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February 24/25 Potential Winter Storm


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30 minutes ago, romba said:

This overall looks pretty significant regarding activities impacted, but hard to get a read in here...is this a grass and cartopper event for the front end and nudge and sleet, or can I assume roads will be heavily impacted where the models show a bit of snow followed by lots of sleet?

With temps below 32F before the event starts, for most (at least north of the Raritan/202), any snow/sleet that fall should accumulate, especially at night.  Also, from an impact perspective, 1" of sleet has the same frozen mass as 3" of snow, meaning it will be just as hard to drive in (apart from not having visibility issues) and remove, so I would expect significant travel impacts for anywhere that gets at least 1" of sleet (and then maybe up to 0.1" of freezing rain) - and with temps for most of NYC metro not getting above 32F until 7-9 am, the rush hour could be impacted significantly.  

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Just now, HVSnowLover said:

Wow people really hate this event lol. I really don't think its that bad to get sleet.  

Snow or bust for them. I'm with you, sleet is a pain to clear out and while I clearly enjoy it less than snow I definitely appreciate it more than cold rain (unless I have somewhere I need to be)

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The ely component llvl flow will aid in changing LI and NYC to rain
during the day on Fri. A significant concern on the mesoscale is
whether a strong cstl front develops, particularly with low pres
deepening s of LI, allowing winds to stay backed more to the n,
locking in the cold air at least at the sfc. Unless there is a big
change in track however, the mid lvls should warm up enough for a
changeover from snow for all of the area.

A Winter Storm Watch has been issued for the nrn tier for roughly 4-
8 inches of snow. Elsewhere, the event looks advy lvl, but there is
some wiggle room if the storm tracks a little further south.  Will
include the non-watch areas in the hwo for now. The amount of
icing/sleet looks to remain blw warning lvls regardless of any
change in track or the cstl front, so the main challenge for
headlines is how much snow falls on the front end. In addition,
parts of LI, especially the forks, could forgo most of the sleet and
fzra and go directly over to rain with the ely flow off the ocean
warming the bl.

 

spot check guidance   :nerdsmiley:

 

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3 minutes ago, HeadInTheClouds said:

Nam is off it's rocker. It gives Albany 4 inches. Yeah ok. 

NAM is still synoptically very different from other guidance...it is tracking that vortmax NORTH of Lake Ontario....nevermind over it.

If it is wrong with that, then it's going to bust too warm. It's not "Sniffing out a warm layer" like we sometimes see in these events when they all agree on the synoptics. The NAM is literally about 75-100 miles north of other guidance on the vort track and that makes a huge difference.

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I teach, and I hear a lot of co-workers convinced we're getting a big one from reading TWC and Accuweather.  We're in central Sussex County, NJ, so I guess it could go either way.  Campus here sits in a bit of a geographic bowl, so I've seen colder air get trapped here, whereas two miles up the road it's 5 degrees warmer.

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