Typhoon Tip
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I just keep musing tongue-in-cheek over how 6 days ago, we were looking at this continental mauler storm affecitng everywhere but here... Then, 6 days later... while it certainly is affecting a lot of the country, it actually appears to want to max where it was 0, six days ago - squarely right here in SNE that's an interesting model saga
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January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
There's an interesting phenomenon going on amid the Arctic domain right now associated with that crazy -AO depth ... which I suspect very few if anyone at all in here is aware. There's registering of record warmth going on up there. Quite highly correlated to -AO index modal states: it is warm ( relative to climo, of course!) up there, and colder at middle latitudes. This cold outbreak was be-a-utifully relayed from that crashing -AO, circuited through a -EPO...now, the EPO collapses and relays into the +PNA. The storms should be line up...but the models are taking a coffee break on seeing much...different issue/digression. In the meantime, some station up there...I'll try to find it, but in the midst of the 24 hour darkness, close to the N pole, in January, they were 36F ... That's like us being 122 in July. -
heh right. You know, it seems unjust, or out of place, doesn't it. But I've seen huge < 10 hour turn around enough times that I've just come to stop really associating the scalar temperatures at onset with any kind of presumption. I've outlined the following event before. It's an extreme case, but in Jan 1994 we had a day dawn at 9 F throughout NE Mass... There were a few renegade flakes flitting down under the street lamps while the morning's ambiance of winter blue-gray twilight surrounded. By noon it was 24 with light IP... By 2 pm, light freezing rain at 29. By 4 pm, 36 with the evening dusky sky having transformed into then fast moving streets of clouds, S to N.. In a whoosh, front's through and by 6:30pm, it was 60 F with tree leaning monster S gusts. Now, this bears 0 synoptic relevancy to that. Different universe of events, entirely. However, the principle of believing scalar temperature means jack shit, is a very good one to remember. Haha. To this day, I really don't give a ratz ass what the temperature at the onset of x-y-z. I just understand what the chances are for things to happen after the fact, and go with it.
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January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Yeah... seems a little hard to believe, given the heavy suggestion by the indices through the first third of the Feb, but excluding the AI types all models carry nothing - However, you know a 15 to 20" regional snow bomb ... We can probably count on one hand over the last 200 years of weather history and yore, the number of times multiple 20" fell less than 10 days apart. I guess just based on that, which admittedly is operationally meaningless for deterministic weather forecasting in the dailies/now - more of a principle argument. We really shouldn't get a storm very soon anyone unless it's pedestrian and not asking the atmosphere to load up with more than Earth can provide in too short a turn around - the main reason why that is probably all true.. We'll see... lacking parameters doesn't appear to be the issue, though. The local hemisphere is in a higher than normal energetic regime. It may just be that we're stuck with ton of neggy interference. Because from orbit, it doesn't seem like there's a dearth of possibility when in a flexing +PNA, 570 dm thickness lurking near Miami, while it remains cold/cold enough in the OV, either. Lot's to consider -
“Cory’s in LA! Let’s MECS!” Jan. 24-26 Disco
Typhoon Tip replied to TheSnowman's topic in New England
Heh... crazy having this be the antecedence to any storm. Hearkens to the rareness of this whole thing -
“Cory’s in LA! Let’s MECS!” Jan. 24-26 Disco
Typhoon Tip replied to TheSnowman's topic in New England
Incredible Is 0ZNAM has even higher QPF That’s 6 consecutive model cycles in a row with the QPF growing on every run I’ve seen Never seen that Not sure what it means but… Probably a lot of fuckin snow I’m guessin 1.7 for Logan At 17 to 1 ratio that’s about 26 inches of snow. Probably approaching hypostatic balance before it can that tall; being that fluffy or snow collapses in on itself at a lower weight … and I’m not sure why this font’s so big -
“Cory’s in LA! Let’s MECS!” Jan. 24-26 Disco
Typhoon Tip replied to TheSnowman's topic in New England
Yeah, I get it. I mean 18 1921. They’re all just dates to me ha ha ha. once you get over 15, it doesn’t matter -
“Cory’s in LA! Let’s MECS!” Jan. 24-26 Disco
Typhoon Tip replied to TheSnowman's topic in New England
That would be something, 24 inches… More power to ya Ray; I think that’s a little pricey though 24 inches is just about the cut off for ‘tenting’ That’s when cars start to look like domes. -
“Cory’s in LA! Let’s MECS!” Jan. 24-26 Disco
Typhoon Tip replied to TheSnowman's topic in New England
NAMed by the Nw bias?

