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Dec 11-12 Storm Threat


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Zonal flow sets up aloft Saturday night, and with no shortwaves forecast to be embedded in the flow, it should be dry. Lows Saturday night were based on a blend of MAV/MET guidance and NAM 2-meter temperatures and should be around 5 degrees below normal.

 

For Sunday-Monday night the models are coming into better agreement that fast zonal flow will produce a weaker/flatter (more sheared) system moving in from the Intermountain West starting Sunday morning. The reduced amplification will result in weaker warm advection ahead of the system, with the warm front now likely staying S of Long Island through the event, with a secondary low tracking to the S of Long Island along the front. Northern stream ridging ahead of the system will support the forming of a high over SE Canada which should server as a source for low level cold air by Monday (NE- E flow over the region - typical of a cold air damming pattern). In terms of sensible weather, the aforementioned shortwave ridging passing to the north Sunday should hold off anything other than very light precipitation into Sunday afternoon - with snow across the interior and rain elsewhere. The precipitation will become more widespread and steady Sunday night and should chance to all snow from N to S Sunday evening across the Tri-State. Snow continues into Monday, with precipitation mixing with then changing to rain over Long Island and at least Southern portions of NYC and maybe coastal SW CT Monday morning and then to all rain Monday afternoon, except for maybe far Northern portions of the CWA where a rain/snow mix could linger. Precipitation should taper off from W to E Monday night as the low exits to the southeast of Cape Cod mainly as Snow N of Long Island Sound and Rain to the south.

Forecast discussion from NWS ^^

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1 hour ago, Pamela said:

Now that was some winter!  The incredible inaugural storm in January, the blizzard in February...and this was all preceded by the Great Blizzard of March 1960....4 storms in 11 months.  And was it ever cold from January into early February!

I'll never forget the silly inconsistency in that film Born on the 4th of July (near the start of the movie) where it shows a pleasant day (with leaves on the trees) in Massapequa, Long Island while the family is watching the Kennedy Inauguration live on TV.  In truth, there was a roaring blizzard going on here (and in the District of Columbia) that day...though it was mainly over in DC by the time the proceedings were under way.

January 1961 Poughkeepsie set their all time record low of -30. Legend around here was people woke up to gun shots heard all around the area that turned out to be the sap freezing in some of the maple trees. I've never verified those stories but those temperatures would make it possible.

NYC had 16 straight days of sub freezing in January 1961 too.

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18 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

This will be either snow or rain. The High is very weak now and with little cad for area to hold onto ice 

Each model run has been less snow each run . What once showed me as 8 is now showing 2. Each run it gets less and less 

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Latest from upton A broad rain or snow approach was used in the forecast. Significant snowfall is most likely across the northern and western interior, even if there is indeed a changeover in those area. As a result, the Hazardous Weather Outlook will include Orange county in a 6 inch snowfall risk. The precipitation may change back to a snow, again depending on track which means the dry slot in this case, at the end of the event.

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