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NYC Jan 11-12 Miller B Thread Part 2


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There's going to be wind. Question is how strong they gust consistently for a 3 hour duration.

They actually might have to for Suffolk County at some point. I was reading that the wind gusts will be peaking in the 30mph range over NYC, 40mph over Nassau and 50 mph over Suffolk.

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14 to 20 has high bust potential when 2 global models, GFS and Euro both have under .75" of QPF in NYC. I know people say discount the GFS in this type of storm and all that but when you have that kind of sharp gradient theres always someone who is going to get screwed

I'm just using this particular post as an example, but it appears that most of the non-Met predictions here are disregarding the high resolution models in favor of the Euro/GFS...most seem to be forecasting between 6 and 10" for NYC, what is the reasoning behind this? I'm actually quite bullish going with 14-20" for the boroughs from west to east respectively.

I'm not criticizing anyone just curious as to people's reasoning.

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Seems the NWS always goes conservative and then raises totals as the storm is already ongoing. With the Boxing day storm, Oakland went from 16.0" to 27.0" in less than a 12 hr period. I don't see the point in always underforecasting the totals and always playing things conservative. I wish some of the NWS mets that frequent this site would comment on here as to how they arrived with these forecast totals.

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There's going to be wind. Question is how strong they gust consistently for a 3 hour duration.

Well that and the visibility and can they verify it.

Do you agree with their decision to get rid of heavy snow warnings? I think there is a difference in inconveniences between 6 inches of snow and a foot of snow.... let alone two feet lol. The latter can be life threatening.

There was a bit of a watch/warning/advisory consolidation several years ago, so the heavy snow warning ultimately didn't last very long, but it was by no means the only one they got rid of. From the NWS perspective it's probably confusing to the public as a lot of them do sound similar. I'm not sure heavy snow warning conveyed any more useful information to the public than a winter storm warning since you still need to read the forecast or warning to see what kind of snow was coming.

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I don't think I can remember seeing anything look like that before.

they've had higher forecasted totals before but usually once the storm develops and they see where the banding takes place.. they will probably update this map 4 or 5 more times from now through midday tomorrow.. but this is the highest ive evern seen upton forecast before the storm starts.

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Upton

WILL GO AHEAD AND INCREASE SNOW AMOUNTS TO 18-24" ACROSS

CT AND MAINLY SUFFOLK COUNTY ON LONG ISLAND. NASSAU COUNTY LOOKS

TO STAY IN A 12-18" INCH RANGE...BUT THE GRADIENT WILL BE VERY

TIGHT... AND EVEN A 30 MILE SHIFT WEST IN THE BANDS COULD RESULT

IN WIDESPREAD HEAVY SNOW NOSING INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF NYC.

wowzers...

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Updated WSW for NE NJ and the 5 boroughs

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY

245 PM EST TUE JAN 11 2011

...WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE AREA TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...

NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ072>075-176-178-120400-

/O.CON.KOKX.WS.W.0002.110112T0000Z-110112T2300Z/

WESTERN PASSAIC-EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN-

EASTERN BERGEN-WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION-

EASTERN UNION-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX-RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-

KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN QUEENS-

245 PM EST TUE JAN 11 2011

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING

TO 6 PM EST WEDNESDAY...

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING

TO 6 PM EST WEDNESDAY.

* LOCATIONS...NEW YORK CITY...AND NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY.

* HAZARDS...SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES.

* ACCUMULATIONS...8 TO 12 INCHES...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS

POSSIBLE.

* WINDS...GUSTS 20 TO 25 MPH.

* VISIBILITIES...LESS THAN 1/4 MILE AT TIMES.

* TIMING...HEAVIEST SNOW OCCURS AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH

DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY.

* IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL

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They actually might have to for Suffolk County at some point. I was reading that the wind gusts will be peaking in the 30mph range over NYC, 40mph over Nassau and 50 mph over Suffolk.

I forecast for a hockey forum-- and I mentioned the possibility. It sure seems like it...especially for parts of Suffolk county and points east. A lot depends on how close the LP gets.

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