Idk what everyone took away from this storm, but I know one thing - going forward, I’ll take the NAM suite over all other short range guidance. It was on an island of its own and absolutely nailed it from 48 hrs out. My line of thinking in future storms (sub 2 days out) will be to put 90% of my stock and expectations in the NAM solution and about 10% in things like the HRRR or FV3. The RGEM performed greatly with last weekends storm and performed horrendously with this one. Idk what to do with it yet but we’ll put it on house arrest for the time being.
other things we learned:
- No arctic high? Keep expectations in check.
- the EURO AI didn’t perform great with amounts but nailed the track. We’ll need to consider it heavily moving forward.
- Warm air advection always wins
All in all, I enjoyed tracking this. In typical southeast fashion, there are haves and have nots but many of us got on the board and shook the drought early in the season. The pattern going forward favors the mid-south but let’s just see. I think we have something to track at least once more as the pattern starts to break down late month.