ORH_wxman

Weird how ugly the OP runs are but the ensembles are def still trying. Can’t have any regression at 12z though.

Human nature. The regional battles pre-subforums were epic. I remember when Ekster trolled Nikolai(a poster from Mid-Atlantic back then if you don’t go back that far) one time when we all shared model threads. When a GFS run showed a huge mid-Atlantic jackpot 5 days out, he casually said something like “That’s in a great spot at 120 hours if you’re in Boston.” And all hell broke loose, lol. So many random squabbles like that.

Lol the E MA vs CT crowd is def the largest active squabble in the subforum. It’s a friendly squabble for the most part but it took me a few years to realize how much PTSD the west of river crowd has from 2015. Ray is really only more recently experiencing PTSD in the last 6-7 years. Scooter is now in active meltdown watch over the last two winters.

If we can at least keep this close by then that is workable at D6. We’ve reeled in so many biggies over the years when they were scrapers or very close misses at D6. Harder when they are just completely gone. What we don’t want is regression at 00z.

144. We’ll see the storm at the end of the run.

Yeah….The two streams cooperating is really all we want to see at this range. We can worry about LBSW later on. I think ideally we’ll want to see some late northern stream insert (no shortage of little vorts up there) to crank it for New England.

Yeah icon would prob be decent if it went out further. Much better northern stream look. Don’t really care what icon shows though…but that’s the N stream look you want on the varsity models.

Agreed. Though any other guidance showing it does help confidence. But my view is either this is going to come back quickly or it’s gone. I’d expect to see clear improvements by 12z tomorrow if a decent hit is going to happen.

Yeah I’m actually not quite as discouraged as I normally would be due to the northern stream being the biggest culprit here. We might be screwed anyway, but I don’t think it’s the southern stream trending slower. It actually ejected slightly quicker than the 00z run but the northern stream isn’t digging much at all this run. That is the culprit. If that trend continues then we’re def screwed but since it’s the very fast northern stream with that shortwave still almost on the other side of the pacific, I have some hope that it comes back a bit stronger.

Yeah the southern stream is actually ejecting decently this run but that northern shortwave never really digs until much later which is bad. We still almost get an event regardless but we need that northern shortwave to come in a bit deeper.

Yeah it’s very hard to get rain in this. Esp over the interior. The biggest threat is a missed phase and wide right and that is probably the most likely solution right now. Could still be light snows from the northern stream but it wouldn’t be a major event.

It’s happened many times in the past but we’ve also had plenty of storms that just disappeared for good in the D5-6 range and never came back. If we got all garbage solutions at 12z it’s definitely concerning.

Yeah me too. It might not be a HECS/MECS but the longwave positions are pretty favorable to try and get something going. If it ends up more northern stream, it might take until we get closer to see some response at the sfc. But we’ll see. Been burned so many times the last couple years. At least we have a block to our northeast so it’s not completely threading the needle for the interior folks…I know it’s not a ton of consolidation for your area which might need a bit more precise track.

Flip flop on guidance. Wanna see some more consensus today.

Lol, reminds me of ecmwf.int sending emails in 2009. One of my few meltdowns on here.

I remember waiting for it to update on weather.unisys.com. Usually around 8pm. Then it was more like 6-7pm in the 2003ish years. I think that site went defunct like 6-8 years ago. Lol.

Yeah that more positively tilted than 12z so prob less impactful but we wouldn’t know for sure unless we saw more panels. But good to still see plenty of southern stream involvement.

Block up north will give a limit to this. But yeah, even with the block it could still theoretically try and cut up through NYC or some crap…but I’d put the probability fairly low right now. You need a lot of downstream ridging into Quebec to make that happen and the block will try and prevent that downstream ridging up north from getting extreme.

Post H5

Yeah I wouldn’t even care about the dryslot on that if we actually got the front end. Reminds me of the Mar ‘17 front ender. I think I had 15” in about 8 hours on that.

Nah that one tracked due north over eastern MA even just west of BOS.

No Dec ‘92…that storm was stalled for like 30+ hours, lol.

Go back a few frames. It gets pretty tucked under LI.

The entire forum should be. Slightly less leery down in SW CT but the majority of us always hold our breath on them. But beggars can’t be choosers at this point. We’ll take any plowable snowstorm right now.