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how do you have an alligator as a pet? where did they keep it...the bathtub? do they eat spiders?

wtf?????? how did an alligator get there? great now we have to deal with those.

unless that period happens to be right around climo...sadly, probably not

The problem is there are too many ridiculous products out there. Past 120-hours...hell maybe even 96 you only need upper-level charts and some SLP progs. No QPF or snow maps or whatever

I don't know if it's really a case of models sucking. These past few winters we have seen patterns become established which have tended to be progressive in nature which usually is associated with lots of moving parts (i.e. shortwave energy). When you have situations where there are so many pieces of energy and an infinite amount of interactions you get chaos from hell. This is why when looking just at SLP and sfc charts you get tons of different solutions not only from model-to-model but mode run-to-model run...it's a product of the infinite amount of solutions which exist.

The first few inches of the season are always special...or hell the first storm really. Also knowing what lies ahead with the pattern moving forward we need to capitalize on any chance (no matter how minor) we can get

much better than me. This is just frustrating b/c you watch the evolution of this from the upper-levels down to the surface and it's close to being a big hit. I' just so sick of this crap though these past few winters. It's almost not even worth monitoring or getting excited for any chance unless you're within 72-hours...and even then you probably get disappointed.

This is absolutely ridiculous. So freaking sick and tired of this. Everything just turns to crap. crap...crap...crap. Winter isn't even fun anymore....it's just full of stupid dry cold and then when we get something we torch. This is why social media sucks...everyone going bonkers posting D5-7+ garbage and then sounding alarms b/c there is "good agreement" at D5 and then it all goes to SHIT. Was a nice 2-3'' of snow that much to ask for?????

May as well just start a damaging wind threat for Sunday at this juncture

Always is

This is going to be super, super close. This is going to end up becoming a pretty impressive storm but does everything happen in time? There is just so much moisture and upward motion. If we can even get things to time like 6-hours earlier which isn't farfetched. This is such a beautiful ULJ structure. Wish it would unfold to this like 100-miles west

Also watching that energy off the SW coast there...that has implications on that ridging into the Inter-mountain West. Conceivably, stronger ridging in the Inter-mountain West could influence a sharper trough/more digging and earlier

Based on Anthony's post you almost wonder if the 18z Euro got caught in the Buffalo wind

GFS just seems a bit flatter with the trough. but as stated...it's a definite improvement from before. I take that as a win

First call. Lots of positives here for sure! Could certainly trend in either direction but definitely loving the signals which are trending in a favorable direction

sometimes I don't get that option. I wonder if it happens on other browsers

Working on a snowfall map now...would wait until after 0z tonight but I'll be watching the Pats and probably a few beers deep. But general thinking is 2-4'' southern CT and 1-3'' rest of state. I could certainly see some 5'' potential is favorable trends continue

cod is pissing me off with these stupid "this site can't provide a secure connection errors" I love cod b/c it has a ton of different parameters and is the easiest to maneuver.

skimming through some soundings there is also a decent unstable layer in there around 850mb or so. could be a fun few hours under the band (for whoever gets in)

There would most likely be a narrow band of moderate-to-heavy band of snow given this look. Would probably pass along southern CT, RI, and far SE MA

Yup! I feel a bit better now Was looking at NAM when I thought I was looking at the HRRR I always love when the HRRR gets into range (even if it's at the 48-hour mark) b/c it can really be useful when spotting and assessing for trends.

FWIW as we're getting inside the 48-hour window but the 18z HRRR seems to be siding with a NAM-type ordeal EDIT: Scratch this...I had the NAM up not the HRRR

One of the first things I like to see when looking long-term/seasonal in the winter for us is whether the pattern looks wet or dry. If it looks wet...I don't care what temperature anomalies look like or what the averaged smoothed out pattern looks like. At our latitude, if we are above-average precip for the winter there's a good bet we're getting at least one great snow event.

This is precisely why this winter I am going to try hard and not get so invested in anything that is beyond 4 days out. The past few winters have been a dangling carrot in front of the horse. The pattern we just become established in is just too chaotic.

This system is going to be up in the air until probably the last minute. The ceiling for overperforming (somewhere) is pretty high. Having the baroclinic zone so far north (which all models are in general agreement on) is a nice to see. I don't know what the odds are for this to develop on the earlier side but this does have potential to get its act together in enough time to get a band of moderate snow to traverse CT, RI, and eastern MA. Going to be lots of moisture thrown into this system with favorable thermal profiles and great dynamics to work with. So the frame work is there.