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February storm threat discussion


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imho, winter is over

we'll never get a diff result in the current mod and strengthening NINA, never

maybe a MAR fluke if the NINA really collapses

winter never started Mitch..the stability of the Vortex in AK and the Positive AO for most of this winter set the tone and it started in November when nobody cared what was going on

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you also thought a -QBO would save us based on utterly uncompellng evidence...

with a 2nd year NINA, it was all we had and I said as much

and if you go back to the thread and see the years that matched statistically, there were some record breaking ones

none of the models that I can recall had the NINA strengthening as it did after Christmas; that's played a large role I think, but whatever

remember, I'm just a messenger

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Oh please. At least I am not like some of the other posters. True, I am a bit overboard, and honestly I didn't know the last part, which Wes said

I didn't post to be critical and think I have seen others post the GEFS showing nice things inside of 60 hours for other storms. It was meant as a caveat to be wary of using the GEFS at shorter time ranges. If you want to use ensemble guidance, then it's time for the SREF.

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if your a bit overboard..and you admit it...why stay that way?

JI, why don't you and the rest of the know-it-alls around here not go down the road of "you admit your problem, so fix it' because that opens everyone up to certain issues they have that they can't or won't admit and then the whole thing gets denigrated?

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I didn't post to be critical and think I have seen others post the GEFS showing nice things inside of 60 hours for other storms. It was meant as a caveat to be wary of using the GEFS at shorter time ranges. If you want to use ensemble guidance, then it's time for the SREF.

I wasn't saying you were Wes. :) just saying I did not know that last part and I learned from that

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Euro has another minor event threat for around Valentine's day. .10 or more liquid at around 34 degrees.

It is interesting how many light events have happened and are threatening to happen over Maryland this winter. Usually these craptastic winters don't feature this type of thing (usually straight dry / warm).

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It is interesting how many light events have happened and are threatening to happen over Maryland this winter. Usually these craptastic winters don't feature this type of thing (usually straight dry / warm).

True, we even have a second one Saturday afternoon with the upper vort. Usually those disappoint but this year, disappointment is a way of life. The gfs is not as bullish as the euro about valentine's day. it actually looks warmer.

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True, we even have a second one Saturday afternoon with the upper vort. Usually those disappoint but this year, disappointment is a way of life. The gfs is not as bullish as the euro about valentine's day. it actually looks warmer.

This upcoming Fri-Sat event and then the one next week are actually mediocre Heather A type of systems. But this is a great lesson to the newbies out there about why using the index is not nearly as useful as seeing where the actual block is located.

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Just to chime in on what you guys are saying, the EC ensemble mean would imply that there are possible small chances all the way through d10. Of course, I can see no precip maps. I only have 850 and 500 maps. The 850's don't go above 0 the entire period, and it displays a couple of weak lows here and there. But, wasn't it these same ensembles that about 10 days ago were forecasting this period to be warm. So I guess it's just a discussion piece.

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Just to chime in on what you guys are saying, the EC ensemble mean would imply that there are possible small chances all the way through d10. Of course, I can see no precip maps. I only have 850 and 500 maps. The 850's don't go above 0 the entire period, and it displays a couple of weak lows here and there. But, wasn't it these same ensembles that about 10 days ago were forecasting this period to be warm. So I guess it's just a discussion piece.

The ECMWF suite was suffering from its issues with resolving the N PAC (relationship to the MJO). Even so, the new scores don't show quite the degradation the other models suffered (embarrassing scores for the GFS and CMC).

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True, we even have a second one Saturday afternoon with the upper vort. Usually those disappoint but this year, disappointment is a way of life. The gfs is not as bullish as the euro about valentine's day. it actually looks warmer.

Wes, we talked about the ao / nao relationship before and why (generally speaking) they follow each other. I was looking at dailies yesterday and the ao was -2 and the nao was +1. The entire recent run of having a -ao had the nao in + territory seems unusual. I haven't turned the nao dailies into bar graphs yet but it's not very common from what I see on the monthlies but I'm not sure about the dailies.

Is the spread between the 2 indices as unusual as I think or am I making something out of nothing?

When I look at the indices side by side it feels like things just want to work against us this year. This may happen all the time but if it doesn't, sheesh. We can't win for losing this year.

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