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Originally Posted by mels

Snow in March is common in New England. It's like being annoyed by 90F temps and oppressive humidity in Florida summer. Unrealistic expectations usually yield disappointing results.

I know. I've been through many March snowstorms. Never have to like them. My hope was this mild winter meant we could escape it this year. Guess not.

[Brian26]

Originally Posted by Cambium

And I cant believe I'm in the teens again. WTF. Single digits in Hartford.


Lots of bloom damages at least from DC southward

6am temps

You should look at the euro 850mb tems for this weekend! Wow. If people thought last weekend was cold.....

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by Brian26

You should look at the euro 850mb tems for this weekend! Wow. If people thought last weekend was cold.....

I saw.


the Polar Vortex supposed to get weaker, not stronger. It supposed to stop coming so far south in March.


Ironically, because of that cold, the snowstorm is suppressed SOUTH of us.


So do you want snow and cold or frigid and dry? It's either or for this one.


Euro has 10-15" for Richmond and D.C yet a few flakes for us. That's because the Polar Vortex is too far south for us to get the snowstorm.


We'll see.

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by Cambium

I saw.


the Polar Vortex supposed to get weaker, not stronger. It supposed to stop coming so far south in March.


Ironically, because of that cold, the snowstorm is suppressed SOUTH of us.


So do you want snow and cold or frigid and dry? It's either or for this one.


Euro has 10-15" for Richmond and D.C yet a few flakes for us. That's because the Polar Vortex is too far south for us to get the snowstorm.


We'll see.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Cambium

I saw.


the Polar Vortex supposed to get weaker, not stronger. It supposed to stop coming so far south in March.


Ironically, because of that cold, the snowstorm is suppressed SOUTH of us.


So do you want snow and cold or frigid and dry? It's either or for this one.


Euro has 10-15" for Richmond and D.C yet a few flakes for us. That's because the Polar Vortex is too far south for us to get the snowstorm.


We'll see.

It would be interesting if Baltimore/DC gets that much....they are having record an near record low snow. Baltimore is at just 0.7" all winter so far, which if no other measurable falls would tie 1949-50 as least snowy winter.

Reagan Airport (right off the river from DC) has just 1.4" and Dulles Airport just 1.7". In both cases, their least snowiest winter was just 0.1" in 1972-73 and 1997-98 (the latter of which had just a Trace 100+ miles north in Philly, their only winter without measurable snow.....but Philly is at 8.0" so far so it's not in jeopardy). But if nothing else falls, in both cases it would be their 2nd least snowy winter (the two DC locations, not Philly).

Side note about 1997-98 that relates to us this time of year......Central Park was headed for it's least snowiest winter, only 0.5" had fallen at that point when 5.0" suddenly fell on March 22. But the next week was a record stretch of 80+ degree March days. March can be so fickle......

[Cambium]

NWS has me up to 50% chance now for Sunday. Lol.

Btw.. record cold temp recorded in the arctic. No wonder why we got another crazy cold blast coming. But how far south will it come.

If we get fluff snow in March that would be something weird.

[RunD1987]

Looks like wintry mix of weather by the end of the week and can last awhile. Was hoping by St. Patricks Day it be 50 to 60 again.

[Cambium]

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/838785598093672448

[Cambium]

Euro went south even more overnight. We do get 1-3" on Friday though with the 1st storm. But DC might see more snow this weekend more than us.

One of the worst things to read in the discussion especially in March. lol

National Weather Service New York NY
356 AM EST Tue Mar 7 2017

The trend over the last few model cycles is for this system to pass
to the south with little impact to the local area. On the
deterministic models, the height field across the eastern US does
not have enough time to recover behind the strong upper low and
there is little amplification being depicted over the western
states. This means the low slides to the south and off the coast.
However, there is a large degree of spread within the GEFS and ECMWF
EPS with several members showing a bit more amplification and thus a
further north track. There are many features at play for the
upcoming weekend, and many of them currently lie over a data sparse
region, so do not want to sway too far from previous forecast. We
are likely to continue to see run to run changes within the
deterministic and ensembles for the next few days. Thus, will
continue with chance PoPs for snow late Saturday night into Sunday.
The system departs offshore Sunday night with high pressure
returning Monday..

[Cambium]

Little drizzle overnight. Warm front lifting north through us today, Cold front pushing East in central U.S.


Some Thunderstorm warnings embedded in that line.