ECMWF keeps hope alive for the 5th/6th (I guess). Slower, a bit north. 00z Euro had these two features (circled) crash down and seemingly whisk whole thing out to sea. 12z euro doesn't' have them.
Yeah I've always had this (noob) question of whether a higher resolution model could "trick itself" by aggressively identifying noise (smaller features) and failing to smooth those out. But I guess that's just a convective feedback loop?
4 out of 20 members of CMC Ens have snow reaching here Feb. 5/6. Two have a liquid explosion. Therefore, 10% chance of a liquid explosion. That's how this works.
Yeah the Euro - as depicted - would probably be almost 12 hours of White Rain in the city, changing from a rain snow mix around 9pm then continuing into the morning with zero accumulation. Probably over 0.3" of QPF in and around the city with a bit more NW of the city where maybe rates overcome 34F at the surface. I'd take this as a best case! And I'd wager about 2" on my elevated (20 feet high) metal deck!
Yep looks great! One thing i'd like to see is the good look at the end of the ensembles. They keep kicking it a day forward.....but i'll be patient!
Here's yesterday's 12z EPS:
VS today 12z EPS:
Looking forward to seeing the blue connect with the blue!!!
someone can correct me, but i think the problem is not just that it's warm here. it's the fear that our cold source (canada) would get scoured out as well. so you've got mild air here with anomalously warm air north of it.
GEFS extended (which I assume just reverts to el nino analogs after two weeks out, but that's an uninformed cynical guess) looks good in early to mid february.