NE.Wx Snowfall Forecast Contests

DC 24-JAN-1940 Persistent Ridge-West / Trof East mid-level flow regime looking to cough up another contest-worthy snow storm this coming we...

  Worst kept secret evah ... Snow Storm #2 all but certain to affect most if not all forecast stations SUN into MON.  NWP models tease for a...

Hot on the heels of the 03-JAN snow storm comes the chance for a contest-worthy nor'easter and the first snowfall forecasting contest o...

UPDATE:  05-FEB-21 @ 9:45 AM EST  No consensus among the overnight NWP model runs whether enough stations are in play to warrant a contest-w...

Long-duration and ginormous Miller 'B' storm complex beginning to loom large in the window as an otherwise disappointing JAN comes t...

UPDATE :  02-JAN-21 @ 9 AM EST Not happenin' ... --- UPDATE :  01-JAN-21 @ 6:41 PM EST Today/s 12z / 18z progs suggest too few stations ...

UPDATE : 16-JAN-20 @ 7 PM EST Progs trending away from a contest-worthy event. Outside chance the evening runs will proffer a better ...

 From Judah Cohen's (AER) blog ... "I have been arguing for at least a decade now that the winter season is shifting ahead in ...

Brief ... less dramatic stratospheric warming at 30 mb on 20-DEC-18 has faded only to be replaced by a much larger  ... stronger ... and ve...

Polar vortex (PV) displacement event appears to be in the cards come Christmas. Full flow reversal + warming ==> major sudden stra...

Snow Storm #6 may be in the cards mid-week at the start of NEWxSFC/s fourth quarter. Upper LOW currently over the PAC NW ejects to the e...

Snow Storm #2 may be in the cards later this week as an Arctic air mass in a high amplitude flow regime excites cyclogenesis along the SE ...

A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event may be in the works for the last week of the month. After weeks and weeks of a high-speed rotat...

Decent inter - and intra-run-to-run consistency suggesting this season's first  contest-worthy snow storm may be in the offing toward ...

A little past the halfway point of meteorological winter ... another coastal teaser lurks on the horizon. Should be noted the ECMWF didn...

Maybe DEC 2015 won't go into the record books as not having a single contest-worthy snow storm. Progs depict weak cyclogenesis this ...

ECMWF continues to signal PV weakening near month's end. Initial panel (right) @ 80 m/s (155 knot; 179 mph). D+10  @ 60 m/s (117 k...

Incoming!   Deep layer Easter easterlies.     PV displacement   Split vortices.   --- Major SSW event has begun! ...

ECMWF continues its forecast for a SSW event in the near-term.

Complete break down of the Polar vortex at month's end. Deep ... deep layer wind reversal (easterlies up and down the Polar atmospher...