I think part of it is the lee side convergence we saw a few weeks ago. the bands I have outlined in white seem to come off of the plateau in TN and VA. So if there is sinking air as it moves down the plateau, it runs into the down valley flow and you get convergence.
EPS likes some of those windows too, so the OP is def. not on an island:
Also thought I'd check on the strat this PM since I hadn't in a bit. Still looks like a hurricane:
Kind of wish I had called this the "Revenge of the often crapped on models" storm. NAM whipped Euro, but then HRRR and RAP did a better job, in some ways with the mixing problems.
At the very end of the loop its almost like there is a faint lurch with the system to try and send some more moisture at E TN, but I could also just be seeing things:
yeah, even starting to get some of the bigger flakes mixed in again here.
I'm just not sure what on earth it's seeing to make rates jump like that. Would be awesome though!
Random thought this AM. What if the SPV holds on so long this year that when it finally breaks down, it disrupts the bad NAO cycle we've been in for so long?
HRRR and RAP seem to think rates will jump pretty dramatically:
Not really sure what the HRRR is smoking, but would be nice to get under those 30 dbz returns for a few more hours.
Can’t post a pic right now but driving over the ridges into Oak Ridge from Morgan County I could see the snow falling and evaporating on the 3000 foot peaks just north of Oliver Springs. It really did have the look of evaporation eating op the precip and not melting. I guess this mid/ low level dry air means business. The snow was making it about 2/3 of the way down the mts.