Yes, but it’s most severe in the medium and long range. In the short range it’s minimal. But of course that’s an average across lots of space and time, so it could be wrong either way in any particular location and time.
Yeah. I was looking at 3k NAM soundings around DC/Balt and it's pretty minimal and mostly at 900mb actually.
The models account for precip evaporating/subliming during descent (I'm 99% sure...) so can't really explain it.
Something is majorly weird with the GFS and that 850mb dry layer that develops between 0z and 6z Wednesday. I don't see how that is consistent with 0.2-0.5" of liquid equivalent. Pivotal shows the same info as TT, so it's not that one is plotting bad data. Just bizarre.
That gfs sounding is just bizarre. I don’t understand how that jives with moderate precip. Compare that to the NAM sounding Bob posted which makes much more sense.
Lol, just as the pole and Atlantic look to shift better, the Pac wants to take a crap. I’m still skeptical until it happens since this has been advertised a few times in the last 6 weeks only to either not happen or be very transient.
Yup, this is not a pattern for long track snow threats, but is one that could produce. Active pattern with cold air around. That said...if the ao does flip next week and the NAO starts moving as well...
I’m not sold that the EPO ridge goes away anytime soon. That keeps getting can kicked. The pacific might not be ideal at times, but I don’t see anything overtly hostile.