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February 2026 OBS & Discussion


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A few notes:  ECMWF sub seasonal ensembles via ecmwf.int.  imo tend to  be too dry here in the northeast and deny the shorter range global ensemble expectations.  Be alert for that.  Huge error this past weekend - see attached ecmwf.int prediction the 19th, and you know what happened!

Also fwiw:  via ECMWF.int. Week 3-4,  2m temp departures, I suspect are related to snow cover... see the repeated weekly prediction of colder than normal-here ne USA and OH Valley, and where the snow depth is this morning (and the southern boundary likely to be close to that 16 days - Valentines Day)  from now.

 GFS MOS (MEX). I have no access ecmwf mos. GFS MOS is missing too warm on nighttime lows NYC CP... this I think will be a factor on getting much colder than morning MEX MINS this weekend as the BL wind tends to go northernly---easier access CP.   I still try for 2-3F above zero. This also portends the power of the weekend storm. Occasionally prior to these huge northeast snowstorms, it sets up with MB T cold prior to, like this past weekend, and what I think is likely this weekend (excepting unknown nw fringe of snowfall). If you read Weather Wise (Ludlum et al) issues for the big snowstorms including Kennedy Inaugural Jan 1961... big time cold prior to.

 

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49 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Clipper city 

remember that clipper storm more then a decade ago that dove all the way to south carolina then rapidly intensified to a blizzard and produced close to 40 inches on eastern long island nyc only got about 10 inches we need that kind of clipper..

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1 minute ago, EasternLI said:

Groundhog is currently frozen. 6 more weeks of winter. Next legit threat. Big +PNA spike leading into it.

 

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A lot of waves coming down. Modeling is gonna jump around a lot.

Wave spacing might be a problem.

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1 minute ago, Nibor said:

A lot of waves coming down. Modeling is gonna jump around a lot.

Wave spacing might be a problem.

No doubt. There's never really been anything ever thats looked free of problems has there? :lol: Opportunity is all we can ask for. I like ~7th though 

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2 hours ago, EasternLI said:

No doubt. There's never really been anything ever thats looked free of problems has there? :lol: 

I don't think so, except maybe 2/6/1978.  Or maybe they just got lucky.

I was a school kid.  Friday they said we were gonna have a humdinger on Monday.  Monday into Tuesday we did.  I remember taking a portable radio to an indoor track meet on Saturday so I could get updates.  This shit is a life-long affliction (fortunately).  Like you joked above, it seems like every storm since has approached with unrelenting drama.  Having umpteen models to look at contributes.  Maybe it was easier when there was basically the LFM and not much else and it happened to be right that time.

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