Vacation destination for Jeb

[btornado]

Beautiful St. Anthony, Newfoundland. Current snow depth of 42 inches. Nice!
-Bernie

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[Anonymous]

I LOVE that destination, btornado!!!! Are those big ridges of snow DRIFTS?
I would be digging mass amounts of SNOW and taking nice scenic jebwalks among the drifts!!! Nothing but SNOW and COLD!!! No more 40-degree heartbreaks, no more free heartbreaking rides on the Red/Green Line to Slop Land lol.

Although I must admit--this ICE was interesting overnight and today. It was the only game in town and better than all rain at 50 degrees.

Nice selection, btornado!!!! Man I need to visit that place-----all winter long!!




-JEB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[btornado]

A couple days ago, St. Anthony experienced all day sustained winds of around 40-50 mph with occasional heavy snow, with a few hours of 60+ mph sustained winds. Gusts were above 74 mph, so I'm gonna guess that a bit of drifting took place. Sounds like a nice winter storm to me. Hurricane force winds + snow......WHAT A COMBO!

-Bernie

[Anonymous]

A couple days ago, St. Anthony experienced all day sustained winds of around 40-50 mph with occasional heavy snow, with a few hours of 60+ mph sustained winds. Gusts were above 74 mph, so I'm gonna guess that a bit of drifting took place. Sounds like a nice winter storm to me. Hurricane force winds + snow......WHAT A COMBO!

-Bernie

WOW!!!!!

What a RUSH!!!! All those snowflakes getting blown by hurricane-force winds!! I would have been having an epic time of it!!!!!

I have got to go there sometime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Future Home of the Jebcast Weatherplex!



-JEB

[ColdFront77]

Although I must admit--this ICE was interesting overnight and today. It was the only game in town and better than all rain at 50 degrees.

Jeb, I remember a recent post you made about hoping that a system isn't main ice.

Ice is dangerous, but enjoyable to watch... is what you are getting at?

[Anonymous]

Although I must admit--this ICE was interesting overnight and today. It was the only game in town and better than all rain at 50 degrees.

Jeb, ice is dangerous, but enjoyable to watch... is what you are getting at?

I remember a recent post you made about hoping that a system isn't main ice.

Ice IS very, very dangerous, and I do not want it, but when we are in a winter that has so far shown that the Mid Atlantic will be missed by winter weather and when not missed, will quickly change to slop then rain, anything is better than plain rain and warm weather in winter.

When things are this bad------And I do mean BAD----here in the Mid Atlantic, when it can indeed get as cold as it has been, and we STILL get rain, then that is without a doubt, one of the worst winter patterns that the Mid Atlantic can EVER get.

When the pattern is THIS P!SS POOR in the MA, then yes, I will stoop down so low as to actually enjoy ICE events. Because ICE EVENTS may be all that we Mid Atlantans have left this winter.

Indeed in all my life, I have never, EVER seen a scenario in which we have been SO COLD here in the MA and NE, with record cold in the NE but not the MA, and then storms miss us, a Clipper tracks NORTH, in a PV environment in which the Clipper SHOULD have tracked more south, storms go south of us, storms hit us with a brief sleet and ice then go to HOURS of rain. I have never ever in my entire life experienced anything quite like this. Twenty years ago here in the MA when climatic change was not so far advanced, it was true that when we had major arctic outbreaks like the one we just had here in the East, we at least had one storm that at least gave us 8 inches of snow then sleet then ZR then rain, if not an outright straightforward all-snow event after the cold outbreak.

We live in a brave new world indeed folks. A world in which it is quite possible, in which this horrific outcome has already been realized----and where it will be realized over and over and over again----to experience long arctic outbreaks, even outbreaks in which we break records, or the NE breaks cold temperature records, and then receive storms that do not deliver straight snow as they used to after such cold outbreaks, but that bring us sleet and frzra then a quick change to all plain rain. This is the winter storm of the future folks-----and this phenomenon will progressively occur farther and farther north with time. In about 20 years, Mainers will have to migrate to Atlantic Canada to enjoy what they consider a real winter.

In El Nino winters like 1997-98 I can understand this slop factor---it is part and parcel of such years.

But in a winter like this winter----with all the unbelievably cold weather in the East-----When we get slop and predominantly RAIN, we really need to start wondering about the weather, about climatic change issues. This is serious. We just had one of the coldest outbreaks in years-----and we just had a bit of sloppy winter weather far more befitting a strong El Nino winter.


It is most sobering for Mid Atlantic residents such as myself, because this trend is downright horrifying. In another 20 years it may indeed be rare for us in VA to even see all-snow 5 inch snow events. Hell, we couldn't even do that this past December. We got 5 inches and then tons of moderate rain which beat that snow to nearly nothing.


Yup folks, as much as I detest ICE, I will take that ICE and I will savor it, though I will mourn everyone that gets hurt or killed by that same ice, when winter weather patterns get as detestable as they are this winter here in the Mid Atlantic.



-JEB

[tropicana]

Remind me never to go to St. Anthony, Newfoundland.

hehe
-justin-

[BritBob]

The storm responsible for the latest dumping on Newfoundland actually produced a storm surge in parts of the Maritimes due to such low pressure.

This Metar was from Deer Lake, it`s been a long time since a storm had such low pressure.

CYDF 162000Z 04016G28KT 12SM FEW012 BKN025 OVC062 00/M03 A2792 RMK SF2SC4SC2 SLP456

945.6mb. It was a confirmed weather bomb BTW.