weatherwiz

I am, yeah that wind is roaring and it kicked up quick. Bet those gusts were pushing 45-50. It's probably not the best metric for here but curious to see what CEF reports. A mixture of precipitation but it is quickly becoming all snow.

Its like a summer time severe squall line gust front!!!!

Lightning up around North Adams

Went outside to bring in the garbage can before the snow derecho gets here, though I will say a part of me would have loved watching it blow down the street. Anyways, I went outside in just a light jacket...was beautiful to be able to do that.

I hope we get mlvl lapse rates like this in May-June-July

Lightning west of BGM!!!

What a beautiful looking squall line

GENERAL THUNDER TODAY!!!!! Had a feeling there could be some thunder chances

93 days!!!

Maybe a nice swath of wintry precip along the H7 warm front

I haven't look ahead as to what the insights are for this ENSO event...which I just checked to see but thus far (at least from the ONI methodology we are not in a defined La Nina...but I have opened my book at using more than just ONI for ENSO bases). Anyways...just give me like 2-3-4 years of neutral ENSO...flush out the atmosphere of all this ENSO induced momentum. We've either been in an EL Nino or La Nina since like 2015 or 2014...with maybe one year defined as neutral and even that was a borderline EL Nino event.

What I mean is in that in another 3 weeks that's when we really start the downhill decent. March can certainly prolific but would you really want to throw your chips in on that happening. I've always felt that if you have to count on March to eliminate the snowfall deficit...chances are you're screwed. All I'm saying our window is beginning the slow descent to closing and that descent speeds up in 3 weeks or so. As we move through the first week of February we better want to be seeing favorable looks and not the boring, dead we have since last weeks event. If that is the case...that won't be good. Believe me...I am rooting and hoping for it.

Exactly...that is the issue, we can't get anything to line up. For those towards the coast and lower elevations...time is a ticking. Sure we're in the climatologically favored period but we need more than that to produce and right now the pipe line does not look encouraging. The tune begins to start changing very quickly in another 3 weeks or so outside of NNE and elevations. Of course we can get slammed in March with a storm but it is difficult to do and we'd then be adding on something exceedingly difficult on top of what already has been difficult. We certainly have some time left but that hourglass is beginning to spit sand a bit more quickly.

Almost at that time of year when NNE starts to really cash in. I fully expect NNE to get slammed over the next 4-6 weeks.

Actually most of precip tomorrow would probably be along the lines of graupel (with exception of northwestern part of the region)

If lapse rates were a bit steeper tomorrow we'd probably see a line of squalls WITH lightning

Does this include dews too?

If it's in the cards, I am down for a March an/or April snowstorm but I am really ready for warmer weather by then. I want to be watching playoff hockey outside in April.

The way things have been going it may as well be 60% of 0.

I am rooting for an early and warm spring at this point, unfortunately that probably won't happen. We'll probably enter a pattern second half of February and March that elicits, "if only we had this 4-6 weeks ago" while NNE is getting pounded and everyone else is in misery with cold rain or a sloppy mess

Unless you're northern New England the clock will begin ticking rather quickly shortly.

When I looking around at bufkit for several locations from the NAM there were a quite a bit of red flags being presented. But when you're dealing with a situation where it's predominately heavy banding or kind of bust...it can be extremely hard to forecast, especially if you're not certain where that heaviest banding will reside. For example, NAM had some great profile looks at ORH and you could have argued for 6-8" because of the banding signal...but if that band ends up not over them...well the 6-8" isn't happening.

BINGO....1000% agreed. This is also the approach that should be taken with the forecasting aspect. One needs to use knowledge/experience and try to gauge which model is going to handle certain elements the best and then kind of develop a blend within their head. I know NWS has ways and I think there are some pay sites where you can create model blends yourself. Even models that may have performed worse overall, it's quite possible they handled certain elements better than the models which performed best.

Probably depends on what metrics folks are using to to verify. But yeah....the RGEM didn't do well at all. I mean I don't even look at the model and I can't tell from seeing it being posted here lol. At least for me, when I think of verification, I want to see which model handled the pieces better and which model was the most consistent with how the pieces evolved. Stuff like SLP, QPF, snow maps...I don't really care too much about (SLP/QPF probably more so in the final 36 hours) but if you can get a strong handle on the mid/upper levels, you can get a good sense of SLP/QPF without even looking at those products. But like Will said, inside 72 hours the Euro really nailed it and I have to give props to the NAM...it certainly picked up on how this would evolve and I would not expect a model like the GFS to really pickup on precip shield structure.

There has been digging but there is a window of only how much it can dig...unless there are some changes with that southwestern energy. And yeah that is a brutal cold shot on the backside there. Then we'll see what happens...pattern could become more active, it certainly looks more chaotic and unfortunately that comes with the risk that we could encounter a significant warmup...which probably further enhances a more active pattern and that we'll rain