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It is always going to be difficult to get a good pattern for snow even in favorable years, which makes me appreciate just how good we've had it since 2000.

I still really like February for this winter when it comes to potential biggies but hey if Jan can deliver something then I won't be mad.

Check out Judah Cohen updated J thru M 2 M temp map.

Looks like the JAMSTEC .

Jan and Esp Feb look frigid on the Can SIPS

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HAPPY 2016 FOR ALL. 

 

Sorry to say the 60-day CFS for Seattle still shows that the mean 2mT never goes above normal and 85% of the ensemble are below normal.  The reverse teleconnection with NYC is not as strong as before but still 65% of the members are for above normal and the mean dips below normal very briefly a few times in the 60 day period.   Better get it done Jan. 10-20.

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The STJ won't allow suppression ;)

Seriously though, this was the concern last year as well when it finally got cold, it took a little while for models to start showing precipitation, I think if the precipitation will come as the pattern favors something a little more active than currently depicted.

Agree - it's rather quite straight forward this year - we will need a Negative NAO to lock in the cold air in order to get the storms moving along in the STJ to move south and east of us to produce snow - if the NAO goes positive when the storm is approaching it will favor it cutting west of us producing frozen to rain or just plain rain.

 

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Agree - it's rather quite straight forward this year - we will need a Negative NAO to lock in the cold air in order to get the storms moving along in the STJ to move south of us to produce snow - if the NAO goes positive when the storm is approaching it will favor it cutting west of us producing frozen to rain or just plain rain.

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It's hard to cut with a neg epo. We saw that over the last 2 years.

-epo/+pna regimes promote HP through the lakes and force the mean storm track to belly underneath.

You always run the risk of cutting one here and there when the trough axis pulls before pulsing , but you are probably looking at EC storm track .

Like the last 2 years that PAC setup tends to win the day.

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The STJ won't allow suppression ;)

Seriously though, this was the concern last year as well when it finally got cold, it took a little while for models to start showing precipitation, I think if the precipitation will come as the pattern favors something a little more active than currently depicted.

Early to mid January was cold and dry last year with boring clippers before we finally got some decent storms to track

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You don't remember our classic cutter to cold and dry patterns? We sometimes get these patterns that have little blocking in general but there are these massive HP's that surpress a storm or two and then we get a nice wound up lakes cutter, rinse, lather and repeat. I don't think this will be the case at all here, but this initial cold won't come with any precipitation so people might get a little restless (especially since we're already in January)

 

I think you nailed it with this last part here. This initial cold is just part of the pattern changing. Then we get what seems to be a transient warm up due to return flow from HP sliding off the coast. Its after that, when the trough gets to the east, when things interesting. I think people see "pattern change" and want immediate results.

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It's hard to cut with a neg epo. We saw that over the last 2 years.

-epo/+pna regimes promote HP through the lakes and force the mean storm track to belly underneath.

You always run the risk of cutting one here and there when the trough axis pulls before pulsing , but you are probably looking at EC storm track .

Like the last 2 years that PAC setup tends to win the day.

To be determined IMO - the last couple of winters did not feature a strong El Nino fueled STJ - also exact timing and interactions of the northern and southern stream will determine storm tracks this winter - IMO won't be able to get away with a positive NAO if you like snow along the immediate coast including most of NYC Metro...........

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To be determined IMO - the last couple of winters did not feature a strong El Nino fueled STJ - also exact timing and interactions of the northern and southern stream will determine storm tracks this winter - IMO won't be able to get away with a positive NAO if you like snow along the immediate coast including most of NYC Metro...........

I like -epo+pna-ao patterns to start. I will gladly take a -nao but sometimes it's just hard to line them all up here.

I guess I'm just happy to take those favorable indices , hope for something transient if its absent in the means and roll the dice

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Denied.

Fwiw, not loving the look of the OP Euro in the long range. Waiting on the ensembles to see what's brewing in regards to the coming pattern change.

The eps should be interesting. My ideas for January look to be pretty good so far based on the pattern evolution being shown. It is obviously very early though
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The eps should be interesting. My ideas for January look to be pretty good so far based on the pattern evolution being shown. It is obviously very early though

I agree, January is almost a lock now to finish BN but it's a but too early to stock up on hand warmers.
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The eps should be interesting. My ideas for January look to be pretty good so far based on the pattern evolution being shown. It is obviously very early though

Lol OMG

Dude you are getting destroyed here lol.

Week 1 BN a day 10 -11 EC snowstorm followed by 2 weeks of an arctic cold shot.

You have been thoroughly embarrassingly wrong.

You don't know what you are looking at.

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It doesn't get any better

In regards to 2 consecutive runs of the OP Euro showing the mean trof centered over the Plains with a deep ull sitting and spinning over the GL? Im reading it as a severe arctic outbreak over the Northen Plains/GL essentially keeping the East on the lee side of the trof. Adjust this to the East a bit, which probably would happen post 240, and we would be in a better position at that time. Verbatim though, the OP Euro looks like it is containing the bitter cold and snow to the N Plains/GL region no?
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