Baroclinic Zone

Time to ring in the new year with a new thread. December managed to produce an above average snowfall month for many. What does the new year bring? The patter looks active the first week with the potential for a clipper to start off and more larger synoptic scale events towards the end of the 1st week.

4”

Dumping right now. Fluff factor.

This band is producing some solid rates.

Don’t doubt it but that also tosses those QPF graphics of 0.5” still to come.

19/13. Pretty cool to see temp come down as we saturated.

We toss those koochie graphics. Wish we could just bring some more realistic discussion into these storms.

Just eyeballing outside and looks like 1/2” already.

I’ve felt our snows would come in a couple pulses. We have this initial 700mb/850mb fronto and than we have the low transitioning off the coast and we see a re-enhancement over eastern areas as we establish that easterly/northeasterly fetch.

For the SEMA folks, this band is not as intense as it was when it was over CT but this is still a solid band. Could see rates approach 1”/hr for a couple hours. For us it’s more a longer lighter duration event.

Dew point jumped up to 10F. 22/10

Can already see the visibility drop, steady snow already.

1st flakes. 22/4

FWIW, the 00z NAMs are locked and loaded for eastern areas. See how this plays out

Time to start window watching here.