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V-day snow threat (THE GAINES BOMBER) ( Forecast/ Model/Discussion thread)


Mitchell Gaines

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Looks like Mt. Holly removed all chance of snow now?  The map now says "no significant snowfall expected in the next 48 hours" here:

 

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/StormTotalSnow/stormtotal.php

 

It's still on the "Day 2" map and I don't believe it's been promoted to the official forecast map yet.

 

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/WinterDSS.shtml

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Looks like Mt. Holly removed all chance of snow now?  The map now says "no significant snowfall expected in the next 48 hours" here:

 

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/StormTotalSnow/stormtotal.php

 

That's their link from last year.  They moved the location this year but didn't remove the old location.

 

The new location can be accessed from their home page and then click on Winter Weather (upper right)

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So what's beat case scenario down here?

I don't want to sound pessimistic and I haven't looked at everything, but my gut answer is "coating-1".

meh, sounds about right. Thanks ray! Hoping we can get the weekend to trend back west. I like where we sit on that one at this point....
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Bobby,

It generally does a good job but it is especially useful for playing with advection routines (upwind sites) to help forecast temps - that was the original purpose of the program. It uses a blend of the NAM and GFS for precip....but it is only as good as the most recent model runs. It has a built in report that compares the forecast to actual (from my weather station) it also features a learning mechanism to help it learn from temp errors. Generally it works very well and is especially useful with start /stop times for precip and forecasting temps in your exact location. For more info check out their website at www.wxsim.com

 

Question for you... how realistic has this been for you this Winter?  I saw some storms of the past that seemed pretty realistic with what you had posted.  Never used Wxsim data.  Do you have verification data saved anywhere or a ball park?

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HPC PM forecaster less bullish than Kocin

 

DAYS 1/2...TUESDAY NIGHT TO WEDNESDAY NIGHT/EARLY THU...

...CENTRAL APPALACHIANS/NRN MID-ATL STATES/SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND...

A PROGRESSIVE SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEASTWARD TOWARD
THE TENNESSEE VALLEY BY WEDNESDAY MORNING AND THEN CONTINUE EAST
NORTHEASTWARD AND WILL BE SOUTHEAST OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WED
NIGHT AND OFFSHORE BY THURSDAY MORNING. THIS SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE
A RELATIVELY FAST MOVER...WHICH LIKELY PRECLUDES SNOWFALL
ACCUMULATIONS GREATER THAN 8 INCHES.

ON DAY ONE...MODERATE PROBABILITIES OF 4 INCHES ARE SHOWN IN THE
MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA AS THE NAM/GFS/MOST SREF MEMBERS SHOW A
QUARTER TO FOUR TENTHS LIQUID EQUIVALENT PRECIP WHERE IT IS COLD
ENOUGH FOR SNOW. THE MORE SUPPRESSED WAVE OF THE 12Z ECMWF REDUCED
QPF AMOUNTS TO UNDER A QUARTER INCH...SO A HIGH RISK IS NOT SHOWN.

ON DAY 2 THE GFS/ECMWF/12Z GEFS MEAN/09Z SREF MEAN CLUSTER WELL ON
THE LOW TRACK SOUTH OF NEW ENGLAND.  THE 12Z NAM WAS ON THE
NORTHERN EDGE OF THE SUITE OF TRACK SOLUTIONS WITH THE HIGHEST
SNOW POTENTIAL IN LONG ISLAND/SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND...AND THE MORE
SUPPRESSED//FURTHER SOUTH UKMET WITH THE LEAST.
THE CONSENSUS IS FOR A COUPLE OF INCHES AND LOW RISK IS MAINTAINED
AS SEVERAL SREF MEMBERS HAVE UP TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW ACROSS
SOUTHERN NJ/LONG ISLAND AND EXTREME SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.  THE 12Z
ECMWF HAS LESS A TENTH OF IN INCH FROM SOUTHERN PA TO LONG
ISLAND/EXTREME SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND...RESULTING IN VERY LITTLE IF
ANY ACCUMULATION.
 

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