Euro is a little too flat for 12/4...gets the south coast and Cape with some light snow though. Wouldn't take much though to get a nice stripe over the rest of the region....just need that shortwave a little more robust and not shredded as much in the flow.
Yeah you should count 2017...just like I won't count last year. I think "Technically" I had a sloppy inch or two still hanging on at 7am last Christmas amidst 60F downpours but it was gone a couple hours later. I'm not even counting that...lol
It's also a good sign that these putrid patterns shown in the long range have gotten muted or better as we get closer. It wasn't long ago that the EPS was slamming us with a mostly lost/torched first week of December. Now we may have a threat or two to track.
Not looking very good. I agree with Chris on the dry air aloft. If all the saturation is below 800mb then it’s tough unless you have like -12C 850 temps and you produce all your dendrites down at that level...we’ve seen that in cold IVT/Norlun events...but we don’t have a profile like that this time. Plus we just don’t have a lot of low level lift....the convergence looks kind of weak. Maybe it will get better but I’d sell anything over some flakes to maybe a coating. Maybe someone on south shore gets a little luckier.
Still gotta watch the IVT potential on this but I don’t think anyone is going to see more than a couple inches even if the IVT sets up. Most will prob just see a few flakes.
Yeah I noticed the radar echoes definitely were maxing out west of where they usually do on those upslope events. The Hudson valley was all lit up and just barely east of them looked like the max.
I wonder if backedgeapproaching in Manchester VT had better ratios than you.
I’d sign on the dotted line for 1-3” from this threat right now. It’s unlikely we see more than flurries or a coating at this point. It’s too bad the lead shortwave is stealing the baroclinic zone. It screws us over because that second shortwave digging behind it is quite potent and likely would have produced a nice solid advisory event if the lead one wasn’t there.
This will mostly just be an upslope enhancer in NNE and not much else.
Yeah I’m not sure I remember so much volatility in the D9-12 range before on the EPS when it comes to larger scale features like the EPO/WPO...like you said, one run tries to form a black hole over AK from a fish farting in the Aleutians and then next run we see a nice ridge there or at least nothing resembling a vortex.