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I think we need to get out of this La Niña stuff. We’re either getting storms with too much warm air intrusion from 850 to 700 or fast moving NS systems that aren’t digging early enough (too much ridging out west?). Need a pattern that allows these components to play nicer together. Feels like it usually points back to downstream blocking. The main causes of that would make for an interesting research topic.

Missed the 0z runs, but before I crashed I noticed the wind direction at the lower levels is really cutting off moisture from the gulf and even Atlantic until the system cranks. Seems we’d be relying entirely off the coastal cranking early enough, which is the opposite of the last system that had southwest winds feeding us moisture from the Pacific and the Gulf.

As depicted, with the arctic air in place and the fact that we have a closed low, that has potential to be a blizzard for someone near the coast.

Yea me too…see you tomorrow at 12z.

It does seem like a Jan 2000 would make a decent analog to this setup.

Which is exactly what I think our area should be rooting for (the coastal seems a reach). I’d like to see the energy out west a little further north and the ns system as well.

There should be a 1000 emoji for this

Just finished shoveling. Kinda proud of my work tbh. What’s also cool is coming inside after starting at bright snow and everything is low lit.

Just shoveled one side of my car. Unpleasant, but doable. Helped that we didn’t have any fzra. But it’s still pretty thick.

Maybe wait until it’s more than a light westerly breeze away from being a fish storm.

Bruh

What about the preseason game against the Commanders?

Same. The dudes that work in my development worked all day yesterday (and probably underpaid for it). Now shoveling around my car is not something I’m looking forward to. Might wait until the sun breaks out before tackling that.

Bombogenesis, but I don’t trust it until the nam shows it. Jk

Yea, and I don’t know how I feel about it lol. Rule measured 5-5.5” here…followed by 8 hrs of sleet. Fun and interesting storm, but 2/3 of it was sleet (aka not snow).