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March 20th-22nd Suppressed, Fish, Not Coming Threat


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10 minutes ago, Nibor said:

0z HRDPS looks pretty good for most. Deform band over LI as it pulls away. 10"+ for most at 10:1.

I told my buddies at work that my prediction is 10 for the immediate metro area. It’s the middle ground between the weenies (and NWS in this case) and the debbie D’s. Will stick to it.

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3 minutes ago, ILoveWinter said:

I told my buddies at work that my prediction is 10 for the immediate metro area. It’s the middle ground between the weenies (and NWS in this case) and the debbie D’s. Will stick to it.

10 might be the lucky number. I have no idea myself. We will see how it all works out though.

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So, I know the pros always say not to look at snowfall maps, but I'm not expert enough to analyze upper air maps and trends and figure out what's going on, but I am pretty good at pattern recognition and nearly every 00Z model - GFS, UK, CMC, RDPS (RGEM), and HRPDS (high res RPDS) - showed a modest to occasionally significant decrease in snowfall vs. 18Z or 12Z.  Only the NAM 12 km and 3 km looked similar, at least for CNJ/NNJ/NYC (and more to the north).  Is this truly meaningful?  I think it is and others have been saying it is.  I mostly am wondering if this will be the extent of the reduction or might we be facing more? 

At some point, if we don't get near the 1-2" per hour rates being advertised for 2 days now, we're going to see a fair amount of white rain, even with better surface temps than the previous nor-easters and that will reduce accumulations even more (and if we don't get as good a level of crystal growth, we also might not reach 10:1 as I was hoping, given good column thermal profiles).  Don't get me wrong - getting 6-10" in March would still be pretty damn cool - but not as cool as the NWS 12-18" forecast for most of the area.  Anyone want to pull me back off the ledge?  Maybe the Euro?

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29 minutes ago, RU848789 said:

So, I know the pros always say not to look at snowfall maps, but I'm not expert enough to analyze upper air maps and trends and figure out what's going on, but I am pretty good at pattern recognition and nearly every 00Z model - GFS, UK, CMC, RDPS (RGEM), and HRPDS (high res RPDS) - showed a modest to occasionally significant decrease in snowfall vs. 18Z or 12Z.  Only the NAM 12 km and 3 km looked similar, at least for CNJ/NNJ/NYC (and more to the north).  Is this truly meaningful?  I think it is and others have been saying it is.  I mostly am wondering if this will be the extent of the reduction or might we be facing more? 

At some point, if we don't get near the 1-2" per hour rates being advertised for 2 days now, we're going to see a fair amount of white rain, even with better surface temps than the previous nor-easters and that will reduce accumulations even more (and if we don't get as good a level of crystal growth, we also might not reach 10:1 as I was hoping, given good column thermal profiles).  Don't get me wrong - getting 6-10" in March would still be pretty damn cool - but not as cool as the NWS 12-18" forecast for most of the area.  Anyone want to pull me back off the ledge?  Maybe the Euro?

Euro wants to give you a push and say have a nice flight

 

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6 minutes ago, Gravity Wave said:

All I'm going to say at this point is if the city busts it's going to be because of boundary temps and not a lack of QPF.

I will admit I am currently a bit concerned about temps, I thought it would have been at least a few degrees colder by now. The storm is just starting to get cranking so we will see what happens. I still believe once things do get going though that the snow will be lighter/drier then what we had earlier in the month that caused all of the power outages. We will see how things play out.

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7 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

Euro is a big outlier and should be tossed

At what point do we stop tossing model runs?  Because we've tossed about every model run from the 0z suite.  Additionally, I would say it is concerning - as some mentioned - that literally every model  of which I am aware cut back on snow totals (and some significantly).  That is not a good sign.

And by the way - current obs - hot, real hot.  It's 38 degrees and going nowhere fast.

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