Typhoon Tip

Heh.. didn't see Brian's post but yeah. Related to that for sure

The flow is not fast ...well not AS fast, as modeled. The gradient is relaxed compared to the mean of winter thus far. That's not it. Something else unseen is guiding this thing's demise. Right now, I'm a 'little' suspicious about data source and shadowing. Firstly, I'm not sure if that's still a thing, or if there have been advances in packing the grids full of wonderful initialization density. I'm inclined to think there's still room to question? not entirely sure, tho. But shadowing is an old school phenomenon regarding assimilated soundings. When there are closely spaced wave mechanics from off the Pacific and/or any other data sparse regions where assimilated data populates the initialization grids, the assimilation may be caused to miss/under assess momentum where there is a lead system in between. Symbolically casting a shadow. This would be a candidate for that in 2006. Not so sure in 2026. In this case, the outside slider S/W coming down off the Cali coast (ends up Friday night's ordeal), may be causing the Monday's to be lost in the assimilation. Believe me, I was 50/50 for a compendium of pros and cons yesterday. Maybe I'm 40/60 now? say... But, I kinda sorta do want this one on-board and physically realized in this case before I go 1/99

The closest winter I ever saw that seemed like it was "un wasting" was 1992-1993. There were really two enormous events that defined that year, and I specifically recall a dearth of activity between, not because much was actually missed - I remember not seeing many opportunities. But I consider that a great winter just because that Dec 9-11 thing will live on in infamy ... It's probably a top 3 life time event for me. Then the late "super storm", which really was rather pedestrian in Acton Ma ... 15" with a 1/2 of sleet crusted over - well...it was huge for 1993. But since then we've been handing out 15"ers like Pez candies so the novelty of that has gone... But just the specter and vitals of that whole storm is probably not getting repeated in 100 years - statistically. Maybe we'll see it .. then future suckers will suffer without. Well, they will anyway as Venus hits. haha. No but there may have been some other events between Dec and Mar that year, but they weren't really under performed. Proficiency was very high.

The thought crossed my mind... The AI/ChatGPT version of this run's saying, 'yeah... there's a vicious storm here but I'm not gonna commit on the western side while I'm negotiating a no-no'

Something else that's been bothering me about these western outlier runs that are bringing the goodies ... they just look unalloyed to the surrounding when so nucleated like this below. ALB with 10 kts of N drift while New Canaan CT with 72 mph roof peeler gusts. First Tor'easter ever observed on the planet. You know how baroclinic/extratropical cyclones are suppose to spread their momentum out of a larger area - hello.

Yeah... god bless all with love and fortune in mens eyes, but there are some that really shouldn't be handed the responsibility of lead off play-by-play game callers. LOL. Between hippies and law enforcement, there's gotta be someone else whom by election is a better bearer of that delicate responsibility.

If the set up successfully gets there, sure.

It's also slightly S-E of previous mean

I gave a list of pros and cons for this in the monthly thread this morning. That content still applies. 50/50 ...

regardless of whatever the UKMET is painting on the sfc chart for this 150 hour outlook off this 12z run ... storm climatology would place a very intense arc of precipitation roughly White Plains to BOS for this kind of 500 mb

The GFS solution is odd.. It's as though it is too intense. It's highly contracted in all quadrants, very annular and focused internally to the axis of the cyclone. If you saw any one of those D8 GFS September hurricanes running parallel to the EC, it would like like that at PGF layout. I guess on the east side it does open up some. But it's like it's overly responsive to forcing very early in the total wave space, and so it then preferences that early location and is thus also overly - if perhaps erroneously - nucleated there. That said, even if so ... that surface solution is within an envelope of acceptable error. It could reposition on the next run ... 50 or even 100 my NW of this run's fix, and still be in said envelope of acceptable error. If we get to within 30 or so hours and all this is still dosing drips like this...then we'll discuss whether it will be idiosyncratically positioning, relative to the deep layer structures, with more confidence as to where.

what the fuck does LBSW mean? wtf does social diversification recognition have to do with atmospheric dynamics -

Not sure why I'm giving this particular model, at this kind of lead range, this much attention and energy but ... for shits and giggles, this run is actually deeper and arguable a tick or two closer than the 12z run yesterday, which delivered monster snow totals. This one just out at 12z this morning ... the only difference is that it is loading about half the QPF totals. It almost smacks like whatever physics it uses, swaps out QPF mechanics for kinetic/cyclone power - and vice versa... It's probably just internal physical idiosyncratic handling between those to particular runs. Why the 00z was completely in a wholesale different universe and not a part of the conversation, altogether is beyond me - but I'm not an ICON specialist by any means...

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