psuhoffman

I think it’s maybe time to stop tip toeing around it. We all know what the issue is.

No It was just weaker. Took the same track until it hit the east coast then it’s shoved south more by the flow because it’s weaker. It was just weaker. Maybe the more south tpv had some impact. Compressing the flow a bit. It was slightly weaker pretty early on though. But while everyone is stressing the rain the real issue is it was a definite trend towards the euro. Remember the euro isn’t really south it’s just weaker.

Double bind... unfortunately there just isn’t enough cold to make any storm “easy”. The amount of suppression we need to stop warmth from surging north also is very close to be too much to allow anything to amplify. Do there is a very very very narrow margin we’re playing in and to get a big snow we will have to play with fire either way. There isn’t enough cold to get some huge shield of cold smoke to the north of a storm. Everything at our latitude and south is going to have to be dynamically driven.

It’s too close no it’s too far. Lol

No from what I saw it was north like the last few gfs runs. It simply had a more suppressive flow in the west Atlantic and it ejected a weaker wave and dampened the wave more as it came east vs the gfs which amplified it. This gfs run might turn out ok but I don’t like seeing the wave trend toward a weaker solution like the euro.

It’s not really south. The upper low takes the exact same track it’s just weaker.

The TPV in Canada is a lot further southeast and compressing the flow in front more. It might not matter. But I don’t like that.

I see things I don’t like at 81 hours. That’s all I’m gonna say.

Gfs is kinda a nothing burger wrt snow. It confined the heavy banding south across central VA where it’s just rain. Pretty paltry precip up to the north where it would be cold enough. That’s why the warmer result.

Gfs looks a little colder at 850 to start nevermind...it did through 60 then went the other way

Yea the wave was stronger but the shred factory flow got worse and more then offset.

What made you say this? Just curious because it looks worse then 0z to me.

Yes but also slightly less ridging and a more compressed flow in front of it. They probably offset imo.

I posted earlier that I think our biggest issue is the incredibly warm base state of N America. The longwave pattern is pretty good to get these tantalizing threats but with little true deep cold airmass around...we need so much suppression to keep warmth from surging north of us ahead of any wave...that it makes it difficult to get anything to amplify when we are "cold enough". When the flow relaxes enough to allow a system to amplify we get rain...even from a pretty good track.

We haven't even had a typical la nina pattern though. It's been more like a super nino pattern honestly.

Both the GFS and Euro are almost identical at 60 hours as the system crashes into CA. They both have the wave. But the GFS brings it across the southwest and ejects stronger...the euro de-amplifies it some...but its still healthy enough ejecting from the mountains...but for whatever reason...and I can't see HUGE differences in the flow around it to easily account, yes I can see how the flow to the northeast is compressing it but that is there on the GFS too and I am not sure that should be impacting the wave as early on as the euro starts to weaken it...the euro weakens and shears the wave out as it comes across and the GFS amplifies it. But its not like we need the euro to conjure up a wave...its there, and its healthy enough to begin with...just needs to amplify it coming across instead of weakening it.

It's not THAT far off if you look at more then just the verbatim surface results. The track of the h5 feature is perfect...we just need it to be more amplified and suddenly this turns into a nice little snow event with everything else being the same. It's not a huge adjustment needed to see a better outcome from the euro progression. Maybe we dont get the more amplified wave...but there is no HUGE red flag this time that we can't. Its not like some of the recent examples we tried to will a storm up when there was some death vortex over Maine that we knew was never going to allow a wave to amplify or some wave over the lakes to wreck the flow. All we need here is one thing...for the wave to be more amplified as it ejects out west.

yea no that GFS run was fun but I think most of us know that's a max potential only if all the stars aligned thing. I would be happy if we could just compromise...get the euro to amp up just a little...and get a nice simple snow event across the area out of this.

NO...do you remember last nights run? That was a horrific run. If this showed a central NC hit right now...that would be a problem we probably can say we wont recover from. Look at the track of the h5 feature. Look at the track of the precip before it dies during the "transfer" because the system is too weak to initiate a healthy secondary in time. Its heading right for us. The only adjustment we need here is more amplified with the wave and we have a storm. Don't need a track adjustment of the major feature. Don't need some major thermal changes. We just need one thing...and maybe we don't get the GFS op idea...but if the euro is just slightly more amplified we at least get a nice snow event.

so its NOTHING like the gfs/cmc wrt strenght...we need the wave to be stronger and not deamplify as it comes across as much... but imo just looking at h5 the euro made baby steps the right way. Slightly more amplified early on, slightly more ridging..little further north track of the h5 low. But it simply needs to be more amplified to initiate the result of the GFS or even the GGEM.

Not banking on anything...I have no control over it. I do suspect it will come north some from 12z but if it doesn't I will still go to sleep and wake up in the morning just the same.

nice appetizer now on to the real show...

Your storm is Thursday

somehow everyone missed it, or maybe I missed the posts...but rgem had a nice band of snow running right along route 50 in VA at the start of the event.

still slightly colder through 60