the temps are the issue with this one, low chance of snow next 2 weeks unless we time a shortwave perfectly behind one, but maybe around day 15-25 we can sneak something if we get a -epo or PNA ridge .
Euro Ai keeps popping a -EPO around day 15, A quality met. On our discord pointed out the best analogs for this year favor week 1-2 March. Snow chances the next 10-14 days look very low, and yeah maybe we are done, but we’ll see what happens .
To be fair euro basically jumped ship right when the event got under 108 hours out or so. 96 hours has been the time frame for lock down mode this year. That’s 4 days, not bad. For weenies in E NC and Virginia Beach I’d be worried about an even more SE trend over next couple days. One of the worst winters of my 38 years on earth. I’d rather a 2001-02 winter than this crap where we get decent patterns that fail. .
I think the kicker and lack of ridge out west hurts any chance for amplification. I agree you look at the map you posted and you’d think a big event was forming, but it just stays neutral and rides E. Frustrating .
Models aren’t the issue, it’s people trusting OP models outside 120 hours. Yesterday got us under that mark and boom they all started converging last night. They still identified the threat 200+ hours out. .
Models generally get into somewhat lock down mode once they get under the magic 120 hours number. Yes we’ll still see ticks either way, but not overhauls. Yesterday was that magic time frame and was why I was so nervous before 12z runs. Oh well. We can still muster .4-.6 of high ratio stuff (more for jersey). .