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6 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Boundary on the 0Z Nam is well south of 18z.  Takes away some of the waa options even though it will still hit se pa on the curve.

was just noticing that as well.  Notable tick s and less ridging.  Might still be ok, but was a step away from what we were hoping for.

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3 minutes ago, pasnownut said:

was just noticing that as well.  Notable tick s and less ridging.  Might still be ok, but was a step away from what we were hoping for.

Yep.  Too many reasons why this is not working when it is as easy as watching the 540 for WAA chances.    People saying it is over on the MA.  It is no different now than it was an hour ago.  They will still watch the models every 6 hours. 

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2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Yep.  Too many reasons why this is not working when it is as easy as watching the 540 for WAA chances.    People saying it is over on the MA.  It is no different now than it was an hour ago.  They will still watch the models every 6 hours. 

I think IMO the cold polar vortex took over and once that happened it didn’t lessen at all. I believe this is likely a S VA to NC event. Been through this many times I want to be wrong and might be. 

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5 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Yep.  Too many reasons why this is not working when it is as easy as watching the 540 for WAA chances.  

I'm not lookin for any forks yet, mind you, but it's sure not making this one easy for us. 

Hoping tomorrow the NS tells us a little better tale as to backside action and how it interacts w/ SLP.  

 IF we can get any stoppage of the souther stuff tonight, that'd be what I'd be watchin if I were staying up.

I'm headed to bed. Gnight gang.

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4 minutes ago, paweather said:

I think IMO the cold polar vortex took over and once that happened it didn’t lessen at all. I believe this is likely a S VA to NC event. Been through this many times I want to be wrong and might be. 

I hope the Icon has the boundary up just to see how people rationalize (not you or anyone here really.) 

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4 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I'm holding strong through 12z tomorrow. Then I'll reassess.

Not your first rodeo eh?

I'm on the ITT train and think tomorrows the big day (if we can eek some sorta comeback out).  Good news is that it wouldnt take much to get us back into somethin appreciable.

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8 minutes ago, canderson said:

I’m punting the midweek storm.  We lost the nam, the GFS is now an GA storm and ICON does not even have a storm. 

With the upcoming warmup winter will be over in a lot of people’s minds. Once March starts spring fever hits.  

Yeah been through so many times the PV takes control it doesn’t lose control. I am not punting yet but very likely a S VA NC storm. 

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1 hour ago, psuhoffman said:

I didn't see a lot of KU examples with this H5 progression...what seemed more common was messy multiple wave or disjointed storms like you just described.  The quote of mine above was in a back and forth with @Ji and not to be taken literally lol.  But I was and am arguing for the possibility this should be further north.  March 2017 was somewhat similar to this in terms of the H5 track but would have been way more amplified for the reasons you stated.

But what I didn't find were any examples of a h5 setup like this with a closed ULL back over the upper midwest tracking through PA that resulted in a big snowstorm 8"+ for Richmond or the Delmarva like guidance has been showing.  I couldn't find a single example.  I found a lot of messier storms further north and a few examples of a NC snowstorm from a SS wave that had no interaction with the NS but in those cases it ended up SOUTH of where guidance is now...I saw nothing that looked like this.  But I guess there can always be a first.  

But I do feel like if this remains as amplified as it is now, it makes more sense for the wave in the TN valley to be more amplified and the gulf wave less given the upper levels.  This would translate to a further north but not as amplified system into the mid atlantic IMO.  

The other option would be for this to keep trending south and match the analogs I found with a true southeast snowstorm under a displaced TPV sitting over the upper midwest.  Feb 1980 fits that but it was mostly NC up to VA beach with not a lot of snow north of there.  

I guess the strength of the cold air mass pressing with that displaced TPV isn’t something to be overlooked either with a large area of more than -30ºF below average in a big portion of the Central US and Lower Ohio Valley. That probably could be an argument the other way that the boundary that southern stream wave runs on ends up being further south in a more progressive/unphased scenario. Really wish we could’ve been able to build the big western ridge to amp this setup.

I still think the 500mb vort passage itself is going to generate a lighter snow event on it’s own, as there is likely to be some interaction.. even if it’s too late to draw in the coastal low. That does seem to have pretty solid model support across the board.. even with the more progressive and southeast solutions. That’s something where the finer details  won’t be modeled well until it’s solidly into the range of the meso stuff. 

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4 minutes ago, canderson said:

I’m punting the midweek storm.  We lost the nam, the GFS is now an GA storm and ICON does not even have a storm. 

With the upcoming warmup winter we  lol be over in a lot of people’s minds. Once March starts spring fever hits.  

Daytona 500 is over, so spring is around the corner. 13 Days till Meteorological Spring. 

Bout done wishing for snow storms. Never comes together for big storms in my area anymore. Always N S E and W of me. 

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The jet engine outside shaking my house successfully over took the sounds of my fan and air purifier to wake me and alert me to the fact that it is lightly snowing and a branch way down the street is hitting the power lines causing pretty blue arches as my power goes in and out.

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In the middle of a heavy snowband currently. I’m not sure how much snow has fallen from these bands tonight but the amount of blowing and drifting on the roads around here has made this the most impactful event of the season IMO. This has easily been an advisory caliber event with near blizzard conditions at times.

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32 minutes ago, pawatch said:

Well back after some time off, a couple deaths with people I knew and a severe cold laid me up.

25 degrees this morning. still windy…51 mph gust.
Appears I didn’t really miss much. Just a lot of ice with sleet.

 

 

Sorry about the deaths and sickness.  Tough combo.

 

Only 18 this am down this way.

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