Friday, December 09, 2005

Even the NWS guys are excited

The latest forecast discussion out of our NWS office!

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
158 PM EST FRI DEC 9 2005

...BOMOGENESIS OCCURRING IN RI SND ALNG WITH THUNDER SNOW IN
BLOSSOMING COMMA HEAD...

.SHORT TERM (REST OF TONIGHT)...
WILD WINTER WEATHER HERE IN SNE...WITH SFC LOW UNDERGOING BOMOGENESIS
IN RI SND AT 130 PM. SFC LOW WL MV QUICKLY E WITH LATEST ANALYSIS
INDICATING 17 MB PRES DROP IN PAST 3 HRS CENTERED OVR ACK SND!
SIGNIFICANT WND SHIFT BEHIND THIS LOW WITH WNDS GUSTING TO 55 MPH ACRS
ERN LI AND INTO CSTL RI. IN ADDITION BUOY S OF LI GUSTING TO 58 KTS!
THUS...HV EXPANDED WND ADV EWD INTO EAST COASTAL MA...INCLUDING
BOSTON...CAPE ANN AND PYM COUNTY. STGST WNDS RI CST...INCLUDING BID
AND EWD ACRS S.CST OF MA.

IN ADDITION...VIGOROUS COMMA HEAD DEVELOPING OVR ERN CT/RI AND ERN MA IN
RESPONSE TO SIGNIFICANT HEIGHT FALLS WITH UPPER LOW. GOOD CSI BANDING
HAS MATERIALIZED WITH SVRL RPTS OF THUNDER SNOW ACRS THIS AREA.
THIS CONVECTIVE BAND WL YIELD A QUICK 3-5 INCHES OF SNFL IN NE CT/NW
RI AND E OF ORH IN MA...INCLUDING HILLSBORO CNTY. FARTHER SE INTO I95
CORRIDOR...MIXED PRECIP WL CHANGE TO SN WITH AN ADDITIONAL 2-4 INCHES
OF ACCUMULATIONS BEFORE BACK EDGE OF PRECIP MVS OFSHR. STRONG WINDS
WILL COMBINE WITH A CHANGEOVER OF SN TO YIELD NEAR WHITE OUT
CONDITIONS FROM NOW (2 PM) TIL 4-5 PM IN THE PVD-BOS CORRIDOR AND
LKLY TIL 6-7PM SE OF I95. WOW...WHAT A STORM!

NOCERA

3 comments:

Vannah said...

Uhhh, what? The only part I understood was, "Wow, what a storm!".

Karyn said...

No kidding! Is that in English?

Hollis said...

Ok...here it is in plain English in case you were interested.

BOMOGENESIS (that's a term used to describe a rapidly intensifying low pressure center) OCCURRING IN RI (Rhode Island) SND (Sound) ALNG WITH THUNDER SNOW IN
BLOSSOMING COMMA HEAD (what the intensifying low pressure system looks like on satellite like my profile picture)...

.SHORT TERM (REST OF TONIGHT)...
WILD WINTER WEATHER HERE IN SNE...WITH SFC LOW (surface low) UNDERGOING BOMOGENESIS
IN RI SND AT 130 PM. SFC LOW WL MV QUICKLY E WITH LATEST ANALYSIS
INDICATING 17 MB PRES DROP (17 mb is how much the pressure has decreased) IN PAST 3 HRS CENTERED OVR ACK SND (Nantucket Sound)!
SIGNIFICANT WND SHIFT BEHIND THIS LOW WITH WNDS GUSTING TO 55 MPH ACRS
ERN LI (Eastern Long Island) AND INTO CSTL RI (Coastal Rhode Island). IN ADDITION BUOY S (South) OF LI GUSTING TO 58 KTS (knots; this equals 67 mph)!
THUS...HV (have) EXPANDED WND ADV (wind advisory) EWD (eastward) INTO EAST COASTAL MA...INCLUDING
BOSTON...CAPE ANN AND PYM COUNTY. STGST WNDS RI CST...INCLUDING BID
AND EWD ACRS S.CST OF MA.

IN ADDITION...VIGOROUS COMMA HEAD DEVELOPING OVR ERN CT/RI AND ERN MA IN
RESPONSE TO SIGNIFICANT HEIGHT FALLS WITH UPPER LOW. GOOD CSI (Conditional Symmetric Instability) BANDING
HAS MATERIALIZED WITH SVRL RPTS OF THUNDER SNOW ACRS THIS AREA.
THIS CONVECTIVE BAND WL YIELD A QUICK 3-5 INCHES OF SNFL (snowfall) IN NE CT/NW
RI AND E OF ORH (Worcester) IN MA...INCLUDING HILLSBORO CNTY. FARTHER SE INTO I95
CORRIDOR...MIXED PRECIP WL CHANGE TO SN (snow) WITH AN ADDITIONAL 2-4 INCHES
OF ACCUMULATIONS BEFORE BACK EDGE OF PRECIP MVS OFSHR. STRONG WINDS
WILL COMBINE WITH A CHANGEOVER OF SN TO YIELD NEAR WHITE OUT
CONDITIONS FROM NOW (2 PM) TIL 4-5 PM IN THE PVD-BOS (Providence to Boston) CORRIDOR AND
LKLY TIL 6-7PM SE OF I95. WOW...WHAT A STORM!