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LibertyBell

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  1. And there are some years when we had zero blocking but still had a great deal of snow and very cold temperatures, 1993-94 being a case in point.
  2. Don is it possible the rapidly strengthening storm will bring down even colder air? The weather channel mentioned the storm will get down to 950 mb (!) and will stall out, but that's when it's near Nova Scotia. Still this storm is going make major headlines next week.
  3. I think the clouds moved in too quickly, and low clouds at that. I saw obs further east and it's still mostly clear in Suffolk County but there's a low overcast here.
  4. I'd be shocked if we at the high end got more than a couple inches, but none of the official forecasts have even that much for us right now. The only ones who are talking about significant accumulations near the coast is the weather channel, and it looks like they're going by the straight model runs lol. For example, my local weather channel forecast has snow (no mix, just snow) all day Tuesday with a high of 40 after a low of 34 Tuesday morning.
  5. The storm that immediately comes to mind when we had a nice snowfall with temps just above freezing was April 2, 2018. That was much later in the season, but our weather had been cold for weeks before that storm-- still it's strange to say early April was more favorable for snow than early February lol.
  6. It was a bit weird though, the colors in the sky were best well before sunrise and then now they've faded into grey even though the sun hasn't completely risen yet. Usually the best colors happen right at sunrise or a little after.
  7. We have had had nice snowfalls before though with temps just above freezing. April 2, 2018 is a good example that we were talking about before, NYC had close to 6" of snow and the temperature never got below 33 F.
  8. Nooo, it's that they wouldn't be multiple posts if they happened during the day (or at any normal time) because there would be a lot of other people posting in between.
  9. What this shows is that the risk of suppression is actually more than the chances that the storm will be mostly rain. This storm could still move a little more north (like 50 miles) and still hit us hard with snow.
  10. Certainly by the ensembles too, it looks like the entire area could get a nice snowstorm out of this with not much rain at all.
  11. I can't remember the last time the entire area, north to south, west to east, saw a foot of snow lol.
  12. Interesting comparison here-- the GFS has one foot plus of snow south of NYC and on eastern Long Island and the Euro has one foot plus of snow north of NYC (but not by much.) They both have around the same amount of snow for NYC but the GFS has more for Long Island especially the south shore and east end. As a matter of fact, the GFS has a foot plus for eastern Long Island, even more than it does for south NJ. Euro has zilch for south NJ lol. They also have similar amounts of snow west of NYC into the Poconos but the GFS has much less snow north of NYC.
  13. this is wild, look at that gradient between the north shore and south shore of Long Island lol. edit-- it looks like the largest gradient is south of Long Island as even the south shore gets at least 4 inches on this model run. Poconos to NW NJ will do well of course. That 10-12 inches in coastal CT is a little unexpected though, it's even more than what it shows for NW areas. There is such a fine line of 10 miles or so between heavy snow and rain that there's no way to know which way this will go.
  14. That's interesting you mentioned Bear Creek, there must be at least 3 Bear Creeks in eastern PA, there's one up in Carbon County too, near Jim Thorpe, as well as another one further NE from there. The one in Carbon County is close to Camelback ski resort and up around 2200 ft. How high up is the one in Macungie?
  15. The outcome with this storm will likely control the outcome of that one. Here's something I've always wondered about and it applies here. The GFS was the first to pick up the Boxing Day Blizzard in December 2010 too. If it had been wrong with that one, would the snowy pattern that followed have happened?
  16. Not sure how much the impact is, but we're at solar maximum right now and will be right through October. That's why we're so excited about the upcoming total solar eclipse in April with large pink prominences visible off the solar limb.
  17. If it somehow does happen, no one will be criticizing this model for the rest of the season.
  18. In spite of the bad rep of the late 80s and early 90s there were some real jewels in there-- January 1987 and January 1988 were both very notable snowstorms and we had 3 moderate sized snowstorms of 5" or greater in the 1990-91 winter including a 36 hour snowstorm in February. No true double digit snowstorms, but 5-9" snowstorms are something we would really enjoy right now.
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