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NYC/PHL Dec 26-27 Boxing Day Blizzard Part 8


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MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 2136

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

0556 AM CST SUN DEC 26 2010

AREAS AFFECTED...DE...NJ...EXTREME ERN PA...WRN LONG ISLAND...SERN

NY...SWRN CT

CONCERNING...HEAVY SNOW

VALID 261156Z - 261800Z

HEAVY SNOW WITH HOURLY RATES AROUND ONE INCH WILL DEVELOP NWD THIS

MORNING...REACHING DOVER DE/MILLVILLE NJ AROUND 15Z...CNTRL NJ AND

FAR ERN PA 15-18Z AND SERN NY...SWRN CT AND NYC AROUND 18Z. HIGHEST

PROBABILITY FOR THE HEAVIEST BANDS SHOULD EXIST IN A 30-40 MILE

CORRIDOR CENTERED FROM NEAR MILLVILLE NJ-POINT MIDWAY BETWEEN

LAKEHURST/TRENTON NJ-WHITE PLAINS NY THROUGH 21Z.

DAYBREAK SURFACE ANALYSIS REVEALED A DECIDEDLY WWD SHIFT IN MAX

PRESSURE FALLS OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS INTO ERN NC/SERN VA. THIS

COULD SIGNAL THAT THE DEVELOPING LOW WILL TRACK ALONG WRN ENVELOPE

OF SHORT-TERM GUIDANCE SOLUTIONS...PASSING JUST E OF HATTERAS AROUND

15Z THEN JUST EAST OF NORFOLK BY 18Z. THIS MAY HAVE IMPACTS ON

WHERE THE HEAVIER SNOWBANDS ULTIMATELY EVOLVE AND THE 03Z SREF

GUIDANCE SHOWING A SLIGHTLY WWD SHIFT OF HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES MAY

BE CORRECT.

TO FURTHER ENHANCE SNOWFALL RATES...RUC FORECAST SOUNDINGS AND

CROSS-SECTIONS INDICATE THAT BOTH SLANTWISE AND UPRIGHT CONVECTIVE

CHANCES WILL INCREASE BY MID-AFTERNOON. THIS MAY YIELD ISOLATED

THUNDERSTORMS/DEEPER CONVECTION AS THE LARGE-SCALE PV-ANOMALY

BECOMES COINCIDENT WITH THE FRONTOGENETIC BAND.

..RACY.. 12/26/2010

ATTN...WFO...BOX...OKX...ALY...PHI...

LAT...LON 38897474 38597510 38507531 38567559 38837562 39167556

39517551 39827540 40087529 40387516 40687496 40957476

41247445 41447419 41547390 41677352 41727318 41517268

41377253 41147252 40867261 40717288 40517331 40267371

39907399 39727408 38897474

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Thats what the radar looked like that storm, this one luckily is coming north.

Its amazing how similar it is.....its because generally a system that produces that sort of orientation is rare because its either well offshore or does what its doing now and thats all, but in this case the system is able to come up the coast.

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I just said this over in the main forum and it has be reiterated a gillion times by other knowledgable posters, but pressure fall maps don't tell you much aside from the fact that pressures are falling in a given location. It cannot accurately show where the LP center is (because by the time pressure is at its lowest pressure FALLS have slowed) and the movement is also nearly impossible to decipher, esp in a fluid situation such as this where the LP is going to be captured and pulled north or even NNW for a time.

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I just said this over in the main forum and it has be reiterated a gillion times by other knowledgable posters, but pressure fall maps don't tell you much aside from the fact that pressures are falling in a given location. It cannot accurately show where the LP center is (because by the time pressure is at its lowest pressure FALLS have slowed) and the movement is also nearly impossible to decipher, esp in a fluid situation such as this where the LP is going to be captured and pulled north or even NNW for a time.

THANK YOU!

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A careful look at the SREF and NAM to me indicate as the SUNY MM5 did last night as well as the SPC discussion that a mesoscale band is likely to setup around the Hudson River a la 06. Not necessarily the strength but the orientation.

And the NAM upped precip... I don't think that usually happens... on an on-hour run nonetheless.

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You can just tell but looking at the evolution of the radar where this is heading. the large scale banding is setting up and orientated SSW to NNE. Now it is a matter of how far east or west the SLP, 850 and 750 lows track and to what degree they stall or moving slowing east of NJ and south of LI. That will determine how far that band can back into us. The consenses is it settles in along eastern NJ to NYC Metro, LI and SE New England. The Deleware River may end up a critical line. All of NJ should end up 6-12" with the least potentially being in extreme western parts of northern NJ. Eastern PA probably also reaches warning level snows but this is more up in the air. Normally waking up and seeing this radar its a dissapointment but knowing the specifics of how this is expected to unfold it is pretty much all going according to plan. IMBY personally I expect ~8-12". Could I get into some of the better banding later this evening and tonight? I think so or at least on the edge of it. Of course with such intense banding being on the edge can also mean a much lighther area of snow over me. Probably will be some pretty signifcant gradients in the final accumulations. Jack pot probably somewhere from NE NJ SE NY SW CT to LI.

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Its amazing how similar it is.....its because generally a system that produces that sort of orientation is rare because its either well offshore or does what its doing now and thats all, but in this case the system is able to come up the coast.

Well...in 1989 did SPC have NYC highlighted for mesobands?:rolleyes:

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