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February 2013 mid-long range disco thread Part 2


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I'd be OK as chalking this off as a fish storm if the Nogaps wasn't so amped up.  It gives us a blizzard this weekend after starting as rain as the closed upper low moves from the VA/NC border to the NE.  Nogaps has a severe suppression bias so when that model gets amped up in the day 4-5 range it's nags in the back of my mind as to why it's handling the vorticies differently than the mainstream guidance.  Still some of the 6Z GFS members tease us with such a setup.  I suppose the energy in question will get into sampling range soon and then put an end to this weekend debate one way or another. 

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I'd be OK as chalking this off as a fish storm if the Nogaps wasn't so amped up.  It gives us a blizzard this weekend after starting as rain as the closed upper low moves from the VA/NC border to the NE.  Nogaps has a severe suppression bias so when that model gets amped up in the day 4-5 range it's nags in the back of my mind as to why it's handling the vorticies differently than the mainstream guidance.  Still some of the 6Z GFS members tease us with such a setup.  I suppose the energy in question will get into sampling range soon and then put an end to this weekend debate one way or another. 

The nogaps has a severe never correct bias. 

 

Seriously though I am not punting this until we get to 72 hours and still no positive signs on the guidance. 

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The Euro is better than it has been but still OTS.  Need about a 200 mile adjustment of the trof axis and we are set.  Perhaps slowing the kicker down by 12-18 hours would do it.

 

This is still a day 5-6 event, so plenty of time for an adjustment.

 

No offense - and I really mean that - but this kind of blind optimism has done nothing for us in over two years.

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PD3 is dead and any storm beyond 180 hrs is bs. This winter nina > nino.

This nina thing is overplayed. We still get a couple of grass-covering snows in Nina winters. What we have going on is something different, and I notice that this no 2"+ snow has crept northeastward to Philly this season. Maybe they are the new DC and we are the new Richmond.

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Not blind optimism: something's got to give this week The GGEM is so far west that we rain then dry slot...and the GFS is so progressive that only one GFS member give us a storm.  The truth probably lies somewhere in between (sort of where the Euro is heading)- I don't think there's a question there will be a storm...its just a matter of where within 800 miles of here will it be.

 

Our luck is the GGEM would verify and we get rain and a windy dry slot.  That's worse than OTS, IMO.

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This nina thing is overplayed. We still get a couple of grass-covering snows in Nina winters. What we have going on is something different, and I notice that this no 2"+ snow has crept northeastward to Philly this season. Maybe they are the new DC and we are the new Richmond.

The airport (worst place in the city for snow) has not done well, but just NW has done pretty decent this year.
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if its any consolation...our Feb 11,2006 storm was not on the models till Wed and the snowstorm was Saturday night. The models had it Sunday and then lost it Monday and tuesday. JMA and GFS brought it back Wed...European had it Thursday and NAM had it saturday at 4:20pm

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