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January 2020 Discussion


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7 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

The Thursday system is trending in the guidance.  The weekend one isn't.  It's weakening...  

Since neither are relayed on board the "instinct" to count chickens in either case has been clucking, too. 

Either system could still become dominant in a flat flow high velocity canvas...  Both could end up nothing. Just sayn'  

I agree that the extended looks better ... as far as extendes can.  The HC is finally looking more seasonal, and with the R-wave repositioning going on... the relaxation of both  is opening a potential era where meridian flow structures can dig unimpeded more readily.  We see that feed-back right away in how we end up with that wondering west Atlantic weirdness out there - but though it is silly to argue any solution for D9/10... I do think that result on this Euro run is really more a reflection of changes rather than a real system.  Though it wouldn't shock if over the next 2 to 3 days, we 'fill that in' so to speak.     

I warned people this morning that if the Thursday system ends up stronger and bombs out too much off Canada there is a possibility this weekend system could get meat grinded and shredded.

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35 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Meh, it's gonna get cold and I'd rather not have bare ground for it. Euro is still close to warning snowfall here and that's fine with me. I have never been on the "all snow" train with this event. I've said it looks like a pretty typical SWFE from days ago so my expectations have never exceeded that.

That said, I agree I'd like the primary toned down a bit...that would make the snowfall more enhanced here and last longer. Euro is definitely the most amped on the primary, but other guidance isn't that far off.

I never felt it was going to be all snow at my location either. I was hoping it would be a substantial SWFE however, with a solid front end thump. Like 4-8” before a change over, dry-slot and then bring the cold air in to lock whatever fell, preserve it until the more favorable pattern arrives. It’ll be pretty sucky if we get like 1-3” down here, flips overnight, and you wake up to a foggy, wet, Swiss Cheese “pack” and we lock that in with the cold. That would hurt the weenie a bit.

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9 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

I warned people this morning that if the Thursday system ends up stronger and bombs out too much off Canada there is a possibility this weekend system could get meat grinded and shredded.

Didn't see your brilliant insights :)  

Yeah, I was on-board with that this morning too.    As for me, I'm not saying that's happening... per say - though I'm hoping that's not bargaining. Ha. But just trending.  

Also, this wouldn't be the first time something like this has happened.  Over the years ... how many times have we seen two systems on the charts and the first ends up dominant, or vice versa.   Not sure if this is precisely one of those overall circumstances where that either can, or will take place.. .but, if Thursday's digs and bombs exiting NE coast, but still too fast and we miss out..., it runs up and clocks Hazey in the lower Maritimes, then, the weekend one ends up sore-butting here because of what you say?     

I wonder - would that be worth the Schadenfreude to see happen... 

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34 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Ensembles are hinting at it too...a bit too far east at the moment, but watchable.

 

The natural instinct is going to be for people to be pessimistic if this weekend turns into an ugly system.....but I'm pretty confident there are going to be a lot of potential storm threats in the 2 weeks after that....it's a really good pattern setting up. This weekend's threat is really before that happens. It's right as the first western ridge is trying to build.

I recall a really good pattern setting up last year, too.........  :( :(

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Just now, moneypitmike said:

I recall a really good pattern setting up last year, too.........  :( :(

It did brief but the MJO immediately went back to 3-4-5 and once we were within 7-10 days of the pattern change the 11-16 started showing signs of it ending...that could happen again here too but it won't be as fast.  I would not be surprised though if by 2/5-2/10 the MJO re-emerges into 3-4-5 and this is only a 2-3 week change.

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2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

EPS looks like snow to ice for Saturday/ Sunday. What’s wrong with that? 

Nothing...I'd take it but that's a view from the interior....it's kind of ugly for the coast of SNE...so if you are there, it's not going to be as appealing.

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56 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Euro looks interesting for mid next week. 

There is a signal from Jan 20-24 that I referenced in yesterday's blog as a period to watch for a major storm, current guidance not withstanding. Wouldnt be suprised to see that reflected in future guidance.

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MJO in phase 6 def gives me pause/concern that Saturday doesn’t end up colder/snowier than current guidance.

Admittedly though, I haven’t been following the MJO until very recently...So how strong this signal is vs the other players and climo is something I’m still piecing together...

To me the only takeaway is the MJO is potentially calling BS on significant East Coast confluence/troughing ahead of this shortwave...I.E. current model guidance for a weak +NAO/-NAO setting up around that timeframe may be faux or transient. NAO end up more positive? 

Hopefully someone here who follows MJO more closely can offer a better opinion on this...

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11 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Nothing...I'd take it but that's a view from the interior....it's kind of ugly for the coast of SNE...so if you are there, it's not going to be as appealing.

Would they rather 70-75 shorts, grass and peepers or would rather 2-4 to ice ending as snow? Maybe they’d prefer torch 

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6 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

MJO in phase 6 def gives me pause/concern that Saturday doesn’t end up colder/snowier than current guidance.

Admittedly though, I haven’t been following the MJO until very recently...So how strong this signal is vs the other players and climo is something I’m still piecing together...

To me the only takeaway is the MJO is potentially calling BS on significant East Coast confluence/troughing ahead of this shortwave...I.E. current model guidance for a weak +NAO/-NAO setting up around that timeframe may be faux or transient—NAO end up more positive? 

Hopefully someone here who follows MJO more closely can offer a better opinion on this...

I think a lot depends on the wave break from the mid week storm for northern New England. Most of the guidance is really blowing that up so it helps with the confluence. The main player imo is the high pressure. That’s a real strong high moving in at 1044. 
 

The mjo response in p6 is more of southeast ridge. The euro was amped at 12z which raised hgts in the East. We have seen this throughout the winter season with the euro. It will be amped then slowly back away from it. It is currently the most amped up global from the 12z suite.

 

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19 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

MJO in phase 6 def gives me pause/concern that Saturday doesn’t end up colder/snowier than current guidance.

Admittedly though, I haven’t been following the MJO until very recently...So how strong this signal is vs the other players and climo is something I’m still piecing together...

To me the only takeaway is the MJO is potentially calling BS on significant East Coast confluence/troughing ahead of this shortwave...I.E. current model guidance for a weak +NAO/-NAO setting up around that timeframe may be faux or transient. NAO end up more positive? 

Hopefully someone here who follows MJO more closely can offer a better opinion on this...

yeah ...we gotta be careful with the causality circuitry and the MJO... 

Since it's a tropical forcing mechanism it's got a time requirement along with some indirection... It can be muted by an unfavorable, large scale destructive hemisphere, as much as it can be harmonious and then it really feeds-back and makes the correlation shimmer with obviousness.   

Either scenario effects a delay/time-lag requirement for a given phase, longer or never -vs- faster do to readiness.  

In this case, it seems the MJO is moving into the western hemisphere, at the same time the N-.Pac is trying to reorient into a circulation medium for constructive.  We'll see if it holds.. But initially, the two aren't really in phase, so I'm inclined to think the phase 6 may not transmit much signal just yet.  More so later next week.

Actually, Phase 6 is a warm signal - duh... but still... the other conceptual shit's valid.

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18 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

How did the one the year before last year work out?

Short memories...

As Tip said from the rounders quote.....we can hardly remember a pot we won, but we recall with astounding clarity the details of our defeats.

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6 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Some of you are fake weenies. Prefer torches over 2-4...wat?

To each their own....some prefer 45F and mist to 75F and sunny.

 

For me, I can get 75F and fair skies about 7-8 months out of the year. No thanks on taking that over 2-4 inches of snow. I'd take it over a 55F cutter though, lol.

 

They'll be no more monster torches for the foreseeable future though....it's either 35-45F muck on Saturday/Sunday or some snow...I'll choose snow.

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On 1/8/2020 at 8:51 PM, tombo82685 said:

False and false.

There is a complete atmospheric journal on slow and fast mjo and also the lag each response has

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0352.1

and here is the cpc website that shows composite lag of each

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/LaggedComposites/description.shtml

@jbenedet here are two articles about lag response for each mjo phase. 

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9 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

To each their own....some prefer 45F and mist to 75F and sunny.

 

For me, I can get 75F and fair skies about 7-8 months out of the year. No thanks on taking that over 2-4 inches of snow. I'd take it over a 55F cutter though, lol.

 

They'll be no more monster torches for the foreseeable future though....it's either 35-45F muck on Saturday/Sunday or some snow...I'll choose snow.

What shows 35-45 rain for weekend storm?

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6 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

To each their own....some prefer 45F and mist to 75F and sunny.

 

For me, I can get 75F and fair skies about 7-8 months out of the year. No thanks on taking that over 2-4 inches of snow. I'd take it over a 55F cutter though, lol.

 

They'll be no more monster torches for the foreseeable future though....it's either 35-45F muck on Saturday/Sunday or some snow...I'll choose snow.

This weekend was nuts. While the torch felt good, it seemed like Earth was off its axis. Kind of like when TBlizz is optimistic about a crap storm. 

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