cape, not in the good part of that band - seems to be getting the shaft, after tracking this event for a week. As we know here in the eastern lakes, them's the breaks.
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THE PATTERN BECOMES FAR MORE INTERESTING EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE LONG

ADVERTISED PATTERN CHANGE WILL BE TAKING SHAPE ACROSS NORTH

AMERICA...WITH A STRONG WEST COAST RIDGE ALLOWING AN IMPRESSIVE

LONGWAVE TROUGH TO CARVE OUT ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF NORTH

AMERICA. THE MEAN PATTERN FOR ALL OF NEXT WEEK WILL FEATURE A DEEP

TROUGH CENTERED IN THE VICINITY OF HUDSON BAY...WITH NUMEROUS HIGH

AMPLITUDE CLIPPER SHORTWAVES MOVING THROUGH THE LONGWAVE TROUGH.

PAST CLIMATOLOGY RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE SUGGESTS THIS PATTERN CAN

BE VERY ACTIVE FOR HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW IN OUR REGION...AND THIS

APPEARS TO BE THE CASE WITH THIS PATTERN AS WELL.

DEEP COLD AIR SPREADING ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES WILL ALLOW FOR A

STRONG AND DEEP LAKE RESPONSE AT TIMES...WITH THE NUMEROUS MID LEVEL

WAVES PROVIDING LARGE SCALE ASCENT AND DEEPER MOISTURE. THESE WAVES

WILL ALSO BRING CHANGES TO BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW DIRECTION...

SUGGESTING MIGRATING BANDS OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW. OBVIOUSLY AT THIS

TIME RANGE THE DETAILS ARE VERY UNCERTAIN...BUT THE LARGE SCALE

PATTERN CERTAINLY SUGGESTS THE POTENTIAL FOR LONG LASTING...

SIGNIFICANT...HIGH IMPACT LAKE EFFECT SNOW EAST OF LAKES ERIE AND

ONTARIO THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. STAY TUNED.

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