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Feb 18 overrunning threat


ORH_wxman

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2 minutes ago, Spanks45 said:

I saw that, alot of 2-3 amounts except for the SE coast of CT....definitely a 2-4 type event, lollies to 5-6?

We're running with 2-4" now. Could be some 5 or 6 totals in some weenie banding but I do think the window for good stuff is pretty short tonight... like 2 hours of great snow growth then meh. 

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Looks reasonable ...

There could be a general 3.2" with one or two lollies to 4 on the dot spanning the area ... and then the post-mortem vitriol would undoubtedly discuss the system as having busted on the low side, "...but overall, not terrible..."  

Conversely, a 6" total or two taking place, in the midst of a general swath of 4" would reflect as a system well handled... 

Even though fair evaluation of both outcomes would yield they were both perfectly forecast. 

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2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Looks reasonable ...

There could be a general 3.2" with one or two lollies to 4 on the dot spanning the area ... and then the post-mortem vitriol would undoubtedly discuss the system as having busted on the low side, "...but overall, not terrible..."  

Conversely, a 6" total or two taking place, in the midst of a general swath of 4" would reflect as a system well handled... 

Even though fair evaluation of both outcomes would yield they were both perfectly forecast. 

Yeah honestly, mostly 2-4 or lots of 4-5 with a spot 6 wouldn't be surprising...either scenario is totally plausible. It's really the difference of 1 or 2 inches which can be found in both parts of the system. Front end burst overperforms...or maybe IVT later in the game overperforms. Or maybe they both underperform and it's lower end. 

 

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I had a feelin' this would happen...

As a user of the FRH FOUS grid ( ..because I go back a ways to the days when knowing how to interpret those numbers was a useful tool in shorter term prognostication), one thing I've noted ..even back before the NAM was the NAM  ( it used to be called the "ETA"  and it only went out 48 hours if we got back far enough) is that QPF quite frequently comes into the models range too hefty.  Then, the model cuts it back after a cycle or two, ...tries to bring back the heftier numbers, only to at last collapse to the global model types in the 30 hour range.  

...Heh, and as these numbers come and pass by in time, the up -down nature of the correction curve is always well echoed by the tenor in optimism in the posts...  it's awesome. I can be in a meeting at work ... some manager droning on by quarterly mission statements ... and thumbing through my filthy iPhone's screen interface under the edge of table, I know where we are along the cycle of the NAM's system detection purely from gauging that optimism vs tossing tempo... 

Anyway, this system seems to have performed along that similar sinusoidal decay of first bigger QPF, then less... back bigger ...settling on less.  Not true in all systems...seems to be a behavior that's endemic to low to middling system strength.  I've seen big juggernaut nor'easters with 2+" of liq equiv QPF lock in early but ...the dynamics/mechanics are overwhelming so they probably mute "model noise" at the powerful ' er end of the spectrum.

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19 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah honestly, mostly 2-4 or lots of 4-5 with a spot 6 wouldn't be surprising...either scenario is totally plausible. It's really the difference of 1 or 2 inches which can be found in both parts of the system. Front end burst overperforms...or maybe IVT later in the game overperforms. Or maybe they both underperform and it's lower end. 

 

You know ... not for not ... this is the first system this season that we'll make it back to back prior to the snow/gunk pack being eroded down to nothing.  

Yaaay!  We've sustained -

This winter is so focked... it's like trying to get as close to the event-horizon of futility without actually being compulsory to that unsavory gravity well. At least with futility ...there's a chagrin, shit eating charm if not honorable mention for having endured that journey, but we don't even get that...

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1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

12z RGEM with a jump north. That model blows. 

Yeah it's been bad this year. More than usual. It had a couple SWFE systems tracking into Watertown NY at 48h lead time only to end up over CHH....and now with this system it's been really far south. Finally comes back to most other guidance. 

 

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Just now, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah it's been bad this year. More than usual. It had a couple SWFE systems tracking into Watertown NY at 48h lead time only to end up over CHH....and now with this system it's been really far south. Finally comes back to most other guidance. 

 

Yeah, yeesh. Junk this year. The only thing that does it give me higher confidence of 2-4 at BOS. If GFS is a little juicier and euro holds maybe a 5 or 6 can't be ruled out. Some guidance like the RGEM does have a small CJ signal. 

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Just now, CoastalWx said:

There might be a period of decent growth, but we we lose the lift near the DGX, we'll lose the fluff. Maybe in the aftn as erly flow gets established and temps drop in the 950-900 level. 

Yeah I could see the stuff after 18z near the coast being good growth again. Get some low level IVT lift in that 900mb layer that drops to -10C. That's more than enough for dendrites in a salt nuclei environment. 

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