I know he owns it, I bought a sled from him back in 2007, Didn't know if he may have sold it or not, And Yes, Great guy, Went out of his way for me, Long story.
H5 closing off over LI, Thats where i was going with this, 10 days ago, This was looking like a storm in that millibar range you outlined, That does happen up in canada, It looks like it remains in the 995-1000mb range as it passes our lat.
My thoughts were mainly that the RGEM i believe sniffed this one out and has remained steadfast, Unfortunately, For all of us, This remains rather disorganized and you never get this to close off until up around the Gaspe.
Good reason why i'm not all that interested in this one as it will get suppressed to the south with that cold air moving overhead if it even develops close enough which i am totally skeptical on that.
Reggie has been the most consistent model and has maintained a further NW track with the SLP for 3 or 4 days now for up here with a 0.50-0.75" qpf distribution.
Lot of emphasis was placed on this period producing, We’re starting to get into some bad territory for salvaging a decent avg winter, Not saying it can’t be done, But it looks like we are heading into another warmup which will now take us into February to produce.
Still time to increase qpf and intensity now that we are setting the track potentially, Doesn't sound like much, But it was 4mb stronger at the same hr 0z weds then the 18z run.
A miss, Is a miss, No matter what the ceiling is, And right now, Were running out of get out of jail free cards as were hitting mid January, That is the benchmark to gauge a climo avg winter.
There was a convective blob out east on these model runs earlier that the SLP was chasing pulling the baroclinic zone further east and this last cycle or two has not done that and has held the SLP further to the west, You can see this on the 0z HRRR.