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February storm threat discussion


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I'll take what the euro shows precip wise here on Wed. and take my chances with the temps. I don't know how cold it thinks it needs to be, and I can't see its temps all the way down, but with the 850 temps it shows, and the mid 30's or so it shows, I think Sat is pretty good evidence that it would be snow. I just need it to speed up by about 6 hours or so. Haven't I read here that the Euro is suspect sometimes with surface temps?

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in retrospect it seems the strengthening NINA has been the killer

things just kept getting cooler after Christmas and still haven't peaked, or maybe just peaked

we needed the NINA to start to fade after Christmas

EDIT: this week's number at 3.4 is the coldest it has been all winter!

http://www.cpc.ncep....dices/wksst.for

Overpowered the -QBO? ;)

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the setup is iffy and has been for a while. we keep getting better looks at range that degrade as we close in. no one here would ever punt anything until it's 150% clear it won't happen. what else encourages or discourages? water vapor loops?

People punt here all the time. Punting doesn't equal stopping posting or looking at models. Just the whole "this event isn't happening" mentality of it.

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I think there is a better shot than not that we get something of note before it's all over for winter but I'm getting to the point that I might be wishcasting.

I think in 2001-2002 our coldest air mass of the season came on like march 22nd. That is the problem with these **** winters. Even I am ready for nice weather at that point but even if we get shut out we will probably get punished with an arctic outbreak on like march 24th followed by 4 days under a marine layer with highs of 42 every day.

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So as a consolation for a non-starting pattern change and no snowstorm, we get a day with lows in the single digits and highs in the 20s? Yay? "Pattern change" looks completely gone and looks like it will warm up fairly quickly after Monday.

I wouldn't be surprised if even that moderates to a 42 degree day with a low of 23, followed by 50s. Seemed pretty typical in 01-02.

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People punt here all the time. Punting doesn't equal stopping posting or looking at models. Just the whole "this event isn't happening" mentality of it.

i guess that's true to a degree. tho there are also those on the other side who will hold onto a threat much longer than they should. it balances out a lot. im not sure exactly what i'd want to see on the models to believe in the weekend threat right now but what i see from here is not that great.

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I think in 2001-2002 our coldest air mass of the season came on like march 22nd. That is the problem with these **** winters. Even I am ready for nice weather at that point but even if we get shut out we will probably get punished with an arctic outbreak on like march 24th followed by 4 days under a marine layer with highs of 42 every day.

that would be spectacular. :(

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i guess that's true to a degree. tho there are also those on the other side who will hold onto a threat much longer than they should. it balances out a lot. im not sure exactly what i'd want to see on the models to believe in the weekend threat right now but what i see from here is not that great.

let's see how "Sunny and 80" works out

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I saw the GFS "squeezing" the pv down this way too and thought "how many times have we seen cold on a model not materialize this year".

I guess seeing both the gfs and euro depict similar cold solutions has me interested a little.

i'd guess it's a little overdone but there has been a persistent sign we'd get at least a day of big cold around then.

in other news the rest of the euro run sucks.

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i'd guess it's a little overdone but there has been a persistent sign we'd get at least a day of big cold around then.

in other news the rest of the euro run sucks.

Aboslutely, it's almost always overdone. Not just this year either. Could be the coldest temps of the season though. Not really saying much.

Yea, euro not really that encouraging overall. However, I can just ignore anything I don't like and focus on the good stuff only. That's one of the good parts of being a weenie.

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It probably will be wetter than the american models. The big problem is low level temps. If JB is talking for higher levels back near Frederick or to the west, I'd say yes. For DC and BWI, 1-3 looks like a reach.

No he was talking about the big cities, but i guess he always writes DC to BOS because that is where 90% of his subscribers live.

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It probably will be wetter than the american models. The big problem is low level temps. If JB is talking for higher levels back near Frederick or to the west, I'd say yes. For DC and BWI, 1-3 looks like a reach.

I think JB went with the JMA the last storm (maybe the one before) and that got us no where

fwiw, JMA has another clipper Sunday

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