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1/28 - 1/30 Storm Thread II


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I can't believe how much wetter the 21z run is. That is insane.

 

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What a close call it's going to be for Charleston.  Verbatim at the airport, it going from rain to ice sometime after 7pm Tuesday when 0.94" QPF falls through 7am.  When you look at John's Island to the south, the surface is borderline the whole night through 7am.  Our chance seeing some snow flakes come late morning/afternoon on Wednesday, but it will be a sleet/snow battle (per 00z NAM).

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I'm driving into work right now. A little help will be awesome, please. It looks like Columbus to Macon to a Gusta to Columbia, is the big winner with the 0z nam run, is that correct?

 

KCAE is all snow per 850 line.  Pretty much just a row of counties South of that area should be too.  It's less of a "hit" snow total wise; but it's all pure.  I'll take a look at soundings in few minutes.

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I'm driving into work right now. A little help will be awesome, please. It looks like Columbus to Macon to a Gusta to Columbia, is the big winner with the 0z nam run, is that correct?

Sure... As long as you like almost a full day of a stout warm nose at 850. We're looking at a sloppy mess according to the 00Z NAM...

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8 of 15 are double digit snow totals.  Gulp!

There are some differences in terms of ratios (higher to the northeast) but 10 are showing at least 1 inch liquid here. 4 showing 1.75 to 2 inch liquid. Probably far too extreme but man it does sort of give you goose pumps lol

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I'm lovin this...

The front is expected to come through dry as the column will not
have sufficient time to moisten Monday night. Once the front is
offshore...waves of low pressure are expected to develop along the
boundary and then move up along it.
(  OK with everyone else; WTH are they talking about???)????

 

 As the Arctic air moves out
across the waters...it will help to increase the baroclinicity of
the environment... (No doubt the Gulf Steam Effect)..helping to fuel developing low pressure. This will
likely result in more intense and rapid development of these waves.
The Arctic air will be shallow...with winds from the north from the
surface to about 3 kft. Above that level...strong winds will remain
from the west-southwest or SW. This will create a strong overrunning situation.

ice/Ice baby..
Isentropic lift is expected to maximize Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
However...light wintry precipitation may begin as early as midday
Tuesday/Tuesday afternoon.

Examination of model soundings show it will be cold enough for
mainly frozen precipitation...especially during the time the
heaviest quantitative precipitation forecast is expected. However...there is some concern that a
pronounced and deep warm nose may allow for a prolonged period of at
least a snow and sleet mix. Sleet would have a dramatic downward
impact on total accumulations. This makes it very difficult at this
juncture to ascertain total snow accumulations.(WET SLOP) Where the
predominate precipitation type remains mainly snow...amounts may
readily exceed 3 inches. At this time...the risk for sleet or mixed
precipitation is greatest across southern and coastal areas. This
would suggest higher snowfall accumulations along the Interstate 95
corridor.
It should be noted...that dynamic cooling may occur as the
precipitation begins to fall heavily Tuesday night
...keeping temperatures
throughout the column below zero and thus increasing the chances for
a mainly snow event. :snowing:

A-La 1989..March 3-1980? Or a blend?

As the pressure gradient tightens Tuesday night... winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour
are expected to develop. These winds will serve to blow and drift
the snow while bringing wind chills down to around 10 degrees. Temperatures
are expected to be well down in the 20s while the heaviest
precipitation is falling.
:snowwindow: 

&&

Long term /Wednesday through Sunday/...
as of 245 PM Sunday...main challenge for the extended will be just
how long the wintry precipitation will hang around for Wednesday.
The 1200 UTC GFS shows good Omega in the -15 degree c area at 1200
UTC and this due in part to the orientation of a 200mb jet moving
across the area. Have increased probability of precipitation for the day. Thermal profiles
as well as the forcing become less conducive for significant
snowfall as the day moves along with BUFKIT showing some breaks in
the saturation of the dendritic growth zone. We could very well see
a little light freezing drizzle or sleet mix in with the light snow.
As for the remainder of the period...expect a very frosty morning
Thursday and Friday as there is a good chance of snow cover Thursday
and this possibly lingers into Friday am. The broad pattern change
advertised by the medium range guidance continues and the weekend
should be warmer with a very slight chance of rain Sunday with a
weakly forced west to east system.

 

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How do the models handle the baroclinic zones that can form between the Apps and the Gulf Stream? Dr. Gary Lackmann at NC State talked about this extensivly in MEA 443. The baroclinic coastal fronts had huge ramifications for precip accumulation during Hurricane Floyd and 1/25/2000 acoording to the research. Curious how much the baroclinic front will have on us this week.

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I'm loving the temps shown by the SREF, I know it's been touched on mutliple times but the mean at KCLT is below 30 degrees from 03Z til the end of the run and it's still falling well into the teens from 06Z to 12Z 1/30.  Talk about a bitter day on Thursday if that comes to fruitation: 3 hr Temps

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if you look at the RH fields at 700 and 850mb this run vs the 18z,  you really can get a feel to how much the flow is gradually backing and becoming more favorable for moisture transport/precip over north ga and the western carolinas. This run now has the back edge right at 85..the furthest to the west/north yet.

 

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Incredible change on models here, I admit I didn't think they had it in them :P Am I correct in thinking that the models are now showing simply what could happen if the two systems phase, and if they don't, that they would most likely go back to what was shown earlier today? 

 

Only problem with this map is I am a few miles north of 85. This would be an even bigger heartbreak than what was models were showing earlier today :cry: 

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How accurate is the SREF model when forecasting a couple days out????

Most mets and pro forecasters I believe will tell you around 48hrs and then inside from there although I saw today that they got an upgrade recently and have gotten some good verification scores for the northeast systems this year so..
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How do the models handle the baroclinic zones that can form between the Apps and the Gulf Stream? Dr. Gary Lackmann at NC State talked about this extensivly in MEA 443. The baroclinic coastal fronts had huge ramifications for precip accumulation during Hurricane Floyd and 1/25/2000 acoording to the research. Curious how much the baroclinic front will have on us this week.

 

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ilm/science/ascii/ascintro.html

 

Check out this site... It has an index I use to determine whether or not a storm will bomb off the coast within 24 hours.

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