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Long Range Forecast Report Card 09/10

Posted on by NYSkiBlog

I was looking through last summer’s long range forecasts. What I found looks pretty good in retrospect. Caveat: I haven’t followed the weather out west. We’re really looking at the Northeast.

Bastardi’s Call

The biggest, baddest of all the long term calls comes each summer from Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi. Accuweather is known for making bold calls and hyping them bigtime. They’ve gone down in flames recently, including Bastardi’s call for 08/09. This year his call, made in mid-July, was SPOT ON for the northeast.

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Jason’s Weather: Week of March 8 2010

Posted on by Jason

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Forecast Update March 12:

With a cut off low meandering around the Mid-atlantic and no cold air to the north… r**n should advance to the Canadian border. That said, the heaviest NCP will remain south of Albany. Sleet is a possibility in the mountains.

Now too much anticipated long range. It appears that for the next 10 days or so the storm track will be across Canada. This will result in a series of cold front passages. Which means a brief warm up followed by cooler air and a chance of snow showers.

The bottom line is, this pattern is not favorable for any meaningful snow. As we all know, we are getting closer to April and the end of, what I think, was a pretty decent season …

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