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February 2-3rd 2013 Clipper/Redeveloper


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The main energy on the NAM definitely digs further south this run, however, the leading vortmax that crosses the southeast US is still shunting the main baroclinic zone offshore...so we end up with a fairly disorganized mess over us. The height falls are pretty impressive so we still end up with some advisory type snows, but the potential of the whole setup is certainly more than the result.

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Yeah NAM is almost there with a heavy precip producer.  Let's see the track of the lows become refined before we say that its there to stay for certain.

This is not going to be a big precip producer with immature midlevel lows as modeled.  We need an earlier negative tilting of the trough to get those closed contours at 700mb and 850mb to our south.   A few SREF and GEFS members have done this, but the vast majority are poorly alligned and or too late.

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The main energy on the NAM definitely digs further south this run, however, the leading vortmax that crosses the southeast US is still shunting the main baroclinic zone offshore...so we end up with a fairly disorganized mess over us. The height falls are pretty impressive so we still end up with some advisory type snows, but the potential of the whole setup is certainly more than the result.

Perfectly stated.  The s/w trough digging down from Canada has looked better each of the past two runs on the NAM, but a small change in the weak preceeding s/w nudges the baroclinic zone too far southeast and kind of spoilts the party.  Jumble the features and try again next cycle and the result might be more favorable.  Probably something like a 1/4 chance of warning snows somewhere in SNE.

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I'm liking GYX's take on this.  Hot off the presses.

 

 

CONFIDENCE IS GRADUALLY BUILDING FOR THE SHORT WAVE DIVING SOUTHTHROUGH THE TROUGH ON SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. NEW GFS AND EUROGUIDANCE BOTH FAVOR A MORE SOUTHERLY DEVELOPMENT RESULTING IN ACLASSIC COASTAL LOW TRACKING INTO THE GULF OF MAINE MONDAYMORNING. WITH THE LOW OFF SHORE... THIS SCENARIO WILL BRING THERETURN OF SNOW TO THE REGION. WHILE THE TRACK FORECAST IS SHAPINGUP.. THE QPF AND THUS SNOWFALL STILL HAS A LARGE SPREAD. THE EUROIS MORE CONSERVATIVE WITH 3-5 IN OF SNOW INTO PWM WHILE THE GFSHAS MUCH MORE MOISTURE WHICH WOULD RESULT IN A WARNING EVENT. ASWITH MOST COASTAL SYSTEMS, THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME STILL FOR ARIGHT TURN OUT TO SEA, AND WITH THE INITIATING SHORT WAVE JUSTBARELY ONSHORE INTO BRITISH COLUMBIA, HAVE TRENDED THE FORECASTTOWARDS A NICE SNOW EVENT BUT HAVE LOWERED POPS AND WINDS SLIGHTLYFROM GFS GUIDANCE. WHILE THE STRENGTH OF THE SURFACE LOW IS STILLIN QUESTION, GALE WARNINGS WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE WATERS AS THEREIS NOW HIGH CONFIDENCE FOR WINDS TO REACH AT LEAST GALE, WITHSTORM FORCE WINDS STILL A CONSIDERATION AS WELL.
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Perfectly stated.  The s/w trough digging down from Canada has looked better each of the past two runs on the NAM, but a small change in the weak preceeding s/w nudges the baroclinic zone too far southeast and kind of spoilts the party.  Jumble the features and try again next cycle and the result might be more favorable.  Probably something like a 1/4 chance of warning snows somewhere in SNE.

 

 

Yeah my hope is that the lead s/w that treks across the south either slows down to let the main energy catch it or it just weakens on future runs as to make it easier for the main northern stream energy to wrap the baroclinic zone to the west.

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I'm liking GYX's take on this.  Hot off the presses.

 

 

CONFIDENCE IS GRADUALLY BUILDING FOR THE SHORT WAVE DIVING SOUTHTHROUGH THE TROUGH ON SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. NEW GFS AND EUROGUIDANCE BOTH FAVOR A MORE SOUTHERLY DEVELOPMENT RESULTING IN ACLASSIC COASTAL LOW TRACKING INTO THE GULF OF MAINE MONDAYMORNING. WITH THE LOW OFF SHORE... THIS SCENARIO WILL BRING THERETURN OF SNOW TO THE REGION. WHILE THE TRACK FORECAST IS SHAPINGUP.. THE QPF AND THUS SNOWFALL STILL HAS A LARGE SPREAD. THE EUROIS MORE CONSERVATIVE WITH 3-5 IN OF SNOW INTO PWM WHILE THE GFSHAS MUCH MORE MOISTURE WHICH WOULD RESULT IN A WARNING EVENT. ASWITH MOST COASTAL SYSTEMS, THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME STILL FOR ARIGHT TURN OUT TO SEA, AND WITH THE INITIATING SHORT WAVE JUSTBARELY ONSHORE INTO BRITISH COLUMBIA, HAVE TRENDED THE FORECASTTOWARDS A NICE SNOW EVENT BUT HAVE LOWERED POPS AND WINDS SLIGHTLYFROM GFS GUIDANCE. WHILE THE STRENGTH OF THE SURFACE LOW IS STILLIN QUESTION, GALE WARNINGS WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE WATERS AS THEREIS NOW HIGH CONFIDENCE FOR WINDS TO REACH AT LEAST GALE, WITHSTORM FORCE WINDS STILL A CONSIDERATION AS WELL.

I don't know about a warning event for us and Dendrite though. Even on the gfs, while it has close to 1" qpf for dryslot, it has like .25 for us. The EC was less. Still time though.

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I don't about a warning event for us and Dendrite though. Even on the gfs, while it has close to 1" qpf for dryslot, it has like .25 for us. The EC was less. Still time though.

It is a little early to worry too much about qpf when there is a trend like this perhaps.  The trend just might be our friend and mightn't the deformation band get a bit further west?

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Upton being conservative as usual:

 

H5 TROF DIGS INTO THE NERN CONUS SAT NGT AND SUN. WEAK WAA AND MOIST
LLVL FLOW OVERSPREAD THE CWA BEGINNING SAT NGT. TIME HEIGHTS SHOW
BROAD LIFT AND SUFFICIENT MOISTURE FOR LGT SNOW TO DEVELOP ACROSS
THE CWA. AT THE SAME TIME...PACIFIC ENERGY ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE
TROF ATTEMPTS TO DEEPEN OFF THE MID ATLANTIC BEFORE TRACKING NEWD ON
SUN. 12Z GFS AND ECMWF RUNS ARE TRENDING THIS LOW CLOSER TO THE
COAST...BUT NOT YET CLOSE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD MDT SNOW
ACCUMS.

FCST INDICATES LIKELY PCPN BEGINNING LATE SAT NGT AND LASTING INTO
SUN. ATTM...THE LGT PCPN SCENARIO IS FAVORED. THIS INTRODUCES A
CHANCE OF MIXING OR CHANGE TO RAIN ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COASTS DURING
THE DAY ON SUN AS THE BL WARMS. OTHERWISE PCPN ALL SNOW ELSEWHERE.
IF THE LOW DOES DEEPEN CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE COAST...PCPN SHOULD BE
ALL SNOW AT THE COASTS AS COLDER AIR IS DRAWN INTO THE MORE
AMPLIFIED SYSTEM. THIS WOULD ALSO INTRODUCE HEAVIER SNOWFALL
TOTALS...ESPECIALLY ERN ZONES.
 

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