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March 13-14th Nor'easter Threat


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7 minutes ago, Jaguars said:

NAM looks like emoji2781.png


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Expect rain and be happy if it turns into something more. The inverted trough is ruining it (which causes that low reflection near NJ) like the other runs/models. That needs to go away for the NYC area to see anything other than a washout.

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8 minutes ago, Winterweatherlover said:

The snow does come on the backend but not much on this run. 

If we get wraparound mood snow for a while it likely wouldn't accumulate if it's battling 34-35 degree temps and March sun. We would optimally want it to happen at night, and the low to bomb earlier and form a CCB over us so we get the benefit of heavy rates and cold air from the crashing heights. 

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4 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

If we get wraparound mood snow for a while it likely wouldn't accumulate if it's battling 34-35 degree temps and March sun. We would optimally want it to happen at night, and the low to bomb earlier and form a CCB over us so we get the benefit of heavy rates and cold air from the crashing heights. 

Yea honestly none of that is happening imo barring huge changes. The best we can hope for is back end snow. 

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22 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Expect rain and be happy if it turns into something more. The inverted trough is ruining it (which causes that low reflection near NJ) like the other runs/models. That needs to go away for the NYC area to see anything other than a washout.

Ah so that snow on Tuesday showing up is from a norlun feature and not the actual storm? Then it’s most likely not going to happen. 

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12 minutes ago, anthonyweather said:


Kuchera relays the actual ratios that may fall, in this case probably 6:1-8:1 as it’s a wet heavy snow. 10:1 maps will be over inflated


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Kuchera is an awful algorithm, though and often quite wrong, especially in moderate to heavy snowfall rate scenarios, where the ratios are largely set by the crystal formation in the DGZ, which can be fantastic regardless of the warmest temp in the column, which is the only variable Kuchera looks at - and assumes ratios get lower when that temp is above 32F, regardless of where in the column.  So one could have fantastic growth rates/high ratio snow falling and Kuchera might still calculate a low ratio if the surface is at 34F, which is nonsense, since the surface goes from 34F to 32F once rates exceed melting and a frozen layer is established on the ground.  Wrote a far longer post on Kuchera's suckage a couple of years ago - might try to dig it up.  Having said all that, with modest to low rates and surface temps above 32F, Kuchera is better than 10:1 for guesstimating accumulation, but I also like the 10:1 maps, since they indirectly also always provide the QPF, whereas Kuchera doesn't.  

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1 minute ago, Winterweatherlover said:

Hey I’m fairly optimistic for the I84 crew. At least someone in the subforum will get a nice storm finally. 

How can u be so confident? The euro just showed 8" in the city.. these models are all over the place.  Complex system.  I don't think they'll have it figured out till tommor night 

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