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Euro shifted east and weaker but it wasn't a huge move or anything. Here's msl hr51 12z and hr63 0z.

We'll see where the trends keep going.

I know Bob, people are going to overreact, and go solely via the models and thats their choice, but overall I think Baltimore up 83 look to be the spot for this one, and BWI to PHL will likely catch the deform band. The euro wasn't that much of a move.

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Which is horrible.

I don't see too much change in the 12z suite overall. The Euro bumped east in previous runs then came back west. This solution might be closer than previous but I wouldn't bet on it. No need for folks to have emotional swings every few hours. Safest bet is probably to assume you'll (global) get screwed if you want to do that.

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Full circle...made this post last week after a euro run gave the region snow but fringed mine and Ji's house...give it another week and it will come back

Just wait till the gfs comes west. Oy

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I guess location dictates opinion, but it's a pretty big shift. If it becomes reality, it's pretty hard to say that the Euro was "spot on" for this one. Granted, I've only focused on my area, but the GFS has had me fringed the whole time with this whereas the Euro had me bullseyed to begin with, even had a really good snow as recently as its last run, and now I'm in no precip at all, again much closer to what the GFS has shown the whole time. Anyway, we'll see what happens.

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I know it's a weenie statement but the atlantic off the se coast is still plenty warm. We need to pray for rapid strengthening so the deform band can set up. Euro came in weaker so obviously precip got a haircut. The storm could take the same more easterly track but be deeper and still give us a good chance.

Many runs to go so we'll see. If I had to hedge I would go with a stronger vs a weaker system than what is currently being modeled.

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I don't see too much change in the 12z suite overall. The Euro bumped east in previous runs then came back west. This solution might be closer than previous but I wouldn't bet on it. No need for folks to have emotional swings every few hours. Safest bet is probably to assume you'll (global) get screwed if you want to do that.

And this will probably come down to a nowcast deal too for the region. I do think this run sort of stunk for DC, but 00z tonight could come west again.

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And this will probably come down to a nowcast deal too for the region. I do think this run sort of stunk for DC, but 00z tonight could come west again.

Yeah it did, except for yanking the elevation argument away.

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Full circle...made this post last week after a euro run gave the region snow but fringed mine and Ji's house...give it another week and it will come back

I havent been excited about this storm for one big reason. I am going leaving for Orlando at 2:00pm Wednesday and it was killing me that the euro was showing this solution.i sorta feel better now. It would of literally ruined my year to miss this storm.

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Just wait till the gfs comes west. Oy

History says it will at least one time look like the big snow euro runs...we have all been on here long enough to know that...hopefully some of the weaker souls out there can handle that swing. I still see flakes in the air which is neat at this time of the year...I for one have no clue and will never pretend to know what the final outcome will be...still fun to track something then to not to

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I think it was you...or perhaps someone else on here. If push comes to shove, I'd rather be in a death band, then at 1000ft and have 20DBZ echoes. Death band > elevation.

Yeah elevation is helpful but only if you get precip ;)

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Funny thing is, now that the Euro has wobbled right, the GFS ens members are the wettest they've been (again, I'm looking at my area). I guess there's time for development/change.

Gonna be a long winter like this.

Just say no to model hugging.

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I guess location dictates opinion, but it's a pretty big shift. If it becomes reality, it's pretty hard to say that the Euro was "spot on" for this one. Granted, I've only focused on my area, but the GFS has had me fringed the whole time with this whereas the Euro had me bullseyed to begin with, even had a really good snow as recently as its last run, and now I'm in no precip at all, again much closer to what the GFS has shown the whole time. Anyway, we'll see what happens.

I-81 winter FTW.

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I know we hate to hear this because we love to track and diagnose every piece of data that comes out, but this is the kind of situation where small details in the dynamics and evolution of the system will have a drastic impact on the actual track. The block is breaking down so there is much more "room" for this to track then with Sandy. This is also not an WAA driving event where picking out the thermal boundary will help lock in the storm track. This system is going to bomb out and small differences with exactly how soon that process begins as well as the evolution of that process and amount of convection involved will make big differences in the final location of the meso scale banding on the western side. We all know how these types of systems tend to continue to "change" on the models right up until nowcast time. I think this is a wait and see system.

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Pretty much everyone just modelcasts these days.

Well, until humans can can hold billions of bits of initial state information in their working short term memory, and then perform trillions of iterative time-step calculations via some relatively complicated differential equations while also, mentally, handing the some fairly nasty coordinate system translations...that's probably going to be the state of affairs for forecasts further further than 24 hours in the future. From what I recall, the very best human forecaster's average 36-hr error was only slightly better than the average 72-hr error of the earliest medium range models.

So...ignoring the models and hoping to beat them at the own game is probably stupid. Now, pointing out that a model appears to be repeating one of its past sins, while also lacking support of its peers and antecedent synoptics...is that "modelcasting" now?

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I'm with you 100% (for once). I almost wish super weenies didn't have access to models...or only once every 24 hours. The swings are crazy. I'd sit tight and wait for a little bit longer. I think I'm still on your bus with this.

If you're a control freak, love snow, and aren't very knowledgeable about the weather, this hobby will mess with you.

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Well, until humans can can hold billions of bits of initial state information in their working short term memory, and then perform trillions of iterative time-step calculations via some relatively complicated differential equations while also, mentally, handing the some fairly nasty coordinate system translations...that's probably going to be the state of affairs for forecasts further further than 24 hours in the future. From what I recall, the very best human forecaster's average 36-hr error was only slightly better than the average 72-hr error of the earliest medium range models.

So...ignoring the models and hoping to beat them at the own game is probably stupid. Now, pointing out that a model appears to be repeating one of its past sins, while also lacking support of its peers and antecedent synoptics...is that "modelcasting" now?

I'm talking more about swinging with every run. A good forecaster can act as a super ensemble by meshing them all together and factoring in any known or perceived biases.

Right now consensus is not terribly exciting for DC specifically but not much has changed either.

I guess I'm not sure why this last run of the euro is so much more valid than the last four.. Other than a seeming growing consensus. I also don't think the public gets all this waffling done run to run or that last week everyone was throwing the gfs under the bus and now saying the Euro trended to it. It's more complicated than that but in a sense forecasters make it look like they move at the whim of guidance

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Well, until humans can can hold billions of bits of initial state information in their working short term memory, and then perform trillions of iterative time-step calculations via some relatively complicated differential equations while also, mentally, handing the some fairly nasty coordinate system translations...that's probably going to be the state of affairs for forecasts further further than 24 hours in the future. From what I recall, the very best human forecaster's average 36-hr error was only slightly better than the average 72-hr error of the earliest medium range models.

So...ignoring the models and hoping to beat them at the own game is probably stupid. Now, pointing out that a model appears to be repeating one of its past sins, while also lacking support of its peers and antecedent synoptics...is that "modelcasting" now?

couldn't had said it better myself...lolz at the idea of anyone here sitting down with only the 0-hour analysis and making a 48 or 72-hour forecast while beating any of the NWP guidance....

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couldn't had said it better myself...lolz at the idea of anyone here sitting down with only the 0-hour analysis and making a 48 or 72-hour forecast while beating any of the NWP guidance....

Except no one said that.

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