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February 9th Coastal Storm Discussion


Baroclinic Zone

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I dont know if anyone read the upton AFD but, for them, it is very strongly worded, seems to be high confidence with this shift.

HWO was issued for a 30% chance of the CWA reaching warning criteria.

.LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/...
Winter makes a potentially dramatic comeback on Thursday following a
very mild Wednesday. Then warm advection comes back for the weekend.

Cold FROPA on Wednesday with some spotty light rain still around in
the morning. FCST max temps, mid to upper 50s, are within a few
degrees of records.

The system of interest is late Wednesday night into Thursday. Have
focused on ECMWF and GFS/GEFS for the forecast. The dynamics of
interest is energy still out in the Pacific where pattern is rather
chaotic with a Rex Block currently over Alaska. This energy
undercuts the Block and rapidly tracks east. The other energy is in
the north stream shortwave and is coming down the eastern side of
the Rex Block from around 80 degrees north.

The NWP is rather impressive with the rapid, but progressive
cyclogenesis. GEFS members support categorical POPs. (Note, am
discounting the NAM and CMC operational runs as do not believe
they`re fully capturing the energy.)  The jet structure seen is also
impressive (though not exactly textbook). A coupled Jet with
130+ KT maxes is noted over the northeast in the predawn hours.

The other issues are boundary layer temps and timing.  Temps appear
such that they should support mainly snow or rain changing to snow
along the coast. Timing, which is focused on Thursday morning, could
be 6 hours faster or slower as seen in the GEFS.

As for amounts - there are members of the GEFS with over an inch of
liquid. believe that is over a 30% potential for 6" plus. Thus,
we`ll start an "outlook" for this system. POPs were raised to likely
along the coast, but expect POPs to rise as uncertainty diminishes
over the next few days.
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It's an impressive 500 mb evolution for frontogenic forcing on this NAM solution.   

There is a bit of a weak southern and/or intermediate stream impulse that actually triggers the wave on Tuesday's trailing baroclinic axis down over the eastern TV region ... The N-stream bullies into the OV and that at whole scale ...tips the flow along and off the EC to more of a NNE trajectory; this effectively partially captures said wave (most importantly) in time to clip eastern PA up through SNE and perhaps eastern Maine....   The southern impulse then rides along the quintessential 1.5 deg lat/lon SE of ISP for producing said mid level instability..   My guess is the sections will show a pretty strong -omega unzip from roughly NYC to west of Boston should this sort of NAM evolution come to pass.  

Again ...the weaker and more N Tuesday event notwithstanding.. the idea is not having the baroclinic zone whisked off shore. 

 

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Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

BSR?

Yea the maps you busted my balls about the other day. We talked  4 days ago about how this setup was eerily similar to the first week of Feb last year with the cutter then the coastal. We posted maps of the BSR which look very similar to today's Euro GFS outputs, looks pretty solid  today.

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