23 February 2010
The Blizzard That Snuck Up On NYC and Boston??
Posted by Dan Satterfield
So while I am looking intently at the model guidance for next week and the possible blizzard up the East Coast, Mother Nature decides not to wait!
It is looking very likely that a snow hurricane may develop in 48 hours over the Northeast! I bet my friends Harvey Leonard and Dick Albert in Boston are locked away looking at weather charts right now! Will it be too warm for a foot of snow?? Perhaps.If you are in Boston, listen to Harvey or Dick, they have forecasted a thousand of these!
Glad that forecast is not my problem today!!
High resolution Numerical Weather model for sunrise Friday. It indicates an intense low pressure near Boston. The black lines are isobars. The closer they are together, the faster the wind speed.
As for the possible blizzard early next week….
The models are still trending toward a weaker Southeast snow event…not sure I trust that yet!
GFS Model from NOAA for sunrise Tuesday. The red dashed line is the APPROXIMATE rain snow line. Image ctsy. Penn State Univ. Meteorology (Which hurts to say since I am an Okla Univ. Met. grad!)
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.