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2011 Winter Banter Thread


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He is even coming into our threads to cancel Winter despite the fact that it's a White Thanksgiving here. Happy Thanksgiving people!!!!

Hey, we don't want to hear about your white thanksgiving or any other snow day. Stay north man. Stay north.

Just kiddin, enjoy the snow, big meal, good company, and afternoon nap!

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Euro and GFS are pretty different. Euro puts the trough back out west at the end of the run and the gfs likes the ridge west trough east.

GFS looks ok I guess. Bunch of little impulses riding the NS. Most pass to our west but who know really knows where the trough axis sets up (assuming we even get a trough).

CPC nao/ao forcast look less disappointing right now. Some indication of the ao and the nao going a little negative after Dec 1st. PNA looks like it's trying to go positive and stay that way for a while.

Really no prospects of a decent event but the setup doesn't rule out a surprise.

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interesting, and dare I say snowy runs at 0Z and 6Z on the GFS last night

and the snow comes from post frontal snows, something I mentioned last week in this thread I believe

at least there's something to track that sort of makes sense in this pattern

Good luck with that. How many times do we get accumulating snow with a strung out 500 trough, no real low with the snow coming post frontal when there is not much support from the ensembles? I'm not impressed.

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Good luck with that. How many times do we get accumulating snow with a strung out 500 trough, no real low with the snow coming post frontal when there is not much support from the ensembles? I'm not impressed.

Way to piss in my wheaties after i am just getting over my hangover from the Ravens game last night. At least i now know not to spend the next week obsessing over every run which will not give us any snow at the end.

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Good luck with that. How many times do we get accumulating snow with a strung out 500 trough, no real low with the snow coming post frontal when there is not much support from the ensembles? I'm not impressed.

it may or may not happen as depicted on this run, but almost every front that has passed us this fall has seen a period of steady precip along with the cold air

call it a gut feeling or a wishcast, I'm going with it :scooter:

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At least we're getting a +pna coming up. All the models pump up some ridging out west. Without a +pna in a nina year we're pretty screwed reegardless of the other indexes. At least there is "potential" to track something in the next couple of weeks.

The AO looks like it want to drop off a bit. It's been sticking positive since august. Bounces up and down but hasn't gone negative in quite a while. I don't know if it means anything but the last time the AO went negative (and it was for a very short time) was right before the last Oct snow storm.

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At least we're getting a +pna coming up. All the models pump up some ridging out west. Without a +pna in a nina year we're pretty screwed reegardless of the other indexes. At least there is "potential" to track something in the next couple of weeks.

The AO looks like it want to drop off a bit. It's been sticking positive since august. Bounces up and down but hasn't gone negative in quite a while. I don't know if it means anything but the last time the AO went negative (and it was for a very short time) was right before the last Oct snow storm.

I just posted something in the Weather and Forecast forum that will probalby have Ji cancelling winter. I think the favorable PNA will be relatively short lived and see no real signs of he ao going negative. The forecasts on the ens mean lately have verified too low so any positive forecast is not good.

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I just posted something in the Weather and Forecast forum that will probalby have Ji cancelling winter. I think the favorable PNA will be relatively short lived and see no real signs of he ao going negative. The forecasts on the ens mean lately have verified too low so any positive forecast is not good.

Nice post Wes and I totally agree with what you are saying. My pna post was really just the lemon/lemondade routine. I'm not too optimistic over the next month really.

Obviously I'm not an expert or even well versed with most met stuff but I do pay attention. As soon as the crappy pac locked in I kinda knew we were in trouble for a little while. Certain patterns are super stubborn to break and this is one of them. It wouldn't surprise me at all to have a transient +pna and then have a big lp system drop down the west coast and start the cycle all over again. It's ok though. It is what it is. I believe the odds are really in our favor to break down the crappy pac and lock into some winter around here sometime in late december and carry well into jan.

I was looking at the MJO and please correct me if I'm wrong but we're moving into warm east territory right?

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I just posted something in the Weather and Forecast forum that will probalby have Ji cancelling winter. I think the favorable PNA will be relatively short lived and see no real signs of he ao going negative. The forecasts on the ens mean lately have verified too low so any positive forecast is not good.

i cancelled winter last night at 3:00am before your post

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Nice post Wes and I totally agree with what you are saying. My pna post was really just the lemon/lemondade routine. I'm not too optimistic over the next month really.

Obviously I'm not an expert or even well versed with most met stuff but I do pay attention. As soon as the crappy pac locked in I kinda knew we were in trouble for a little while. Certain patterns are super stubborn to break and this is one of them. It wouldn't surprise me at all to have a transient +pna and then have a big lp system drop down the west coast and start the cycle all over again. It's ok though. It is what it is. I believe the odds are really in our favor to break down the crappy pac and lock into some winter around here sometime in late december and carry well into jan.

I was looking at the MJO and please correct me if I'm wrong but we're moving into warm east territory right?

Yes we are, phases 4-6 are warm in the east or at least don't offer any real pattern changing for the better. That's one of the reasons I think the positive pna pattern will be transient.

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Yes we are, phases 4-6 are warm in the east or at least don't offer any real pattern changing for the better. That's one of the reasons I think the positive pna pattern will be transient.

Thanks Wes. I still don't have a handle on the MJO stuff. Probably know just enough to be dangerous.

I'm losing my weenie edge a litte. Spending 4 straight days outside and the last 2 in shorts and t-shirts was pretty darm pleasant. I wouldn't mind a few more so let the pattern ride.

NAO and AO aren't budging out of positive territory. It's quite uncommon to have such a run like this. 3-4 months in a row at this point. Looking at all the monthlies back to 1950 have very few instances of this during the Sept-Dec timeframe. Gotta just kinda assume that it will break down and go favorable sometime during Dec. Probably late considering what's been happening in Nov.

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This is starting to look like a mid Jan-Feb winter for us as far as best shots at good storms. It would be what is expected as far as climo. If the pattern only starts to change mid/late Dec then it would take a bit longer to get into the right set-up for legit chances. Still time for me to be wrong.

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This type of scenario doesn't bother me.....no snow when the pattern stinks or it's too warm or there just aren't any chances....it's when we are tracking something and as it gets closer then fizzles or misses is when I get pissy and start to moan and groan. In short no chance = no worries....opportunities that flop = cranky troll

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This type of scenario doesn't bother me.....no snow when the pattern stinks or it's too warm or there just aren't any chances....it's when we are tracking something and as it gets closer then fizzles or misses is when I get pissy and start to moan and groan. In short no chance = no worries....opportunities that flop = cranky troll

Absolutely. If we get a good look at a storm and/or the pattern is favorable but nothing comes of it, then I might get a little whiney about it. Bt if I have no expectations, then I don't worry about it.

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