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Monitoring a potential important TV to East Coastal storm: Jan 17


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Spirit of commiseration:  ...  -1 was the low, now 38 with melting snow. 

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...I dunno. Maybe this is another in the countless micro nuanced examples of CC at work.  Like, 110 mph pushed fire storms on Dec 30 in Colorado. I guess that's bigger than a nuance though.   But today for my location, this is the biggest diurnal change observed between last spring ... thru the summer and fall.  Usually at this time of year ..that sort of diurnal change is forced by warm boundary passage.   But this is doing it in open dry air, without a boundary - at least according to WPC. 

That's an example of a 'nuance' in this sense.  Weird little oddities that don't matter, but there are multitudes ...countless, happening all around. It's like not usual, but not typical, happening a lot. 

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It's easier to accept when you don't have a dog in the fight. Emotions will always dictate some of the responses. Imagine for one moment the region gets back-to-back KU's, MBY has 3' of snow on the ground and still not satisfied.
Still a long way to go before critiquing an outcome that is least wrong in the end. Analysis of reason is lacking. Just a personal observation.      

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25 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I can agree that ensembles may be rather useless in this sense. Maybe this sort of logic can be applied to every storm but in the sense of this event ensemble means and individuals and their outputs really aren't going to tell us something we can't figure out on our own. Each solution/output is essentially tied into the evolution of the upper-levels. 

You can have 48/48 (whatever the number is) ensembles all show a track through the Hudson Valley...now something like that may yield extremely high confidence in such a scenario unfolding but that probably wouldn't be the case here. That is essentially tied into how the model is evolving the upper-levels. The next set of ensembles could go in the entirely opposite direction if the evolution is handled differently. 

All in all IMO ensembles really aren't going to tell us something we can't figure out by applying science/meteorology 

Obviously the present "attitude" toward ens' is rooted when/where the members don't happen to show an alternate solution that is consistent with what people want to see - preferably, and important storm that is more snow than rain.  Not complicated

*However*, lacking an alternate eye-candy, that may simply be an artifact of there not - at present ... - being a physically available solution in that space.  I think I was miss-interpreting the sentiment not just by him, but shared elsewhere, that they were more "technically" less than useful. Lol. 

- he said he's just frustrated.

We know we're capable of rationality - but ... this is an important storm, but folks were sort of invested - I suspect - in the snowier ideas, because the runs two days ago had that? So, we decide to commit to a thread...  It's far more success in forecasting for that alone, but unfortunately, these sort of vicissitudes come with the territory.  It's like what Scott said many pages back - going to the casino is a sure bet, not what goes on there. Wah wah wahhh. 

There's that ole aspect of this particular forum culture being pretty singularly guided by snowfall expectations.. Just gotta know the audience and roll with it. So, it's understandable.  A low going from the the Del Marva ... west of Albany is going to yank some chains.   

But as long we're on the subject... I really hope we break out of this winter mid next month...  I have been contemplating at times, how we've had like ho man ... 5 separate occurrence of warm anomalies in Febs and Mars, over the last 6 or so years, where temps were 70 to 85. Not a single afternoon either. They were book ended by some 3 to 5 day stints of +15 total departure days.  I'm wondering if one of these years instead of the door cracking open, it opens all way and stays that way.  And just have 10 month summer ( expressively speaking...).  There's a minority of us in here that would think that would be really interesting..

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2 hours ago, MJO812 said:

 

Insane how the models then show a rainstorm at night. Weather is amazing.

 

Here’s Berlin for that Jan 99 storm that had freezing rain in the valleys of central PA with temps in the single digits and a transition to SN-ice-RA up here. Before the storm there was a shallow arctic airmass that bled in and NNE cleared out and radiated into the -30s and -40s. Anyway, here’s an ob from BML from that cold morning…-35°F here.

BML,1999-01-14 11:52,KBML 141152Z AUTO 00000KT 6SM HZ CLR M37/ A3072 RMK AO2 SLP454 70014 T1372 11300 21372 53021

Then 35hrs later, after many inches of snow, and then sleet, and then ZR…it transitioned to all rain. 35°F and mod rain here.

BML,1999-01-15 22:52,KBML 152252Z AUTO 36006KT 5SM RA BR BKN012 BKN017 OVC023 02/01 A2949 RMK AO2 PRESFR SLP005 P0007 T00170006

So it warmed up 70 degrees in 35hrs and eventually poured. Sometimes, warm air don’t care.

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6 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Obviously the present "attitude" toward ens' is rooted when/where the members don't happen to show an alternate solution that is consistent with what people want to see - preferably, and important storm that is more snow than rain.  Not complicated

*However*, lacking an alternate eye-candy, that may simply be an artifact of there not - at present ... - being a physically available solution in that space.  I think I was miss-interpreting the sentiment not just by him, but shared elsewhere, that they were more "technically" less than useful. Lol. 

- he said he's just frustrated.

We know we're capable of rationality - but ... this is an important storm, but folks were sort of invested - I suspect - in the snowier ideas, because the runs two days ago had that? So, we decide to commit to a thread...  It's far more success in forecasting for that alone, but unfortunately, these sort of vicissitudes come with the territory.  It's like what Scott said many pages back - going to the casino is a sure bet, not what goes on there. Wah wah wahhh. 

There's that ole aspect of this particular forum culture being pretty singularly guided by snowfall expectations.. Just gotta know the audience and roll with it. So, it's understandable.  A low going from the the Del Marva ... west of Albany is going to yank some chains.   

But as long we're on the subject... I really hope we break out of this winter mid next month...  I have been contemplating at times, how we've had like ho man ... 5 separate occurrence of warm anomalies in Febs and Mars, over the last 6 or so years, where temps were 70 to 85. Not a single afternoon either. They were book ended by some 3 to 5 day stints of +15 total departure days.  I'm wondering if one of these years instead of the door cracking open, it opens all way and stays that way.  And just have 10 month summer ( expressively speaking...).  There's a minority of us in here that would think that would be really interesting..

No, the fact that they did, and then inexorably marched towards the OP for the past two days. If the ens had matched the OP from the get-go, it would have been an easy call to not invest.

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2 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I dunno’ I am with @Ginx snewx on this one, I think a track over Boston is more likely than a track over Albany.

I do, too, but I honestly don't think that changes much for me...it will end up a colder rain and maybe 2-3" more of snow.

The fun look is dead.

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