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February 21st - 23rd Winter Storm


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Never bet against Madison, WI...  My call for highest amts will be on top of Turtle's Mustang :)

 

This. It's been jackpot for them all winter, see no reason to change now.

 

Not gonna throw out amounts but one thing that has been very consistent is that there's enough cold air on the front end to cause problems. As csnavy mentioned, temps might go above freezing but maybe not until the tail end.

 

Speaking of throwing out amounts, I meant to post this this morning. Patrick Murphy, veteran IWX met, highly educated, extremely analytical, and a  :weenie: :

 

A STALLED DEEP SYSTEM TO SLOWLY WITHER ON VINE ACRS NRN IN/SRNLWR MI...AT LEAST THROUGH HERO FCSTR EYES. LARGE STANDARD DEVIATIONSPREAD PER MEDIUM RANGE MODEL ACCUMULATIONS. SAN COMPACTION WITH CLIMATOLOGICAL MEAN NEAR 14/1 RATIOS USED AFFORDED RANGES GNRLYWITHIN 3-7 INCH RANGE...FWIW AT F144-180.
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**** this storm completely!

This is about as uninspiring at it could get form APX.

 

THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...EXTENDED MODELS CONTINUE TO BE IN
GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT A SYSTEM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF THE
SOUTHWESTERN STATES WHILE SHEARING OUT AND STALLING ACROSS THE REGION
BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR MAINLY LIGHT SNOW AND SNOW SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 20S FRIDAY AND THE MIDDLE 20S TO LOWER
20S SATURDAY. LOWS MAINLY IN THE TEENS.

 

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La Crosse in their just released AFD:

 

THE MODEL CONSISTENCY AND RUN-TO-RUN SIMILARITIES REMAIN VERY ABOVEAVERAGE AND REMARKABLE FOR IT STILL BEING 6 DAYS OUT. GIVEN THEFEATURE IS CURRENTLY OVER THE DATA SPARSE NORTHERN PACIFIC...THERECERTAINLY WILL BE FINE-TUNE DETAILS TO ESTABLISH. PRECIPITATIONAMOUNTS TOOK A STEP UP IN THE LATEST ROUND OF GUIDANCE THOUGH STILLREMAIN BETWEEN 0.7 TO 1.0 INCH. CONFIDENCE CONTINUES TO GROW IN AWARNING LEVEL EVENT WITH WIDESPREAD 6 TO 10 INCH AMOUNTS IF THECURRENT AND PAST SOLUTIONS INDEED VERIFY. THE BIG PICTURE IS THATTHOSE WITH INTERESTS AND TRAVEL CONCERNS LATE NEXT WEEK SHOULDCONTINUE TO MONITOR AND FOR NOW...HAVE CONTINUED TO PUSH HIGHERPRECIPITATION CHANCES THURSDAY NIGHT...AND TRENDED FRIDAY HIGHER ASWELL SINCE IF THE SYSTEM DOES SLOW DOWN / FILL IN THEN THERE WOULDCERTAINLY BE LINGERING DEFORMATION BANDING SNOW ACROSS MUCH OF THEAREA. THE PROLONGED DURATION / THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE FRIDAYNIGHT / COULD PRESENT SOME CHALLENGES FOR TRAVELERS AND ROAD CREWSAS WELL.[/quote]
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**** this storm completely!

This is about as uninspiring at it could get form APX.

 

THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...EXTENDED MODELS CONTINUE TO BE IN

GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT A SYSTEM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF THE

SOUTHWESTERN STATES WHILE SHEARING OUT AND STALLING ACROSS THE REGION

BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR MAINLY LIGHT SNOW AND SNOW SHOWERS.

HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 20S FRIDAY AND THE MIDDLE 20S TO LOWER

20S SATURDAY. LOWS MAINLY IN THE TEENS.

 

Sleeper pick for meltdown. 

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From IND AFD

 

AS WARM ADVECTION/ISENTROPIC LIFT CONTINUES THE PRECIPTYPE QUESTION BECOMES THE CHALLENGE. WITH COLD AIR ENTRENCHED AT THESURFACE IN THE WAKE OF THE CANADIAN HIGH BUT STRONG WARM ADVECTIONALOFT CAN SEE THE POTENTIAL FOR SLEET/FREEZING RAIN FROM THURSDAYAFTERNOON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. HOWEVER THIS FAR OUT TRYING TOPIN DOWN ICE PROBABILITIES IS AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY AS MODELTRACKS OF THE SYSTEM ARE STILL VARIABLE. THEREFORE WILL CONTINUE TOBROAD BRUSH INCREASING CHANCES FOR A RAIN AND SNOW MIX IN THEFORECAST WHILE HIGHLIGHTING THE ICE POTENTIAL HERE AS WELL AS IN THEHWO.
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18z GFS going to be drier for people further north and east.

The high pressure's and dry air around it is shredding this storm apart before it could reach the Lakes area, sadly. 

 

But its still over a 100 hours out, hopefully it changes. Really quite potent storm with alot of moisture. 

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The high pressure's and dry air around it is shredding this storm apart before it could reach the Lakes area, sadly. 

 

But its still over a 100 hours out, hopefully it changes. Really quite potent storm with alot of moisture. 

Nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with this sucker occluding (maturing) over Kansas and the resulting potential energy from thermal gradients being played out by the time it gets that far east because the storm will be well into the decaying stage by then.

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Nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with this sucker occluding (maturing) over Kansas and the resulting potential energy from thermal gradients being played out by the time it gets that far east because the storm will be well into the decaying stage by then.

 

Oh, i didnt take a look at any other map besides the MSLP maps but thanks! There is certainly alot of cold air in place across the Lakes regions so it'd be quite fantastic if it stayed in one piece instead of decaying and shredding the further East it moves. Reminds me of a storm last winter, i believe.  

 

Between hours 110 and about 126 the vort maps show quite the tightly compacted  energy but like you said it gets played out quite easily. Still alot of time left for this to perhaps change.

 

Whats your preliminary thoughts? 

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