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That worked out better than I thought it would because the heavy precip came early before the mid level warmth could ruin it-in these SWFE type setups we need the heavy initial thump. Even in Long Beach there was 4-5" because the snow came in like a wall and piled up. The ones where it gets delayed/comes in shredded you know will disappoint.
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It's really about the mid levels and 700/850 low tracks. Right now the blocking is stout enough that those don't screw us over but I wouldn't say we're out of the woods (around NYC). Look at the soundings. There will definitely be a sleetfest zone in this kind of storm because of those mid level lows going north of them and bringing in the warm air at 750/800mb. Right now that's most of PA down to Philly but have to watch any last minute trend.
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Guardedly optimistic at this point. These shift north at the end so many times though. Hopefully the blocking does the trick.
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This is where you have to look at soundings and the mid level low tracks-700 and 850. If those lows go north of you you’re essentially guaranteed to mix and there will definitely be a warm nose somewhere with a system like this and sleetfest zone.
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Hey-if that holds we’re good to go. Hopefully that’s real.
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I hope you’re right-hoping for an inch tomorrow so that would get me to 9” for the month, then this could add quite a bit if it goes well. These usually trend north at the end, we’ll need confluence and blocking to keep it south. I’d feel a little better about this one for Boston but we’ll see.
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Hopefully an inch or so where I live, it’s usually a couple to few degrees colder than the city so that should help.
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NWS needs to either put a dedicated observer there who will do it properly or just use obs from someplace else.
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We took off yesterday afternoon so not always. Any snow threat always seems to do it though. I thought for sure I’d be delayed by a ton or canceled. Had a couple screams on the plane on the way out of JFK.
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It’ll delay my flight back somehow so it’s guaranteed to happen.
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I’m in Austin currently and flying back on Tuesday so part of me doesn’t want this to happen, but if it does and we can secure the White Christmas great. Somehow through a miracle my flight took off yesterday even though the first 15 minutes were pretty white knuckle. Wearing shorts and temp around 70, 70s expected for the rest of my time here.
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If the snow/overrunning move in quickly while the cold air is still in place it can work. If it delays and the cold air moves out, it won’t. We’ve seen this game before.
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The hi res models warned about the wind threat today, sometimes it’s a false alarm. It’s pretty messy around my neighborhood and I know others not far away got it worse. We probably gusted 55-60 here.
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Crazy how you can time the cold early Dec with the warm late Dec the last 5 years or so. At least 90% of us made a nice snowstorm happen when it was cold this month. Hopefully we can get a window to do it again in Jan/Feb. A Nina with a good Dec snowstorm usually finds a way to do it again later in the winter and sometimes more than once.
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The Grinch put on red this year.
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Already happened this month. In fact there was 3” on a bench on Sunday. Pay up.
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That’s the storm laughing at us as it destroyed all our snow.
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The snow on Sun probably weakened some of the trees/power lines. The first 5” of it was paste here that clung to everything.
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Some bigger branches and even a small tree down in my neighborhood. Yikes
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A few years ago after a nasty T-storm knocked trees down my town trimmed most of the trees around any power line so it’s been better since then, but it’s a higher end wind event here for sure. Probably some 55+ gusts.
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Lots of smaller branches down here and decorations/garbage pails blowing all over the place.
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Yep, ice everywhere this morning.
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2010-11 was by far the best snow cover winter I’ve ever seen.
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And then Fri’s rain will come with strong winds so by the end we’ll just have the dirty mall piles. Oh well.
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If we have a slightly negative or neutral PNA that would drive a more zonal jet stream, it could work with a -NAO, but a sharply negative -PNA would drive such a deep trough on the west coast that the SE ridge would respond and possibly link with the NAO block. That’s obviously what we want to avoid.
