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Feb 13: The little storm that could (for some)


Ian

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yessir, which is why I mentioned the GFS/NAM combo Bob

I think you could tell by the tone of my posts that I am not that fond of the Euro this year

seems like it used to be better

I think the euro's tendancy to hold back energy in the southern stream combined with its bias to over phase storms is wreaking havoc with it in this fast northern branch dominated nina type pattern.  Seems its just having trouble, but not surprising that the two major amplification events we have had, the euro did a good job with. 

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They released that at 12:55, so I assume they did it before they saw the Euro.

Guys, check the description on those products. They aren't the final probabilities; they are a 28 or 29 member "auto ensemble" that includes all 21 sref members, 7 of the latest operational runs (in this case the ECMWF is the prior run), and one member which is the HPC WWD's deterministic snowfall forecast that is sent internally to the WFOs for guidance. The reason why HPC doesn't go public with their deterministic snow/ice accum graphics is because the WFOs (and thus NDFD) have final say on accums and we don't want to add confusion or conflict within NWS products. So, the WFOs (and RFCs) can see that deterministic output from HPC via an internal webpage, usually by 0630 and 1830Z so they can have enough time to use those grids as guidance if they choose to.

The deterministic accumulations (which is prism or elevation adjusted) serve as a baseline guidance for the field offices, while also serving as one of 28 members of that autoensemble probabilistic forecast graphic you have linked here. Ah, but it is an important lone member in that it serves as the "mode" for those probabilistic calculations. The forecaster-adjusted "final" probabilities are manually edited for the 4, 8, 12 inch 10, 40, 70 percent probabilities. They come out between 8-9 and 20-21Z.

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