12/19 - 12/20 Storm Discussion Thread

[Madroch]

While normally way to early to get excited, there are three factors that guarantee a big storm next Sunday/Monday here in CT.

(1) My daughter's birthday party is Sunday night, and I absolutely cannot sneak out/hurry people out (tried to wrap it up early due to snow falling one year and was in the doghouse for close to a year).

(2) New waterproof ski pants do not arrive until next Tuesday---

(3) Immoveable work appointment on Monday.

Enjoy the storm!!!

 

[Greg]

Bring it!

 

[Glenn]

Sweet! We just needs to send drjeff out west or to a Pats game.....

 

[billski]

holy shcmoly. according to skiforecast.com, the northern VT area, waitsfield and north (including NEK) should see approx 18" snow over the next three days. Way to recover!

 

[Johnskiismore]

Started snowing here about a half hour ago. Looking at 2-4, that and MM this will be a good recovery!

 

[roark]

I will be away. It's a lock.

 

[drjeff]

Sweet! We just needs to send drjeff out west or to a Pats game.....

Patriots vs. Packers Sunday night , 8:20 kick off at Gillette Stadium, I'm there

 

[polski]

holy shcmoly. according to skiforecast.com, the northern VT area, waitsfield and north (including NEK) should see approx 18" snow over the next three days. Way to recover!

yeah, NWS-Burlington sees Wed as a day for advisory-level accumulation. LionelHutz at FIS is eyeing possible big upslope event starting Thurs night. I'm back from a week in Ireland, where the (highly unusual) snowfields atop their mountains had me drooling and sorta kicking myself for not trying to turn it into a backcountry ski trip - though, logistically, that would've been impossible. So now I'm working my ass off (aside from occasional breaks for messageboarding) to clear decks so I can make my first turns of the season Thurs and/or Fri.

Game on.

 

[polski]

And now I see snowforecast.com has a somewhat different prognosis in terms of timing than either NWS or FIS ... or Roger Hill for that matter. Whatever - they're all talking about snow and fairly significant amounts of it. At this point that's good enough for me.

Meanwhile I just found out my local Ski Bradford is opening for the season at 3 p.m. today so the boys and I will get in some warmup laps this evening.

 

[Glenn]

Patriots vs. Packers Sunday night , 8:20 kick off at Gillette Stadium, I'm there

LOL! Thanks Jeff! 8)

 

[St. Bear]

You want snow? I'm coming up to NH for the weekend, and leaving on Sun. Your welcome.

 

[lerops]

whatever works!

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

i know its a bit off (possibly worth its own thread) but something brewing for 1920th....LGA and JFK forecast soundings are 15-17" at this point in time....will be interesting to see what develops

 

[WinnChill]

There were a few more favorable indications of a decent hit with this storm but am still waiting on some more data. There are a lot of good pieces in place for this to hit but it would take just the slightest nudge for it to be a total miss.

Stay tuned!

 

[drjeff]

There were a few more favorable indications of a decent hit with this storm but am still waiting on some more data. There are a lot of good pieces in place for this to hit but it would take just the slightest nudge for it to be a total miss.

Stay tuned!

I'm thinking miss, if for no other reason than I gave my snowblower a full preseason tune-up yesterday, so its READY to go :lol:

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

pulled out my shovels today thinking....i have 5 snow shovels, but i'm the only one that does it!!!

 

[snoseek]

I'm thinking miss, if for no other reason than I gave my snowblower a full preseason tune-up yesterday, so its READY to go :lol:

So do you think you could take a sladghammer to it and post some pics? Thanks:smash:

 

[gmcunni]

for us weatherly challenged folks - where's this storming coming in from?

 

[drjeff]

for us weatherly challenged folks - where's this storming coming in from?

This one is going to try and track along the classic Nor'easter path (i.e. headed up the coast from the Florida panhandle area), which is good for snow. The problem is (and why it looks like it will miss us out to sea) that there will be a BIG dome of high pressure moving in from the Great Lakes region, and as of right now timing wise, it looks like that dome of High pressure will "beat" the low to the Northeast, thus pushing the track of the low far enough to the East that as of now looks like the best chance of seeing more than a few flurries would be Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard (even there *maybe* a couple of inches max).

If the high slows down in it's Eastward progress, then the chances improve for more widespread accumulating snow across the Northeast

 

[Madroch]

Storm's not dead yet... I am still unavailable to ski Sun/Mon... and some upper level features have improved (or so I have read) despite the projected track continuing to suggest a fish storm.