Monday, March 5, 2018

One Storm At A Time

Many of you who are reading this have heard me tout that although we thoroughly enjoyed a late February spring-like spell of weather that there were signals suggesting that the first couple of weeks of March had the potential to be ugly.  Well, nor'easter #1 has come and SLOWLY gone away...sort of...still gusty here this afternoon!  And later this weekend into early next week, storm #3 of this 1st couple of weeks will be on the agenda, but over the next 48 hours, storm #2 will be upon us.  It is clearly a case of the GFS v Euro...but the Euro is trending westward from its earlier runs.  The GFS has been rock steady wavering minimally with its axis of heaviest snows.  One major difference between #2 and #1 is the antecedent cold that is currently present and was not with #1.  With that said, snow is more likely rather than not...let's take a look.  First, how the Euro is trending west...

Euro last night...
Euro this afternoon; slightly stronger storm and clearly farther towards the continent...
The morning run of the GFS...precip much further west and a deeper low...
And the current GFS run...precip shield more tightly woven towards the center of lowest pressures...

The NAM is quite bullish on the snow; but this model will vacillate before honing in on a final solution tomorrow midday.  It clearly states "be aware"...
A Winter Storm Watch has been posted from the NWS...that advisory is just that...a WATCH!  One thing for sure, the next 2 weeks will not see what we saw the last full week of February.  This is certainly a colder than normal spell for these parts next couple of weeks...
Oh well...enjoy!


Spring is simply delayed; it will not be denied!

Smitty

AA:  Watching yet another nor'easter; less feisty than Friday's, but still a concern.  I'm quite concerned about a phasing nor'easter early next week!  One storm at a time!

2 comments:

  1. You must be pleased as punch to see one of your former students (Zach Labe) make the newspaper about his work on the melting of the polar ice caps. It must make you a real believer in "Global Warming."

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  2. Baker,
    Don't you know it's the Russians meddling in the climate!

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