
SnowGoose69
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The ICON often times does well at day 3-5 and sucks inside of that range. Its really strange but it has sniffed out trends or storms before when other models did not seem them. It might just be confirmation bias but the MA forum has mentioned the same thing
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I just think its more likely this thing goes out than cuts. Even if it did "cut" there would probably be some sort of big snows on the front end, even to the coast because it won't be an amped/phased type system if it trends more in that direction. Right now I feel Monday is way more likely to go NW than out and vice versa for Wednesday.
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CMC also bumped pretty hard north Monday. GFS did not really budge outside of noise. As I said with Wednesday its truly a mix of a bunch of events. I see some 2/4/95, some 12/21/09 and also some 2/13/14 in it
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It doesn't remind me of any one setup. Its sort of a hybrid of a SWFE/Miller B to an extent. There are some similarities to 2/4/95 but the air mass in place is way better. There was no strong high to the north in that event.
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One thing is almost for certain. Don't expect the GFS to show squat with it til last minute. I am sort of shocked its as far NW as it is with the system at the moment. It'll also probably show it as an all rain event too if it does come far enough NW for precip here
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The first wave will also impact the next storm. So we more or less have to see what Monday does first
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We've seen many of those types of events in recent years and they tend to look rainy at day 3-4 but as you get closer in models usually grasp the cold air bleeding in. They always look scary when you're 45/35 6-12 hours out and everyone is screaming bust
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Monday is too far out to iron out but if you were to take the 06Z Op Euro literally its probably an all snow event even at the coast.
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December 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to bluewave's topic in New York City Metro
The difference this year is the -NAO is actually real in that over the next week it will be in place. I wouldn't be so sure the forecast on the EPS at 10-15 days of the -NAO are going to be fantasy as they have been most of the last decade. -
December 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to bluewave's topic in New York City Metro
the most shocking thing to me here was that Caribou never broke the record of 59F they set in February 1994 for the warmest meteorological winter day. I figured for sure that record had gotten broken in the last 25 years -
I would be wary still of the euro being overamped at this range as it seems to be consistently the last 5 years. It was insanely overamped with tomorrow's evolution of this very system over OK/TX 3 days ago and has since gone the other way.
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December 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to bluewave's topic in New York City Metro
I've noticed the GFS when we have favorable patterns in the East for cold has always had a serious bias to tend to want to pull the ridge back west and dump cold air masses into the west or Plains Day 8-9 and beyond. Its been showing that the last few days consistently and the EPS wants no part of it. -
December 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to bluewave's topic in New York City Metro
The last 1-2 days the Op GFS has pretty consistently wanted to torch the east and have a SER. Very bizarre because most runs it’s ensembles have disagreed -
December 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to bluewave's topic in New York City Metro
There is no cold air in place ahead of it and when the system turns up the coast down by Georgia there’s a low in Quebec, not a high. You wouldn’t get snow with that system unless it was vertically stacked as it passed northeast of the area. In that case there would be an area of snow behind it -
The 80s/90s stretch I buy somewhat into the transitional AMO theory. There was evidence that back in the last period when AMO was beginning the flip from cold to warm there were many positive AO/NAO winters as well though we don't have the stats back in that 1920-1935 period.
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I think it definitely has something to do with the overall crap pattern the last few years and no -AO/NAO since 2011 though.
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December 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to bluewave's topic in New York City Metro
The GFS pattern really looks 1980s like with the cold shots that keep ejecting south out of eastern Canada -
December 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to bluewave's topic in New York City Metro
We are pretty much due for a winter where everyone forecasts wall to wall torch and it ends up like 93-94. I don’t see much reason to assume that happens this year but it’s going to be hard to duplicate last winter. This is sort of the opposite of going cold and snowy in 94-95 or 01-02 after the preceding winters sort of had a ton of things break in a favorable way. It’ll be hard to get the ratter this winter we had last year again -
December 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to bluewave's topic in New York City Metro
If I remember right in December 88 the positive NAO killed us. There was probably 3-4 decent storms that came out of the Gulf but weren’t able to make the turn up the coast -
November 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to Rtd208's topic in New York City Metro
Way stronger. Its up there with 98-99/10-11/88-89 -
November 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to Rtd208's topic in New York City Metro
I think it was a non factor. In 01-02 the MJO was a big factor being mostly 3-4-5 all winter. -
November 2020 General Discussions & Observations Thread
SnowGoose69 replied to Rtd208's topic in New York City Metro
I think that 2011 mostly got sunk by the AK vortex and then January into February got sunk by an SSW which forced what would have been a west or central based -NAO into an uber east based NAO that actually made the pattern even more hostile -
The funny thing is thats the exact sort of pattern where somehow Richmond or Atlanta or Nashville will find a snow event but anything major won't happen in the NE. It sort of is 01-02/11-12ish, its not classic Nina SER at all, its just weak to moderate AK vortex, east has a trof at times (hard to tell with the smoothing) but no cold air source at all.