jayyy

Ridge out west continues to look good

Fell asleep, just for my body to wake me up at 3 am on the dot. Shocker. 6z nam out to 27

It’s so tempting

You say that if it’s a bad thing! how mad can we be at 4-8” in the Baltimore area with such a setup? Sure, a good 6-12”+ MECS would be great, but I’d take 4-8” in a heartbeat if I could lock it in now. 2-4/3-6 is my expectation unless we see better runs at 12z and Beyond

Can’t argue with the fact that the Gfs tends to be a bit too flat / progressive outside of 72 hours and that it typically trends west as we approach game time. Man…. what id do to have ANY semblance of blocking to the NE heading into this storm.

Yep. I lived just outside of NYC for 26 years growing up. Seen this type of setup enough times to know that E NJ NYC / LI into coastal New England are almost guaranteed to get hit hard by this. My parents house in the lower Hudson valley about 30 miles NNW of nyc is a bit more hit or miss in these setups. Evolutions like the 00z NAM would absolutely crush them with 12-18” under intense CCB bands streaming off the Atlantic. More easterly tracking storms would fringe their area with 2-4” while LI to cape cod saw 12-24”. There was a winter in the early 2000s where we saw numerous east tracking Miller B storms and LI saw 50+“ for the winter while we only saw 20” or so. It was rough. My hope for down here is a solid advisory level event (3-5”) combining the initial NS snow and a brush from the coastal with a potential low end warning boom (6-8) for 95 on east if the stars align.

Thinking the same. A high end advisory to low end warning snowfall areawide would be a win. We truly need things to go just right to score big in these setups

Does it matter what we think? Not you, Ji.

What do you think? 00z Euro steps back toward the GFS? Or moves toward the NAM?

Omg awful. Guess I’m staying up for the euro. Going to need to see more models (other than the NAM and Euro) to show a warning event for 95 to make this official, otherwise it’s likely going to whiff just east. PSU is spot on about the NAM & Euro’s tendency to overdo the western edge of a coastal. Tomorrow is only Wednesday, and we are certainly looking FAR better than we did two days ago, but let’s get the Gfs and Canadian on board before we get too excited. Really anxious to see what the NAM looks like at 12z tomorrow

Upon further inspection - the 00z NAM has snow starting from the NS at hour 63-66 and it’s snowing at 84 with several hours left of snow to go. Low ends up going just east of our sweet spot but it’s a solid ass event

I’m intrigued

JMA @ 72

Pics or it didn’t happen

For sure. When have they ever verified outside 48 hours

Really need to start utilizing this feature.

NAM. Is. So. Slow.

Let’s bring her home

Thank you.

One of the better h5 setups we’ve seen through 39 thus far

NAM’ing inbound?

Side note after digging into the specifics a bit. The 850 MB low on the 18z euro is significantly deeper than on the 12Z ECMWF run and in the same position. Just an observation.

Solid setup coming

Correct. It’s fine to have differing opinions on things - no need to be condescending in the process. I get that a given model isn’t necessarily “trending”, but when models are collecting more recent data, and that data results in a systematic shift in a particular direction 2 days in a row, one could consider that an overall trend. If all models are moving west, to say we are seeing a west trend with the outcome is a reasonable thing to say. At least in my eyes. We’re parsing words here honestly. Pretty stupid argument lol. What else would you call it?

I haven’t said a word since I made one comment about hoping for an average of a 25 mile shift west with each run. Which, is completely plausible. Coming from someone who uttered the words “the storm being further west won’t help us”, you should probably get off your high horse on this one. No one cares about your definition of the word trend. Carry on. By the way - it’s called the rock and sock connection.