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February 2013 mid-long range disco thread


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no one should have expected last night's run to verify.. consider us lucky to get a 2-4"er

I think even that might be stretching our luck. For whatever reason things just don't want to line up for just a normal snowfall. And that keeps us looking for big ones to get us out of the hole.

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The GFS handled the last storm so poorly it wasnt funny.......but yet we still look for it to be right I guess weird how that works :whistle:

And see, that statement alone is an example of the double negative we are facing. The GFS looks better than everything else this time. How much confidence does that inspire?

The GFS has been pretty good most of the time however.

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From HPC....WITH THE GULF TO ATLC SFC LOW DURING THE WED-THU TIME

FRAME...RECENT ENSEMBLES GENERALLY SUGGEST A LOW TRACK BETWEEN

RECENT GFS AND MORE OFFSHORE ECMWF RUNS WITH THE LEADING EAST

COAST LOW THROUGH MIDWEEK. GFS RUNS HAVE GENERALLY REMAINED ON

THE NWRN SIDE OF THE FULL GUIDANCE SPREAD THOUGH NOT TO THE POINT

OF BEING OUTLIERS RELATIVE TO INDIVIDUAL ENSEMBLE MEMBERS. THE

RELATIVELY PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF FLOW CONTAINING THE SUPPORTING

ENERGY EJECTING FROM THE SRN ROCKIES/HIGH PLAINS... AND POSITIVE

TILT OF THE ESTABLISHED LARGE SCALE MEAN PATTERN...SEEM TO FAVOR

AN INTERMEDIATE SOLUTION.

So maybe we can find a good solution in the middle of Euro and GFS...too early to punt but it would be easy to this year

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On the VD storm, I actually like the 12z GFS solution (better formation) and 12z NAM (colder). On the GFS, we need a little stronger development on the L off Hatteras to pull the cold air south into the DC area more quickly. The placement of the L is still good and does not look like it is going out to sea. I am sticking with my prediction of widespread 2-4 for the DC area (starts as rain Wed and changes to snow late afternoon Wed).

 

On the PD storm, the GFS was a mess. But I think the trough ran too deep into FL - not gonna happen. Still hope, but less promising than earlier.

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On the PD storm, the GFS was a mess. But I think the trough ran too deep into FL - not gonna happen. Still hope, but less promising than earlier.

It's shown some wacky solutions for that potential PD storm.  The other day it had an elongated closed low at 500 mb running from about North Dakota to the mid-Atlantic.

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One storm at a time please, I can't handle this much potential and excitement  :lmao:

On the VD storm, I actually like the 12z GFS solution (better formation) and 12z NAM (colder). On the GFS, we need a little stronger development on the L off Hatteras to pull the cold air south into the DC area more quickly. The placement of the L is still good and does not look like it is going out to sea. I am sticking with my prediction of widespread 2-4 for the DC area (starts as rain Wed and changes to snow late afternoon Wed).

 

On the PD storm, the GFS was a mess. But I think the trough ran too deep into FL - not gonna happen. Still hope, but less promising than earlier.

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Temps worry me, need that low to get going. Bob isn't worried about rain though even though we know he is. He's so all in he needs this one to keep living.

Lol- temps are a legit worry. One of the probs I already said was no good hp but I'm also not worried at this point. I will be if it keeps trending warm thru Monday.

I do believe there will be enough juice. Gulf is open. I don't mind being nw of dca either. The 2" streak applies to my yard too.

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Im still optimistic, the euro has been south, think the gfs might be tracking the low too fast to the north and east and not phasing enough. This set up is nothing like the hecs thats winding down, but the gfs missed the phase more and took it too far east.

 

vday threat isn't really a phase it's just a vort passage no?

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