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Kick-Off '25-'26 Winter Storm Obs


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3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

3K Nam didn’t  really have a sleet look. Probably half ass flakes that melted a bit and refroze.

This was a really weird sleet event. Not common you get sleet with a warm layer around 900mb, lol. But I agree it was probably not-fully melted flakes refreezing quickly into pellets. 

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I don't know if there's any actual significant correlation between these two variables, but it seems like you need a deep and rapidly intensifying low pressure in order to have a successful backend "flash over". Mbs in the 990s, tilted mid levels, and rapid forward progression just won't cut it.

Kind of a weird SWFE hybrid rather than a true coastal. Big warm nose etc... If you can't stack the lows, the dynamics just aren't as good for the development of a cold conveyor belt

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2 minutes ago, Boston Bulldog said:

I don't know if there's any actual significant correlation between these two variables, but it seems like you need a deep and rapidly intensifying low pressure in order to have a successful backend "flash over". Mbs in the 990s, tilted mid levels, and rapid forward progression just won't cut it.

Kind of a weird SWFE hybrid rather than a true coastal. Big warm nose etc...

Nrly ageo flow at the surface and then ripping srly from 950-850. With a low south of ACK. In all my career I cannot recall such an event.

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Just a cold, wind driven rain event here..nothing out of the ordinary for early December in these parts. Beautiful pics from the snowbirds to the far north. The fluffy powder really does brighten things up this time of year.

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9 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Nrly ageo flow at the surface and then ripping srly from 950-850. With a low south of ACK. In all my career I cannot recall such an event.

I said late last week, would this be a sort of hybrid(half coastal, half SWFE), and I believe it was determined at that point that it would be a coastal.  But in the end now…it wasn’t quite a true coastal it seems. Interesting.  The cold was never scoured out here…that’s rare when you have warming like that 950. 

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18 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Nrly ageo flow at the surface and then ripping srly from 950-850. With a low south of ACK. In all my career I cannot recall such an event.

Really effing weird. Sfc low almost got elongated too to the northeast. Yet we had 925 taking forever to close off and ripping from 180-170. 

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5 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

I said late last week, would this be a sort of hybrid(half coastal, half SWFE), and I believe it was determined at that point that it would be a coastal.  But in the end now…it wasn’t quite a true coastal it seems. Interesting.  The cold was never scoured out here…that’s rare when you have warming like that 950. 

SWfE usually have a primary well west and ripping srly flow aloft where the 800-700 layer causes sleet. Tbis is just a weird one.

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