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-NAO Coastal Bomb March 1-3, 2018 Disco


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Just now, Metasequoia said:

How so?

Everyone is above freezing east of the PA/NJ border on the RAP and on the NAM everyone is below freezing including most of LI.  The low is much closer.  We need to cool the mid-levels while we have the dynamics for the heavier precip to help cool the BL.  Basically we need the CCB on top while everything is below 0 @ 850 and above.  NAM vs the world.

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2 minutes ago, friedmators said:

Everyone is above freezing east of the PA/NJ border on the RAP and on the NAM everyone is below freezing including most of LI.  The low is much closer.  We need to cool the mid-levels while we have the dynamics for the heavier precip to help cool the BL.  Basically we need the CCB on top while everything is below 0 @ 850 and above.  NAM vs the world.

Thanks. RAP sucks, but I need to see more support for NAM's solution until I'm excited.

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1 minute ago, friedmators said:

Everyone is above freezing east of the PA/NJ border on the RAP and on the NAM everyone is below freezing including most of LI.  The low is much closer.  We need to cool the mid-levels while we have the dynamics for the heavier precip to help cool the BL.  Basically we need the CCB on top while everything is below 0 @ 850 and above.  NAM vs the world.

Great post! The writing is on the wall with this one, has been for awhile now. The new RGEM is a rainstorm, the HRRRX doesn’t even turn me over to snow through 36 hours, when it’s all over and I’m 35 miles NW of NYC. Upton may actually be too generous showing Rockland at 2 inches. Trace to maybe 1” is more like it

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2 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

Great post! The writing is on the wall with this one, has been for awhile now. The new RGEM is a rainstorm, the HRRRX doesn’t even turn me over to snow through 36 hours, when it’s all over and I’m 35 miles NW of NYC. Upton may actually be too generous showing Rockland at 2 inches. Trace to maybe 1” is more like it

I don't know the RAP at the end of its cycle though.  Is it like the 384hr GFS?

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I guess my expectation where I am is for maybe a slushy inch (that would also go for the city). That’s taking the average of the model guidance-NAM would have more but the rest are practically nothing. It’ll depend on the radar and how fast the layers cool. If the radar is showery or the best CCB sets up over NJ, I might not accumulate at all. 

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4 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

I guess my expectation where I am is for maybe a slushy inch (that would also go for the city). That’s taking the average of the model guidance-NAM would have more but the rest are practically nothing. It’ll depend on the radar and how fast the layers cool. If the radar is showery or the best CCB sets up over NJ, I might not accumulate at all. 

agreed -slushy inch or less over  NYC and most areas south of 78 in NJ - ground is going to be so soaked with temps staying several degrees above freezing makes any snow that falls difficult to stick to the ground if the temp manages to get down below 35 may stick more easily to power lines and tree branches

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1 minute ago, NJwx85 said:

Really getting the shaft here locally by NWS, with just a wind advisory, flood watch and no winter weather bulletins. 

If there was a reason to issue them they would have and if things change they will - right now no reason to issue anything more

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3 minutes ago, NEG NAO said:

If there was a reason to issue them they would have and if things change they will - right now no reason to issue anything more

To be fair though, they usually split Bergen County in these cases. Where I live is on the edge of the hills and it can sometimes be night and day between here and the Meadowlands no more than 15-20 miles to my Southeast.

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2 minutes ago, USCG RS said:

I'm going to be very interested to see what the 00z models show as these will have the hurricane hunter date ingested in....

where exactly are they going to fly into the storm - where will it be located ? what time ?

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I'm about to throw the towel in for sea level areas. This looks to be elevation driven. I think the I-95 through much of NJ will see white rain when rates increase and regular rain otherwise. Once up into Morris County, I could see lights accumulations.

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1 minute ago, friedmators said:

I don’t think the RAP understands evaporating cooling either. Below 0 925 and up with ridiculously heavy precip and it still shows rain. Latest run seemed much improved.

Evaporative cooling doesn't guaruntee that your wetbulb temperature is below freezing. If there's a huge dewpoint depression after hours of heavy precip, then yeah, it starts to get suspect, but I was never a fan of those rules of thumb along the lines of "if it's below freezing at 925/850 and raining heavily, you'll flip to snow". There are real-world BL processes that can keep you warm.

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10 minutes ago, Enigma said:

I'm about to throw the towel in for sea level areas. This looks to be elevation driven. I think the I-95 through much of NJ will see white rain when rates increase and regular rain otherwise. Once up into Morris County, I could see lights accumulations.

Will be a nasty day for a lot of us, and a forgettable one. 

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Evaporative cooling doesn't guaruntee that your wetbulb temperature is below freezing. If there's a huge dewpoint depression after hours of heavy precip, then yeah, it starts to get suspect, but I was never a fan of those rules of thumb along the lines of "if it's below freezing at 925/850 and raining heavily, you'll flip to snow". There are real-world BL processes that can keep you warm.

I buy that. I’m assuming a fetch off the ocean at the surface would do that. I see NE winds though. I guess I’m grasping at straws.

 

 

Edit maybe nw

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