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


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FOR NYC/ Western Nass cnty, will this be a straight duration or will there be lulls where precip lightens up from time to time?

What are the QPF in total for JFK which I'm about 5 miles NE of?

i wouldnt expect a lull where precip stops jus a peak of the heaviest snow and snow bands between 4ppm and 4am. 12z nam has qpf for most of bklyn/li in the 1.50(+) range

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Latest RUC continues to put the storm about 50 miles west of the NAM with the heaviest banding over Eastern PA instead of Eastern NJ. Interesting. This would tend to match up with the latest Mesoscale analysis from the Storm Prediction Center.

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.

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Look at zoomed in image. Thats the 1.75"-2" shade over most of NYC.

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Thanks for the zoom in! The 1.50 - 1.75 and 1.75 - 2.00 colors are so close. Anyway still 1.50(+) but your right looks like a blob of the higher 1.75(+). More a signal than anything. Looks good. reminds me of Dec 30 2000

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Just from personal expericence....the best accumulations tend to occur just west of the city into the higer terrain. Even if the heaviest banding stays over the city and immediate coast places like West Milford will likely get more than Jersey City thanks to the higher snow ratios. Bottom line is this will be a widespread 1-2' event east of the DE river. 12"+ west of the DE with locally higher amounts possible everywhere.

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Verbatim, that breaks the record with 15:1 ratios in NYC.

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Latest RUC continues to put the storm about 50 miles west of the NAM with the heaviest banding over Eastern PA instead of Eastern NJ. Interesting. This would tend to match up with the latest Mesoscale analysis from the Storm Prediction Center.

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.

Would this change accumulations in the Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania?

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12Z NAM tightened the gradient on the western edge significantly. Upped total for me. I still hate being on that gradient, but at least I seem to be on the good side of it.

I don't like being on the gradient either, but models seem to be converging on about 1''-1.25'' of QPF for our area, so I think 12-15 inches is a reasonable call at this point. Agreed?

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PHL 0.76

PTW 0.41

ABE 0.39

NXX 0.75

TTN 1.03

ACY 1.34

HPN 1.67"

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Always true....I mentioned this yesterday. West Milford in particular

Just from personal expericence....the best accumulations tend to occur just west of the city into the higer terrain. Even if the heaviest banding stays over the city and immediate coast places like West Milford will likely get more than Jersey City thanks to the higher snow ratios. Bottom line is this will be a widespread 1-2' event east of the DE river. 12"+ west of the DE with locally higher amounts possible everywhere.

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Dramatically, if it is correct. That is a big if, but who knows. There was a low that developed a couple of weeks ago just off the NJ coast that was not modeled at all and dropped 3 inches of snow on parts of Long Island and Connecticut. Maybe this one will follow a similar track. Who knows.

Would this change accumulations in the Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania?

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Latest RUC continues to put the storm about 50 miles west of the NAM with the heaviest banding over Eastern PA instead of Eastern NJ. Interesting. This would tend to match up with the latest Mesoscale analysis from the Storm Prediction Center.

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.

This will prove to be make or break for eastern PA, Philly Burbs up to LHV and up to Scranton.

If this thing tracks even 30 miles west of the forecasted guidance, it impacts literally 6 million more people.

What a pressure cooker of a situation!

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Pushing north in the last 90 mins

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Pushing north, yes, but dry air N & W of the big cities appears to be inhibiting any expansion west. Snow reaching Long Island before Philadelphia does not appear to be a good sign for most folks in SE PA, IMO.

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The models have been spitting out much higher ratios than that. Also the intensity of the precip has nothing to do with the ratios.

BUFKIT-based and model-based soundings were awful with ratios last winter. The three big storms in Philly averaged about 11:1 while BUFKIT was drumming up 15:1 in one of the storms, 14:1 average in another.

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