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March 2018 Model Discussion


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FXUS61 KOKX 081837
AFDOKX

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service New York NY
137 PM EST Thu Mar 8 2018

.SYNOPSIS...
Weakening low pressure will lift northward into eastern Canada
this evening. An upper low will then move across the area
tonight into Friday. This will maintain a broad area of low
pressure across the Northeast. High pressure will then slowly
build to the south and west through Sunday. Another storm may
impact the region early next week.

&&

.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/...
Increased clouds with otherwise no other remarkable changes to
the forecast database.

Low pressure lifts north into the Gulf of Maine today while
weakening. This will keep the area in a gusty west flow today
as the low lifts north, being steered by a large upper low that
approaches from the Great Lakes today.

Temperatures will be a few degrees below normal. Highs will be
in the lower 40s.

With the approaching upper low and deep-layered cyclonic flow,
can not rule out an afternoon snow shower or flurry to the
north and west of NYC. The subsident westerly flow though does
not favor much development or progression into our area.

&&

.SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH 6 PM FRIDAY/...
Upper low progresses across the area late tonight into early
Friday. With the upstream block over the western Atlantic, the
low slowly lifts up into the Canadian Maritimes into Friday
night. A deepening oceanic low develops in response to this
system, passing well north and east of the area Friday into
Friday night. This will keep the area under a prolonged period
of westerly flow, which will gust at times up to 25 mph during
the daytime hours.

Once again, there will be a low chance of snow showers across
the hills north and west of NYC on Friday. With continued cold
advection across the region, both highs and lows will be several
degrees below normal.

&&

.LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
Upper low over the Northeast finally departs into the Canadian
Maritimes Fri night with weak ridging building in for the weekend.
This will bring a return to dry weather with near normal temps
across the area.

All attention then turns to the next storm system moving through
the SE states and expected to potentially impact the local area
early next week. There is a lot of spread in the GEFS/ECENS
although the signal is there for another coastal storm. What is
very uncertain is the track and the strength which will
determine exact impacts. The one thing that does look fairly
certain is that there won`t be an arctic airmass preceding the
event, so cold air would need to be dynamically generated. This
could happen given a model consensus of sharp troughing over
the Great Lakes/Northeast/Mid Atlantic regions. Pcpn could start
to overspread the area Sun night but the bulk of the event
appears to occur Mon/Mon night. Have maintained chance Pops
during this time due to the uncertainty in track. Thermal
profiles could be marginally cold enough for snow at night and
rain during the day, but again this will depend on the exact
track of the storm.

The low will intensify as it lifts towards the Canadian
Maritimes on Tue and remains there into the middle of next week.
This will result in a breezy westerly flow across the area and
below normal temps.

 

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14 minutes ago, Eduardo said:

Up until two days ago, we scoffed at the GFS.  Now, it's 18Z GFS all the way!!! :-)

In all seriousness, I'm about this one since I was in the SW Suffolk screw zone yesterday.  Bring it on!

There is a big difference between ascertaining a general synoptic pattern (threat) from the GFS versus believing the model's specific thermal profiles, such as boundary layer temperatures.

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5 minutes ago, nzucker said:

There is a big difference between ascertaining a general synoptic pattern (threat) from the GFS versus believing the model's specific thermal profiles, such as boundary layer temperatures.

The other part too is that the GFS is known to have a progressive bias so it's definitely noteworthy when it's one of the more amped models IMO

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4 minutes ago, sn0w said:

The other part too is that the GFS is known to have a progressive bias so it's definitely noteworthy when it's one of the more amped models IMO

Is agree with this. The other models have all the pieces they just aren’t coming together. This threat is real and shouldn’t be written off. Same exact thing happened with the last storm

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41 minutes ago, nzucker said:

There is a big difference between ascertaining a general synoptic pattern (threat) from the GFS versus believing the model's specific thermal profiles, such as boundary layer temperatures.

Bingo - huge difference between track and temps - GFS has been right on track more than a few times, but will always suck on thermodynamics and heat transfer...

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54 minutes ago, nzucker said:

There is a big difference between ascertaining a general synoptic pattern (threat) from the GFS versus believing the model's specific thermal profiles, such as boundary layer temperatures.

 

47 minutes ago, sn0w said:

The other part too is that the GFS is known to have a progressive bias so it's definitely noteworthy when it's one of the more amped models IMO

 

42 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Is agree with this. The other models have all the pieces they just aren’t coming together. This threat is real and shouldn’t be written off. Same exact thing happened with the last storm

 

12 minutes ago, RU848789 said:

Bingo - huge difference between track and temps - GFS has been right on track more than a few times, but will always suck on thermodynamics and heat transfer...

Ya I'm painting with a broad brush in jest.  I do seriously appreciate the nuances of its strengths and weaknesses.

You are all correct that there is a legit threat here.  So many pieces in play that need to come together just right for it to materialize though (especially for us coasties).

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1 hour ago, Ericjcrash said:

No reason to believe this won't trend NW just like every system this year. Unfortunately the GFS is pretty much alone at this stage, maybe the ICON is kind of onboard. 

Dont forget Eps member 20

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1 minute ago, Philadelphia Snow said:

I’m sorry someone needs to call you out. Wrong plain and simple. GEFS trended north from 12z.

Yea correct I was going to say something but did not feel like wasting my breathe... there is a reason why he is 5 posted....

 

GFS was very encouraging and some of the EPS members are west of OP. The GFS this winter has been pretty good from 75-105 hours but has had a lot of problems under 70 hours. 

We’ll see I still like this threat and believe it will track further NW either starting tonight or tomorrow 12z. 

 

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7 hours ago, nzucker said:

Saying no snow accumulated in NYC is an exaggeration...had 5-6" in the Bronx.

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The Bronx is not Manhattan and that's the measuring stick that some in here use when talking about the city and no accumulations 

The counties accumulate 

Staten Island got 6 , Brooklyn 4 , but you have some in here who have no idea how the N shore of L I acts and run R/S likes from the Hudson west every single time 

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