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December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Neither have you what im asking -
December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I realize y’all point the troll finger but has he said anything that’s not true tho ? -
We tucked here... temps down 2 and wind is N
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Same two towns over here in Ayer.. though more PL than ZR. 32 on the button.
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December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I believe it is the northern stream that you really want to pay attention to, folks - -
December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I know what meant but .. not a 'right or wrong' - I was legit asking. I just know it was snowing off and on overnight out in Clinton, which is about 30 mi as the crow flies, west of the city, and the snow was dry and powdery by dawn. Doesn't matter though - I've seen it be 19 F with near white out in Winchester, and 34F with cat paw rain at Logan - dem two locations be like 10 mi apart. But 7am on Xmas morning would have counted - not sure how the disqualifies Xmas if it snows at noon ...on Xmas. Anyway, the synopsis of that day had a coastal snowing at dawn essentially. It's a matter of whether it get to the coast. -
Heh... riding the 'Hadley Cell express' means shredding la vida loca !
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December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Keeping in mind, also - ..for the general reader. .... CC is real? Yup... shocker but it is. Unfortunately. And, it has been noted that the curve is more logarithmic than perfectly linear. That means the change is inconsistent/accelerating. How much or less, notwithstanding - Plus, we get into the uncertainty area about "thresholds" and so forth - almost like the natural order 'fights back' ...tries to 'bend but not break' until it has to, then 'clicks' into a new regime. It's like passing through the event horizon of the black hole ( in theory ..), where you don't feel or notice anything of particular differentiation or notice upon going across the boundary, but you can never go back... Obviously, the climate can - but ...metaphors for fun.. The percentages are calculated over 150 years and so forth ... blah blah... BUT the ballast of the years in that sample set obviously took place way back before this CC shit started ( possibly ) invalidating climate signals that are based upon them. It could just be 'on the wrong side of variance' like that, sure. But, it could, dreadful to consider, be that a 'newer climate mode' lowers the chances. In that sense .. -
December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I thought 2017 snowed in Boston? I was in Clinton/MA for that one. Winter storm warning for 6-8" or something middling like that, for Xmas Eve into the morning and it was like Currier&Ives post-card out there at the dawn. It was like ... perfection entree, with a side of perfection - Temp was 27 F with snow mid size aggregates whirling around in 1/2 mi visibility over 7" ... perfectly managed forecast, too. But I dunno - maybe Boston was hung up on the E side of CF or some other least excuse imagined not to get it done - -
December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I've given up ... lol. I mean whether it happens or not, I'm noticing a definitive pattern of modeling behavior that is both eerie, and real: Losing mid/extended range specters, ... objectively plausible ones, too, precisely upon anyone mentioning them ... Almost like the electron double split spooky action at a distance thing. Seriously though, that 22nd/23rd thing has had opportunity to be there but now the PNA s diving again next week, after a couple .. 3 days where it was alleviating some ( at least...). It's a bizarre hemisphere, no doubt - I'd even venture to call it 'rare' in some sense. Though I doubt there are any databases the calculate teleconnector failure regimes, per se. But having a -WPO tending to spill or lap over into the EPO domain, with -30 to -35 C 850 mb thermal sink over the vast expanse of the NW Canadian open tundra ( Euro 00z ), .... FAIL to come south. With -EPO/-NAO, together with the former circumstance, that is a uniquely distinguished telecon forcing breakdown. It's almost flirting with remarkable, actually - Fascinating ... I suppose it would nice to be on the winter storm side of fascinating anomalies, but maybe that was 2015/Feb. But here, not only are those aspects out there by D5-10 ...the Euro gets the 850s above normal to BUF. -
December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Seems on par with expectations... yup - no worries. Considering NWS that is. Here is a product lifted from DVN: ...Resolution doesn't scale up very well with the tools/apps I have installed buuuut, that looks pretty cleanly still like TAN is way way buried on the left side of that probability spectrum. I'd say probably near the cusp of the 0-10% boundary with the entry into the 11-25%... If that is so ( for spell out's sake - ) that's like saying in 100 years, you can have a white Xmas 11 times. Obviously nature is messy and numbers don't return rate at such orderly predictability... but for layman's argument, a scatter distribution of 11 over a Century is roughly once ever 9 years ( 100/11 = 99 plus change...). So, throw in GW (that many either protest/pretends/denies/gets into fume wars if they have to admit..etc, that suffers our latitude like everywhere else) ..that may account for stretching some ... who knows? But either way, it's not stretching expectations too 'unjustly' if thinking about the numbers. It would be nice if we could get a white Xmas every year with an 11% return rate - but that would require some sort of weird alternate reality LOL... -
Look at it on the bright side … it’ll snow right where the new climate regime we’ve clicked into says it should… How’s that for trolling. Lol. ho man
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I’m sure they did but “days ago” this was tracking through CNE heh
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This is ice if it’s that miserable aloft. Higher PP north while wet bulbing is an easy tuck call
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Dew points pressing in the low 20s … not bad. Ts 40-44.
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December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
nothing to see here ... until a week 2 perhaps unless shit changes - we'll see if it does, otherwise. nope - -
00z NAM looked snow -like beneath 800mb/ N of the pike. about .5” liq eq
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December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
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December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Yeah agreed... I think that period 22 -25th is still on the table... It'd be ( I think? ) the 22nd event these models toyed with 4 days back, but lost it. But that chart above is/are a part of the moving pieces back then, still being negotiated in these runs now... I don't think - duh - at D7+ it is too much to ask for this to modulate back into significance. I just you know honestly I wouldn't really be hitting at it, but these blocking nodes, Greenland ( and trending W by the way ...) and -(WPO;EPO), are evolving, ..which means no one from Colorado to NF is safe at this point. interesting -
I'm saying that as a 'least' result - I mean, at this point, I'd hedge the Euro run and put money on that ... ( but tomorrow is a different day at the casino) But you know, even for the Euro, ..when the flow is compressed and fast like this, the snow vs mix vs rain corridors may also narrow. Small or even nuanced perturbations in where the ballast of the system tracks can make for impact variances along challengingly small forecast distances. And those small variances are below the model(s) capacity.
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No one's asking me ... But I'm still okay with front snow spits going over to ZR/PL/R mix in the interior, with snow mainly southern VT/NH ...maybe down to Rt 2 along N Mass interior. I don't think the front IB is that huge though, because this thing is mechanically not huge. But ...sometimes things can maximize too ... There's that, plus ... that local climate group tendency in the verified numbers to result above guidance - ..so Anyway, I'm calling that a relative win; probably already is, considering 3 days ago ...not many were taking this seriously, either for entertainment or impact aside. My thing then was that it should be considered, and..it would like be colder - I still feel that way just based a-prior experience. It's after Dec 15 ... with a new polar boundary S of us. I realize GW is going to eventually f-us good and proper right out of winter, but it is too early to start assuming those kind of fronts end up back N of our latitude in flat screamin' flows +PP over BTV.
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December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I think this should be monitored on the 22nd and 23rd for that thing to make a re-appearance, old school style, in guidance... We can see below, close! That N-stream is just not quite digging enough, but ...notice that time stamp there says 174 hours... And given the speed of the overall system translations in the flow, the total N-stream aspect of this is probably somewhere NW of the Aleutian archipelago ... and with the flow during this run-up era buckling toward more N-S constructs over the Alaskan sector... it's not a far-gone conclusion as to whether that'll start digging more in future run cycles. ya know ... we typically lose, or lose significance, systems in the ext...it'd seem almost fitting if one 'emerges' instead. Although ...the 22n/23rd was in there 3 or 4 days ago, just sayn' -
December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I've actually noticed the middling wave interations/stream timings have been more off, and that phasing is rarer, EXCEPT for big events, which those have a slightly greater frequency - and why we've been seeing things like yesterday, and that NS/NF cat 3 -scaled blizzard... historic in scale. We've been breaking records, case anyone hasn't noticed, as like a "weather culture" at this point. Folks are expecting it - digress. It's like lowering the numbers of mid-grade phases, and increasing by a little, at the big kahoona end. I betcha.... I'd be willing to hunch that the energy budget of the atmosphere is balanced that way... 2 mids = 1 big in a sloppy sense? So we reduce the mids by a couple ... but get 87 kts out in Goodland Kansa in clear air in dust. ha -
December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I tossed you 'like' on this because yar ... I've been rather truculent about these observation ... over and over again, for years - specifically the bold abv. But it's all good - I've noticed with the general public, mantras seemingly have to be repeated 100 times to move the needle of awareness 1% - occupational hazard 'falling on deaf ears' The phenomenon that I have been trying to bring to the attention to the dopamine drip D9 bomb zombies ... ( relax I'm kidding!) is that these damn things keep getting corrected less, as they move from that range to D6 ... D4 ... sometimes not existing at all by the time they are D2 or...some paltry version of the original vision. I've metaphorically referred to this as the moon rising over the horizon phenomenon, where it looks ginormous at first, but then shrinks as it rises... Anyway, I suspect the velocity, specifically as it is physically related to the gradient saturation and is handled by the models, is the problem there. In basic wave mechanics - to wit ... all of the atmosphere is a stage for basic wave mechanics merely operating at a giant scale, with various influences of constructive or destructive interfering inputs, but the waves are guided, in principle, by the same. I realize I've likely lost most in this haha ... but for shits and giggles, it looks like this Anyway... it seems for some reason the models "lower" the value of V in that squared term ...out in time, where they are then having to run to run correct the toward higher. Supposition as to a cause, though. You can set this up algebraically, and solve for V's affect on these terms at all scales, out in time, and if the models are slowing things down erroneously, that is going to screw up the X and Y dimensions of the wave space, and intuitively, it does lend to seeing why these events get diminished - change V on the next run, effects these partials. It could be that the models try to relax the gradient, --> less velocity, and then as the the runs go by... add more gradient, adds more V ..blows up the original vision. -
December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
That looping stall/hesitation has been progged that way for about 10 days to 2 weeks actually - in other words, all along. I'm not sure I agree with those tweet authors, that it is effecting shit frankly. That loop was there before Rai was itching it's daddy's pants. It's really more remarkable that circus act appears actually destined to occur, proving ...holy shit, the models are capable of verifying discrete permutation like that. That said, the fact that "Rai" 's "recurve forecast" is delayed until the China Sea longitude ...strikes me as not coincidentally linked to the notion that Phase 7-2 (or the left side of the RMM) are in "destructive" interference with the La Nina footprint of the N. hemisphere - this latter aspect, according to CPC's weekly PDF publications disseminated weekly. In fact, as of the 13th just recently here, "...This MJO event is likely to destructively interfere with La Niña, and there remains uncertainty as to whether the MJO will maintain an organized structure as it moves near the Date Line, as evidenced by large ensemble spread in the RMM forecasts..." Those that want to use the MJO to modulate the hemisphere ( for better or worse and one's leveraging, notwithstanding LOL ), they really should absorb what that means. It means, the MJO could be entirely meaningless. That said, it also may be open to interpretation - as CPC said above... 'unclear,' which doesn't mean no influence. It means the wave integrity is in question - I gather that the 'other side' of that loop some of this may get more clear, but that is a guess. If the hemisphere was in constructive interference, Rai probably comes/pulled out earlier along present track trajectory, and then it's influx of latent heat into the westerlies would go on to help matters. But here's the thing... the EPS and GEFs mean ( as is no novel observation at this point ! ) are heavily agreed upon a significant NE Pacific blocking episode....One so massive, in fact, that the end of their runs...they terminate out to entropy while still some vestiges of that, echoing like a haunt. What is interesting there is ... that is not very La Nina either. It's as though we have two interim -time scaled teleconnectors, the MJO and the AB Phase of the N. Pacific, in an epic battle against the La Nina... Not sure if RNA/-PNA is really that connected to the La Nina, but either way...the whole f'n planet is in destructive interference with all these narrative understandings in conflict.