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February Winter Storm Prospects


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I think the longer it takes for the storm to pull out the better the chance for it to cut into the lakes. If it comes out sooner/faster, we probably would have a better chance. In other years, it might be different. But this season, the strong high pressure systems do not stick around for a long time to our n and w.

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Interesting GFS op run.

Haven't seen anything like that in a while, that's for sure. I'm still not too excited because of the eastward extention/breakdown of the west coast ridge. Look at the height field out west and how it is pushing eastward over the International Border instead of extending into Canada. This is going to press on the flow over the Central and Eastern US.

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/AVN_12z/f168.gif

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Haven't seen anything like that in a while, that's for sure. I'm still not too excited because of the eastward extention/breakdown of the west coast ridge. Look at the height field out west and how it is pushing eastward over the International Border instead of extending into Canada. This is going to press on the flow over the Central and Eastern US.

http://www.meteo.psu...VN_12z/f168.gif

I'm not into that storm for now. Too much can happen at this point....it could do anything. Lets see this on Monday, and evaluate where we are at. It's possible we still won't have a clue by then. I'm interested to see what the ensembles do...I think the op run may have gotten carried away a bit.

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I'm not into that storm for now. Too much can happen at this point....it could do anything. Lets see this on Monday, and evaluate where we are at. It's possible we still won't have a clue by then. I'm interested to see what the ensembles do...I think the op run may have gotten carried away a bit.

I think we will be waiting until after SB weekend before we can get a solid storm.

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again very sceptical at any pattern change this winter..it's one of those winters..expectations are near 0..not suprised at all at what the GFS is showing

Agree, and not just about a "pattern change", whatever that has come to mean these days, but about any extended period of wintry weather. Amazing to me the level of optimism displayed by some in the last 24 hours, including talk about enjoying the Superbowl with a snowstorm (perhaps in Alaska) and being dumped on with multiple big snows in February. I'm not trouncing the exchange of ideas or speculation or playing the "what if" game. However, much of this goes way/way beyond that and it often comes with a suspension of reality, or at the very least, without a balanced view of things. Carry on guys. The dream pattern, storm, girl, whatever, is always just around the corner. The trouble is people have lost sight of how long the block is before getting to the corner.

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I can throw this little nugget out there...the GFS is gone wild due to the development of a wave packet across the Pacific that appears to lead to these very variable solutions run to run. For example, last nights 00z run. Much research is being done on predictability of these wave packets at Stony Brook and some results have shown that the OP GFS does horrible with them.

http://ferrel.msrc.s...Z/plot4-144.gif

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I don't by the 12z OP gfs. If that low ejects to the NE GAME ON! That setup is absolutely beautiful with the strong confluence and banana HP, a nice block setting up, and a crazy plume of moisture in association with the split flow and moist STJ. As trials mentioned, it is only because it pinches it off and lets it sit for like three days in the same spot that the outcome is not favorable. Head that thing continued to progress eastward, wow I can't even begin to imagine what it would have shown. We have plenty of time to work things out, but it is definitely the best setup so far that we have seen this winter. We just need that energy and SW to continue to move, not hang back.

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It's really hard to believe because it feels like were rapidly entering spring and this week is going to feel like early April, supposed to be near 60 on Wednesday and 50s for Tue and Thurs, beautiful weather coming up this week.

We were saying the same thing in 1983 - in fact this winter is similar to82 - 83 - mild january and early february with only about 5 inches total snowfall before the Feb 11-12 snowstorm.........

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huge split on the individual members from cold and surpressed to warm and amped to perfect and burried.

at this range, there will likely be many more changes in regard to the storm, trough evolution and the pattern. Im sure we will see a bunch of whacky weenie solutions in the next few days :wub:

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