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22 in Central Park, at least it feels like winter for a day. The GFS in the LR looks like it was contrived by Anthony's personal demon, it has absolute bomb after bomb that are too far SE and a couple of APP runners thrown in for good measure. At least it doesn't look like any long term torches are the horizon (thank God for small favors)

It literally has 5 sub 980mb lows east of us and not a single one gives us snow (the day 10 one comes close I guess, I already locked it in and told everyone I know to huddle together in shelters)

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Godspeed getting that western ridging with a screaming STJ crashing into the west coast

The Euro is probably seeing the same thing with this weekends storm. More progressive than the other models. This pattern was supposed to be epic. Epic pattern failed. The block that the models showed last week was insane. I had a feeling it was too good to be true :cry: . Just give me a -EPO pattern. Screw the -NAO and -AO.

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The Euro is probably seeing the same thing with this weekends storm. More progressive than the other models. This pattern was supposed to be epic. Epic pattern failed. The block that the models showed last week was insane. I had a feeling it was too good to be true :cry: . Just give me a -EPO pattern. Screw the -NAO and -AO.

When you say, "Epic pattern failed," what do you mean?  I remember there was supposed to be a major pattern change. Did the change not occur, or did it change back (or change to something else), or did the pattern change, but the results (sensible weather) stayed pretty much the same (although it is distinctly colder than December!)?  I am trying to puzzle out what happened, or didn't happen.

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The Euro is probably seeing the same thing with this weekends storm. More progressive than the other models. This pattern was supposed to be epic. Epic pattern failed. The block that the models showed last week was insane. I had a feeling it was too good to be true :cry: . Just give me a -EPO pattern. Screw the -NAO and -AO.

In one of your posts just prior to this you said "Patience is Key" - which is it ??

As for the possibilty of a second storm coming up the coast Sunday into Monday in the colder air - good luck.........

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We got half a pattern change so far this month. The Arctic saw one of the biggest +AO

to -AO reversals on record for November-December to January. But the El Nino and

STJ continue to push the Aleutian Low into the Western US with too much ridging

ahead of the lows here.

 

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In one of your posts just prior to this you said "Patience is Key" - which is it ??

As for the possibilty of a second storm coming up the coast Sunday into Monday in the colder air - good luck.........

Im always patience. I am not even near to throw in the towel for winter. I am just saying that I would rather have a -epo than a -nao.

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We got half a pattern change so far this month. The Arctic saw one of the biggest +AO

to -AO reversals on record for November-December to January. But the EL Nino and

STJ continue to push the Aleutian Low into the Western US with too much ridging

ahead of the lows here.

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This. We most definitely got a pattern change. We just didn't get the full pattern change we all wanted to have the best shot at Snow. The pattern change that was discussed was always to get us the colder air. We generally have that going for us but and El Niño, although weaker than it was is still super strong and dominating the weather. We honestly just need it to slow down. We can snow in El Niño (and even strong ones), but the flow out west is way to fast and there isn't enough break between pieces of energy. I still think we are "stepping" down into Winter and are going in the right direction. I think we get a big storm in mid to late Feb and a few more decent ones in March. I'll go with final total of 18" this winter.

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Im always patience. I am not even near to throw in the towel for winter. I am just saying that I would rather have a -epo than a -nao.

 

The EPO has been pretty negative so far this month. It's just been undercut by the El Nino and STJ

pushing the Aleutian Low into the West.

 

2015 12 29 -47.64

2015 12 30 -111.32

2015 12 31 -110.25

2016 01 01 -128.25

2016 01 02 -141.21

2016 01 03 -115.18

2016 01 04 -97.10

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This. We most definitely got a pattern change. We just didn't get the full pattern change we all wanted to have the best shot at Snow. The pattern change that was discussed was always to get us the colder air. We generally have that going for us but and El Niño, although weaker than it was is still super strong and dominating the weather. We honestly just need it to slow down. We can snow in El Niño (and even strong ones), but the flow out west is way to fast and there isn't enough break between pieces of energy. I still think we are "stepping" down into Winter and are going in the right direction. I think we get a big storm in mid to late Feb and a few more decent ones in March. I'll go with final total of 18" this winter.

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Have any evidence to back up that statement ? Mid to Late Feb into March ????

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As much as it pains me to respond to you, contrary to what Don posted, this is the first legitimately modeled SSWE of the season. So, to correct you, this could be the first busted SSWE.

It wouldn't be the first. For example, example from December: https://twitter.com/_NEweather/status/676493239088754690

 

Actual outcome:

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A 240-hour forecast for a dramatic warming at 50 hPa (outside the reliable forecasting horizon no less) without any look at fluxes, zonal winds, and other levels of the stratosphere, does not by itself mean that there is necessarily going to be an SSW event. One needs to look at the entire Stratosphere before reaching hard conclusions. The above tweet was based on a superficial look. Moreover, despite a reference to "my supporting evidence," no such evidence was furnished.

 

Considering the literature and documented point that such events can only be forecast within "several days," one needs to be very cautious. The possible event is no exception. It may work out or it may not. At this point in time, I don't know. I will note that the ECMWF is not yet showing the kind of wave 2 amplitude needed for a SSW event, but 10-days out is beyond the reasonably accurate forecasting horizon.

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We need the El Niño to start letting up or else things won't get better. At least we're past the peak and are slowing heading downward,

February remains the favored month in Nino climo except of course 98, which we are unfortunately close with atm.

On paper February might be favored BUT all the players and timing of systems has to coordinate properly for the chance of snowstorms as we are finding out the last couple of weeks.....

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On paper February might be favored BUT all the players and timing of systems has to coordinate properly for the chance of snowstorms as we are finding out the last couple of weeks.....

This a million times over, the pattern doesn't make it snow. That stupid ULL that's probably ruining both storms could be there in any pattern as can a HP be north of us in the most putrid patterns. Sure it increases the odds of a snow, and blocking obviously slows everything down enough to allow for big storms, but at the end of the day everything is dominated by the players on the table at any given time.
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