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January 31-February 2 Historic Winter Storm part 7


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Its so strange to look at all the warnings all over the US and Michigan is still in watches...:whistle: what the heck are they waiting for. To see if the totals goes below warning criteria? Everybody that doesn't live in Michigan, lucky you dont have to read this crap on a daily basis

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Its so strange to look at all the warnings all over the US and Michigan is still in watches...:whistle: what the heck are they waiting for. To see if the totals goes below warning criteria? Everybody that doesn't live in Michigan, lucky you dont have to read this crap on a daily basis

In a way I can see what they are doing...SEMI will miss out on much of the WAA precip tonight. Might as well wait until after the EURO. BTW The GFS painted some nice QPF for SEMI. I just want to know if a dry slot will role on in.

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Its so strange to look at all the warnings all over the US and Michigan is still in watches...:whistle: what the heck are they waiting for. To see if the totals goes below warning criteria? Everybody that doesn't live in Michigan, lucky you dont have to read this crap on a daily basis

They will issue the warnings in the morning with the 4am AFD. Warnings are issued when an event has more than a 50% chance or better of the criteria being met within a 24 hour period.

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Its so strange to look at all the warnings all over the US and Michigan is still in watches...:whistle: what the heck are they waiting for. To see if the totals goes below warning criteria? Everybody that doesn't live in Michigan, lucky you dont have to read this crap on a daily basis

I 100% agree with you. Even Boston has a winter storm warning up, and their start time is well ahead of ours. Maybe the DTX guys think that warnings are issued within 8 hours of start time? Hard to justify them being uncertain at this juncture... they must have a +50% certainty that under 6" of snow comes during the storm, as I believe that's most stations criteria for not hoisting a warning within 18 hours of go-time.... however, not ONE single model that I can think of shows this. This is just grossly inept and irresponsible behavior on DTX's part, especially on the eve of what could be a very serious storm for the area.

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In a way I can see what they are doing...SEMI will miss out on much of the WAA precip tonight. Might as well wait until after the EURO. BTW The GFS painted some nice QPF for SEMI. I just want to know if a dry slot will role on in.

Its no excuse this NOT a run in the mill snowstorm even if its only 10" theres 30-40 mph winds Heavy blowing and drifying snow...its a no brainer

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Everything is exploding across Texas--seems like the NCEP guidance may very well be three hours off. Can make a huge difference in the overall forecast possibly. Yeah it is the RUC--but it is way W and stronger and seems to match what is going on better.

RUC is going to be a useful tool here methinks. Maybe not out to 18 hours, but picking up on the trends as we move closer.

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RGEM is the way to go here thus far with the 0Z suite. SREF 21Z NMM/ARW. RUC is also becoming an option based off trends and the explosion of precip in Texas.

Yeah, seems pretty flaky. Storm is over the relatively data-sparse mountains still, and I imagine we aren't getting the same number/quality of ACARS and PIREPS as when it was over So. California. Still... 1002mb surface pressures in S. Tex. Those obs are going to tell the story.

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RUC still looks SICK for northern Illinois and much of Iowa for that matter. Hawkeye oughta love this lol.

Yeah, but I'm not putting any money on that model.

GFS eastern shift has me back down from nearly an inch to 0.7". It sucks dangling on the nw edge of this thing... every small shift causes wild swings in my snow total.

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