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January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
There’s a path to a great winter. Even December wasn’t bad. It was frustrating for sure because it felt like we left a lot on the table, but at the end of the day, it was cold in December with a lot of smaller snow events to add to the holiday feel and we had long stretches of snow cover. If we somehow can cash in on this final 10 days of January and then those weeklies are close to correct for February, all of the sudden you are looking at a big winter. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
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January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
It’s says parallel. Not AI. It’s basically just an upgrade to the OP if it passes the test phase. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Weeklies go full weenie for pretty much all of February. I’ll believe it when I see it but that was an impressive run today. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
Growth really improved after about 830-9pm. Those 3 hours or so between 9-midnight we really stacked it up. Prob had at least 2/3rds of our accumulation during that stretch. I don’t think it ever snowed truly heavy for more than about 15 min at a time. But just very consistent efficient moderate snow with those heavier bursts mixed in which was stacking at 1-1.5” per hour. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
Yep. A lot of times that IVT stuff is very fluffy on the back end of a storm. You cool the lower-midlevels enough so that that even the lower level lift below 800mb is in the DGZ. That was showing up all over the soundings yesterday and the night before. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Had to be sub -40C stuff on a Montreal express trajectory. The perfect storm of ingredients to get those types of numbers. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
Only mid range OP model that did well was the Canadian. It pretty consistently was getting advisory type snowfalls across most of SNE/CNE. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
The irony is, in the past few winters, how often did we NOT want a piece of the TPV to phase with a central/western trough but it would do it anyway? Now we want it…let’s hope it happens this time. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Regular EPS improved some too. Does get light snows into SNE for the mean, which likely means there are a few bigger hits and plenty of whiffs. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
Yes it was. You’d go moderate to heavy for a few minutes and back to light and then rinse and repeat a few times. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Need that vort energy in Wisconsin/Iowa to phase a little more with the southwest stuff before it moves east. Started doing that this run but not enough except for very light stuff into SNE. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Tick tick tick on the OP Euro. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
GEFS def came north a bit from 06z. There’s some hits in there now while 06z had almost unanimous whiffs. The risk is obviously suppression on this but it’s far from a done deal. PV is crazy cold with the press but it’s also moving NE with time and we don’t have quite the crazy exotic west based block like a Feb 2010…EPS is more bullish on the blocking which has kind of been a theme this winter -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Next weekend is a great setup for Scooter down to @amarshall to get Coke line steamers from frigid onshore flow. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
We def beat 10 to 1 ratios too. So I doubt there was a QPF bust. If I melted it down I’m guessing 4 tenths or maybe a bit more. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
Looks like our nice IVT stuff is ending. Just some flurries out there now. 6.2 will do it I think for the storm total. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
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Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
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Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
Nickels and quarters falling here. This is that good growth IVT stuff. Can get some sneaky additional accumulation. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Yeah I was looking at 06z which was pretty ugly. Obviously that doesn’t mean the threat is gone but it truly is basically AI and Ukie versus other guidance right now. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
ORH_wxman replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
GEFS didn’t show anything for the overrunning setup. They were suppressed. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
Eyeballing 6” here but will measure in a bit. What a scene. Coming down pretty good in this IVT stuff. -
Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
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Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread
ORH_wxman replied to WxWatcher007's topic in New England
Yeah at least everywhere had some success this weekend out of all the waves. CT and C/W MA really cashed in yesterday and today the eastern folks are overperforming relative to expectations 12 hours ago.
