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February 18/19th Storm Potential


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Just now, BTRWx's Thanks Giving said:

Our good snowstorms have the high positioned just north of Lake Ontario.  Both 3Km NAm and the 18Z euro don't show that.  KU 101

KU 101 also suggests that our KUs storms don't come from a +AO, +EPO, +NAO, and -PNA regime in a mod Nina. The fact that there's even an outside chance of getting close to warning level snows within a vicinity of the metros is pretty impressive here. 

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8 minutes ago, LP08 said:

Ugh.  You’re right and I’m an idiot. Point remains lol.

Naw on closer inspection he is right.  The center of the high looks to be around the Mt Royal district of Montreal, just west of McGill University.  Ideally, using a composite of all snowstorms, we would rather that be in the Old Montreal district along the river...maybe a block southeast of Notre-Dame Basilica.  

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1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

Naw on closer inspection he is right.  The center of the high looks to be around the Mt Royal district of Montreal, just west of McGill University.  Ideally, using a composite of all snowstorms, we would rather that be in the Old Montreal district along the river...maybe a block southeast of Notre-Dame Basilica.  

I laughed pretty good and also exactly what @Cobalt said.

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6 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Yep that is a hell of a betrayal. Matches everything else though.

It took your specific location from 6.5" to 4.5" on the Kuchera so not exactly a HUGE difference...and you are a local minimum between two meso bands which is not likely to be portrayed exactly accurate on a global at 48 hours out.  That said yea it was worse and put you in the split zone which given this season I totally get not wanting to see that.  

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1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

It took your specific location from 6.5" to 4.5" on the Kuchera so not exactly a HUGE difference...and you are a local minimum between two meso bands which is not likely to be portrayed exactly accurate on a global at 48 hours out.  That said yea it was worse and put you in the split zone which given this season I totally get not wanting to see that.  

These things always seem to go from something simple and workable to convoluted. The good front end thump is perfect for this set up with the legit cold/dry air in place initially. That idea seems all but gone. The regular GFS still has it though. I will probably have to kick it out of bed in a couple hours.

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11 minutes ago, CAPE said:

This is what it looked like at 12z lol.

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lol ok I see now...problem is the pivoltal maps are a LOT more conservative then those wxbell ones so its not a fair comp.  The 12z Pivotal only had you at 6.5" and its about 4.5 on 19z.  So yea a trend down...but not as extreme as it seems comparing a liberal 12z map to a conservative 18z one.  lol

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Just now, Baltimorewx said:

That’s actually fairly reasonable I think unlike his last couple from what I remember 

Was gonna say the same thing. Leaves room for movement either up or down. Where DT fails is he goes all in with big numbers and when that doesnt happen he loses once again. Nice map here though IMO. 

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1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

lol ok I see now...problem is the pivoltal maps are a LOT more conservative then those wxbell ones so its not a fair comp.  The 12z Pivotal only had you at 6.5" and its about 4.5 on 19z.  So yea a trend down...but not as extreme as it seems comparing a liberal 12z map to a conservative 18z one.  lol

None of these maps are ever good lol. Just looking at the thermals I know what I need here. Precip needs to come in fast and fall hard, and even then 2-4" is probably the best outcome before mixing. That has seemed like a reasonable expectation, but with these latest solutions implying an initial dry area, that wont work. Now we are seeing some potential on the backside on some guidance, but I don't trust that a bit given how the coastal looks to evolve. That will end up being little to nothing at this latitude.

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12 minutes ago, BTRWx's Thanks Giving said:

Our good snowstorms have the high positioned just north of Lake Ontario.  Both 3Km NAM and the 18Z euro don't show that.  KU 101

Ok... umm... so...AAAAHHHHHHH

Deep breaths, calm calm calm....count to 10....ok ready

1. The high is north of Ontario...it stretches across all of Ontario into southern Quebec and New England.  The exact to the fraction of a MB center of the high is irrelevant.  

2. Yes there are duel centers and one is a little east of where we might see the avg of all our HECS storms but... not all setups are the same.  This is NOT a HECS scenario.  We do not currently have any blocking.  Yes the extreme blocking we had kicked off the progression that got us to this point so I am not denying blocking had a lot to do with this threat...but at this moment there is none and without a high located in front of it, it would cut.  The high is kinda perfect for THIS setup...directly in the way of the axis of where the low wants to track.  Creating the resistance to the screaming SW to NE jet and forcing the storm to track further east then it would otherwise given the upper level flow.  


Not all setups are the same and you cannot apply generic rules to every snow scenario.  There are even some rare setups where we don't need a high at all...like in the case of a boundary wave along an arctic front or an inverted trough setup.  You have to analyze the physics of each specific synoptic setup individually.  

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