The GFS is a bit on an island with the 00z to 12z Monday period. Most of the models have a pause or lighter precip. The GFS has significant (0.5"-1.0") precip during that timeframe. The struggle is of course that this is the most likely period to have thermal troubles.
Yes. It is trailing energy from the low that is passing through New England right now. On the 00z Euro it actually ends up merging with our storm over the northeast.
Ok - big difference between the NAM and RGEM in the northeast which appears to impact the shape of the trough. Given the choice, we clearly want the RGEM solution which allows the trough to more easily go neutral.
NAM top, RGEM bottom.
If you forced me to make a forecast right now, I'd put 2-4" for Sunday and another 1-2" with the 500 passage on Monday. That's still a nice 3-6" storm with maybe a bit of upside given some of the other guidance.
Its still going to snow
There's no mystery here on where we are headed.
Rewinding back to one of our great runs from earlier this week. You've got a neutral trough right at our longitude and you've got a backside vort that is going to help dig and stall even more. This is a great look for a big storm.
Then you have the NAM this morning. Positively-tilted trough, not much help on the backside. This is just a run-of-the-mill storm look around here.
Another model run with a positively-tilted trough. Looks like the CCB is up in Long Island and NJ. We get snow showers on the backside from the 500 low passage, but it is not really the the beatdown that we are looking for.
This is the first time that the NAM nest has run through the WAA period, and it is certainly drier than the 12km NAM. Still ~0.4" around DC, but that is actually somewhat of a jackpot zone.
I'm sure that is has been stated in the many pages back, but the big problem we have with the backside/stall scenario right now is that the trough is still a bit positively tilted at our longitude. Prior runs were showing it neutral. That results in the shove off the coast.
In a perfect scenario I think we’d like to see a bit more of a surface reflection at 84, but you can start to see it and it will stall as the 500 comes close. That 500 track looks good. Better than the open wave GFS at that point.