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1/28 - 1/30 Storm Thread II


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Speaking of the CMC, must say it earns the mid-range coup on this one, unless the storm falls apart at the last minute.

 

It nailed the storm in the Northeast 4 days ago at about Day 5-7 as well and then lost it only to bring it back...it was the only model showing it at that range...the CMC has had a tendency to catch storms well out, the problem is it loses them frequently inside Day 6...it also nailed the 2/25/10 NYC snow/Boston mainly rain bomb at 200-240 hours.

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Dallas, Birmingham, Columbia and every big city along I-20 has had a snow of 6" or greater in the last 30 years except for Atlanta. Let's face it, Atlanta is just very unlucky. I'm talking the airport.

 

DFW is much more favorable for snow than ATL overall, they are similar in that they will usually be too far south and warm for big/amped up systems and generally need weaker.overrunning type ones to get hit but they can get those weaker waves alot easier than ATL can...BHM has an advantage of the cold air tending to work in alot faster it seems.

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00z GFS is around 6 inches for KCAE on COBB output with the whole event being snow as the ptype.  Seems a bit right considering temps aren't that great; but a little bit low as on the surface maps precip tried to blossom back over us.

 

Worthy exchange for no ptype issues vs 18z though.

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I was looking at sounding at several locations earlier on the SREF and it seems to me that the moisture is wanting to move back west farther than any other model. The farther east toward the coast its profile was more of a sleet and FZ. The reason bring this up is that it was one of the first models to pick up this west movement. It will be interesting see what the 00z spits out. 

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Dallas, Birmingham, Columbia and every big city along I-20 has had a snow of 6" or greater in the last 30 years except for Atlanta. Let's face it, Atlanta is just very unlucky. I'm talking the airport. I know Atlanta is far south, but they are also higher in elevation than most cities along I-20. You would figure they would get a 6" snow more often than once every 30 years.

See, that's the deal.  The cutoff's are so sharp around here.  In 73 I was too far north for over a foot.  In 93 I was too far south.  You've got to luck out and be in the sweet spot.  That's why I've been teasing Candyman, because he has no idea how hard it is to get in the sweet spot in Ga.  Like now, no one knows where this is going.  Who gets the brass ring in Ga.  Delta? Candyman?  Shack?  Lookout, me you.  It's a crap shoot down here because there is never a wide spread foot for more than, what a 6th of the state?  It's a crap shoot on who get the cheese.  Poor Greg got sunny, earlier in the decade while I got 8 inches from that first ULL a few years back.  T

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HPC not buying NAM or GFS, going with 12zUK and Euro

 

Heh, they may be right, but that reminds me of Christmas 2010.......................

 

The GEFS Mean still looks good, though it is a little drier out this way.  No reason to freak out, though.  Verbatim, it's the biggest storm since 2010 and a lot colder than anything in years.  We have a long way to go.

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HPC not buying NAM or GFS, going with 12zUK and Euro

Really? This is their afternoon disco.

 

 

 

THE WPC

FORECAST DID NOT GIVE STRONG WEIGHTING TO THE NAM...WHICH WAS THE

SLOWEST AND MOST AMPLIFIED WITH THIS FEATURE...RESULTING IN

HEAVIER AMOUNTS ACROSS THE REGION. HOWEVER...ALSO DISCOUNTED THE

UKMET...WHICH WAS FLATTER AND MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN THE OTHER

MODELS. IN THE END GAVE THE MOST WEIGHT TO THE GFS...WHICH FELL

CLOSEST TO THE MIDDLE OF THE MODEL SPREAD AND WAS FURTHER

SUPPORTED BY SUBTLE SHIFTS IN THE UKMET/ECMWF TOWARD ITS SOLUTION.

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I wouldn't hang my hat on euro tonite bc if i am not mistaken its bias of hangin energy back in the sw may keep this further se (by holding back more of baja energy) for another cycle or so. Thou im not sure if that bias is still present inside 72 hrs. In short i would follow the gfs/gefs closer for next 12-24 hrs.

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The ens. mean matches up well with the 0z op.  Precip a little further west.

 

Around .75 to 1 inch of qpf for RDU...I'd say around .5 for CLT.

 

 

The ensemble support is just crazy, almost identical.

 

 

Yeah, but WRAL keeps saying east of Raleigh will have the biggest precip. OK, but if they get a foot of snow and Raleigh only gets 8 inches, that's still a big deal.

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