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Yeah, haven’t posted much about it because this was a great event for the northern tier of the metro, but today stunk for me given the runs yesterday and 2-5 WWA I was under. Barely got an inch that melted as it was falling. I wasn’t expecting anything from this anyway until the great model gesundheit yesterday which lured me in. Regardless, tough for me to do well in a marginal set up - no doubt. This was a great event for the metro and I’m thrilled for everyone who got a great snowfall out of it. Onto the next!
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Always difficult to transition back to reality after tracking a nice event. Really hoping we can do this one more time with what remains of winter, at least. Regardless of results. Thrill of the chase.
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Have a super low ratio inch down here, still snowing nicely but having trouble sticking. Temps ticked up to 33 from about 32.5 earlier this morning. Considering prior to the great model gesundheit of yesterday I wasn’t even expecting to really see flakes, I’ll take it. My property is all white and pretty, which is what we’re here for. This would put me at like 8-9 on the season, hopefully grab another inch or two before it exits but we’ll see. Glad this really worked out for many!
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Laki was an effusive mega drain-out of the Grímsvötn subglacial volcano within the Vatnajökull icecap. The same volcano that erupted explosively in 2011 to VEI 4 level (was actually fairly close to borderline VEI 5 level; it was a large event). The Laki eruption was an *enormous* rifting fissure eruption southwest of the icecap, it poured out 15 cubic kilometers of extremely sulfurous magma and had explosive components. The total sulfur output was like 120Tg’s (compared to 20 for Pinatubo). Not all of it reached the stratosphere due to it being predominantly effusive, but a lot did likely on intense thermal updrafts, and the eruption did have some explosive components mixed in. The fissure system for this eruption was over 80km in length… It was the third biggest effusive rift eruption in postglacial Iceland. A cloud of sulfur gas stuck in the troposphere was swept over to Europe and caused a lot of illness and death. In Iceland it was catastrophic for the local population. Can’t overestimate how substantial this event was, in terms of both local and global impact. And yes, there were known climatological impacts from this event.
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Finally have moderate to heavy snow down here, temps at 32 the past 45 min or so. Sticking nicely and starting to pile up. Good returns nearby, should make up some ground the next couple hours. I’ll be very pumped for a few inches here with this. (Not at work up north today, been off since last week - home for this).
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I don’t think so, I think you guys are set. Monmouth / northern Ocean going to be too marginal temp wise, at least from the soundings I was looking at. If I see a couple flakes on the grass I’ll consider it a win. Hoping you guys get the goods though, positive changes for sure. If only the airmass was a bit less crap this woulda been fun for me too, but oh well. It’s been extremely warm, not unexpected. All the more if most of you see a significant storm out of this it’s a massive win with how things have been going.