Tornado watches on the southern flank, snow stretching from buffalo to Mississippi, and strong convection popping up off the coast in Virginia.
Fuggin Smarch storms, baby!
Add it to the list of models printing 6” IMBY. Not sure I’ve ever seen so many models agree on me seeing WSW criteria while I have an advisory up. Oh well. It’s a good thing being under an advisory vs WSW vs blizzard warning means absolutely nothing as it pertains to the final outcome.
Definitely In line with ground truth and current OBS. Folks on Facebook and twitter down south are pretty much indicating a clean and quick transition over to heavy snow from rain. (Thunder snow reports as well) To me, likely means models like the NAM were overdoing the sleet aspect of this storm.
0z HRW WRF 2 (I know, not a great model blah blah) with roughly 6-8 hours of accumulating snow after the changeover depending on location. It and the HRRR have been extremely consistent all day
Euro GFS NAM RAP HRRR HRDPS blend here is north of 6”. Sold.
Go ahead. Keep my advisory up, LWX. We oddly (and obviously 100% coincidentally) tend to overperform when we have advisories hoisted during marginal events more often than we meet warning criteria during marginal events. I’ll take the advisory knowing we’ll likely exceed the upper end and could be upgraded mid storm. There’s something awesome about having your advisory upgraded mid storm with heavy paste falling
I know a lot of folks either focus on far NW areas or the immediate metro areas….but keep in mind that the area of best lift often occurs by the rain/snow line. Highly possible the jackpot ends up being somewhere between Winchester and Baltimore or DC. MoCo & HoCo could be in a prime position as far as being cold enough for snow and far enough SE for more intense precip. Fairly confident someone is going to successfully walk that tight rope and see 6-8 out of this.
Suspect we’ll be seeing WWAs in Baltimore and DC proper by 4 PM and WSW’s from Winchester to the Cotocins over though northern carroll county and northern Baltimore county if current looks hold or improve