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Dec 11-13 MW/Lakes/OV Snow Event?


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This sounds like the writings of Bill Marino....He makes some good points if it is him....will have to check.

Yup it is him....very knowledgeable guy....when I interned there I could listen to him for hours....he is usually MONEY too....great that means with the low going over southern lower I'll get the mixed precip most likely....backtracking the 500 and 250mb maps it looks like they energy starts to come ashore by the 12z sounding Friday. Maybe we can all get a good dumping out of this system.

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i can't see the Euro, but am I correct in guessing that it would imply yet another lakes cutter with snow for Minnesota and rain for Ontario and Quebec?

Even with its further north track, EURO still occludes this baby pretty quickly. At your location, you might stay all snow. At least thickness/850 temps would indicate that. Have no idea what EURO 2m temps are like, but given Ottawa's propensity to get CADed, you might do pretty well.

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Yes please vote for me when I run for Emperor. :lmao: Just kidding of course. I didn't work today, but come on, do you expect us to pretend we're all knowing or be up front and say that due to the uncertainties, it can be either way. I prefer to be up-front myself.

Yeah I'm not sure what you guys are supposed to say...or any office for that matter right now. It truly is a wait and see thing right now, and it'll probably only get more difficult when trying to hone in on changeovers, etc as we get into the short range. I wish you all good luck! laugh.gif

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Given the wind fields that the GFS is progging (and I'm assuming other models aren't much different in that regard), this looks like it would have the potential to produce a fairly large area of blizzard/near blizzard conditions.

That's why somewhere earlier in this thread I saw progs for Grissom with 12-18 inches of snow with 40 mph winds which could certainly be J.B. "life-threatening."

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I have major sympathy for the people writing FD's now they are basically weather celebrities. A met told me they were never meant for the public masses and he never thought the weather world would get like this. For every one of us here there is 50 paying as close attention with there mouth shut.

multiple 12z models and ensembles show a blizzard here. How do you write that this is possible, while saying we might also see all rain. without confusion. The public majority not as versed on how these met offices work will key in on BLIZZARD. And run with it.

slippery slope

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I have major sympathy for the people writing FD's now they are basically weather celebrities. A met told me they were never meant for the public masses and he never thought the weather world would get like this. For every one of us here there is 50 paying as close attention with there mouth shut.

multiple 12z models and ensembles show a blizzard here. How do you write that this is possible, while saying we might also see all rain. without confusion. The public majority not as versed on how these met offices work will key in on BLIZZARD. And run with it.

slippery slope

And part of the problem with them becoming a public product is that they can't be too technical and are rigid in format, in order to make them easy to understand. I think it's a shame, but I'm not paid to make those decisions.

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Given the wind fields that the GFS is progging (and I'm assuming other models aren't much different in that regard), this looks like it would have the potential to produce a fairly large area of blizzard/near blizzard conditions.

Obviously there's more to it than just looking at winds at 925 mb or whatever as you need to determine mixing depth/efficiency, but looking at that and comparing it to a couple previous blizzards/near blizzards (namely 1/2/99 and 2/13/07), the 12z GFS was progging stronger winds at that level for this event.

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Yup, and I don't mind. It might be unfounded, but it just seems like last minute NW shifts are more common than SE shifts, so anything but trending towards the EURO is fine with me.

Something about 175kt jet doesn't scream meandering 1000mb low to me. It really just digs the trough until the coast, then it cuts. Dropping 2 mb/hr at that point though. :weight_lift:

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I'll get Money at least 30 inches by Christmas...bank it...if anything i get Saukville up there with his snow making machine

SATURDAY. FOR NOW...WILL

KEEP MODERATE CHANCE POPS FOR SNOW GOING...BUT THIS SYSTEM HAS

BOTH THE POTENTIAL TO BRING A DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF SNOW AND

WIND IF IT DEVELOPS AND MOVES NORTH ACROSS ILLINOIS...OR AN

EQUALLY HIGH CHANCE OF MISSING THE CWA TO THE SOUTH

COMPLETELY...

LSE doesn't have a clue either...

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Something about 175kt jet doesn't scream meandering 1000mb low to me. It really just digs the trough until the coast, then it cuts. Dropping 2 mb/hr at that point though. :weight_lift:

What would be the other solution? Bombing out and moving NE?

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Grand Rapids disco explains why they like the Euro

THE BOTTOM LINE TO ALL OF THIS IS THE SURFACE LOW FROM THE SYSTEM

WILL LIKELY TRACK OVER SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN DURING THE DAY TIME

HOURS OF SUNDAY.

Boldness. Lows tracking into southern lower michigan usually mean good things around these parts.

A few choice words from LOT

IT DOES APPEAR THAT TEMPS MAY BE WARM ENOUGH FOR A MIX OF PRECIP

INITIALLY NO MATTER WHAT SOLUTION IS FOLLOWED

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