Best event by far where I am was 2/5/16. I had about a foot of mashed potatoes. The snow was even wetter down in SE MA where I think they had some legit power issues from 7-8” of cement.
December 2015 was warmest on record and nearly snowless. Jan/Feb 2016 had a few fleeting moments (if you were far enough south in CT you got a decent piece of the Jan ‘16 mid-Atlantic KU)
No, you’re thinking of 12/29/76.
12/5-6/81 gave ORH like 10-11”. E MA was the jackpot though for sure. Just not quite the obscene gradient as the ‘76 storm.
Yeah I expect a lot of shifts in this storm. They pretty much all suck for us (as advertised ad nauseam) due to the disgusting airmass....but I’m hoping that whatever happens it helps the pattern behind it. That prob means we want to root for the phased solution if the Euro/EPS is any indication.
Yeah it's been there and it got better today. The NAO look especially is a nice trend. I won't believe t until I see it, but I'd rather see that than a black hole.
It phased these two shortwaves....which no other run has been doing. Probably overly aggressive. Euro seems to like to dive the northern stream too much at times...Tip often talks about this bias, but it would be relevant here.
Yeah...CP in SNE has almost no shot...interior SNE has a faint shot if things line up perfectly....NNE has a real shot, but still there could be issues if the Euro solution happens.
I'm pretty skeptical of the Euro solution though.
You can see the GGEM has a little bit of a better synoptic setup than the GFS up in Quebec....little high trying to feed down and entrained just enough cold air.
It's too bad the southern stream is ejecting now rather than getting buried in the southwest.
That northern stream shortwave is diving like crazy on today's runs for Dec 7-8, but it can't produce with the wave interference from 12/5-6.