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December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas


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3 minutes ago, Cyclone-68 said:

What’s worse? The ?"mediocre"? pattern or Lucy pulling the football away once we get inside three days of a “threat”?

First of all, ... replace that adjective above with something more realistically descriptive ... something like, oh say - brain's blasted out the back of skulls.

Secondly, not sure how we can disconnect the latter sentiment from the brain's blow-out model, when the latter is entirely caused by the blown out brains.

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2 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Not feeling great about it here lol

I mean, 0.05 QPF in either direction will make a big deal…lol…difference between going from maybe an inch to a dusting or flakes to getting 2” of fluff. It’s a crappy little clipper that would probably get about 5 posts if it weren’t Xmas Eve. 

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2 minutes ago, WeatherWilly said:

It's depressing honestly to look at the long range forecast and not even see 3 straight days where temps stay below 40. Just the reality of climate change. Going to be a struggle all winter to get enough cold for decent snow.

That would be BN (three straight days under 40) for PYM so it's not a surprise to see that. 

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GYX's take on the Saturday-Sunday event.

Overall models continue to struggle in the mid range due at least in
part to the transition from ridging to troughing across New England.
The GFS has been consistent for several runs with a more robust
system for late Saturday and Sunday, while the Euro has had almost
nothing across New England. However, the latest 00z run of the Euro
and the Euro ensembles show a dramatic shift from earlier thinking
toward the GFS/GEFS solutions. Meanwhile, the GFS remains consistent
with the system overall, but has trended even stronger and slightly
farther north with it.

The overall driving force for this system derives from two short
waves approaching New England, and how much they merge with each
other before moving out to sea. The latest model runs are in better
agreement in a faster second wave merging and amplifying across New
England. With this solution, it`s possible that light precipitation
with the first shortwave could break out across southern and western
areas by Saturday morning, with precip intensity increasing late
Saturday and Saturday night as the system amplifies. It`s possible
there wouldn`t be much of a break in the precip through the event if
the waves merge quickly enough.

This is a dramatic shift in the model consensus for a system
that`s only 2.5-3.5 days away. With this forecast we raised POPs
from the NBM solution to a mid to high chance for most areas,
with southern and western areas seeing a greater chance on
Saturday, while northern areas hold off until Saturday night and
Sunday. We held off on going higher on POPs to give time to
make sure this early morning`s runs aren`t just a blip.
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6 minutes ago, WeatherWilly said:

It's depressing honestly to look at the long range forecast and not even see 3 straight days where temps stay below 40. Just the reality of climate change. Going to be a struggle all winter to get enough cold for decent snow.

There’s going to be record cold out west. We would’ve been above 40° in 1717 as well.

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9 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

What a NWP disaster. That’s not even close and it’s a 60-72 hour prog. 

we should put up a betting pool... Can you imagine the pay-out if 1 person in the 15,000 users put a 100 down the Jet's to win the blizzard bowl and they did ...?

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Although climate change is having an impact on weather patterns, I think we're putting way too much emphasis on what's happening right now in relation to climate change. There are also things that will happen regardless of climate change. Things have happened a hundred years ago where we've gotten a warmer pattern and I'm sure not much of any snow. Case in point, look at the West right now. Very cold and a lot of snow, and they've been in that pattern for a while.. So we can and will get episodes or stretches like that too. It may still happen this year ( and may not ). The point is, we will get a snowy and cold winter again. They're not dead and gone.

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2 minutes ago, Snowcrazed71 said:

Although climate change is having an impact on weather patterns, I think we're putting way too much emphasis on what's happening right now in relation to climate change. There are also things that will happen regardless of climate change. Things have happened a hundred years ago where we've gotten a warmer pattern and I'm sure not much of any snow. Case in point, look at the West right now. Very cold and a lot of snow, and they've been in that pattern for a while.. So we can and will get episodes or stretches like that too. It may still happen this year ( and may not ). The point is, we will get a snowy and cold winter again. They're not dead and gone.

It’s a massive negative PNA. Period.

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1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

It’s a massive negative PNA. Period.

Lol at all the posts waxing poetic about no more cold/snow. Most people probably don’t even realize that 2018-2019 was actually below normal temps….nevermind years like 2014-2015 or 2013-2014

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"Weather" the current circulation mode of the hemisphere is relatable to CC ... it is, first of all.  Because climate change happens because of changes in weather event distribution - to which what is happening now .... IS WEATHER EVENT DISTRIBUTION.

It gets old trying to run from climate change behind the mantra that climate doesn't drive the weather.   It doesn't ?  but that's evasive, really.   Because it means the weather events that integrate the climate, are changing.

That's just logic.  You can't have a warming climate, without changes in the circulation modes .. .because the circulation modes are driving the weather that averages the f'ing climate!

Having said that ... it's not why it is not snowing right now.

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5 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Lol at all the posts waxing poetic about no more cold/snow. Most people probably don’t even realize that 2018-2019 was actually below normal temps….nevermind years like 2014-2015 or 2013-2014

If we are using warming temps, I’m sure the folks freezing their ass off in the Pacific Northwest will appreciate that over the next two weeks.

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