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Richmond Metro/ Hampton roads obs/disco winter thread


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Even with this crappy of a solution, we still get 2-3". Lock it in.

I just wish it would go back to the earlier timing if thats all thats gonna fall. Would kinda suck to have it happen the day after christmas, and then bomb up the coast and miss us as well. I guess we got time to shift this back some more and thats good.

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Even with this crappy of a solution, we still get 2-3". Lock it in.

the cut off is tight 50 miles will make a HUGE difference. this run in the later hrs.66+ just tok off with the low still plenty of time. we couldn't expect the euro to show an extreme solution every run

eastern va nc jackpot this run for the mid atl.

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the cut off is tight 50 miles will make a HUGE difference. this run in the later hrs.66+ just tok off with the low still plenty of time. we couldn't expect the euro to show an extreme solution every run

eastern va nc jackpot this run for the mid atl.

I think with the GFS,GFS ENS, and now the euro that Hampton roads gets a very nice snowfall out of this!

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Most of the gfs ensembles are about 6 hours slower than the operational as well. Agrees with an east of I-95 high impact storm.. with those west of I-95 (richmond view point) only getting a modest event.

Euro moving 75 miles east and speeding up really killed the mood tonight for alot of people. (going from 2" in ric down to .25 at best sucks ;p)

But the euro was the most bullish to begin with...would like to see euro ensembles.

GGEM was very bad...

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I would like to see NAM come around a bit today with a quicker deepening and closer to GFS solution for me to by this.

Watching euro trend today and thinking it is a tick east of previous tracks. Seen many of these slip east and moisture

west pf track fizzle with dry cold air moviung south at storms onset. A couple inches seems good, but not hard on GFS QPF's

just yet.

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.LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...

A FEW NOTABLE CHANGES W/ THE UPCOMING SYSTEM LATER THIS

WEEKEND:

THE LATEST 00Z/23 ECMWF RUN...WHILE STILL THE STRONGEST/MOST

AMPLIFIED AND SLOWEST SOLN OF ALL OPERATIONAL MODEL GDNC...HAS

TRENDED FASTER AND NOW THE TIMING AND STRENGTH DIFFERENCES BTWN IT

AND THE GFS/GGEM/UKMET AND VARIOUS ENSEMBLE MEANS ARE NOT AS

SUBSTANTIAL AS THEY HAVE BEEN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. IN OTHER

WORDS...THE EXTREMELY SLOW SOLN DEPICTED BY YSDY`S 12Z ECMWF RUN

(I.E. A 973 MB SFC LOW JUST OFF THE VA ERN SHORE AT 12Z MON)...HAS

NOW SPED UP BY > 12 HRS WITH A TRACK A BIT FARTHER OFF THE COAST

(LATEST ECMWF SFC LOW DEPICTION WHEN IT REACHES A POSN OFF THE ERN

SHORE COAST IS ~ 980 MB AT 00Z/MON...AND BY 12Z MON IS NEAR CAPE

COD). NOW WITH THAT SAID...THE ECMWF IS STILL DEPICTING JUST AS

STRONG OF A CSTL SYSTEM AS BEFORE...DEEPENING THAT LOW TO 962 MB

WHEN IT REACHES NEAR CAPE COD AT 12Z MON...BUT THE "BOMBING PHASE"

(DEEPENING RATE OF 1MB/HR) DOES NOT GET GOING AS EARLY AS THE PREV

RUNS HAD SHOWN. THE OPERATIONAL GFS/GEM GNLY DEPICT ABOUT A 990 MB

SFC LOW...ABOUT 100 MILES FARTHER OFFSHORE AND 12 HR FASTER THAN

THE ECMWF.

LATEST FCST WILL BLEND THESE SOLNS...AS WELL AS THE LATEST 03/23

SREF. THE EXTREME ECMWF SOLN FROM YSDY IS NOW A MAJOR OUTLIER...AND

ECMWF MODEL TENDS TO VERIFY BEST IN THE 3-7 DAY TIMEFRAME...WHICH

AFTER ANOTHER RUN WE WILL BE OUT OF. CONFIDENCE IN THE FCST HAS

INCREASED SOMEWHAT WITH THIS PACKAGE...AND HAVE BUMPED POPS TO

LIKELY FOR MUCH OF THE CWA E OF I-95...WITH STRONGEST 850-300MB

Q-VECTOR CONV FORCING AND 700-850MB FRONTOGENESIS LOOKING TO OCCUR

FROM ABOUT 06Z SUN THROUGH 18Z SUN (THROUGH 00Z MON ERN SHORE/NRN

NECK). FOR THE PIEDMNT ZONES NW OF I-85 AND TO THE W OF

I-95...FORCING IS WEAKER AND DEEP MSTR IS NOT PRESENT FOR VERY

LONG (IF AT ALL). THESE AREAS...WILL KEEP POPS CAPPED AT 50% LATE

SAT AFTN/SAT NGT/SUN. RICHMOND FALLS RIGHT IN THIS POP TRANSITION

AREA...LIKELY TO THE S AND E...CHC TO THE N AND W...AND THIS MAY

BE THE MOST CHALLENGING AREA FOR FUTURE SHIFTS IN DETERMINING SNOW

AND PRECIP AMTS...AS THERE IS SOME SUPPORT (FROM THE SREF AND NAM) FOR

VERY LITTLE (IF ANY) SNOW. WHILE IT IS STILL FAR TO ERLY TO PINPOINT

EXACT SNOW ACCUMS...HIGHEST PROBABILITIES FOR SIGNIFICANT/HEAVY

SNOW LOOKS TO OCCUR FROM THE ERN SHORE SW THROUGH THE NRN NECK/MIDDLE

PENINSULA AND POSSIBLY INTO HAMPTON ROADS AND PORTIONS OF INTERIOR

SE VA.

TEMPERATURE AND PRECIP TYPE...MAINLY SNOW...EXCEPT A MIX TO RAIN

FOR MUCH OF NE NC/HAMPTON ROADS SAT NGT THROUGH MID MRNG SUN...BEFORE

FLOW BECOMES MORE DUE NLY AND COLDER AIR BRINGS ALL SNOW TO THE

ENTIRE COAST. QUESTION WILL BE...IS THE DEEPENING FAST ENOUGH AND

SFC TRACK CLOSE ENOUGH FOR HVY ACCUMS. WILL CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT

IN HWO AS ITS STILL FAR TOO ERLY FOR ANY WATCHES.

Interesting note about the Euro. I am rather worried if they are thinking mixing for Hampton Roads through mid Sunday

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I don't think it's time to get hyped at all yet...We went from epic storm to a fizzling little guy. If 12z Euro does another flip then yeah might be time for some enthusiasm. I am entirely prepared to see 12in just as I am prepared to see nada

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I'm extremly disappointed. :(

Problem is, the Euro showed a monster storm, a full blown BECS for several consecutive runs and it appears, just like last weekend, the storm may just fizzle out/slide east OTS.

Of course the 12z EURO has yet to come out, but I'm not sure if it would revert to showing anything near what it depicted just a couple days ago. :unsure:

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I'm extremly disappointed. :(

Problem is, the Euro showed a monster storm, a full blown BECS for several consecutive runs and it appears, just like last weekend, the storm may just fizzle out/slide east OTS.

Of course the 12z EURO has yet to come out, but I'm not sure if it would revert to showing anything near what it depicted just a couple days ago. :unsure:

Euro showed OTS solution for many runs last week, then threw us a nice bone and then took the storm back out to sea. So if we just apply similar logic here...

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I am not a meteorologist. The storm could end up being a whole bunch of things. I just think it is really hard to ignore a model that has been so consistent. If this 12z run is similar to its other solutions then I would feel more confident in a Euro/GFS compromised solution that still puts us in a good situation to see snow. We might not be looking at 2feet per the previous Euro runs, but we could see several inches. Hopefully a met can hop in this thread and substantiate my claim

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