Typhoon Tip

Heh...not to be a dink but I don't think snow in March of any flavor as being very weird - In fact, I think today's 24/-1 combination of T/TD with zero cloud is actually more of an achievement than 24 and snowing. This f'n airmass just defeated a yato-yato ton nuclear fusion bomb and laughed at it -

actually Thurs does have a bit of a 'nape' appeal yeah but otherwise this week is winter. Late winter but give the forefathers some credit for picking March 21 as the first day of sping - lol

Yeah, we've been onto that ... It's not a block-buster ridge or anything, but it's easy to lose sight and sensitivity to the notion of what happens when you don't have a 50 kt, 900 mb, NNW liquid nitro hose aimed at us at this time of year. Actually, +2C maturing to +4C at 850 mb with a high in that position conducting what light zephyrs there are ... W-->E, zippo clouds ? I bet that 73 or '4

..and it's inside of 5 days ... that's bit more confidence inspiring for that model. Yeah, I agree warm up after still in tact. It looks like this week's event is perhaps that last hurrah - for this cold pattern anyway... Still waiting on La Nina spring

Interesting sub-genre sociological study there ... It may not even be a difficult insight to hypothesis why - Like what's happened between back whence, and the last 20 years ? The Internet. I think the problem has to do with pop -genera and saturation. It is not just the Internet; the tech-wherewithal of western civility makes it too easy across the music development life cycle. Somewhere in convenience, the "art" has suffered, because ...maybe the artists of lore also did and that was the inspiration for their brooding or celebration through song. Some in how the resolution of each stanza reflected that,.. may not be present in quick economics and celebrity rushing - something like that. Those older album formats were an 'intimacy investment' by individuals. The instrumentation in-song, and the artistry ... hate to say, but there's an ineffable 'glow' or 'spirit' about those musical artistry that is lacking in a lot of ways when comparing to party favorites by Pitt Bull ... The latter has its place and some of that is catchy, no doubt. But, it doesn't have the lock in the room, stare at the ceiling while the tunes playing set your mind on cruise control vibe to it. All musical genres, be it rap to metal to alternative and EMO... the musicality back whence arrives in waves of soul. The stuff that is catchy these days, hook you in quick but you learn the lesson again, it is the songs you don't know if like right away that you long to listen to 20 years later.

There's nuanced aspects to the 00z that make me wonder if yesterdays utopian appeal from mid weekend into mid next week ... is getting cleverly schemed out in the model's war-room against fun and happiness of humanity - lol.. I mean, there was tendency to put more emphasis on that 'pinch-low' down there as the ridge lobe (EPS ...etc..) is slabbing over top from D6 to 10 on this run. The prior trend was much more confidence instilling. If that gets just a little stronger and ends up N 5 deg latitude... doesn't matter what happens aloft. Leave NE and don't come back until June - That smacks somewhat of that continental tucking pattern I was euphemistically referring to last year - it's when the flow and ridge aspect folds over at higher latitudes and this creates weakness along the San Francisco to VA, Beach ~ latitudes in the means. Think Kelvin-Hemholtz ( https://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Kelvin-helmholtz_billows) tendency: it may not be readily observed but it's forcing similarly. I've noticed more and more ... in warm seasons, we are setting up tendencies for SE flow in to the mid Atl as a result ... Surface ridging sliding E at higher in latitude and exiting more E of CC as opposed to settling S toward Bermuda. This is because those nodal ridge fold- overs represent pockets of synoptic DVM/ confluence and so sfc high pressures are formulating concomitantly. So, in the means you end up with displacing the mean SW heat trajectories farther NW.. The thing is... this means more DP is showing up in the averages from SNE and S, which keeps the nocturnal temp elevated, but knocks say the cap off the higher heat days. To get the 95 + big heat at our latitude, you really want the DP in the 63 range with an EML/ 850 kinetic layer.. You don't want 70+ DPs on a SSW flow... No one notices that... 101/64 is pig fart hot, and so is 93/76 ...blah blah

I dunno... 00z Euro brought at least light to the Pike ... 06z GFS is actually cat pawing moderately for a stint that far N too - But I think by "snow" ...you're thinking 'worth mentioning' - lol... yeah, I'd agree ... not looking good. One of or both things need to happen for more snow ... one, having this thing be strengthening, not attenuating, as it is approaching the eastern seaboard ..it would tend to lift the deformation axis while pulling cold in at lower levels for a transition blue. Two, the N/stream is presently modeled as negative interference - suppressing said deformation axis S ( N of d-formation zone is outside the cyclones reach as the standard synoptic convention). It needs to either back off completely get out of the way so that 'one' can happen, or, modulate and become dominate the other way ..capture and then this gets interesting quick. Unfortunately, trends are in the other direction on both - but, there's time.

Did Logan clock their trace of snow today?

So the 18z GFS pulls winter out after the late week suppression. Within a day or two thicknesses go above 540 and it’s the spring layout right to the end of that run almost a week and a half worth of days either raining at 552 thicknesses or sunny at 552 that’s Greenup

What’s interesting is that cutoff low is not very deep in the troposphere it’s actually not a typical standard deviation depth for that kind of event /time of year...but then again it also is pretty localized; it’s that one band doing that

I'm pretty sure (??) La Nina springs tend to be dryer than normal - I'm not a big fan of ENSO's anymore in the heart of the winters ..as I'm suspecting increasingly so that intense mid winter hemispheric/ambient gradient saturation is tending to mute that ENSO as primary in pattern forcing. We've been noting over recent winters the lack of real-time/ correlated appeals to patterns on either warm(cool) side of the ENSOs... - although it is interesting that Australia did pick up a decent wet summer this year. By and large, however, the hemisphere's have not been registering the same climate impacts along known geographical/routes .. .. anyway, I'm not sure if that is "as" true as a hypothesis application in autumns and springs. Anyway, ... I also don't believe in "droughts" in New England as much as I do dry eras... that 'mimic' droughts. This isn't west Texas... Autumns here seldom look like their preceding summers, which altogether are utterly noisy in the statistics compared to ensuing winters...etc... If dry eras last through all three, it's just good night at the crappes table.

In fact.. if that 'weakness' off the lower M/A continues to minor out, that ridge may gain vertical depth in the DCA latitudes, which would service us with taller BL thickness/deeper layer conveyor, too.. We go from 69 ish to 79'ish. Can't be ruled out because as the ridge node's been gathering weight across successive run cycles, so to has that thing been filling -

I saw that - I'd like to add that we're putting that up on a D9 ... D 9 ! oh, right you mentioned that - heh right That might be antithetically similar to 995 mb low on a D9 EPS in turns of relative or absolute value. Just guessin' but yeah... that may also not be a signal that's done trending. If one cares to reset that product to D7 (168 ) and click previous 3 or 4 times, it's been gaining hypsometric depth on every cycle ... 2 and 3 dm intervals. True for the GEFs as well - even though the operational run is clearly created to insidiously hide global warming ...

vis has been fluctuating between 1/4 and 1/2 mi here for 20 min - strange "squall" ... it's not really accumulating efficiently ..really at all. Melting on contact but ground starting to feather. Oh, okay - looks to finally be easing up now. So tomorrow is brutal ... I was just looking at the 12z TI numbers of the NAM for Logan and they are -12 C ! 10F over a bare ground in mid March... it's relatively rare to get that cold there anyway, but this is getting late and doing so with little/no cryo help ... But, it's also just 12 hours and it's shucked seaward. It's a testament to the general telecon layout not really supporting this air mass - and they haven't really ... - that it can't sustain. It's sort of a anomalous drive-by face smack - LOL.

I mean.. . my god... It's like 3 days in the top 3 - The biggest fear is that it's D6 to 10 so it's like the antithesis of the D8 bomb. Lol -

wow, goes out to the end of the run, too - +2 to +7, CNE to the S. Coast from D6 on, in full sun is going to boost green up at least in the undergrowth species and surfaces...

Actually Saturday is a bit of gem appeal too.

I mean I hate any sentiment that 'wishes the time away,' but even I have to fend off the notion of 'just get us to next Sunday,' when looking over this 12z Euro... Man, that is the first top 10 day of the year arriving into spring... Might even qualify top 5er in that look. It's like 68 F, and under unabated sun and just barely noticeable WNW drift to the air .. it'd just be like an opium nap out there -

Today ... perhaps early Wednesday, then again, late week, if Logan does not put a trace of snow ( at least ..) in the books, things are gonna get tight - It seems the models/ ens means ... are struggling and losing against the seasonal hemisphere. It's like they are suppressing the storm, at the same time the air mass is moderating over top (00z Euro) if subtly - the system for late week. In general, there seems an attempt to minor that out more every run...and at this point, the GGEM and GFS ( 12z ) can't even get measurable to HFD. For several runs, the Euro's offering a sneaky "nape" day in there on Wednesday. The 00z has 300, 500, and 700 sigma level RH fields allowing at least partly sunny cut through, 18z on Wednesday, with light wind. Not a total loss... but the whole complexion there after suppressing the low S and moderating the 850 mb thermal layout seems is trend more so than aberration run. It'll be interesting to see if the 12z continues. anyway, "tight at Logan" ... there has never been a March without at least a trace of snow at that location. If they don't do it today ...over this week, it would be dicey whether they can the rest of the way. Because it does not appear there is an opportunity after this immediate week - aspect would have to change.

I can relate. I was leaving the driveway around 6:35 am fairly routinely in the couple years leading to society changes forced by this pandemic stuff. I took the same route to work spanning those years, which put me right around the bends on I-91 in central Mass right as Worcester comes into view. Around this time of year, the sun was tipping over the eastern horizon, and it was always an internal monologue, "...For the next 2.5 weeks it will be in my face..." But in the heart of winter, it was deep night and just a morning glow rising at that particular region of the commute. Contrasting, by early summer, the sun was high enough to no longer be in one's face. I think of the two ends of that spectrum, I'd rather not leave for work under star twinkling nocturn. But it's tough...because I don't like dark at 4pm no matter what - hm.. Still, I think I'd rather have the light extension at the end of the afternoon... Because usually when en route to work ...I'm thinking about the day's bs and it's not "usable" day light anyway because the goal is a cup of joe and 20 min of appropriate internet time before settling into throwing more of my life away...

Yup - this, right here, underscores the 'why' it was necessary as a societal response. In simplest terms? Medicine et al simply cannot - yet - predict who will fall in that relatively rare, 2::23 or 1::31 ( whatever) persons destined for intubation. As you say ...no prior comorbidities - I've heard enough of both types of lead-ins that my country bumpkin take is that yeah... comorbidity factors raise risk for those individuals, but, there are a large percentage that didn't fall into that group - necessarily - and they ended up in the same pickle with tech keeping them alive. So there's an overlap, one that means comorbidity factors alone cannot example and are only partial. We've all heard of comorbidity types also walking away, 'phew.' Bottom line, there does not really appear to be any kind of 'one-size-fits all' affliction with this virus, like with Polio..etc. Or EEE ... etc. Risk enhancers? yes. But that is no certainty. For the love of Humanity's worst invention of all, the concept of God, let us "waste time praying" (...if it makes us feel any better no harm in wall wailing). that late game COVID-19 has higher survival rates now. Earlier on in this Pandemic - 'avoid that criticality and you probably will be fine' ... But, this has been probably one of the fastest turn-arounds --> positive returns for medicine triumphs in the history of humanity, so with that fervor of advancement those latter stages recovery rates may have improved?

Nah life will return. Just like it did after every pandemic in history. Society at al and en masse is acting like they are addicted to doomscrolling… Like they have to see the worst possible scenario as the only possible reality. Frankly 90% of humanity needs to have their Internet taken away from them they can’t handle it; they can’t lucidly categorizes information and they are too prone to this kind of easily beguiled by dystopian charm thing that’s going around and people are making a fortune off their panic If you talk to the epidemiologists they will tell you that the future COVID-19 descendants he will be a less pernicious version because that is the natural gestation of these pandemic virus; less damaging variations given time because it doesn’t make any sense to kill the host in wild biology.

I'm surprised at the 48 we put up here given the synoptic appeal.. I heard one of those 'from tape' generic, idiot radio forecasts in passing last night talking about struggling through the upper 30s to 40. I wonder what the MOS looked like -

nah... I doubt that thing at the end of the week at this point - ... I won't say no altogether because I'm not stupid...I mean, it's f'n March. But in the here and now, the rotted side of that air mass is not marginal enough, and the only cold source arrives as an N/stream smash in that's inharmonic and destructively interfering with that opening S/stream remnant mid level trough given to nuances in the stream behaviors - it stays an open wave over the outer Maritimes ... The things is...the other guidance more than less show that or are trending in that favor. And it fits the other indicators - I think we're triggering undergrowth green up after -

Noticing a efficacy slope that is favoring more so to those companies that waiting to release their version of the vaccine/ .. availability therein. It seems those that waited have the great comprehensive utility against variances, and nuances. It's like those companies "prooobably" knew that - the Moderna out there... They all have access to the same technology and science wherewithal, and probably were all in reality within a week or two of progress the whole time. Those that announced earlier, they could have perhaps waited and "perfected" their versions I'm just water cooler speculating here ... it doesn't take an economist to predict the pay off on being the first. The first version needed, what -70 C storage ...which represented a tricky logistical issue. Then the next 'generations' require 2 shots... Then came single shot ... now, single shot with vastly more comprehensive Pfizer this or that.. It's likely the latter ultimately ends up being the permanent yearly booster that comes along side, if not integrated somehow into the InF A and B on-going .. So, folks won't likely forget those names like Moderna ..etc etc.