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December 2011 General Disc/Obs


Ellinwood

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Yes but can't this very easily become a cutter if the ridge sets up to far west.

I don't think that is likely. Possible but not likely. IMO- our biggest enemy would be for the trough to end up not being sharp enough and having anything of interest shear out and quietly move ots to our south. What the euro shows is a standard +pna. It really stinks that the atl refuses to cooperate. Everything has to be placed and timed just right without a -nao. I hate that part of the setup.

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How much snow did you guys get? Figured it had to be at least a foot based on the posts of some in that region crowing about the "white Christmas."

I saw like 22 snowflakes.

What a terrible flight...

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I don't think that is likely. Possible but not likely. IMO- our biggest enemy would be for the trough to end up not being sharp enough and having anything of interest shear out and quietly move ots to our south. What the euro shows is a standard +pna. It really stinks that the atl refuses to cooperate. Everything has to be placed and timed just right without a -nao. I hate that part of the setup.

I will take that over a cutter any day, and even if this does not pan out it is just exciting to have something legitimate to track after this disaster of a December. Deep down though all of us are praying it threads the needle.

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Man, the euro and gfs are really at odds with each other on the ridge out west. They are really far apart. If I had to guess I would say the euro is really overdoing it because the gfs looks pretty much like what we've been seing for weeks. Progressive troughs and boring winter weather.

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The gloves will come in handy next week either for snow or cold, so i hope you brought them back with you.

I'd like to believe but I don't have it in me to weenie out given the current circumstances.

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maybe, i'd be concerned if the Euro ensembles were really flat, but just by looking at the ensemble means...there are far more amplified members than flat members.

Weve been there before with the euro. I mean I'm not adamantly writing it off like past storms but let's not read things that are not there.

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Man, the euro and gfs are really at odds with each other on the ridge out west. They are really far apart. If I had to guess I would say the euro is really overdoing it because the gfs looks pretty much like what we've been seing for weeks. Progressive troughs and boring winter weather.

the biggest pause for concern I have is the GFS beat the Euro on the Christmas storm where Euro had something, GFS didn't, then GFS won

lala land storms, almost guaranteed to be disappointing

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Man, the euro and gfs are really at odds with each other on the ridge out west. They are really far apart. If I had to guess I would say the euro is really overdoing it because the gfs looks pretty much like what we've been seing for weeks. Progressive troughs and boring winter weather.

Going back to last year, the Euro has consistently erred by overdeepening surface lows along the SE coast at this range. I remember seeing the Euro spitting out 940 MB lows over hatteras last year. The GFS seems to be more accurate at low pressure strength at this range while the Euro is quite a bit better at locating the storm tracks at this range. At least that's my impression from watching these weenie fantasies evolve over the past two seasons.

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Going way out on a limb here, but... it is possible the 18Z GFS at 8 days out is wrong.

It's possible all the euro, gfs, euro ensembles, gfs ensembles members are all wrong. I always feel uncomfortable when the ridge has to amplify strongly and then you get a closed low that is 4 or 5 standard deviations from normal in terms of depth. The solution is possible but wow, it's forecasting a rare event. Weaken the ridge and you get a different solution.

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