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28 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

The NAO chart is suspect.

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Here's the GEFS forecast from NCEP:

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On the official site, not a single member of the GEFS forecasts an NAO value near -2.000 by February 15.

Also, for February 2010, the NAO was at or below -1.000 on 14/28 (50%) days and < 0 on all 28 days. That is not going to be the case this February. The NAO's preliminary values for February 1 and 2 are +1.269 and +1.535. A February 2010 NAO scenario is not on the table.

Don, are the Euro HIRES and EPS nao projections accurate though, they have the NAO around -2  to even -3 (EPS) by the 15th also (between the 11th and the 17th)..... the Euro AI drops it down even lower than that all the way down to -5.

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1 hour ago, Yanksfan said:

In an alternate universe I would have loved to see March 2001 having lived up to its full potential. I’ll never forget the forecast write up from the NWS a few days before the big bust occurred. Downright ominous.

Never saw a flake; just some light sleet. And that's when I learned that for my area, never expect a big one in March. Hasn't happened in my liftetime; however, you can get decent storms of 6-10 inches. Which is about the most this old guy can handle anyway. My friend just drove out to MI; there was a lot of snow cover through OH.

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1 minute ago, weatherpruf said:

Never saw a flake; just some light sleet. And that's when I learned that for my area, never expect a big one in March. Hasn't happened in my liftetime; however, you can get decent storms of 6-10 inches. Which is about the most this old guy can handle anyway. My friend just drove out to MI; there was a lot of snow cover through OH.

OH did very well last month with the flow around the block and persistent systems tracking south of them 

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21 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Don, are the Euro HIRES and EPS nao projections accurate though, they have the NAO around -2  to even -3 (EPS) by the 15th also (between the 11th and the 17th)..... the Euro AI drops it down even lower than that all the way down to -5.

I only have vendor information. The ECMWF does not post teleconnection charts, so I can't verify whether a similar issue exists. The AI number is all but certain to be wrong. The record low value for the NAO is -3.254.

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5 minutes ago, cleetussnow said:

The earliest chance of siggy snow is LR per usual.  

We're seeing the usual trend north on the Wed event since it's a SWFE and no resistance to the north. Super Bowl weekend storm looks maybe slightly better but again a SWFE, no blocking to the north to force a southern track so it once again favors New England. Some cold air to start on the weekend event but without an overrunning high N of us it gets quickly scoured out, and there might not be much precip out ahead of the storm in the cold preceding air. The high is centered east of us which drives in southerly winds. 

I'm not big on either of these two upcoming events as you can tell, at least I-84 south. Maybe if this blocking mid-month really happens and we get some amplification to prevent everything getting crushed south like in Jan something can work. Until then zzzzzzz and carry the umbrella.

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2 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

We're seeing the usual trend north on the Wed event since it's a SWFE and no resistance to the north. Super Bowl weekend storm looks maybe slightly better but again a SWFE, no blocking to the north to force a southern track so it once again favors New England. Some cold air to start on the weekend event but without an overrunning high N of us it gets quickly scoured out, and there might not be much precip out ahead of the storm in the cold preceding air. The high is centered east of us which drives in southerly winds. 

I'm not big on either of these two upcoming events as you can tell, at least I-84 south. Maybe if this blocking mid-month really happens and we get some amplification to prevent everything getting crushed south like in Jan something can work. Until then zzzzzzz and carry the umbrella.

This is a depressing post considering the afternoon guidance 

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