Typhoon Tip

Not sure why the adversarial and/or denigration is really necessary - But, you don't correct me. You don't possess the necessary education, nor acumen, despite all protestations you purport - you don't. And unfortunately for you and your weird problems with acceptance of others ... I am good at this shit. Sorry - deal

Well, I have more snow in Ayer than I did in 2011-2012 today... a season that ended that way too. So, it can be worse. I mean that statement is obviously, obvious - ha. But suppose at some point in the last 1,000,000 years of eastern North America's climate, there is at least one winter that never got colder than 50 F and never saw snow anywhere in this geographical region? Maybe ..maybe not. But this ain't that, and this ain't that 2012 ending, either. Sides, all grousing and close-minded cynicism based on conditioning aside for a moment, in 1956 ( ?57 ) there was like 40 to 60" of snow in March between the MA and NE regions after a pallid piece of shit three months. I'm sure somewhere there was a weather nerd of the day, waiting for the 6 pm radio report like we heroin addict over psychotropic model run addiction now, that had the same perspective on matters in February when his soul was reanimated by satan for the sole intent of getting him/her to eat more shit... Then, that March came along. Oh I don't want it ..as per my own proclivity to opine the tribulations of loathing NE spring I have upon more than a single occasion drafted up many a too-long-a-speech admonishing.. But, objectivity is in there somewhere, and my own hypocrisy has been admitted...I can 'turn on' the winter charms if the situation really calls for it, and get all giddy and happy and bi-polar with the rest of you when 1888 walks through the door. Seriously... I really do think that as the gradient slackens ( seasonally ..) as it typically does ending this month and going into next, and just prior to the sun's diabatic forcing on the hemisphere, there is that time of year. 'Bowling' season as it were... I think this year we have a shot at a -NAO west based...even if not hugely demonstrative in the charts, ...almost by behavior. It's like 'sloshing'? If you imagine the system has been pressed to one end...then, the press slackens off and things overcompensate - metaphor. But perhaps with all this fast velocity and +AO stuff, we'll be left with two or three weeks where there is surplus mid and upper level latent heat fluxed to 60 and 70 N ...which could trigger ephemeral blocking nodes for a time. I almost see that as more possible than the standard chances this particular March. We'll see...

Lol ... No need to write the Grapes Of Wrath ... f-you winter 'bout sums 'er up

Yeah forgive me ...I only bother with the granular free sources out there - I don't think the Euro is nearly prophetic enough to charge for that area of ECMWFs corp, when I can get to the same sort of predictive skill using sources that really are free, combined with experience and intelligence ..but that's just me. Anyway, if that's true, those are impressive depths. The 12z run yesterday began looking more coalesced with the total evolution of this event. Less like wave one and two and three ..and whatever, and more like the first wave was really just the arm of a warm boundary S and overrunning getting going out ahead because of the fast flow stretching and exciting that perhaps ahead of typology for leading lows... Then, the main thrust aloft careens off Jersey with that tube of insane 130 kt 500mb jet core tunneling it's way S of the Cape and we get a bomb-esque and all that. Seems the 00z is really just continuing along that theme.

Sometimes it seems like the climate belt's already shifted and this is like what the north Phillie weather dorks used brow beat over back a quarter century ago. I mean, we get 27 DP air richly introduced into the region and a damming source - we shouldn't be dealing with lows cutting through ALB ( GFS ) Hard to say if that tact is just an artifice of the GFS. I can host some reasoning that sounds scientific and Meteorologically clad but ..it could also be proven science fiction in this scenario too. It's been a recurrent theme this winter, veracious theoretical application proves ...not veracious - seemingly by an agency. Muah hahahaha Anyway, frustration aside, this really does look like even the Euro is too far NW ... and the low should be squeezed S. of interior SNE. It may just be that we are back to what we were musing about two or three days ago .. how this is a now-cast opportunity. I used the adjective 'nightmare' before ..but I don't think the stakes are high enough for that. The implication difference ( sensibly ) may not matter.. If the low goes west, there will be a triple point. If the low stays south because of BL forcing, either way, 850 mb roasts the 0 C isotherm to central NE as a destiny it would seem...and that probably extends ZR in either scenario a considerable distance N. The GFS' QPF void - I wonder - if is partially a mechanical feed-back from it's bad BL thermodynamics. It seems to go out of the way to organize the low into a primary structure ... by somehow avoiding/negating BL forcing altogether. That's what the voiding in there is about..It's about quasi-splitting the QPF field around the cyclone model when its cyclone is over North Adams Massachusetts - its particular rendition of that model has a bizarre BL that's it own physics are responsible for. Hence... 'feed-back' But that could be science fiction. I know what I just said is plausible... Either way, that null region was hinted by some other guidance' up to these recent runs, too to maybe not something to ignore. Plus... storm track climo is moving W-N everywhere all over the hemisphere as is proven in a host of papers I can refer folks too..and this season's correction behavior seems to either be coincidentally doing that anyway, or, is a expressing it.. So maybe we just need even more BL forcing than our experiences lend us to believing we need these days to keep lows from blithely modeling their way through veritable mountain ranges like that... jesus

Hah. Haha all I can hear in my head is Bonnnnng Now get out there and mow the lawn

Euro was trying to write that on the wall this morning too that was really close to an open wave bomb this morning

Part I Advisory snow Part II warning ice Part III advisory snow

Well... the GFS is about 3 latitude away from blasting a 4-6"/5hr burst on exit of the 2nd wave... I'd call that a whopper correction actually... I also think personally that this whole ordeal may be a moderate icestorm with 3-6" on top, from N to S - not completely sold, but that's how I'm leaning. I don't like the tuck look on the first wave - if that synoptics is even 70 percentile of what constructs, you probably icing concerns further south than even some of these higher res guidance .... hint hint, the GFS ain't seeing that. He's two ballz and bat short of full inning in that game -

Will .. .get a load of that NAM's 18z low near the Cape. Sorry folks, that's shaving T's off guidance in that set up man -

wait... i f hate ice storms... what the hell am I doin'

That's like perfect for crushing ice! wow -

My buddy was living at 825' up just N of rt 2 back then at ground zero and said that half that QPF just came on to fast too even accrete - jeez

Course...this synopsis you've interpreted gets muddled pretty quickly with a Euro-esque meso over the Cape like that -that's a barrier jet incarnate there -

Nah... the ICON and GGEM both brought that back pretty coherently in their respective runs so it's solidly got good modeling integrity and the outlook is hugely intact -

I'm actually a little surprised by this SE adjusting stuff... This is pretty much the opposite of the seasonal trend to go the other direction, having done so in this same time range when said trend has usually playout and left every hold a big bag-o wtf -. fascinating - not sure if it's time to bite, tho. In fact, my advice would be to chalk this up as some decent modeling cinema, only ...for now, and be grateful for it, because if we didn't have this our beloved weather hobby would be about as uninspired as gay unic at lesbian convention.

OH ha...Freudian interpretation on that one -

The best imaginable solution would be to have 2" of accretion stop at his grid trunk, and it just be 32.1 liquid over the powerlines from his region S.. Oh, said trunk ends across the street. And, in the middle of battery acid in the belly envy he hasn't experienced since his soul mate went down on his greatest enemy, his boss calls him demanding he turn in that sale report at that job he hates...

Lol - don't forget the other reason, it's the GGEM

Well than that's what we're collectively targeting ... great. Consensus leader board -

Oh that's still in the cards for March Prolly be an east-baster just for the impudent implicit idea that -NAO means good for us.. but -NAO of some kind that doesn't snow but f-up the entire April-May part of MLB is a slam dunk - But beyond sarcasm and grousing, there are larger conceptual reasons to look for that. Hopefully they fail

I mean we'll find most years post ... ~ Feb 10.. the slope of season recovery starts - 2015 is about the greatest polar exception as is physically plausible, and it happened.. but by and large, Feb 10+ is about big bombs with intervening sun eating snow banks back... OR, no bombs, and the sun eating snow banks back. Either way, the pack retention curve isn't enthusiast's friend. The solar nadir ends on the 10th and streets start steaming when the snow ends prior to noon and the sun comes out. I always thought of Feb as kind of the antithesis of Augie ... same deal though. You can be in the thick of the seasonal weeds, but there are subtleties in either that betray the faltering ... It matters because June 15 won't be very different than August 15.. .but August 15 can be very different than Sept 21...particularly if we're frosting early. Feb can be powder 'cane on the 20th but be weird 80 F on March 15 like three weeks later. You're not going to get that between Dec 15 and Feb 15 Oh wait ... not supposed to anyway -

I mean look at this damming nose in the GEPs !

shit is this still like 5th period -

That's one of the better ice-storm sigs I've seen on a guidance in a long while. Even for the Euro...look at 72 hours and it has a meso low over the Cape that's buckin' for the same strength as the main circulation that is moving S of NYC ? I've never heard of a warm solution below 4K with synoptic features like that. It'll come down to dp insert and the actually thermal profile of the drain column...which if it is 33 ...it's 33... but if it's 28...it's going to be 28 is all - sorry. Unless this run is wrong with those features/evolution between 48-90 hours..