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February 16th-17th Potential Winter Storm Part II


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We are still ever so slightly positively tilted in the Mississippi Valley. It would only take a very small change to get this neutrally tilted in the Mississippi Valley, which usually spells significant snows for us. 

That's about where the Boxing Day event became neutrally tilted, so that definitely bodes well for us if we can swing that.

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Don't compare this to Boxing Day, that was a completely different animal all together. That had energy coming out of Colorado and phased over the deep south.

The phase took place over the southern MS Valley and that's where the storm really started getting its act together. The location of where a phase and/or sharpening of a trough is important, even if the exact mechanism for getting us there isn't the same. The block also helped a lot in slowing down that storm.

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Hr 39, the energy is dropping into the base of the trough, light precip is breaking out in the central plains in response. The trough axis is actually well west of the MS river but it's still got a positive tilt right now.

 

look at the energy crashing into the ridge out west, this is going to shunt everything east again IMO based on that image

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Hr 39, the energy is dropping into the base of the trough, light precip is breaking out in the central plains in response. The trough axis is actually well west of the MS river but it's still got a positive tilt right now.

Very barely positive and the trough is really digging. If Gulf moisture can somehow get involved it could really spark this up.

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Since the NAM is taking too long to get its act together, that gives the western energy more time to progress eastward and shunt the trough axis to the east. 

At risk of being snow hoggish...isnt the ultimate bottom line here if a raging blizzard will be dismissed because 18 z and if flurries dismissed using same logic?

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