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NYC/PHL Jan 18-19 Potential Threat Thread


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Just that bit of elevation works wonders sometimes. I've been in rain on 23 and it switches over to Snow somewhere on Union Valley Road. What were arguing over is semantics anyway since with the wind blowing it into drifts its difficult to get an accurate measurement.

The point is...their is a lot of snow up their.

I would think the snow depth is pretty much the same area wide.

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Just that bit of elevation works wonders sometimes. I've been in rain on 23 and it switches over to Snow somewhere on Union Valley Road. What were arguing over is semantics anyway since with the wind blowing it into drifts its difficult to get an accurate measurement.

The point is...their is a lot of snow up their.

elevation had nothing to do with these storms , i know where tha lake is as not to far from one of my friends at all

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elevation had nothing to do with these storms , i know where tha lake is as not to far from one of my friends at all

The only reason why I mentioned the elevation is their is definily a temperature difference between where I am and that area. The storm we got in February was a great example of how the eleveation and temperature differences led to them getting 2-3' thanks to the higher ratios and me getting 12-18' of slop. Their was also plenty of snow still on the ground from the 12/26 event despite the big warm up. Since I didn't actually measure the snow depth I'm just going to let this one go, and take note that you have basically have called me an idiot.

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I think we can agree there is a decent snow pack across NNJ of ~6-18". With the next system lacking cold air there is a threat of a mixed bag of precip of snow to ice to rain. Perhaps an 1" or more of qpf. That does raise the threat of some form of flooding whether urban and street or river and stream. Also with the possiblilty of cold air being entranced at the surface for a period of time there remains the threat of a period of icing in some locales. Let us leave it at that for now till it is better know the specifics of qpf and precip type are more certian.

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I'm not a complete idiot am I when I spoke about the flood potential?? From the updated discussion from Upton..

.HYDROLOGY...

FOR SAT AFTN AND EVENING...UP TO A 1 INCH SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE AS HIGH

PRES MOVES OFF THE COAST AND LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS NEW ENGLAND.

FOR MON AFTN THRU TUE...THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR A HEAVY PRECIP EVENT

AS LOW PRES MOVES NE TOWARD THE REGION. CONFIDENCE IS LOW AT THIS TIME.

A WINTER FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK WAS ISSUED AT 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON

FOR THE LOCAL AREA.

THE SNOW PACK WILL GRADUALLY COMPACT AND SETTLE WITH LITTLE MELTING

EACH DAY AS ICE FORMS ON LOCAL AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS.

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I'm not a complete idiot am I when I spoke about the flood potential?? From the updated discussion from Upton..

.HYDROLOGY...

FOR SAT AFTN AND EVENING...UP TO A 1 INCH SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE AS HIGH

PRES MOVES OFF THE COAST AND LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS NEW ENGLAND.

FOR MON AFTN THRU TUE...THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR A HEAVY PRECIP EVENT

AS LOW PRES MOVES NE TOWARD THE REGION. CONFIDENCE IS LOW AT THIS TIME.

A WINTER FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK WAS ISSUED AT 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON

FOR THE LOCAL AREA.

THE SNOW PACK WILL GRADUALLY COMPACT AND SETTLE WITH LITTLE MELTING

EACH DAY AS ICE FORMS ON LOCAL AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS.

nobody called you an idiot

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I'm not a complete idiot am I when I spoke about the flood potential?? From the updated discussion from Upton..

.HYDROLOGY...

FOR SAT AFTN AND EVENING...UP TO A 1 INCH SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE IN CONNECTICUT, WITH .0000000000001 ELSEWHERE, AS HIGH

PRES MOVES OFF THE COAST AND LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS NEW ENGLAND.

FOR MON AFTN THRU TUE...THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR A HEAVY PRECIP EVENT

AS LOW PRES MOVES NE TOWARD THE REGION. CONFIDENCE IS LOW AT THIS TIME.

A WINTER FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK WAS ISSUED AT 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON

FOR THE LOCAL AREA.

THE SNOW PACK WILL GRADUALLY COMPACT AND SETTLE WITH LITTLE MELTING

EACH DAY AS ICE FORMS ON LOCAL AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS.

Sorry... just needed a quick edit on Saturday's event.... nothing regarding the flooding.

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Going to be very tough to keep it all frozen with the lack of blocking. Any substantial amounts of frozen precipitation that anybody receives in this local area given the upper air pattern depicted by most models would be a gift to say the least. The DGEX shows some good low level cold intrusion even despite a very poor synoptic setup.

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Nice month we have going on here. Inevitably there's always a warm up or rain storm. And we will probably get both next week. But even in this less than ideal upcoming period we have a chance for snowshowers on Sat and then a system that could actually deliver a few more inches of snow in a few different ways. The Euro and GGEM actually threaten a pretty good inland snowstorms - and god knows they could use it. Good snowpack builder for the ski areas. Warm up looks brief. Might not break 40F. And probably not for long if so.

We definitely need a snowstorm here.. Had only about 9" and the seasonal norm is 50".

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you know tell me where and ill meet you their. I can take pictures of piles of snow to, there total snow for the year is 34 inches(and thats at 1100 feet elevation) mine is 33.30. All towns lost significant snow from that mild spell. they dont have anywhere near 2 to 3 feet of snow pack especially considering they have not even had 3 ft for the year. Obviously we know know not to take your totals to seriously in the future. Make sure you stick the lower numbers of the ruler in the snow first. perhaps you put the ruler in backwards lol

Yeah, there are some 2ft drifts in my yard in CNJ as well (prior to the last storm they were 15" drifts). Nothing special or confined to West Milford.

Snow depth on NOAA indicates 8-16" depth up there.

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NOAA says 1-2" QPF in the snowpack. A few more inches of snow followed by heavy rain could lead to flooding. I was not trying to make it seem as if flooding was imminent. I'm not going to argue either with NOAA as far as what the snowpack is for obvious reasons. Even if we don't get flooding out of this storm, the snowpack seems to keep getting replenished so the potential will be their come March.

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