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Filtered sun and 34 here currently… Interesting…

I’d call 3-6”

Yea you want to be south/east with this. The trailing vort is a kicker that inhibits the latitude gain of the CCB.. Eastern LI, southeastern MA

We had to sacrifice this afternoon batch to get tomorrow to work. speaking for the eastern crew…

I’m with @dendrite But regardless - AIFS better than Euro/GFS, considering the list..

Said differently, it’s like it took the rest of guidance two days to catch up to the EC AIFS… I’m able to say that bc it had the right depiction and stayed on it….

Hasn’t the EC AIFS had highest verification scores as of late…? I’m not sure why anyone is doubting it against the other globals. Having that 32F surface isotherm dancing around our heads was a pretty easy tell we could get a good event here despite all the short term model waffling, across the other guidance. The EC AIFS also kicked azz bc look at the past two days of runs—-so consistent.

Yea buckshot. Exactly. I’m painting with CPC brush here… Which one? — it’s this one… I ain’t picking and choosing runs here either. Pretty much all major guidance has had some variation of this over the last day or two and you can see the signal faintly on the ensembles…

That day 9/10 threat I think that’s big dawg potential for mid Atlantic. Our region can be in on it but I really feel like odds are low north of pike. Best focus around interstate 80. Of course early but that’s my feel for best threat in view right now.

That interstate 80 region from PA to NY looks like a sweet spot, 20th to month end. Good time for you to be watching closely.

That MJO phase 7 doesn’t look like it’s happening beyond a blip. Synoptically it’s not long enough for the pattern to conform… I think we go back in the freezer and phase 8 and it’s wagons south for the big snows… Colder and Drier with latitude… La Niña and the calendar reigns… Not happy to report but that’s how it looks now. Maybe a great period for heavy snowfall in the most southern sections of the forum. If you’re looking for big snow you want to be in the mid Atlantic during last 10 days of Jan. This is completely different than my three-day-ago thoughts…but oh well.

The GEFS still in disagreement but looking across guidance it’s likely the one that’s wrong. The bulk of guidance has an MJO phase 8 look to it with significant cold anomalies across NA during the last 10 days of Jan. If that’s the case it looks largely like a repeat of December to first week of Jan pattern for my area…Not a fan…. Cold and dry here… Winter Storm tracks focused on the mid Atlantic. That would also fit the mold of La Niña…

Regarding northeast — it’s the first time all season we are below last year’s snow coverage and by a lot.

Snow is gone here. Only the piles. And the piles outside of the parking lots will be gone tomorrow.

Not best company but 12z CMC also has similar evolution. This threat is legit.

The EC-AIFS is actually on board with this one. I think Boston to SE MA still very much should watch for heaviest snowfall of the season. A very low bar(I know)… 12z GFS is super amped but at least evolution is similar. This is key difference from the 16th where GFS had no other support at similar lead time.

We tried to tell em about the 18th. Here we are. Very interesting indeed. we watch closely

Yea this was a complete flip. We had cold that overperformed to that date—temps consistently below forecast. It’s been the opposite since…

40/34 We torch since the 6th scattered snow cover gone today.

The 18z GFS ain’t happenin’. wagons north.

Can’t wait for MJO phase 7 to cook these weenies. Day 10 won’t be a mid Atlantic story. It’s up here. The GEFS and EPS calling absolute BS on that gradient being so far south. GTFO

You do realize you could run it through day 10 and see the same pattern? Or you could just run it every cycle and see the same gradient… This is an important signal

Since the 7th— feels and looks like a shift back to 2025 persistence Temps back to over-performing. It’s a subtle but very important change.

We gradient

Mood snows end for me with the holidays. Go big or let’s stay AN.