Kuchera occasionally works well in perfect deformation scenarios under or near the 700 mb low in well developed rapidly deepening systems. It wont work where much of your lift is waa/isentropic upglide in the 850-700 zone like it is over northern ny. It seems like map/ratio deficiencies have to be pointed out every storm.
Ahh well that's good. Sometimes those clown maps can be too snowy because they're including ice pellets or because they aren't referencing those warmer layers.
Yeah the only thing that annoys me about those is you often miss the warm nose between 850 and 700. I think I mentioned that pivotalwx soundings have 800.
Yeah pivotalwx is tougher for atlantic canada. But they have western, central, and eastern canada domains for gfs, gdps, and rdps. They dont have ecwmf ukmet or nam32 data for eastern canada.
Officially 5.5" at YYT. 5.9" at St. John's East Cocorahs and 6.7" at Mt. Pearl Cocorahs. Changing to rain now. Looks pretty gross. might get close to an inch of rain through tonight. Probably plenty of minor flooding and standing water.
Strong like they always are here, gusts to 40-50 kt.
I should say doesn't look like it shuts off to me after the snow which is not ideal, could be at least another 0.5" of rain after the snow turns off to rain. That other wave develops to the south lingers the precip.
Yeah i knew it was an outlier when preparing the forecast today, but I figured it wouldn't shift that much given the ensembles were there too. it basically just folded it's previous three runs and went with the other guidance.