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Kiko is a beauty. Definitely taking on some annular characteristics

Latest Kiko discussion suggests that post EWRC, Kiko’s environment could support annular characteristics. Not a ton of banding at the moment

Thanks for sharing, you reminded me of the Landsea paper on the Sahel Monsoon, great point!

Lots of talk nationally of what may constitute a recession indicator for our economy. Looking around here, seeing some recession indicators for tropical weather comprehension, weather model fluency, and the understanding of the relationship between time and numerical weather prediction. Specifically 6 threads since Chantal, and only a 50mph fish storm in the subtropics to show for it. What are we doing here? I guess the inactive period truly was inactive, despite loud opposition. Might be controversial, but I don’t care what’s over Chad right now.

Amazing news. SSMIS and similar polar-orbiting scans aren’t perfect, but they are the best Hurricane inner core analysis tool outside of in-situ observations and radar.

After 4 years braving the frozen wasteland of upstate NY, and the tropical island of Manhattan, I am returning to Boston to join the fight against KBOS snowfall observations. Excited to be providing a new data point from just south of the Pru to help give a more accurate understanding of just how much snow actually fell in Boston

One final comment on the subject, just search “Humberto” in the forum search bar and tell me which two posters show up the most

My confidence is steadily growing that Barry Stanton GBP is CurlyHeadedBarrett’s (last year’s bizarre spammer) new account. The frequent abbreviations and copy-pasting of content from elsewhere as a form of bastardized “analysis” is uncanny. The first 3 posts in the entire thread are an excellent microcosm. Regardless, it makes the thread nearly unreadable. On topics that matter, still nothing of note for the Atlantic for a while

After wading through pages of psuedoscience and copy-paste, I have one conclusion... we really need a storm to track

I had never seen Tony’s site before… great stuff!

What a bizarre winter that was, an incredble hot start wiped out by an insane cutter. The meltout in early March felt like armageddon for the ski season and then boom a huge finish with three high elevation bombs (and an eclipse). I don't think we do as well the next time we pull a +8.1, hopefully that's not for a very long time.

Unfortunately conjecture on potential future products and whataboutism does not fix the immediate gap in coverage we have right now going into the heart of Hurricane season. This short sighted decision will degrade forecasting and public safety immediately.

Track accuracy and cone narrowing from the NHC is probably the most noticeable improvement that has taken place in the past 20 years, take a look at what the cone looked like for Katrina when it entered the Gulf. Every bit of resolution for data matters immensely. Microwave data for track accuracy with numerical modeling has also taken gigantic strides. Losing a reliable ability to place the exact center with high resolution (in the absence of in-situ radar and hurricane hunter data) will certainly have repercussions down the temporal dimension of outputs. Intensity still remains the lowest skill forecast variable, which is no surprise given its stochastic nature. It will get so much worse without as frequent “under the hood” looks at the structure, especially as the observed increase in RI events globally continues.

Yeah this is a huge and totally unnecessary loss. RI forecasting in real time will take a major hit. While there are a few more microwave options potentially available, losing SSMIS will inevitably degrade hurricane forecasting skill. The hits keep coming

Couldn’t recall if that stat was just a single station or the whole state. I thought whole state, but the anomaly would be crazy high for such a large area. I’m assuming this is BTV or Morristown now that I’m thinking of it. Insane statistic regardless, and pretty surprising that snowfall numbers were still pretty good up high. Lots of elevation dependent events that year

Hey all, I recall a statistic going around last season that showed from Dec-Feb 2023-2024 Vermont was +7-8F above normal. I’m trying to pull that statistic, but NCEI historical climate reports are only showing me a +6.3F anomaly for Vermont as a whole for February. No info for Jan or Dec. I can pull average temperatures for the Dec-Feb period, but not temperature anomaly. Can someone point me in the right direction where to get the temp anomaly data for VT?

That’s the summer in Manhattan experience baby!! Not refreshing

I am so curious what the winds are in this thing right now. Conventional wisdom would say that Erick is bombing out and maybe some insane wind gusts are wrapping around the eyewall. However, I can't help but notice the trochoidal wobbles of the pinhole eye. This circulation isn't fully stacked on a tiny axis centered within the pinhole eye just yet. Rather the eye is wobbling around within a larger local circulation, most likely a EWRC. I trust the 125mph estimate for now

Insane rate of intensification in the past hour. The EPac has delivered some ridiculous RI landfalls in recent years. While not quite Otis (and thankfully far away from major population centers), Erick is putting on one of the more remarkable RIs while approaching landfall in a long time

NWS HeatRisk is slowly escalating from Sunday through Tuesday, though we still aren’t seeing Extreme values punching into New England just yet. https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/

Pressure only in the mid 990s and yet this is an absolute shellacking. Mid-latitude cyclones will be deeper in the winter due to increased hemispheric baroclinicity, so subtract a substantial amount of millibars if this storm came in winter, but goes to show how a Nor’Easter doesn’t need to be a tightly wound mega bomb to deliver huge QPF. Let’s do it again in January. Classic bowling ball Miller B

Been a LONG time since the Boston Metro has gotten a blocked low, conveyer belt QPF bomb. Much different storm at the synoptic scale, but that radar across EMass looks like the March 2013 firehose. Huge returns pivoting in off the Bay, RI and South Coast slotting

Long Island is also susceptible to the pine barrens burns, take a look at the Sunrise Fire of 1995. A major urban conflagration event won’t happen in New England, the Hamptons on the other hand….

Spent two winters in Manhattan now, and this seems generous. Not once did streets even get coated decently down here. I work in midtown, have never seen snow accumulate on the sidewalk when I leave the building. Fortunately back to snowier places next year

Aspen Highlands is notorious for its signed but off-map glades and chutes. Came across this one tucked away in the trees of Temerity, really rolls off the tongue