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2/19 East Coast Winter Storm Threat (Part 2)


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Any other year this would have come north..even earlier this winter..it would have come so far north to give us rain..

I hope this proves my point about the GFS..if it hasn't well then I don't know what to say

lol. I guess this means you don't have to forever pay homage to the GFS or whatever it was you said you would do yesterday.

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even this would have been gone in a day or two--looks like another week of above normal temps coming...Far SNE looks to be in the 50's on 2 days

We would have held onto it a little longer here with snow already in place, But the ski areas and mtns sure could have used it, Need bob to change the thread title to POSII

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You'll be burned more often than not, if you totally ignore it. If mets only use gfs or euro, that's their fault. That's why you have ensembles.

Let's be honest, if we didn't have Euro products forecasts wouldn't be much better today than 15 years ago. I just don't see that the NAM and GFS as currently running are significantly better in the 36-90 hour window than years ago. Of course the ETA didn't go beyond 48, but you get the drift.

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Let's be honest, if we didn't have Euro products forecasts wouldn't be much better today than 15 years ago. I just don't see that the NAM and GFS as currently running are significantly better in the 36-90 hour window than years ago. Of course the ETA didn't go beyond 48, but you get the drift.

But the point is, you'll always be a better forecaster if you blend a forecast with the data given, than just ripping off one model. I do that every day. It's piss poor forecasting to always use one model. There are certainly times where I throw a model out and yes the GFS sometimes is that model, but you can't ignore it..especially when you have a set of guidance known as ensembles that use multiple perturbations to simulate chaos in the atmosphere.

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This one is all done. The only hope was the earlier GFS solutions, once the main northern system got so far east we were screwed.

Euro is a big ole' miss. GFS is still about 12 hours late to the party.

Dude, how many times are you going to say its over? Cool. That means you don't need to post after every 6 hours of a model run about how bad it is. Actually that means you don't have to post at all in this thread.

Ill tell you one thing. Something seems fishy about every model showing pretty much the same thing 3 days out. When the hell is the last time that happened? Also, have you guys been following the winter of 2011-2012? There hasn't been a time all year where models nailed a storm 72 hours out. Heck the last storm shifted 50 miles in the last 6 hours.

The models have no effing clue on what to do with these shortwaves.

Prediction: wagons north from here on out. March 2001 style. All in. Naked.

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Dude, how many times are you going to say its over? Cool. That means you don't need to post after every 6 hours of a model run about how bad it is. Actually that means you don't have to post at all in this thread.

Ill tell you one thing. Something seems fishy about every model showing pretty much the same thing 3 days out. When the hell is the last time that happened? Also, have you guys been following the winter of 2011-2012? There hasn't been a time all year where models nailed a storm 72 hours out. Heck the last storm shifted 50 miles in the last 6 hours.

The models have no effing clue on what to do with these shortwaves.

Prediction: wagons north from here on out. March 2001 style. All in. Naked.

Good insight.

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Dude, how many times are you going to say its over? Cool. That means you don't need to post after every 6 hours of a model run about how bad it is. Actually that means you don't have to post at all in this thread.

Ill tell you one thing. Something seems fishy about every model showing pretty much the same thing 3 days out. When the hell is the last time that happened? Also, have you guys been following the winter of 2011-2012? There hasn't been a time all year where models nailed a storm 72 hours out. Heck the last storm shifted 50 miles in the last 6 hours.

The models have no effing clue on what to do with these shortwaves.

Prediction: wagons north from here on out. March 2001 style. All in. Naked.

LOL

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Well a whiff is staring us in the face, but I'd give it another 24 hrs if I was on the Cape. Still a little too early to completely dismiss it.

I would put the chances of NYC north getting a storm at 20% ... a bit higher towards the Cape/Islands... but the ironic thing is there may be BL issues along the coast so it may be a moot point... bottom line I'm not completely ready to write this off as of yet.

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But the point is, you'll always be a better forecaster if you blend a forecast with the data given, than just ripping off one model. I do that every day. It's piss poor forecasting to always use one model. There are certainly times where I throw a model out and yes the GFS sometimes is that model, but you can't ignore it..especially when you have a set of guidance known as ensembles that use multiple perturbations to simulate chaos in the atmosphere.

1) There's a difference between a professional forecaster and WOTY.

2) I remember my Tropical Met prof saying that it's been mathematically proven that even a bad/terrible forecast improves the forecast consensus - I'd love to have a look at that proof, lol, but it illustrates your point above.

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I would put the chances of NYC north getting a storm at 20% ... a bit higher towards the Cape/Islands... but the ironic thing is there may be BL issues along the coast so it may be a moot point... bottom line I'm not completely ready to write this off as of yet.

There is usually something weird that happens with these. Either it defies everything I know and moves east of SAV or somehow swings northeast and gets the Cape. However, working against most of the stereotypes, is the flow across Canada and wavelength spacing, which sucks. I have little hope for areas around here.

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Dude, how many times are you going to say its over? Cool. That means you don't need to post after every 6 hours of a model run about how bad it is. Actually that means you don't have to post at all in this thread.

Ill tell you one thing. Something seems fishy about every model showing pretty much the same thing 3 days out. When the hell is the last time that happened? Also, have you guys been following the winter of 2011-2012? There hasn't been a time all year where models nailed a storm 72 hours out. Heck the last storm shifted 50 miles in the last 6 hours.

The models have no effing clue on what to do with these shortwaves.

Prediction: wagons north from here on out. March 2001 style. All in. Naked.

You have not had a meltdown in a few days. This one should be good

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So an amped up STJ SS heads due east at the NC border, Pos NAO with lifting out confluence. Nice, put that in your analogs and smoke it.

Well it still has 84 hrs to give se areas some snow, so I wouldn't rule that out. Doesn't look great for the rest of us, but we'll see how the next 24 hrs go.

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