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Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
In all seriousness, if that western piece of energy holds together better than modeled and we still get shortwave interaction like the above... -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Well, that didn't age well in the time it took me to look at the qpf maps, lol. But man that energy interaction just screams big storm to me.: I'll take it's move towards the GFS as a win at 12z though! -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
OMG I just went back to the vort maps out to hr 120. I can't wait to see the MSLP and precip outputs, lol. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
I've not seen the surface maps, but that one also feels like it would be good for TRI -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Man, I would love that look if I was a MA weenie. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
I don't think this will end up being a super duper awesome run, but I think the Euro will end up having made a sizeable jump towards the GFS. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Don't want to disrupt the Euro PBP too much, but just got an update on the CMC: https://status.commoditywx.com/?utm_source=embed -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Compared to the 0z Euro, the ridge is coming in taller in the Pac. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
I'm with you in the "not get sucked in," but the boom ceiling for this is pretty high if it all comes together just right. A couple things for me that are making it hard not to get sucked in: 1) the fact that csnavywx mentioned the models are having difficulty resolving the breakdown of the Pac ridge. That so far seems to be verifying and resulting in good trends for us up to now. 2) The northern stream energy piece is what makes this one a little different too. The last storm was mostly one shortwave that amped up as it approached the SE. This one has a major second piece dropping in from the arctic. As long as it comes in west of us, it at least gives some light clipper type snow. I don't think its impossible or even unlikely that two storms take the same track in this situation, it's just a question of whether or not that first piece of energy can hold together as it crosses the country and the angle of attack for the second. What we want to see is that member from the GEFS I posted this AM. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
I can't find it if it did. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Not great resolution, but the basic idea with the CMC ensembles at 12z is that the ridge is a bit steeper and the trough is digging a bit westward: -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
I don't have much worth looking at for the 12z CMC ensembles but they are at least loading on stormvistawx and it looks like a tick west from 0z. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
We were talking yesterday about how the energy got squished and what we wanted to see for a better E TN look, so I pulled the really nice GEFS member 18 (for some reason COD [college of dupage] site has it as member 19): I think the above is pretty close to the fence we are swinging for. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
The long range 6z GFS had a few more chances towards the end of its run too. It was also trying to rebuild convection in the Western Pac at the end: Strat still looks interesting in the long range: Nothing screams SSW, but there is some warming on the GFS. I'm sure the severe fans would love a SSWE around Feb 23, lol. I'll be honest, normally I'm ready for spring by mid March, but if 2011 style severe is on the table for spring, yes, bring on the strat. warming and spring blocking. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Here's the post I'm referring to: -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
The ridge just squishes it. But if csnavywx was right, and models are breaking down the ridge too quickly, that would allow the northern stream to line up more with the southern vort like on the 12z CMC. If that ridge holds up just a little longer, there is more amp opportunity with that healthy vort as it ejects. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
I think this run is just going to stretch out the first vort too much. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Bob Chill mentioned in the MA forum that it might get cut off, and as deep as it is digging here at 18z, I could see that. Sorry I should have added that the above is the trend over the past 4 runs. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Since 0z today on the GFS the initial vort for the weekend system has shifted from Nebraska to Lake Powell at hr 99 -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
csnavywx had a good post in the MA forum about the weekend storm, mentioning that he thought that the systems ability to dig and amp was dependent on the breakdown of the ridge off of the west coast. The slower that was to break down, the better chance our storm had. So far the ridge is looking better on the 18z run. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
I do want to add that there are other good H5 looks for us (bowling ball upper lows, overrunning, clippers), but that 93 gif is top tier for this kind of a phased bomb storm that the models keep trying to pop somewhere along the coast. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Man, if you just shifted the CMC's evolution by a couple hundred miles southwest.... as much as these runs have been jumping around, it isn't out of the question, IMO. even as it stands it would be a nice small event for eastern TN. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
I don't know what the surface will look like, but the shortwaves look better on the CMC: -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Yeah, we need this look: shifted west, so that the trough axis is over Alabama. Here is the ideal vort map evolution for east TN, IMO: There have been some runs that looked close to that, but too far east, for the most part. But they were in that territory with 960 lows off of Hatteras. -
Winter 2021/2022 January Thread
Holston_River_Rambler replied to AMZ8990's topic in Tennessee Valley
Looks like it will still be too late for our area, aside from whatever one s/w alone can produce. But it is pretty darn amazing that there could be such differences at H5 out west, but still produce a similar solution. Timing differences aside, the s/w being that far west early on, this run still produces a similar outcome to 6z wrt surface weather along the east coast: It's almost like this sort of a phased storm, whether it is out to sea, or more inland, is something the pattern just wants to produce now.