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I was going to wait until today but I felt pretty confident yesterday after the 12z suite. I'll admit some of the afternoon runs were certainly a little nerve-racking. But since then we have continued to see subtle changes in the positive direction at H5. While this hasn't been reflected at the surface (yet) on some models, models are often lagged with reflecting surface changes in response to H5 changes...but as stated there are surface features which could end up having a much larger impact (dual-low for example). As long as those continue I am highly confident we will get extremely heavy snow into much of Connecticut. It will not take much to pile up the snow given the ratios and degree of lift that will be associated with the band.
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We continue to see slight improvements (across all models) with the main features aloft. That continues, at this time, to be the most important aspect overall. While it would be great to see these changes reflected within the surface, that is secondary at this point. If these improvements aloft continue I will bet anything all the models end up converging on a more westward track and we'll see heavier QPF thrown more west than what some models indicate. Just given what we're seeing aloft, IMO the chances of more west are much greater than more east.
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Bruins game and it was the night before my last final exam before graduating and I told myself I was retiring from 40's (unless the Bruins were playing game 7 in the Stanley Cup...of course they did against the Blues the following year but I went to the bar to watch). This may be a special occasion though
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Yeah it's been said but truth of the matter is we've really been in the time period where differences are going to occur. It's not highly common to see model-to-model consistency or even run-to-run consistency 4-5 days or sometimes even as little as 3 days out. I think some are just a bit overanxious. If one just looks at SLP/QPF alone these differences and inconsistencies seem much worse than they really are. As stated several times, very subtle differences between the key features in the mid-levels will have big implications at the surface. The changes needed to get a major storm for the majority of the region are very small. In fact, there is probably a higher chance the majority see a major storm then the majority not seeing a major storm. The biggest takeaways (even with yesterday's runs) is each subsequent and model has had improvements with the key features...whether or not that translated down to the surface is not very important at the time range (but will get more important today). It's all good and fun b/c it's discussion but we all have the tendency to focus too much on certain details in time frames we really shouldn't be.