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  1. 6z GFS depicts a significant piece of NS energy dropping southward as the ridge amplifies- that interacts with energy in the flow underneath and induces a strong surface low right at the coast. Very convoluted as this occurs as the initial Miller B transfer to a coastal low is occurring. Ends up with 3 lows.
  2. Pretty far out but the ensembles have low pressure tracking well to our northwest.
  3. 6z GFS snows on us on the 11th. 0z was close.
  4. I will roll with a predominant -EPO pattern, and a well timed transient -NAO /+PNA to improve our chances. Provides a mechanism for legit cold to move southward + a wave to track underneath with cold air in place. Lately Ninos are simply too warm to force the thermal boundary southward enough for a favorable storm track at our latitude.
  5. No actual idea, but I bet I see more snow in my yard next winter than this one. Just going with recency, Ninos have been fairly lame, while Ninas have overall been better than expected here wrt cold and snow. It just doesn't get cold enough during Ninos since 2010, and/or atmospheric coupling doesn't really happen and it behaves like a shitty Nina or worse(neutral).
  6. Some good ones on here. https://www.tahoeweathercam.com/
  7. Awesome. Three quarters through one here + a little weed. Going to put it aside for now and switch to a Pinot Grigio. About to eat some sushi.
  8. Yeah baby! Where? I used the DFH finder and couldn't find anything within 10 miles of you.
  9. Found quite a few locations within a few miles of you that supposedly have World Wide Stout. Cant go wrong with that. Nothing for the 120s.
  10. Catch an Uber and head an hour east. The Winery. Good people. They have em' cold. So you can sip on one and get twisted on the return trip
  11. Friday Happy hour- Sipping a 120 while monitoring 4 webcams from the Sierra Nevada, living vicariously. @stormtracker Picked up a 4 pack in Kent Island for 38 bucks. I been jonesin'.
  12. EPS has zero snow through mid month. Whips out the weeklies. Hey look, an inch by the beginning of April!
  13. The wetland was quite wet several weeks ago(much sooner than last year), but with the relatively dry weather of late is has receded. A few heavy rain events over the coming weeks and it will be back to more typical for Spring- quite expansive and a foot or so deep.
  14. I need one of those.
  15. ^What I remember most about that storm was the initial waa precip came in earlier, and heavy. There was 6" otg after the first few hours.
  16. A couple AFDs from Mount Holly leading up to the Dec 2009 KU. Pretty interesting reads. Seems the Euro sniffed this one out first, as it often did. AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1109 AM EST WED DEC 16 2009 .SYNOPSIS... STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FROM THE NORTH AND WEST AND THEN WEAKEN THROUGH THE WORK WEEK. A SYSTEM THAT WILL DEVELOP NEAR THE GULF OF MEXICO AND MOVE OUT OVER THE ATLANTIC MAY HAVE SOME EFFECT ON US LATE IN THE WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... FLURRY ACTIVITY HAS BEEN LIMITED TO THE NORTHWESTERN AREAS OF THE CWA. A VORT MAX IS EXPECTED TO ROTATE THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND AS A RESULT FLURRIES MAY SPREAD SLIGHTLY FARTHER SOUTH THAN PREVIOUS THINKING. WE HAVE EXTENDED THE CHANCE FOR FLURRIES INTO THE LEHIGH VALLEY, ALTHOUGH MOST AREAS PROBABLY WILL NOT SEE TOO MANY FLAKES FALL AS THEY MAY EVAPORATE BEFORE REACHING THE GROUND. LAKE EFFECT CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM INTO THE AREA TODAY, AS THE FETCH OFF THE LAKES REMAINS. WINDS ARE GUSTY AND WILL REMAIN SO THROUGH THE DAY TODAY BEFORE STARTING TO DECREASE THIS EVENING. GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES WERE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH CONTINUITY AND WERE ACCEPTED. && .SHORT TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... ANOTHER VORT MAX MOVES ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT WITH SOME REINFORCING COLD AIR. THE ATMOSPHERE LOOKS TO BE DRIER, SO WE ARE CONFINING SNOW FLURRIES TO THE NORTHWEST AND GOING MOSTLY CLEAR ELSEWHERE FOR NOW. WINDS MAY PICK UP SOME AS THE SECONDARY PUSH OCCURS. GUIDANCE TEMPS AGAIN ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH CONTINUITY AND ARE ACCEPTED. THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY LOOKS DRY, ALTHOUGH WARM AIR ADVECTION ALOFT AND AN UPPER JET MAY BRING SOME MID AND HIGH CLOUDINESS INTO THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. WINDS SHOULD BE DIMINISHING THROUGH THE PERIOD, AND WERE IT NOT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF CLOUDS WE WOULD HAVE UNDERCUT GUIDANCE MINS ON THURSDAY NIGHT WITH EXCELLENT RADIATING CONDITIONS. AS IT IS, WE CONTINUED TO WALK A GUIDANCE-CONTINUITY LINE, WHICH HAS WORKED REASONABLY WELL. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... THE MODELS CONTINUE TO DIFFER AS TO HOW THEY HANDLE THE ROTATING UPPER LOW TO OUR NORTH ALONG WITH THE ASSOCIATED SHARPENING TROUGH. AT THE SURFACE, ALL MODELS DEVELOP A LOW ALONG THE SE COAST AND HEAD IT NE. MOST OF THE MODELS KEEP IT FAR ENOUGH S AND E OF OUR AREA SO THAT IT JUST BRUSHES OUR SE SECTIONS. THE OUTLIER AT THIS TIME IS THE ECMWF WHICH SHARPENS THE TROUGH AND DEVELOPS AN INTENSE EAST COAST STORM. IT IS ALSO MUCH FASTER THAN THE REST OF THE MODELS AND WOULD HAVE THE BIGGEST IMPACT LATE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT RATHER THAN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. FOR NOW WE WILL GO WITH THE MAJORITY AND BRING INCREASING CLOUDINESS IN LATE SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT AND CALL FOR A CHANCE OF SNOW INLAND AND RAIN OR SNOW ALONG THE COAST LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. ONCE THE LOW MOVES OFF TO THE NE, HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING ANOTHER BATCH OF COLD AIR INTO OUR AREA FOR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 658 PM EST FRI DEC 18 2009 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OFF TO THE NORTHEAST THIS EVENING ALLOWING A MASSIVE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TO FILL IN BEHIND THIS WEEKEND. THIS LOW PRESSURE WILL BE ARRIVING BY EARLY MORNING SATURDAY AND HEADING TO THE NORTHEAST THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE LOW SHOULD PULL FAR ENOUGH TO THE NORTHEAST ON SUNDAY THAT WE WILL SEE A BRIEF RETURN OF HIGH PRESSURE ON SUNDAY. THE HIGH PRESSURE WILL GIVE WAY TO ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING IN FROM THE NORTHWEST ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM SATURDAY MORNING/... A 20Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS AN INTENSE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES WHILE HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO SIT OVER THE NORTHEAST. WINDS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY CALM THIS EVENING BUT WITH TEMPERATURES WELL BELOW FREEZING WINDS CHILLS WILL BE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS TO THE TEENS. WHILE FOLLOWING THE STORM SYSTEM DOWN IN THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES WE BROUGHT THE ONSET OF PRECIPITATION IN WILL START LATE TONIGHT IN THE FAR SOUTHERN ZONES AND PROGRESSIVELY SPREAD TO THE NORTH DURING THE DAY. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... AS IF THINGS COULD NOT GET ANY MORE COMPLICATED WITH THIS MASSIVE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THE EARLY MORNING NAM LEAVES US HIGH AND DRY...HOWEVER 6 HOURS LATER, WE ARE ONCE AGAIN WET. BOTH THE NAM AND ECMWF HAVE BEEN PRETTY GOOD RECENTLY WITH THEIR INITIALIZATIONS FIELDS AND OVERALL PERFORMANCE, SO IT IS REALLY HARD TO DISCREDIT THEIR RECENT SOLUTIONS. WITH THAT BEING SAID, BELIEVE A BLEND OF THE TWO MODELS WOULD PROVIDE THE BEST SOLUTION FOR SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS THE REGION. UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS ADD TO THE DEEPENING OF THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WHILE IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST. OUR CWA IS PLACED IN A GREAT REGION BETWEEN A COUPLED 250H JET STREAK TO SEE AN ENHANCEMENT OF UVM PROVIDING AN AREA OF MASS DIVERGENCE LEADING TO THE OFFSHORE LOW DEEPENING. THE INTERACTION WITH THE MID-LEVEL LOW IS A LITTLE MORE PRECARIOUS RIGHT NOW. BOTH MODELS ARE SHOWING SOME SLIGHT PHASING OF THE TWO REGIONS LATE SATURDAY WITH THE NAM BEING SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN THE EURO. THIS PHASING WOULD PROVIDE AN OVERALL SLOWING OF THE SYSTEM AND POSSIBLE OCCLUSION LEADING TO A GREATER CHANCE OF WRAP AROUND MOISTURE TO BE SLUNG OVER THE REGION ON SUNDAY. BOTH MODELS ALSO HINT AT A SLIGHT TROWAL EVENT WITH A DEFORMATION ZONE TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE PHILADELPHIA METRO AREA ALLOWING ENHANCED PRECIPITATION TO OCCUR. LOOKS LIKE THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL BEGIN LATE SATURDAY EVENING THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING SOUTH OF I-95 CORRIDOR WHERE THE BEST OMEGA WILL BE MAINTAINED. THIS SYSTEMS TRACK HAS BEEN HANDLED FAIRLY WELL WITH PREVIOUS FORECASTS AND AMOUNT OF QPF. THIS SYSTEM WILL BE THE FIRST WIDE-SPREAD PLOW-ABLE SNOWFALL EVENT IN THIS EARLY SEASON. RECORDS SHOW THAT PHILADELPHIA HAS ONLY THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS IN DECEMBER WITH DOUBLE DIGIT SNOWFALLS, 12/26/1909, 12/12/1960, AND 12/24/1966, COULD THIS BE THE FOURTH ONE? ACCUMULATIONS LOOK STAGGERING WITH AT LEAST AN 8 INCH SNOWFALL IN THE METRO AREA WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS SOUTH AND EAST OF THE CITY WHERE MESOSCALE BANDING APPEARS TO HAVE THE BEST CHANCE TO FORM.
  17. A few webcams to watch for the epic Sierra Nevada blizzard- https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/the-village https://www.enjoytahoe.com/tahoe-city-webcam
  18. Sunday through next week looks to be within a couple degrees of 60. Latter part of the week looks a tad wet though.
  19. low of 24. Haven't really been paying attention so a little surprised.
  20. Given our geographical location, we have always sucked at snow. There are a few anomalous patterns that can shift the thermal boundary far enough south/east for more than a minute to give us a reasonable shot, and lately they are harder to come by.
  21. The potential for around the 10th has looked like a Miller B type deal with the primary tracking well NW. Latest ens runs are further south with both the primary and secondary coastal development, but still plenty of spread. This period is probably it for snow chances in the lowlands. Beyond that it looks like a ridge over Hudson again with a trough digging out west. Then we are beyond mid month.
  22. Dude, come on. This is a simulation, and it will be wrong. Way better chance we are 70 on April 1 than NC getting a snowstorm.
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