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Major snowstorm 1/15-16


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32 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

So finished a stretch of overnights ydy morning, and slept in long, so just looked at everything in the last hr, including previous runs.

It's odd.  You look at the solid full latitude 500 trough and it axis, and you wonder why a weak wave scoots out quickly ahead of the upper support, taking the baroclinic zone w/ it!!!  :weep:   Looking at 500 alone, it should much better at the sfc for a decent coastal.   Also, now the models don't develop any real strong sfc low?  Huh?  Again, the 500 alone does not suggest this should happen!

Big difference than 24 hr ago as well.  The 500 cuts off *well* W of  New England and is stronger than ydy, and moves over right over the region.  That should promote a sfc low *not* scooting out to sea.  However, it's not titled below.  The 700 low is co-located and goes right over the region, so we get dry slotted!  But we never got any sig precip to begin w/!  CoastalWx's worst nightmare!  LOL.

Moisture is quite limited w/ the upper low, so that will just mean half-decent snows across the mtns of NNE probably.

Ydy was better actually, since the 500 low cut S of the region.

And the two decent troughs that occur down the road, can't do much either, at least on the 06z GFS!  The 06z ECMWF looks better for something this weekend.

It's been piecemeal in regards to snowfall across the region so far this winter, no one storm can deliver widespread mdt-hvy SN.  Just sub-regions, like LI to Cape Cod and NNE get localized decent snows.  Now, we get a fragmented storm coming that that can't consolidate right!?  I can see now why CoastalWx is really getting ticked!  :mellow:
 

Great synopsis. Thanks.Yes I was pumped to see the 5H CLOSED S  of us. Whatever made modeling move 300 miles ???

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Man... What a crowd. Things do look pretty crappy for a while, but why people want to just dig in how crappy it looks and how hard it is to get snow over and over and over again. It's like beating a dead horse with a stick. Talk about insanity. Time to take a break. See you guys when there's a real threat! 

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37 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

So finished a stretch of overnights ydy morning, and slept in long, so just looked at everything in the last hr, including previous runs.

It's odd.  You look at the solid full latitude 500 trough and it axis, and you wonder why a weak wave scoots out quickly ahead of the upper support, taking the baroclinic zone w/ it!!!  :weep:   Looking at 500 alone, it should much better at the sfc for a decent coastal.   Also, now the models don't develop any real strong sfc low?  Huh?  Again, the 500 alone does not suggest this should happen!

Big difference than 24 hr ago as well.  The 500 cuts off *well* W of  New England and is stronger than ydy, and moves over right over the region.  That should promote a sfc low *not* scooting out to sea.  However, it's not tilted below.  The 700 low is co-located and goes right over the region, so we get dry slotted!  But we never got any sig precip to begin w/!  CoastalWx's worst nightmare!  LOL.

Moisture is quite limited w/ the upper low, so that will just mean half-decent snows across the mtns of NNE probably.

Ydy was better actually, since the 500 low cut S of the region.

And the two decent troughs that occur down the road, can't do much either, at least on the 06z GFS!  The 06z ECMWF looks better for something this weekend.

It's been piecemeal in regards to snowfall across the region so far this winter, no one storm can deliver widespread mdt-hvy SN.  Just sub-regions, like LI to Cape Cod and NNE get localized decent snows.  Now, we get a fragmented storm coming that that can't consolidate right!?  I can see now why CoastalWx is really getting ticked!  :mellow:
 

Always has been, even in the more "favorable" scenarios...which is why I never felt it warranted the excitement it elicited from some.

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39 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Stein ,, nothing like a Steiner pattern in the heart of winter 

At a minimum, maybe we'll get a nice dry launching pad for April infernos, before the green-up happens. 

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18 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

The problems in all guidance could not be any more glaringly obvious ... 

It's all exceptionally highly sensitive to wave spacing issues.  Sorry to keep hitting this aspect; I'm not seeing many of you writing about it.  

The diving "2nd wave" is bullying into the trough, imparting a polar oriented correction vector to the flow - trying to lift it up;  that is directly opposing/offsetting the ability for the lead wave space to intrinsically dig/maintain amplitude. 

done deal.   game over.  

that all has to iron itself out such that:

a,  one or the other becomes dominant

or 

b, neither will be very significant.    

or 

c, some minoring event transpires perhaps out of both -... but in this case, the 2nd is a wild card.  

And Scott's right big time.  The baroclinic axis is getting swept seaward and is not recovering in some of these guidance.  That was magnificently spelled out in the 00z GFS, which showed an explosion of squally -linear convection out over the outer g-string, gobbling up al the moisture dynamics and running away with it.  There's no other way in nature to demonstrate that without y'all learning Navier-Stokes

For the moment anyway ... it seems the models are after option B

 

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5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

For the moment anyway ... it seems the models are after option B

 

I can tell you...I'm starting to switch, at just about precisely the same timing of the mid January dildoing last year....starting to look forward to milder times and baseball. It's just so draining that my patience is wearing thinner as the snow-drought grows longer, and I'm getting older. I may be planning my exit next year if December doesn't produce.

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When dealing with phasing potential, it's not uncommon or farfetched to see swings of multiple hundreds or miles or more from run-to-run or even mode-to-model. The difference between a phase and no phase can end up substantial. Hell, even the difference between a phase and just a partial phase can be massive in terms of low development and track. The end of week/weekend was always very low potential but the changes needed to get something aren't terribly substantial. 

 

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6 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I can tell you...I'm starting to switch, at just about precisely the same timing of the mid January dildoing last year....starting to look forward to milder times and baseball.

m'yeah   at risk of being sort of callous and insensitive to the sensibilities in the air today, i agree.  it's a long slog

I pot-shotted a post about 3 nights ago or whenever that was that if this next 10 days fails to produce, this winter can go f itself.   ha  purely irrational fun but still, it is admittedly not nice to only have cold out doors.  

i was thinking so yesterday.   internal monologue:  '4 f weeks until we exit the solar min, then march ass bangs probably with 39 while buffalo soars to 70'

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5 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I can tell you...I'm starting to switch, at just about precisely the same timing of the mid January dildoing last year....starting to look forward to milder times and baseball. It's just so draining that my patience is wearing thinner as the snow-drought grows longer, and I'm getting older. I may be planning my exit next year if December doesn't produce.

You’re making the natural progression Scooter and I and most others in here made. You’re getting closer to loving dews 

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1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

You’re making the natural progression Scooter and I and most others in here made. You’re getting closer to loving dews 

can i just interject/ask?  

does it have to be dews?    why not just warm weather.  

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8 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

can i just interject/ask?  

does it have to be dews?    why not just warm weather.  

Because warm wx without dews is boring and is generally associated with nothing . Dews keep you warm at night outside , no need for hoodies etc.. and always risks of storms . Warm and dry is akin to cold and dry. BOREDOM 

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