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My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by Isotherm Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:46 am
Any comments or inquiries are appreciated!
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Re: My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by nutleyblizzard Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:21 pm
Very nice write up! With you being on board, its pretty much a given snow wise for a productive winter. I'm going somewhat higher with snowfall amounts for NYC, more like 50+. My reasoning? The sheer frequency of storms which has already occurred and will continue to do so as we head into the winter months. The wildcard in all this is the NAO. If we get into a more prolonged -NAO regime, the aforementioned predicted amounts will be higher.Isotherm wrote:Any comments or inquiries are appreciated!
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Re: My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by docstox12 Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:28 am
Isotherm wrote:Any comments or inquiries are appreciated!
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TOP SHELF as always, and if you were a financial writer, your 82% accuracy would put you in the "Holy Grail" category! The technical depth is over my head , but at the end you bring it all together with the monthly synopsis and the maps.Thank you so much for taking the time to develop this analysis and posting it for us on the site.
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Re: My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by sroc4 Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:54 am
Tom phenomenal write up as usual. I am extremely excited at the potential for the early start. Thank you for all the time and effort.
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Re: My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by Frank_Wx Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:23 am
Tom - thank you for sharing here at NJ Strong. Many here, myself included, find you fascinating. This was another well-written and informative outlook. I will pin it to the top. This in particular caught my attention:
It actually appears the NAO will be headed negative toward Thanksgiving. In your opinion what that drives the positive/negative state of the NAO? Is there something specifically you pay attention to?
Also, thoughts on the probabilities of a SSWE?
My NAO, “Formula” which I developed several years ago and incorporates 4 main sub-components. Its retrospective success in forecasting the modality of the ensuing DJF NAO since 1950 has been 87%; and, since utilizing it prospectively, it has verified accurately in the past 4 winters as far as prognosticating the DJF NAO modality. The past several autumns, the NAO formula has strongly indicated a winter-time positive NAO. This year, for the first time since the beginning of this decade, the formula indicates that the NAO will average negative for the DJF winter season; not strongly so, but weakly negative to potentially moderately negative. Compared to the positive NAO dominance of the past several winters, it will be a material alteration.
It actually appears the NAO will be headed negative toward Thanksgiving. In your opinion what that drives the positive/negative state of the NAO? Is there something specifically you pay attention to?
Also, thoughts on the probabilities of a SSWE?
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Re: My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by frank 638 Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:51 am
Tom thank you for your wonderful write up for this upcoming winter I and thinking this is going to be a great winter for everyone my fingers are crossed
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Re: My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by Dunnzoo Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:57 am
nutleyblizzard wrote:Very nice write up! With you being on board, its pretty much a given snow wise for a productive winter. I'm going somewhat higher with snowfall amounts for NYC, more like 50+. My reasoning? The sheer frequency of storms which has already occurred and will continue to do so as we head into the winter months. The wildcard in all this is the NAO. If we get into a more prolonged -NAO regime, the aforementioned predicted amounts will be higher.Isotherm wrote:Any comments or inquiries are appreciated!
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I'm with you, we have been in such a wet pattern, we are bound to see more snow events. How much we see in those events will be the question...
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Re: My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by Isotherm Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:09 pm
Thank you all for the nice comments! Frank, as noted in the outlook, I think we have a lower than normal chance for a technical SSW this year, but the troposphere and lower strat vortices should be weaker than normal with plenty perturbation. Re NAO, the provenance of its interseasonal emanate from a number of sources, like toruqes, poleward propagating AAM anomalies, SSTs, solar activity, among others. The NAO variance is multifactorial which is why, I think, few have figured out how to fcst it. I am hoping that my formula continues to prove successful empirically.
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Re: My Winter Outlook 2018-19
by mako460 Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:17 pm
Great write up Iso but I see that it already busted. I read the whole thing and not once did you mention 6 inches of snow in Central Park on November 15. Maybe I'll have to check again lol.
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