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The March 6 Storm- The (last) Great White Hope


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unfortunately that almost never happens

 

 

Yeah but in the good old days it wasn't unusual for a storm to come way north inside 60hrs on all models. Look at Dec 2010, Feb 2007, Oct 2011, Dec 2009 ect. Those all were supposed to scoot due east, but all of them got a little hung up between the coast and the gulfstream.

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Maybe this is wishful thinking, but this feels like Dec. 19, 2009, when Charlottesville to Frederickburg Va was suppose to be the bullseye, but in the end the bullseye moved toward Dulles Airport if I recall. And even for Feb. 5 2010, DC was suppose to be the bullseye, but it ended up being in northern Carrol County.. I'm no met, but seems to me the best bands usually set up about 50 miles from where its progged. Even in the well-forecast, modeled, Boston Blizzard last month, the heaviest snow didn't end up in Boston. It ended up in central Connecticut.

wait, what? Parts of Charlottesville received 28" of snow. i was in between those areas in 2009 and we got 25" surpassing the forecasted 16-20". google a total snowfall map for that storm and you will see the bullseye did not shift north.

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wait, what? Parts of Charlottesville received 28" of snow. i was in between those areas in 2009 and we got 25" surpassing the forecasted 16-20". google a total snowfall map for that storm and you will see the bullseye did not shift north.

 

 

Ok. maybe Charlottesville and areas SW of DC still got bullseye.. But I am almost certain areas farther east like Fredericksburg were suppose to get more snow than DC.  In the end, DC area did equally as well, including some areas north of the city. 

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The GFS and the CRAS (and i believe the cras sometimes can be used as an indicator of a western or northern bais in the other models) vs pretty much everything else, i'm not sure why were even bothering at this point. This looks like it's going to be another euro like solution and i've to hear any real reasoning why it might be otherwise.

 

GGEM.... just a cold rain for most of the storm, now usually it runs a little on the warm side, but by that much? ehhhh

 

...long live the euro :cry::violin::underthewx:

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Ok. maybe Charlottesville and areas SW of DC still got bullseye.. But I am almost certain areas farther east like Fredericksburg were suppose to get more snow than DC.  In the end, DC area did equally as well, including some areas north of the city. 

 

Yes fredericksburg did not do as well as modeled, in fact it is very rare we do better than DC on large snowstorms.

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The GFS and the CRAS (and i believe the cras sometimes can be used as an indicator of a western or northern bais in the other models) vs pretty much everything else, i'm not sure why were even bothering at this point. This looks like it's going to be another euro like solution and i've to hear any real reasoning why it might be otherwise.

GGEM.... just a cold rain for most of the storm, now usually it runs a little on the warm side, but by that much? ehhhh

...long live the euro :cry::violin::underthewx:

I know this will get deleted, but either back up your claims with meteorology, or stop posting. Thank you.

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I know this will get deleted, but either back up your claims with meteorology, or stop posting. Thank you.

 

this is all fun and games for now, but until we see shifts from the more reliable guidance (who am I kidding, the Euro and its ensembles), I think we'll have to take these developments as interesting but not "mother of god" status. The NCEP models have not only had a history of shenanigans in this time frame, but have had a specific history with bringing surface lows and precipitation shields too far north and west. And although every storm system is different, this would be an ideal situation for them to play into that bias.

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Do people realize that the 12z Euro still gives DCA 1" qpf?

 

People are being irrational.  A week ago, if you said we could get an event with 1" or even .75 QPF, this forum would have been dancing with delight.   Now, if it's under 1.75", people start getting down.

 

Like I said earlier...only in this forum..

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People are being irrational.  A week ago, if you said we could get an event with 1" or even .75 QPF, this forum would have been dancing with delight.   Now, if it's under 1.75", people start getting down.

 

Like I said earlier...only in this forum..

 

It's comical.  We spent days and days tracking .10" storms, getting excited when a model showed .18, but now the Euro ONLY shows 1.0" and it's  :axe:

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this is all fun and games for now, but until we see shifts from the more reliable guidance (who am I kidding, the Euro and its ensembles), I think we'll have to take these developments as interesting but not "mother of god" status. The NCEP models have not only had a history of shenanigans in this time frame, but have had a specific history with bringing surface lows and precipitation shields too far north and west. And although every storm system is different, this would be an ideal situation for them to play into that bias.

 

 

You do realize 3 weeks ago the Euro gave Northern New Jersey pre blizzard? Think they ended up with 5 inches.

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It's comical.  We spent days and days tracking .10" storms, getting excited when a model showed .18, but now the Euro ONLY shows 1.0" and it's  :axe:

 

It's all relative, but when it all comes down... people will see it doesn't really matter as long as they can get a snow day out of it.

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