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1/19 - The Weekend Roulette Wheel Thing


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1 minute ago, CAPE said:

Seems odd to worry about liquid given your location and the fact this wave is moving along an Arctic boundary pushing southeastward. Some recent trends make it a potential issue for us eastern folks. I am way over worrying about things I have no control over. Whatever happens, happens. 

It is odd to worry about liquid, but he is who he is. Everyone needs to understand that.

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26 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Seems odd to worry about liquid given your location and the fact this wave is moving along an Arctic boundary pushing southeastward. Some recent trends make it a potential issue for us eastern folks. I am way over worrying about things I have no control over. Whatever happens, happens. 

LOL ok maybe "worry" wasn't the best choice of words... I will be totally fine and move on with my life regardless of what happens Sunday...well at least wrt snowfall, if the Eagles lose I'm gonna be a pretty miserable mess for a couple days at least.  

But what I meant was... I want to jack, don't we all? and if I am ranking what is the most likely reason I don't....between the likely options...a weak POS wave, a wave that slides SE of me, or a more amplified wave that shifts the heaviest snow to my NW...that last one is the most likely IMO.  

This is not just based on models right now...yea right now it seems I am in a really good spot.  But I am including my experiences...these types of progressive waves with absolutely no blocking over the top have nothing to stop a north trend.  When they don't trend north its often some NS wave over the top, but I don't see that right now.  There have been quite a few examples over the last 10 years where at 72 hours the jack zone was south of me, then come gametime I ended up with like 2-3" and the 6" plus totals were to my NW in central PA.  It happened once just last winter in February!  It happened in February and April 2018, it happened with a wave in Feb 2017!  It happened with a wave in early Feb 2014, although I think my area held on to like 6" but the 10" totals ended up north when 72 hours out it looked like a VA jack!  

Point is, history suggests there is plenty of time for this to end up NW of me even though right now it looks like the consensus is south of me for the heaviest snow.  And yes this is first world problems and unlikely to get any sympathy from anyone in here because I would still likely do better than the rest of this forum, many of those examples I gave I still managed to get like 2-3" but the really heavy snow ended up north of me...but of course that meant most in here got all rain lol.   So no I don't expect any tears and I wont be that upset or throw a fit if it happens...but of course I want to get 6" of snow...and yes I think someone will with this...but my guess right now honestly if you forced me to say where the 6" snowfall area is...is it will be up in PA somewhere.  

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Ya'll should know by now its a good thing if I am "worried".  That means we have a chance at a significant snow.  I don't worry when there is no chance.  I don't worry if our max potential is some 2-3" event.  I wasn't worried about last weekend because who cares if a 1-2" snow fails.  And I don't worry if I don't expect it to snow...if I know its likely going to fail I move on.  I worry when we have a real chance at a significant snow...because if it fails that hurts more.  My worrying is a sign we have a chance at a good snowstorm.  

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10 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

LOL ok maybe "worry" wasn't the best choice of words... I will be totally fine and move on with my life regardless of what happens Sunday...well at least wrt snowfall, if the Eagles lose I'm gonna be a pretty miserable mess for a couple days at least.  

But what I meant was... I want to jack, don't we all? and if I am ranking what is the most likely reason I don't....between the likely options...a weak POS wave, a wave that slides SE of me, or a more amplified wave that shifts the heaviest snow to my NW...that last one is the most likely IMO.  

This is not just based on models right now...yea right now it seems I am in a really good spot.  But I am including my experiences...these types of progressive waves with absolutely no blocking over the top have nothing to stop a north trend.  When they don't trend north its often some NS wave over the top, but I don't see that right now.  There have been quite a few examples over the last 10 years where at 72 hours the jack zone was south of me, then come gametime I ended up with like 2-3" and the 6" plus totals were to my NW in central PA.  It happened once just last winter in February!  It happened in February and April 2018, it happened with a wave in Feb 2017!  It happened with a wave in early Feb 2014, although I think my area held on to like 6" but the 10" totals ended up north when 72 hours out it looked like a VA jack!  

Point is, history suggests there is plenty of time for this to end up NW of me even though right now it looks like the consensus is south of me for the heaviest snow.  And yes this is first world problems and unlikely to get any sympathy from anyone in here because I would still likely do better than the rest of this forum, many of those examples I gave I still managed to get like 2-3" but the really heavy snow ended up north of me...but of course that meant most in here got all rain lol.   So no I don't expect any tears and I wont be that upset or throw a fit if it happens...but of course I want to get 6" of snow...and yes I think someone will with this...but my guess right now honestly if you forced me to say where the 6" snowfall area is...is it will be up in PA somewhere.  

I think I am past that with the Ravens after the AFC championship last year. Buffalo will be tough, the weather will be bitter and probably windy. If they lose playing 'their game' and don't make a bunch of mistakes and give it away, I will be ok with it. I'll root for the Bills to beat the Chiefs, who have become pretty damn annoying.

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12 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

LOL ok maybe "worry" wasn't the best choice of words... I will be totally fine and move on with my life regardless of what happens Sunday...well at least wrt snowfall, if the Eagles lose I'm gonna be a pretty miserable mess for a couple days at least.  

But what I meant was... I want to jack, don't we all? and if I am ranking what is the most likely reason I don't....between the likely options...a weak POS wave, a wave that slides SE of me, or a more amplified wave that shifts the heaviest snow to my NW...that last one is the most likely IMO.  

This is not just based on models right now...yea right now it seems I am in a really good spot.  But I am including my experiences...these types of progressive waves with absolutely no blocking over the top have nothing to stop a north trend.  When they don't trend north its often some NS wave over the top, but I don't see that right now.  There have been quite a few examples over the last 10 years where at 72 hours the jack zone was south of me, then come gametime I ended up with like 2-3" and the 6" plus totals were to my NW in central PA.  It happened once just last winter in February!  It happened in February and April 2018, it happened with a wave in Feb 2017!  It happened with a wave in early Feb 2014, although I think my area held on to like 6" but the 10" totals ended up north when 72 hours out it looked like a VA jack!  

Point is, history suggests there is plenty of time for this to end up NW of me even though right now it looks like the consensus is south of me for the heaviest snow.  And yes this is first world problems and unlikely to get any sympathy from anyone in here because I would still likely do better than the rest of this forum, many of those examples I gave I still managed to get like 2-3" but the really heavy snow ended up north of me...but of course that meant most in here got all rain lol.   So no I don't expect any tears and I wont be that upset or throw a fit if it happens...but of course I want to get 6" of snow...and yes I think someone will with this...but my guess right now honestly if you forced me to say where the 6" snowfall area is...is it will be up in PA somewhere.  

Devil's advocate. One thing that might keep the NW trend to a minimum is the PV pressing SEward and less wave spacing between the sunday system and the preceding low. How far and how strongly the sfc flow is and the PV press is will determine the ultimate track. But if this cold PV is as strong as depicted, I don't think there's a whole lot of room to trend NW.

 

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43 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

Yea but that sounding only is valid if the GFS is correct about the track. If the wave trends more amplified and NW it will shift the thermals with it. 

Thank you!  That makes sense.  Like the CMC here is a more amped solution, hence more NW.  I dont have soundings on the CMC but I would bet that it is a closer call.  

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15 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

Devil's advocate. One thing that might keep the NW trend to a minimum is the PV pressing SEward and less wave spacing between the sunday system and the preceding low. How far and how strongly the sfc flow is and the PV press is will determine the ultimate track. But if this cold PV is as strong as depicted, I don't think there's a whole lot of room to trend NW.

 

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All good points...and I don't think it trends so far that we end up totally skunked...I doubt this ends up some Pittsburg to Binghamton jack or something... but right now 95 is pretty much the bullseye, and if I had to bet which way it ends up missing if it does...its NW not SE.  But its just a guess based on what happens "more often".  Nothing is universal and this could even shift southeast and it wouldnt shock me, if the PV trends further south in future runs.  

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10 minutes ago, MDScienceTeacher said:

Thank you!  That makes sense.  Like the CMC here is a more amped solution, hence more NW.  I dont have soundings on the CMC but I would bet that it is a closer call.  

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You can just click on the map to see them.  But I wouldn’t be sweating the thermals from the most amped model at this time.  If the models converge on a solution like this then yeah we’ll be parsing them in detail. 

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