Models so a great job at identifying threats at long leads, that’s their key area of improvement. Close in we still have our struggles with difficult set ups
Whoever gets .5” QPF could definitely score 8-10 in this one. If you’re in .25” you might get better than 10-1 but subsidence plays a factor on the edges and worse snow growth as well.
I think we just need to start looking at the confluence and maybe seeing if the s/s wave can climb a bit more with strong WAA precip. In that event, separation of the streams isn’t the focus
I try to spend some split time in there for obs during the storms and a little bit during tracking. This is just a much busier forum and a more consolidated geography.
Yes, the climo for me is not all that dissimilar to state college (normally at least) compared to say Arlington or Annapolis. But this is where my online weather love kicked off 15+ years ago.
This is where we have a chance to still score a warning level event. Ratios will be good and whoever is in the juice will have little to no problem producing dendrites thanks to solid fgen from a good vort & moisture transport from a s/s gulf interaction.
Was worried about this a few days ago, extremely fragile set up and easy to fail. We haven’t done well historically in Niña’s with big amplified phase events. That plus the seasonal trend of deamplificafion of shortwaves made this an uphill battle to hold onto the big solutions at d5
@NorthArlington101 is almost always associated with bad news. I vote we keep him out of the thread for a bit and try to change the vibes. Sorry NA, nothing personal bud.
I think at this point, it’s simple what we want, the Nam type solution where WAA precip comes in north and hot thanks to weaker confluence and the SS vort can climb a bit
That was a great one. Was in southeast Baltimore. Remember it starting to flurry right after daybreak, cold smoke and 6.5” by the end of it.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, the start of 63” in 12 days for me.
1/30: 6.5”
2/2-3: 5.2”
2/5-6: 31.5”
2/9-10: 20.5”
It’s okay. I’ve been telling @TSSN+ for days we weren’t getting a storm. I’d love to pretend I bought it. But we just don’t do snow well here, and the pattern is S&E and de-amped.