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Significant Ocean Storm March 5-7 2013 Discussion Part II


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It wasn't even about the northern stream diving in and hooking precip back this run. It dove a bit further southeast, but some processes made the interaction really healthy right away with the coastal...so now that kicker shortwave actually saves us with the coastal as well. Really interesting stuff. 

 

Nice to know that we can still produce with this setup in several ways. 

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One has got to think, what's the point of even having NCEP spend $$ on running the NAM if it's not useful within it's "useful" range of <48 hrs? 

It is useful, but every single model this winter has busted big time for a storm within the 48 timeframe. I know the Euro did once this winter, I just can't recall the exact date.

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It wasn't even about the northern stream diving in and hooking precip back this run. It dove a bit further southeast, but some processes made the interaction really healthy right away with the coastal...so now that kicker shortwave actually saves us with the coastal as well. Really interesting stuff. 

 

Nice to know that we can still produce with this setup in several ways. 

It also seems to me that the main s/w is quite a bit more potent then previous runs...would that perhaps help the low maintain its own momentum and make it harder for the Great Lakes shortwave to act like a kicker? Instead, it kind of just meanders longer and waits for the northern energy to phase in? 

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During the blizzard back in Feb, I believe the NAM was the only model showing 4" QPF amounts for LI while the other global models had around 2", everyone though the NAM was crazy and it was closer to reality than the other global models had inside 36-hours. The 4-Km NAM had 9" of QPF for NJ on one run, and corrected itself and gave LI around 4" of QPF. It might be right in this situation as well.

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