SnowGoose69

The soundings from the 12Z NAM at 18Z tomorrow near your location to me are not ones that are going to make it that hard for snow to reach the ground. At 18Z its saturated above 6K and mostly the 3-5K layer is the driest, but not THAT dry. I've seen much worse soundings which scream VIRGA than that

The 18Z 12km NAM now has snow into ATL for maybe 2 hours. It did a miserable job last storm though and has not been consistent on this one really to this point

It was also the last cold neutral after an El Nino we had which is surprising after 40 years. 92-93 and 03-04 were more warm neutrals after El Nino winters.

Agreed. I'm also confused with the WWA for the northern counties yet the verbiage in the WWA says 1-2 inches, I believe in the south region of the NWS 2 inches is supposed to be a Winter Storm Warning.

I would go to somewhere in that Perry-Cordele corridor looking at the map down I-75. I think in that area you could see it or somewhere nearby

I think it is for many. Its undoubtedly a very overpowered aircraft but I've not heard many pilots say they don't like it over the years.

Baton Rouge maybe, not sure anyone else does, I think there will be alot of 2s-3s because of sleet in most other stations. Montgomery/Augusta/Columbus are ones to watch maybe too. New Orleans/Charleston/Mobile/Pensacola will mix as will houston

Yup. I got 1.8 or so on average, they were pretty close. EWR got a bit more than NYC because they snowed for awhile late afternoon while we were dry slotting as well as LGA/JFK. In the evening the heavier bands in the 7-9pm window slid just ESE of NYC hitting LGA/JFK. JFK I think melted more as they took longer to get to 32 than LGA did.

The GRAF has come back south somewhat now, showing less wacky totals for ATL than it had been. I think dsaur/deltapilot/suzook are sitting in a way better spot than ATL downtown or even the airport. could see a case where they see 1-1.5 inches if this bumps somewhat north and downtown ATL sees flurries or nothing. In SC I think I'd pick 30-40 miles NW of CHS for prime spot. CHS obviously risk of sleet.

No both were weak La Ninas to neutral cold. 96-97 had a great AO/NAO combo in Dec much like 2012 did but nothing happened outside of interior parts of SNE and Upstate NY. Then we went cold and dry in January and torch in February. It was more of a bad luck winter than anything else, some places south of here had well above normal snowfall. 11-12 and 01-02 were similar as far as their proximity to a solar max and a neutral after a Nina

Looks increasingly likely we will be neutral or weak La Nina again next winter. Historically that has not generally been good near solar maxes, I think this winter we benefited somewhat coming off the El Nino as we did in 2010-2011. I am definitely fearing 96-97 01-02 11-12 somewhat next winter if we continue to see a move towards La Nina or cold neutral

The spots I'd most want to be in are probably a BTR-Hattiesburg to maybe 40 miles south of MGM-CSG-MCN corridor...south of that might be mixing

Don't think you'll see a big change really, this is simply the models catching onto what the Euro has been showing, the WAA finger of snow over GA/SC/AL was being badly underdone but I'd expect it does not climb much further north than this.

It did well with the last SE storm, I know that. Its awful with convection though. I had been ignoring it since it was so bad last summer.

Tough one for the NWS here, the GRAF/Euro/GFS are all showing snow extending way further in GA/SC/NC than any other model, you can assume the higher resolution of the mesos is correct and why they see nothing but in airmass like this it might not take much to squeeze out an inch of snow