moneypitmike Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Classic False Spring day today...get that higher sun angle with a fairly strong SW breeze and it feels like winter has ended and this could go right through March. Of course that never happens at our latitude on Feb 20th...but the hacky sacks and frisbees are flying today. Well, I'm not anticipating much winter interrupting this sprint to spring this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Kind of sucks...looks like I would need to take a trip about 15 miles north to get out from overcast skies. I am the opposite. I can see blue skies off to the south but am cloudy here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Great day in the city today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Lots of cat calling in front of UMass Lowell dorms today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Lots of cat calling in front of UMass Lowell dorms today.I thought you would be above that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Lots of cat calling in front of UMass Lowell dorms today. didn't work back then ... i'm sure it ain't workin' today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 didn't work back then ... i'm sure it ain't workin' today. I could see you sitting on your Iroc-Z whistling at girls and hoping one of them comes over and pretends it's a Whitesnake video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Transition season starts, and sensible weather therein, begins differently year to year. Last year, and the year before for that matter...I don't think transition season really started until April.. Back in 2012/2013 we didn't have a winter after Halloween and in fact, there was a shrubbery green-up in November when the script flipped back warm. Maybe that was spring that year - didn't really snow again, and we only had one or two short-lived cool (not cold) snaps that went back into the 50s most days in February. Than March and April that year were pretty obscenely warm and downright summer like from time to time. When was spring that year? This year? Heh, the models look spring-like to me; particularly S of mid-riff latitudes of the CONUS. Granted, there's a pretty fantastic cold plume and vortex now on the charts for ..way out there in time, so perhaps that affectation is about to disappear for awhile. We'll see. But for me, the nadir of this winter (snow or not) was that arctic outbreak last week.. We'll get cold again...hell, maybe we'll buck the butt f trend and even get some snow, some how, some way... But the "trend" has tipped the other direction in my mind and that combined with ever increasing intensity in solar irradiance now that we are securely passed the solar minimum time of the year, really should on a philosophical level be considered spring's onset. Just because Meteorology has March 1, and Joulian -based calendar says it's March 21 ...those are human conventions that sometimes agree with reality. I think there is a climate precedence for early springs in waning warm ENSOs? I've read that somewhere - I suppose it's a Google moment away... I won't go so far as to say this is clad early spring, but if that arctic outbreak and tall +PNA don't do more than these operational runs are pounding ass with ... you ain't got much to argue with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 11/12 Tip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 11/12 Tip How do you confuse the two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I could see you sitting on your Iroc-Z whistling at girls and hoping one of them comes over and pretends it's a Whitesnake video. Whitesnake sucked ... I never liked metal-hair music like that crap. Was never a concert t-shirt wearin', big haired dweeb that smelled like bubble-gum and marijuana smoke, en route to Poison show with a fifth of yager tucked behind the wheel well in the back of the trunk.. I was more of the alternative type, but not goth - those idiots are/were the biggest posers of them all. I was more like Holden Caulfield in the 'Rye, looking over it all from up on a hill side - my form of rebellion simply was silent. True non-conformists don't conform to anything And I certainly was never a whistler - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 How do you confuse the two heh, i suck with dates - i'm always f that up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlantStickers Anonymous Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Nice May we're having this February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 How do you confuse the twoFeb 13 Jan 15 Feb 78 won't ever forget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 61 here, torchin' Everywhere is 60 or close to it except BDR right on the water at 50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Spring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Nice May we're having this February. Were actually pretty close to normal temps this month. Thought it's been wildly variant. Torch to start, then record cold in the middle and now torch this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Were actually pretty close to normal temps this month. Thought it's been wildly variant. Torch to start, then record cold in the middle and now torch this weekend. And it record cold if that plume pans out ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlantStickers Anonymous Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Were actually pretty close to normal temps this month. Thought it's been wildly variant. Torch to start, then record cold in the middle and now torch this weekend. Interesting, good to know. I think I also saw a BOX post that said Boston is slightly above the 30 year average February snowfall so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Just reading through this and I can't believe there are people in the NYC forum melting. We haven't had a single warning criteria event and barely any to advisory level. They had more than our season in one storm in places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Just reading through this and I can't believe there are people in the NYC forum melting. We haven't had a single warning criteria event and barely any to advisory level. They had more than our season in one storm in places. I'm looking at coming in at 20% of normal snow here if the trend holds. The bright side of all this is that it seems highly unlikely us WNE weenies will experience anything this bad again for quite a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Grilling tonight after late afternoon skiing Did some grilling last night..was nice to get some grilling in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 And it record cold if that plume pans out ...Yeah that is serious cold lurking north of the border. An intrusion of that vortex would be quite the whiplash back into winter. It's interesting the setup showing up for early March...we have this impressive cold pool (PV) sitting in central/eastern Canada reasonably far south thanks to the EPO ridge...however the stubbornly positive NAO and mediocre PNA ridge (it looks less amped early March than next week) allows for some warmth from southern latitudes to try and creep north. Long story short....could be some impressive gradients to work with. Perhaps the ingredients for a dynamic bomb should the shortwaves cooperate within the backroad of that thermal overlay. Prob more a post for the pattern thread...but yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I thought you would be above thatI thought he would show less skin to avoid that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I thought he would show less skin to avoid that.Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Raining @ Stowe , 40'ish Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Raining @ Stowe , 40'ish Sad. Awful. And you can almost sense that blocking will show up in April just to screw the spring pooch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Rain with a little snow mixed in in Rangeley, 34F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Yeah that is serious cold lurking north of the border. An intrusion of that vortex would be quite the whiplash back into winter. It's interesting the setup showing up for early March...we have this impressive cold pool (PV) sitting in central/eastern Canada reasonably far south thanks to the EPO ridge...however the stubbornly positive NAO and mediocre PNA ridge (it looks less amped early March than next week) allows for some warmth from southern latitudes to try and creep north. Long story short....could be some impressive gradients to work with. Perhaps the ingredients for a dynamic bomb should the shortwaves cooperate within the backroad of that thermal overlay. Prob more a post for the pattern thread...but yeah. Ur hinting at what I've been mauling over ...and that's that this could be an interesting bowling season actually... When that mlv gradient relaxes everywhere just a little bit, suddenly we have all these S/W in the flow able to work on thickness gradient with possible closures going overhead... hmm - just a thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 53F at 6pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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