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The "What To Title The Storm?" Thread - Dec 8-9


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I'd guess there will be some cooling as the precip arrives though I wouldn't go with the coldest guidance for now. Winds end up with a marine component by 12z on the Euro so hard to be totally confident it stays super cold. I don't see the cooling during the day on the Euro maps I have. I'm mostly focused on DC and the immediate surrounds. Definitely easier to stay cold further west of course.  

 

yeah...we suck at weather :(

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I am not as worried about ground temps as others (perhaps foolishly).  

 

 - We are in the 30s by 10pm Friday.....It is december and the sun is useless

 

No disagreement from me about the stupid sun debate. But if you are dealing with slushy/wet/crunchy foundation and light precip rates, glazing will be confined to non-pavements mostly. So, my point was/is that the foundation and darkness, together, could be enough to offset latent heat to produce actual icing on things like sidewalks/less-traveled roads that aren't treated.

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What is the link for the GEFS member outputs? 

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/ENSPRSNE_12z/ensprsloopmref.html

 

This website has "plumes", which are really helpful: http://eyewall.met.psu.edu/rich/gefs/Plumes.html

 

Plumes for BWI look pretty good of 12z GFS I think.  Seems like a fair handful have the tail-end wave on Tuesday as well.

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http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/ENSPRSNE_12z/ensprsloopmref.html

 

This website has "plumes", which are really helpful: http://eyewall.met.psu.edu/rich/gefs/Plumes.html

 

Plumes for BWI look pretty good of 12z GFS I think.  Seems like a fair handful have the tail-end wave on Tuesday as well.

 

2nd one was what I been searching for, thank you. 

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Not trolling? I hope everyone gets a good event. Just trying to learn as much as possible and that's what I gathered from what I've heard and seen

 

You are in the wrong subforum.  Last time.

 

It's ok to post about OUR weather in this forum, even if you aren't from here.  But every post you've made here is about SNE weather.

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Using the Raleigh weather maps, the 12z GFS ensembles members and OP had the following through hr 108 (snow and sleet accum):

 

10 out of the 11 have at least 1"

9 out of the 11 have at least 3"

6 out of the 11 have at least 6"

 

P009 has the least (barely any snow across the CWA) while P005 is a snowstorm (nearing 9" in DCA)

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Using the Raleigh weather maps, the 12z GFS ensembles members and OP had the following through hr 108 (snow and sleet accum):

10 out of the 11 have at least 1"

9 out of the 11 have at least 3"

6 out of the 11 have at least 6"

P009 has the least (barely any snow across the CWA) while P005 is a snowstorm (nearing 9" in DCA)

If I had a FB page id post p009
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What I find interesting on the ECMWF and GFS is the mid-level moistening and frontogenesis that comes through in the morning. While the models do not put out much if any QPF then, we certainly are making snow aloft.

Does anyone have bufkit/etc. to see if there is decent omega in the snow growth zone early Sunday?

 

GFS shows decent omega 12-15Z on Sunday in the snow growth zone...after that not so much.  In fact, at f102 it's not even saturated.

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Using the Raleigh weather maps, the 12z GFS ensembles members and OP had the following through hr 108 (snow and sleet accum):

 

10 out of the 11 have at least 1"

9 out of the 11 have at least 3"

6 out of the 11 have at least 6"

 

P009 has the least (barely any snow across the CWA) while P005 is a snowstorm (nearing 9" in DCA)

Those numbers are wacky. Here's a site that uses the NCEP snow from the members.  The plumes suggest your probabilities are not

 

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Plus there are way more members than 11. 

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GFS shows decent omega 12-15Z on Sunday in the snow growth zone...after that not so much.  In fact, at f102 it's not even saturated.

 

Thanks. So basically, it's that vs. the dry air in-place. Sometimes, QPF guidance is terrible in these situations if the frontogen forcing is prolific. Typical forms of lift with typical strengths are probably not going to cut it; but, I always keep an eyebrow up when you've got omega in the SGZ harmlessly passing by without any appreciable QPF. Think back to 2009-10 for the worst-case scenario of QPF-fail in these situations.

I'm not so sure this Sunday has the dynamics to pull-off something even close to that.

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I only used the Raleigh maps Wes, in which there are only 10 members and the OP on the GEFS panel

In 2012 there were at least 20 members and a control so he's missing half of them.  Looking at the NOAA site to me it looks like Alan has lumped ice pellets in with snow so those probabilities look high. 

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