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End of January/early February storm potential part 2


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Gotta really like the GFS right now and since the upgrade have been very impressed with it this winter. The ECMWF seems clueless to the the storms lower level mass fields while the GFS locks onto it and also with the deep punch of arctic air history would suggest this favors a more southern track. Sure seems like someone is gonna get a good storm out of this at this juncture. Kinda looks like a quick hit of arctic air with a more W to E spill rather than a slower moving N to S. Kinda like the last surge where the core misses the upper midwest and focuses more out east.

Welcome, the GFS has been the most consistent and has had the smallest run to run variations but is slowly creeping north.

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DVN always delivers the goods around major events, they're not on board yet,

OVERVIEW...INITIALIZATION AND VERIFICATION AVERAGE WITH CONSIDERABLE

QUESTION ON RELIABILITY OF ENERGY IN NORTH PACIFIC CAPTURED BASED

ON WATER VAPOR ARRIVING EARLY NEXT WEEK. TRENDS AND ENERGY SPECTRA

ANALYSIS SUPPORTS A 80/20 BLEND OF GFS AND HI-RES ECMWF THROUGH THE

FORECAST PERIOD WITH SOME THERMAL INPUTS FROM 80 KM NAM-WRF. SOME

SUGGESTION ECMWF CENTRAL PACIFIC ENERGY VERIFIES MORE ACCURATE AT

06Z...IF SO...THIS WILL RESULT IN HEAVIER AND FURTHER NORTH

PRECIPITATION.

MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...SIGNIFICANT PHASING PROBLEMS AS ALL

SOLUTIONS HAVE SLOWED SW US SHORT WAVE (NOW IN CENTRAL N PACIFIC) THE

PAST 24+ HOURS IMPACTING PHASING AND POTENTIAL FOR FURTHER NORTH SNOW

AND STORM TRACK. THIS LARGE RUN TO RUN VARIANCE AND LARGE ENSEMBLE

SPREAD LEADS TO THE REASON HAVE BEEN CONSERVATIVE ON ONLY A MODEST

UPPING OF POPS TUE/WED. LARGE SCALE JET DYNAMICS IS CLOUDED WITH HOW

MUCH LOW LEVEL FIELDS OCCLUDE WITH THIS SYSTEM...PLUS MODEL SMOOTHING

ISSUES. JET STREAK LENGTH SUGGEST ALL OR MOST SOLUTIONS ARE LIKELY

TOO HIGH ON QPF AMOUNTS. THUS...HAVE MAINLY LOW CHANCE POPS WITH

SLIGHT CHANCE POPS NORTH SECTIONS AND PASS THIS FOR LATER SHIFTS.

INSPECTION OF ENERGY SPECTRA ANALYSIS DOES SUGGEST RATE AND VARIANCE

OF ENERGY CHANGE...THIS QUESTION MAY TAKE UP TO ANOTHER 36+ HOURS TO

CLARIFY.

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Sorry if already posted overnight/this morning. JB's take:

The monster in the east ( 3rd this year from PHL northeast) has the strongest westward reflection of the snow events recently. I am bringing this up because with ridging in europe and the La Nina now fighting to take control of the US weather pattern another attempt at running a storm up west of the mountains is on the way. In fact if all the energy in the southwest were to come out, next weeks storm would resemble more closely the midwest monster in mid December than the east coast storms we have seen.

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Sorry if already posted overnight/this morning. JB's take:

The monster in the east ( 3rd this year from PHL northeast) has the strongest westward reflection of the snow events recently. I am bringing this up because with ridging in europe and the La Nina now fighting to take control of the US weather pattern another attempt at running a storm up west of the mountains is on the way. In fact if all the energy in the southwest were to come out, next weeks storm would resemble more closely the midwest monster in mid December than the east coast storms we have seen.

and at the end of that same paragraph there's this:

The more phased this is the more its going to cut. And while I expect a secondary and a very sloppy storm, this one looks like its going to try to drive a primary up to near Pittsburgh before the second system takes over. So easterners may have a changeover that matters this time.. while ice may be as big a problem as snow in the east.

lol...ole jb covering all his bases

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So how about that 6z GFS? Just an ordinary 8-10" hit of snow here with JLN, STL, S IL, etc getting buried. :lol:

Regardless, nice to see some previously "amped" solutions jump back on board last night. Long ways to go still, but needless to say good things happened for a lot folks in this forum.

Major snowstorm, major ice storm, or rain. :-\

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and at the end of that same paragraph there's this:

The more phased this is the more its going to cut. And while I expect a secondary and a very sloppy storm, this one looks like its going to try to drive a primary up to near Pittsburgh before the second system takes over. So easterners may have a changeover that matters this time.. while ice may be as big a problem as snow in the east.

lol...ole jb covering all his bases

He could have just written this, "There is the potential for a large storm in the Continental US next week." :P

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Major snowstorm, major ice storm, or rain. :-\

Pretty much sums it up. :)

I told Hoosier via PM a couple of days ago that I had resigned myself to the possibility of a slop storm for here. But that's the nature of the beast. Still, we're too far out for anyone to celebrate or jump off any bridges. Maintaining the same look and a storm in the neighborhood are what's sorta important right now. IF a storm is apparent, the details will sort themselves out eventually.

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that's was my thinking as well. Closed low means slower and more likely the sw energy outruns the northern branch???

Yeah wouldn't be nearly as strong, but a slower and overrunning type event. It would most likely be good for our backyards, but not necessarily those farther North. Probably a similar track to the DGEX.

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apologizes if it was already posted, here's the ILX afd from this morning:

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL558 AM CST FRI JAN 28 2011

LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAYEXTENDED FORECAST REMAINS COMPLICATED...AS MODELS CONTINUE TOSTRUGGLE WITH PHASING ISSUES. 00Z 28 JAN RUN OF BOTH THE GFS ANDECMWF INDICATE A SPLIT FLOW PATTERN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE EASTERNPACIFIC THIS WEEKEND...WITH AN UPPER LOW UNDERCUTTING A HIGH-AMPLITUDERIDGE JUST OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA. PROBLEMS ARISEWHEN NORTHERN STREAM ENERGY RIDING UP AND OVER THE RIDGE TRIES TOPHASE WITH THE UPPER LOW AS IT MEANDERS SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THESOUTHERN ROCKIES. MODELS HAVE BEEN VERY INCONSISTENT OVER THE PASTSEVERAL DAYS...SO EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE CURRENTLY SHOWING DECENTAGREEMENT...AM STILL QUITE SKEPTICAL. BOTH GFS/ECMWF PHASE THE TWOSYSTEMS INTO ONE DEEP TROUGH ON MONDAY...WITH A PIECE OF ENERGYTHEN EJECTING E/NE TOWARD THE MIDWEST BY TUESDAY. AS A RESULT...SURFACELOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...THEN TRACKSNORTHEASTWARD INTO THE OHIO/TENNESSEE VALLEYS. EXACT TRACK OF THELOW VARIES SOMEWHAT...WITH THE ECMWF BEING DEEPER AND FURTHERNORTH. GIVEN SLOW SOUTHWARD PROGRESSION OF THE MAIN BAROCLINICZONE THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...WOULD TEND TO FAVOR THEMORE NORTHERN ECMWF SOLUTION. THIS WOULD SPREAD PRECIP INTO THEAREA BY LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. IF CURRENT TRACK HOLDSFIRM...MUCH OF THE PRECIP WOULD BE IN THE FORM OF SNOW...HOWEVERTHE POTENTIAL DEFINITELY EXISTS FOR MIXED PRECIP OR EVEN RAINACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CWA IF LOW COMES FAR ENOUGH NORTH.

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Definitely a little stronger then past couple runs of the GFS with the Northern branch as well.

I think a trend to watch will be for a real partial ejection at best of the energy out of the southwest, which would lower the height fields and lead to a much more southern solution. I don't think the NAM extrapolated would be all that far north either.

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