I’m cool with that, but I need a half foot new here before the -20C rolls in at H5 to insulate the fruit tree roots. If I smoke cirrus and Ant is getting crushed I may have to suspend myself for a couple of weeks.
I don’t think B2B is the issue, it’s that he called storms 3-4 days apart rare. Whether rain or snow, we do that often. There’s plenty of room for wave spacing to produce good storms 3-4 days apart.
lol at thinking storms 3-4 days apart is rare.
Sign off for a couple days, make a resolution to make better posts, and then come back refreshed for the pattern change.
A solid, moderate SWFE/redeveloper would be nice on the 6th. I just want some guaranteed rejuvenation to the pack going into the colder pattern in case the 9th doesn’t happen or ends up sheared/LBSW.
I’ll bite.
Jan 8-9 system retrogrades to our north and grinds away every threat after that. Just boring persistent cold.
But yeah, lots of potential in the pattern. Just gotta take these deterministic runs as entertainment.
Drizzle intensity is determined by visibility just like snow.
1/4sm or less is +DZ. DZ is >1/4sm and <=1/2sm. -DZ is >1/2sm.
But yeah you never really see it in obs except for some stray AWOS sites. Usually the vis reduction gets attributed to fog so in ASOS METARs you see -DZ FG.
I’ll assume the forecast algorithms just see the visibility forcecast with the drizzle forecast and if there’s 1/4sm in the grids “heavy drizzle” gets regurgitated in the wording.
Hard to ever top those handful of hours at BOS that evening. Then there was the severe weather coming out of the GOM with coastal flooding into FL. Record snows in the SE. The huge swath of 1-3ft. Mar 93 was like a global scale storm than synoptic. I’m sure 1899 was similar given the extent of the snow and cold obs.