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SnowGoose69

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  1. I am straight up gonna pass out if TN/GA/SC sees a snow event 1/18-1/20 but I am way more worried about that than I am the Op Euro/CMC ideas....their ensembles sort of show that too...much more likely we see something suppressed
  2. Yeah no doubt I'd be more worried about TN/SC/GA seeing snow on 1/18 than a cutter
  3. Its snowing hard now...I'd say there was probably 0.2, then it melted then there was 0.2 again at 7pm...if the changeover does not get here by 830-9 with these rates an inch probably does happen but not sure they'd take another measurement.
  4. They won’t measure til 00z, by then I suspect they go to rain so probbaly if they get anything it’ll be recorded as only a trace. If they get a nice burst I suspect NWS will call and tell them to get out there and measure. I was told they often do but they can’t always get someone out there in time. Whether those rumors are true or not I do not know
  5. I mentioned it every storm. It’s the Connecticut River Valley dry nose that pushes into the metro. That’s why sometimes you’ll see central Long Island snowing before the metro airports are or even northwest Jersey, even in set ups where we get crushed the metro tends to saturate last and often has higher visibility for several hours, while those surrounding areas might be below a mile.
  6. Euro is a hair better maybe on paper to today's setup but you'd likely end up with almost the same result, perhaps you'd see a bit more snow further south if it translated as shown but I still think thats an inland event probably
  7. The advantages of a mid, yet not awful high position and air mass now yielding some benefits in the area....good enough to probably generate more overrunning snow than models expected and earlier to reach the ground since the surface-10,000 ft layer is not bone dry but still lousy enough you won't see it matter much on accumulations near the city
  8. Hopefully AMO flips soon...it showed signs it might for awhile 4-5 years back but this may end up being a 35 year cycle which means we are still 7 years or so away from any flip
  9. I posted in the NYC forum we knew back on 12/28 that 1/6-7 was favorable before 1/8-1/15 likely sucked, we now know 1/17-18 probably is favorable before 1/22-1/30 likely sucks...maybe they suck less if the MJO is weaker more like the EPS or even HALFWAY to the EPS vs the GEFS but I think for places down in SW CT and back to NJ getting snow from something there is a must or this winter is probably gonna average below normal for sure, won't be easy to even get NYC to 27-30 inches if its 0 as of 1/20 lol
  10. Much as 1/6-1/7 looked like a favorable window 8-10 days ago before we had a week of a bad pattern likely after it looks the same to me now for 1/17....the bad pattern after is not showing just yet on ensembles really but if the MJO forecasts are correct it should begin to over the next few days
  11. Precip is more ahead of schedule in C-PA, across E PA and SW NJ its fairly close to what 18 or 00Z runs showed yesterday as of 18Z. I do think though looking at radar presentation and fact ceilings already are down to 8000 feet in N-C NJ and that this is not a bone dry pre 03 blizzard airmass that there's a fairly strong chance it won't be 2130-22Z before the metro sees precip which many models last night had the start time as.
  12. The 06Z GFS at 384 is a great example why a -NAO does not matter all the time...that storm extrapolated if you want to take it as gospel would probably take like a 1/87 track but there would still be significant snow at the coast before probably it switched...it shows though that the big west ridge and just the trof position being better often matters more than a -NAO. To be fair I am cheating a bit on this statement as 72 hours before the NAO is negative and we do often see storms happen during a flip but we've also had many decent snows with a huge west ridge/well positioned eastern trof and a neutral or +NAO
  13. That makes more sense...the HREF yesterday and many forecasts in prior days I said were way too snowy in places like NE NJ near TEB/cntrl Westchester and near interior SW CT. I never bought places like Paramus, Valhalla, areas along 15 in Fairfield seeing like 7-8 inches at all from this. Those places getting totals like that and NYC seeing nothing usually only occurs in setups like those bastardized miller Bs where you have low level S-SE flow that is weak and penetrates the coast immediately but not inland or where you have a really marginal air mass ahead of the storm with again light e-se flow and you're like 40/31 at the coast and 37/27 up there when it starts...maybe like a 1/6/02 or 1/3/03...seeing that gradient in this sort of event would be unusual...it would typically be 25 miles more N as is shown now
  14. I am sure the GEFS is still too strong on the MJO anyway, just a question of how much but its pretty much been too strong any time its tried to show a strong pulse the last 2 months and the Euro has been too weak, it just is a question whether it verifies closer in amplitude to the Euro or GEFS
  15. It is odd that the GEFS/GFS though now for the better part of 2-3 days when it shows a raging 4-5 MJO on its plots shows what is probably the most favorable pattern for snow in the MA and up the coastal plain we've had all winter but that may simply be the fact there is typically a lag so 1/17-1/22 might be okay even if the MJO is strongly in 5, but 1/23-1/30 may be where its a raging SER
  16. I assumed 4-6 years ago we'd be going back to a -AMO soon but its been delayed to say the least
  17. It has horrid mid-level cold bias for sure beyond like 8 hours. Its very up and down...it runs hot and cold. If its close to the 3km NAM/RGEM inside 12-18 I trust it but it has events where it just performs horrible
  18. I hate the position of the high...more so for my area than Norwalk but even there I just think anything over 4 is a long shot here
  19. Air mass was just way better and track came from further east up the coast....I am thinking SW CT and even maybe areas just N of NYC perform generally worse than most models here with this
  20. Well physically in this setup that could not happen lol...the reason events like 2/2008 happen where it comes in way early is usually due to the high positioning. Our biggest events happen when the high center is new PWM when the event starts and usually is near southern Ontario or maybe Huron/Georgian Bay day prior. In this case the high is simply way too far north
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