The radar on my local news showed snow from Virginia all the way across the south to New Orleans. Holy crap, it snows in New Orleans? Who knew? This was supposed to only affect the coast from SC to VA I would say its gotten a whoe lot bigger than that.
we lucked out WW. Although its freezing here..freezing, that cold air modified enough where we lucked out. Man, crazy snows down south! Incredible. HIKER...HERE is accuweather radar for the south...now keep in mind its snow generous...some blues might be sleet or freezing rain LINK: http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/southeast-region/weather-radar?play=1 Now, if today were Friday, I would be going slightly ballistic with what the models have now shown for 2 days straight for next Wednesday. I mean...someone is going to get clobbered and right now there is a rain snow line but its around I95. Fantasy model storm? Yesterday yes...today? Tomorrow? We need to see this on the models at least on Thursday..because these are big numbers. NEXT BIG STORM ON RADAR...FEBRUARY 4/5TH. EDIT: Ummmm....Februarys first 2 weeks? Its going to snow for a lot of the country..lol...wow.
Ty CBG..went great. He is a great great kid who has had his share of minor obstacles in life but is stronger..much stronger than I was at his age. Sounds like a parent bragging but just so you know it isnt...the younger one is a pain in the ass..lol..great kid..but tough little dude that we will be following in the future for football. We have talked about him...mean ass middle linebacker who tripled his entire team in tackles his freshman year..missing 3 games too. Ok..thats the bragging for the year. South still getting pounded with the storm that we wish made it up this way. Amazingly, the storm has made it much farther north..areas in south jersey may get 4 or so inches of snow. Now the quiet before what is looking like the wildest February in a long long time. Superbowl Sunday looks like a light snow possible from Saturday night/Sunday morning associated with a cold front. This means kick off temps around freezing and second half temps in the 20s...but even more importantly..if it all plays out...wind chills in the teens to possibly single digits before games end. North...northwest winds 10 to 15. Then, the stage is set for a storm that will pass along the lowest part of the 48...and gather moisture from the Gulf and the big question is does it take off to the great lakes and reform off the midatlantic? Does it continue up the coast as a Miller A storm and dump snow along the entire coast and inland? Does it go up towards the Great Lakes and that is the primary storm and we end up with a snow...to sleet...to freezing rain..to rain storm. Right now, it has the making of a plus foot storm. After that, there are 3 more storms...all at least significant that show up in the models over a 10 day period. I would say its safe to say that the first 2 weeks of February will produce a memorable storm...and the biggest storm of the year for many. We have had a storm that dumped over a foot for some..but this would be MUCH more widespread. So...enjoy the quiet week...we will keep an eye on every night...and Im writing this up without even looking at the 1030 models so will check..and give one more quick update.
Storm for the 4th/5th/6th time frame still very very much alive and its the one to track. All models have it and just saw the NWS long range forecast which gives you the chances for precip and they have it at 80% for our area? 7 days out...very rare and very high. Other than that, Superbowl cold front now is just been backed up to coming through aorund game time...or so...which means the day might have 40s temps..and the game might have a rain or snow shower. Models are usually quite good at temps..and find it kind of funny that this is the one time when its tough to nail down temps..for the game itself. After the game, small disturbance may drop a few inches Monday and then Tuesday night...Wednesday....Wednesday night of next week? Getting very very interesting. Someone is getting an all out snow storm...and that those areas will probably not be nailed down until late in the weekend.
70s by the weekend. That is really amazing whats happening down there..really incredible. I remember a golf trip down to myrtle about 7 years ago..and it was chancy...january. Got off the plane and didnt even check in..went straight to the range and it was 78 degrees. Looked into the distance and saw black..black clouds coming. Because Im a weather loser, my buddies had known already what we MIGHT be in for and asked if that was IT. I said yes..thats IT. Cold front...by the time we fell asleep temps were in the lower 40s...tee'd off with a mix of light snow and sleet falling..on a $150 golf course. Played that way with temps in the 30s for 3 days until the final day when temps hit 75 at tee off time. This time of the year the south can go extreme...but SB where your area... thats rare stuff I would imagine. Storm for the 4th 5th is still on in a Major way...so is the next one for the 8th. Will post pics tonight of all the models so we can really follow the one for next week and we can read between the lines. All models have biases. The NAM model is always more precip than other models. The EURO has a south bias this winter that comes north later on. The GFS has been great iin the long run only to lose storms in the medium so we will track this one together. This storm really has the potential to be a big storm for many..it has a few features that will throw a curveball here and there. 1. It has a rain snow line. Right now its I95 or around. 2. It has a huge precip field. If you are in the sweet zone...you have a good chance to remain there. 3. Lower bust zone for the posters on this site other than rain or snow. Will be on later tonight and hope everyone is doing great!
First time ever in 14 years on the job, I got told to stay home today. Its not the snow, its the super cold temps having turned the roads into basically 3 inches of solid white ice. Have not seen a plow today, don't know WTF is up with that.
Tuesday...tuesday night...wednesday...later tonight i will post the models for this storm..and then..lol..the storm for next weekend. If that storm were to come true, we would need plows to get out of our house. Fantasy storm? Most likely. HIKER: Are there no salt trucks down there?
Normally rare, but it seems for the past month, it's not...... that Major Cold front that froze the country, we had below freezing temps until 3pm. Lots of dead plants in my yard including a big Papaya tree that was loaded with green fruit :shit: the "Hard Freeze" at the beach is a rare one though..... Freezing temps at night are normal, but this high temp of 43 with rain & 25kt wind stuff sucks....... and then I talk to my brother in NYC and remember why I'm here
They laid down brine on the roads ahead of time, supposedly the very low temps prevented the salt from melting the snow.
Not a fan of the Brine over salt. They do that up here too before SOME storms and Im not sure the reasoning for doing with certain storms. The Brine I guess does its thing when the storm starts but like you said, with these temps, once the snow wins the battle and starts to accumulate, the brine creates water under the snow and then freezes. Only when they have used it for a small storm..or the one that hit us Christmas Eve that dumps quick snow and ends fast, I truly do not get the strengths of it. I mean, those highways down there? Just looks like 3 salt trucks running parallel with each other would have melted all the highways easily.
It could happen CMAN. What you need is a big low pressure in the gulf of mexico with a strong high pressure somewhere between the Great Lakes and Maine. Most importantly you need blocking to the north...you get blocking east/north of Nova Scotia that when the storm starts coming north, it stalls..has nowhere to go. I know I have discussed this many times but the Blizzard of 96 was as close to that...the storm did its thing and got to the coast of N.J. and had nowhere to go..and jut basically spun itself to death and died right there pretty much. Superstorm of 93 would be the closest overall though. The only reason I rarely refer to that storm is for the local NYC area it was mostly a rain and flooding event. Not until you got to NW New Jersey did the snow really accumulate. I think we go around 8 here..and 15 there..but once you got into New England...30 and 40 inches with horrible flooding...brutal winds. I would think thats the closest you could get. Now Sandy came close to doing what you are talking about. Remember there was a time when they thought NE PA would get buried with snow. Only back in West Virginia did that happen...while we get the brunt of Sandy in NJ/NY/CONN, areas in WV got over a foot of snow..so it can happen.
Ok..we talked about 2 storms.. Here is the the one for next Tuesday/Wednesday. This is showing the EURO snow total map. Now the GFS had a smaller storm then its showed the past 3 days and it the run made no sense..so there is no way Im jumping of this train. EURO 2-5-14
NOW this is the second storm. Im not pulling snow totals yet but this is the setup. Notice the huge storm off the coast of DE. This too is the EURO..and this to is a bigger bomb then the one above: This model will only show a stronger storm tomorrow..guaranteed...its a perfect setup MODEL WISE. Now the question is what starts to break it down if anything. Will post the snow maps for this a bit later...but tonight's EURO run for next weeks storm is pretty big..we want to see it there still.
