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President's Day Weekend 2015 Storm Potential 2/14-2/15


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Exactly snow88. The overall look is still as good or better, getting hung up or worried about QPF right now is not important. All good trends tonight for NYC and CT.

QPF should be the least of worries right now. Lets get the track of the H5 first and then worry about precip totals.

 

Yup and the IVT was further south this run.

Barely south

 

You have to go with seasonal trends and this storm Is no different. We snow 2-5 inches and Boston gets 12-20. There were improvements on all the models at H5 today but it's not enough to Give our area any major snows.

Not enough today but who knows what tomorrow will bring.

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No reason to. These troughs are really tricky. GGEM still shows several inches for the area. H5 still looks great so not a bad run at all despite the precip.

 

What exactly are you expecting? I think it's been pretty clear for awhile now that a big solution is off the table for most of this region. The storm just can't develop in time to really hit us hard. Take your 2-4" and be happy with it.

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Nearly every model run for the last 4 or so storms has consistently shown a great solution for them (SNE).  No waivering, no borderline scenarios, no "please move further south/north/whatever, just incredible!

The last 3 storms have been a redeveloping bombing clipper, an I-90 jackpot SWFE, and an arctic front with overrunning. If you could tailor-make storms for New England, those are it. And this would be another one. Classic Nina-like pattern with no southern stream to speak of, also +NAO and +AO. That's why it's been a non-winter south of NYC. 

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What exactly are you expecting? I think it's been pretty clear for awhile now that a big solution is off the table for most of this region. The storm just can't develop in time to really hit us hard. Take your 2-4" and be happy with it.

I'm expecting several inches but the position of the trough will be the tough part. The models may not have a handle of this until it gets closer.

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The last 3 storms have been a redeveloping bombing clipper, an I-90 jackpot SWFE, and an arctic front with overrunning. If you could tailor-make storms for New England, those are it. And this would be another one. Classic Nina-like pattern with no southern stream to speak of, also +NAO and +AO. That's why it's been a non-winter south of NYC. 

Non winter in terms of snow but not cold which is why so many snow lovers (espec south and west of NYC) are edgy.  Cold without snow is frustrating to say the least! 

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Non winter in terms of snow but not cold which is why so many snow lovers (espec south and west of NYC) are edgy.  Cold without snow is frustrating to say the least! 

Ninas are also known for cold to rain to cold patterns in the Mid-Atlantic. So much for the STJ and blocking this winter, unlike what most thought would happen this fall.

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Ninas are also known for cold to rain to cold patterns in the Mid-Atlantic. So much for the STJ and blocking this winter, unlike what most thought would happen this fall.

Many people predicted a good winter for the mid atlantic because they were banking on a weak El Nino.

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Many people predicted a good winter for the mid atlantic because they were banking on a weak El Nino.

 

NAO was predicted to be overall neg which has huge impacts further south you go.. MA, SE .   Has barely been neg this winter unfortunately, would of been a historic winter for a lot of the NE and MA and maybe SE.  IMO. 

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NAO was predicted to be overall neg which has huge impacts further south you go.. MA, SE .   Has barely been neg this winter unfortunately, would of been a historic winter for a lot of the NE and MA and maybe SE.  IMO. 

If the NAO was negative for Juno, we would have been buried. I think we would have close to Boston's totals if we did have a -NAO. Good chance we could have beaten 96 this winter .

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There are certainly trends that favor certain areas.  But just because other storms have evolved a certain way does not mean that this one will.  In '09-'10, DC and Baltimore got rocked while NYC largely missed out.  But in mid-late February, storms started to bust through, and NYC had a couple of big storms thereafter.

 

With this storm, things are trending better for us.  The mets constantly say ignore the QPF, look at the models.  Each model has gotten better aloft so far this run.  We still have 48 hours until this storm hits.  If the blizzard bust taught you guys anything, it's that things can still change in a big way between now and event time.  Just amazing that when one model cuts QPF people go jumping off a cliff.

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