Yeah it was a pretty slim chance he would go. Justice Hill is back, and Bateman has been making some big time plays lately. Still, without the quickness and game breaking speed of Flowers, the Steeler's D has one less(major)weapon to worry about.
Never understood the concept of having a bar for snow. So what happens if the bar isn't reached? Call a bust? Tantrum? Kick puppies? Or go to an actual bar and get hammered maybe.
NS vorticity with a more "constructive" interaction here compare to previous run. Digs some energy in instead of it all riding overtop. Better outcome.
GFS/3km NAM combo is suggestive of 2"+ potential in some areas. Most other guidance a coating to an inch or so. My forecast has a max of 1.5". Probably about right.
People hitting their brakes just as they approach these snow covered stretches is what causes accidents, or them ending up in a snow bank. Exact wrong thing to do. The asshole tailgaters still doing their thing too.
9.3"
Closer to a foot in Easton where I work. More than half the road I traveled to work this morning had packed snow with ice underneath, and in some cases drifts blocking one lane. Persistent wind/continued cold and the powdery nature of the snow make this an ongoing problem.
18 this morning and the wind chill is going to be a little nastier today.
Been a long time since there has been a solid snowpack with persistent cold and wind in the days that follow. Have not seen the magnitude of blowing and drifting of snow across the roads like this since probably 2014.
Read up a few posts.
I thought the Euro took a step towards the GFS on its 12z run, and that it might get closer to phasing that energy in just behind the southern shortwave on the 18z run.
Instead it comes in overtop, suppresses the developing southern low and kicks it off the SE coast.
It is busy. Amplified pattern with plenty of vorticity in the flow, and intricate interactions determine the ultimate outcome for our period of interest.
Euro made a step towards the GFS with phasing in that last piece of NS energy earlier on the 12z run, and it was closer to something decent at the surface, but discombobulated. It takes a bigger step this run I believe.
I still have the one from last Jan per your request. This one is a similar view just a bit closer. Perhaps I will change it- it has been a year and deeper snow in this pic lol.
A subtle but seemingly critical difference between the Euro and GFS has to do with timing/degree of interaction with NS shortwave energy(of course) digging southward that's associated with the vorticity lobe south of Hudson. GFS phases some of that energy sooner and acts to pick up the southern low, placing it closer to the coast. Euro is lesser/later with the interaction, so that energy acts so suppress/kick the low offshore.