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February 13-14th Potential Winter Storm Threat Discussion


Zir0b

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I like the look of the radar. There isn't a huge squall line in the Gulf, so this definitely won't gain the latitude of Nemo, but there is some Gulf convection. Any latent heat release to pump up the heights out ahead helps. 

 

My one somewhat desperately optimistic theory is that with the last event, the convection in the Gulf was more synoptic scale, as it was a squall line, which is why the Euro handled it much better than the NAM. However, the convection in the Gulf is a much smaller scale this time, perhaps favoring the NAM and SREF mesoscale guidance. Other than that, I really can't think of anything other than to just wait for more model runs to come out. 

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at h21 looks flatter on the NAM, thought that at 12Z but wound up being wrong...

 

This time it's pretty obvious. It's flatter with the shortwave and the heights out ahead of it. Every once and a while the NAM has an over amped run within 24-36 hours...I'm inclined to believe the 12z run was just that.

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You know, for several runs in a row, it seemed as if the precipitation field was not necessarily matching the omega (vertical velocity) fields. Perhaps now they are trying to match up. 

I've always thought that the precip was being shunted out a little too far south given little confluence over us. I know the flow is crushing it to an extent but the models might be overdoing it slightly. A low in the position that models are mostly putting it in would normally mean a good amount of snow pretty far north. Look how far north a SW flow at 500mb exists-you would think more penetration by the snow shield?

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