MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 2376
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   0925 PM CST WED DEC 07 2011
   
   AREAS AFFECTED...ERN PA/NY...PORTIONS OF NJ/CT/MA...MUCH OF VT/NH/ME
   
   CONCERNING...HEAVY SNOW 
   
   VALID 080325Z - 080730Z
   
   A NARROW CORRIDOR OF HEAVY SNOW /1 IN AN HOUR RATES/ WILL CONTINUE
   TO SHIFT EWD AND NWD WITH TIME WHILE GRADUALLY TAPERING OFF ALONG
   THE WRN PERIPHERY.
   
   AS THE PHASING UPPER TROUGHS CONTINUE TO EJECT NEWD...ASSOCIATED
   LOWER TROPOSPHERIC WARM ADVECTION IS GRADUALLY SHIFTING OFFSHORE.
   COLD ADVECTION IS BECOMING REINFORCED ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE
   NORTHEAST IN ITS WAKE...WITH COOLING TEMPERATURES PARTIALLY
   RESULTING FROM DIURNAL COOLING. THE RAIN/SNOW LINE HAS NOW
   PROGRESSED EWD...AS OF 03Z ORIENTED ROUGHLY THROUGH NRN MAINE SWWD
   THROUGH RUTLAND VT...WEST OF ALBANY NY...AND THROUGH WILKES-BARRE
   PA. HERE...A NARROW CORRIDOR OF HEAVIER SNOWFALL RATES EXISTS
   BETWEEN GREATER MOISTURE TO THE EAST /CHARACTERIZED BY PWAT VALUES
   FROM 0.85 TO NEAR 1.25 INCH PER AREA 00Z SOUNDINGS/ AND THE DRIER
   AND COLDER AIR MASS TO THE WEST. ALTHOUGH BRIGHT-BANDING HAS
   OCCURRED ON RADAR...A SNOW BAND HAS BEEN NOTED FROM NEAR
   WILKES-BARRE PA THROUGH THE CATSKILLS...WHICH WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT
   EWD AND NWD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE UPPER TROUGH.
   ADDITIONALLY...HEAVIER RATES WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH TO THE WEST OF
   THE BANDING FEATURE AS IT TRAVERSES EWD AND NWD.
   
   ..HURLBUT.. 12/08/2011
   
   
   ATTN...WFO...CAR...GYX...BOX...BTV...OKX...ALY...PHI...BGM...
   CTP...
   
   LAT...LON   42957197 41997371 41217481 40917609 42187493 44027272
               44787104 45796901 45766814 45426798 44696892 43987032
               42957197