ORH_wxman

ORH finally hit 50 knots last hour. First round was pretty lame inland around here but the second pulse has been stronger. I can hear it a lot more too just from an anecdotal standpoint.

Yes that is def an anomaly but it was a potent Niña. Mostly got skunked until mid January 1956. But the real stuff didn’t really happen until Feb/Mar. Mar ‘56 is locally around my area one of the most epic months you’ll see. Over 50” that month after a prolific Feb. Snow depths over 40”. Mar ‘56 had no torches either.

That’s amazing for that pit.

2012-2013 is another example…interior had some snow events in December but the coast was totally hosed until February. There were tons of melts in January 2013 when the pattern turned favorable after mid-month and we didn’t get a good system and then a huge cutter….that was a good one. Then Feb/Mar 2013 happened. Most of these winters though that rebounded strongly we’re not La Niñas. You could maybe say 2010-2011 was slow to start for CT….the Boxing Day dryslot from hell wasn’t exactly a prolific snow event (a lot of areas struggled to barely get warning snow…a few isolated spots didn’t even get that)…but then after the huge NYE/NEw Years day torch period, it was off to the races for an epic 4 weeks.

I wouldn’t expect anything and be pleasantly surprised if you get hit by a rogue squall.

The one issue with hoping for a backloaded winter is that those are a lot more common in El Niño. Though if we can get going by 1/7-1/10, it doesn’t necessarily have to be backloaded…

Correct. There wasn’t some larger scale SE ridge on the longwave pattern that was causing our problems. It’s pretty obvious looking at the longwave pattern I posted above earlier.

Finally got some damage here

We didn’t have much of a SE ridge signal at all once the block formed. Only transient during the initial evolution in the Dec 5-8 range. The height response to the NAO block was pretty classic to the south…all along that latitude band. Typically we’d prob get something decent out of this look but not this time…just the smaller event on 12/11

I’m taking the under on any snow after the flip. Radar doesn’t look that impressive to me to the SW. I think best chance might be for a rogue squall or two later on this evening.

CLE -3F with heavy snow and 44 knot gusts

Yeah look at the location of the western ridge on those two frames. That’s really the biggest difference. We buried a bit of the PV into the NW instead of having a chunk of it get trapped under the block like in the first image which also allowed the western ridge to amplify a bit further east.

To answer your question earlier on temps, my guess is it maybe gets to high single digits in spots tonight? Western CT will be colder than eastern MA at higher latitude. It’s about the worst type of delivery for us to get very cold…so it will modify quite a bit from from negative temps we currently see in western PA. But the airmass itself is so impressive that even on an awful delivery vector, it will still be pretty cold.

You can see it punching into SW NJ right now on the sfc plot

If you sharpen up the trough just a bit more, there could be a decent band of fronto snows…I think there’s too much work to do to get a legit major coastal storm, but there’s still a chance we could get a shovelable event. Low chance…but it’s still possible.

Increased ridging in central Canada is helping a bit on the 12z GFS.

NAM was mildly intriguing. Might end up producing some light snow even if the bigger storm idea is a bust.

Man obs (that’s -2F for those at home) KCLE 231509Z 23028G37KT 1/4SM +SN BLSN VV014 M19/M23 A2956 RMK AO2 PK WND 21037/1508 TWR VIS 1 P0000 T11891233

Almost dead calm here now. Sun trying to poke out.

Lol KCLE reporting heavy snow with 37 knot winds and 0F temp.

Pretty meh where I am for wind events. Nothing like Oct 2017 when I was in my first year here and we roared from the south. Seems like CT got it good and then maybe into SE MA. Interior MA was more middling. ORH peak gust so far is 43 knots which is not exceptional for them like those 50+ knot gusts in CT valleys.

Gusty here but nothing that crazy yet on the hill. Congrats to those getting better winds.

We had a little sleet here to start about an hour and a half ago, with maybe a few mangled flakes. Didn’t last long. Rain and 37 now.

If they do it would only be right near that exit. They will do everything to try and keep it open though. They don’t want to shut it down. If they somehow close it, you could prob take the Pembroke exit a few miles east and then come in on genesee rd (rt 33) from the east until it intersects with transit.

If it’s on Transit rd or rt 33 (Genesee rd) those will be plowed pretty good. I’ve spent a lot of time around there.