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Feb 8-10 Light snow event that i spent 10 days tracking


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We are saved by HM light:

 

From Henry Margusity

"I know the operational models have backed off the storm Sunday, but I don't buy it. I am seeing the NAO going to neutral and the PNA coming up to neutral which leads me to believe that as the trough digs in, there will be some phasing of the branches and a storm should develop along the coast. Patterns like this can bring surprises that the models do not see until within a day or so of the event. Look back on the Monday snow event. The models last week only shows a weak low running across the South with very little snow, but in the end, it turned out to be a major snowstorm for the parts of the Ohio Valley into the Northeast. So my point is don't let the model runs be the answer today. Watch and see what happens."          

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it's a good run

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you know it's getting tough when you have to sell a good run without 10 day leads. GFS is much colder and more suppressed obviously. But GEFS supports the front running wave that the euro has in which we actually get uncomplicated snow (on paper subject to 100's of changes yadayada).

EPS from last night also supports some sort of similar evolution.

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Some of that is bogus. Ice and rain verbatim around 180-192+. We lose 850's because of the gl low. But the front end from 150-174 looks solid on paper. About .5 liquid and all snow verbatim.

Ah, ok.

 

On another note...the CMC, GEFS and Euro all have some sort of low off the SC coast heading OTS...so there is a storm, just not where we want it.   

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Ah, ok.

On another note...the CMC, GEFS and Euro all have some sort of low off the SC coast heading OTS...so there is a storm, just not where we want it.

You mean for this weekend right? I saw the cmc but I never comment on it. All we can do is track stream interaction and amp in front of the lead wave. I'll laugh if we score something acceptable. It would hardly surprise me. I'm sure many have written it off entirely. I'd be happy with an inch or 2. I think I'm ok with that expectation at least. All but one GEFS member drops .1+ over the period.
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We are saved by HM light:

 

From Henry Margusity

"I know the operational models have backed off the storm Sunday, but I don't buy it. I am seeing the NAO going to neutral and the PNA coming up to neutral which leads me to believe that as the trough digs in, there will be some phasing of the branches and a storm should develop along the coast. Patterns like this can bring surprises that the models do not see until within a day or so of the event. Look back on the Monday snow event. The models last week only shows a weak low running across the South with very little snow, but in the end, it turned out to be a major snowstorm for the parts of the Ohio Valley into the Northeast. So my point is don't let the model runs be the answer today. Watch and see what happens."          

 

The issues that Bob, myself and others have talked about with the s/w are the main things to focus on here. The flaw in hm-light's logic is highlighted above. The first statement makes no sense. These things do not force the trough to dig if there are 3 different waves. Same thing applies for the second bold statement. Last Monday's snowstorm wasn't 3 different s/w interacting. It's not as easy as he is making it sound, even if the storm does trend back.

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You mean for this weekend right? I saw the cmc but I never comment on it. All we can do is track stream interaction and amp in front of the lead wave. I'll laugh if we score something acceptable. It would hardly surprise me. I'm sure many have written it off entirely. I'd be happy with an inch or 2. I think I'm ok with that expectation at least.

Nope, nowhere close to writing this one off...nobody should.   Again, it's all about checked expectations.   We did a full step down from yesterday...people have had enough time to adjust accordingly...goal now is 2 to 4, not a MECS

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The issues that Bob, myself and others have talked about with the s/w are the main things to focus on here. The flaw in hm-light's logic is highlighted above. The first statement makes no sense. These things do not force the trough to dig if there are 3 different waves. Same thing applies for the second bold statement. Last Monday's snowstorm wasn't 3 different s/w interacting. It's not as easy as he is making it sound, even if the storm does trend back.

:lol:

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The issues that Bob, myself and others have talked about with the s/w are the main things to focus on here. The flaw in hm-light's logic is highlighted above. The first statement makes no sense. These things do not force the trough to dig if there are 3 different waves. Same thing applies for the second bold statement. Last Monday's snowstorm wasn't 3 different s/w interacting. It's not as easy as he is making it sound, even if the storm does trend back.

Thanks and my deepest sympathies that you have to share initials with him.

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Thanks and my deepest sympathies that you have to share initials with him.

 

As luck would have it, I picked these two letters randomly for a username and then years later one of the more popular weather dummies comes along with hm as initials. Of course, I should have done my homework before finalizing the username in the first place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison

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As luck would have it, I picked these two letters randomly for a username and then years later one of the more popular weather dummies comes along with hm as initials. Of course, I should have done my homework before finalizing the username in the first place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison

:lol:  Boy you really hit the jackpot picking your username. Maybe you should think of changing it to Stillis.

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but we tracked the Feb 8-9 storm for 10 days for 5 flurries....you can understand the frustration. The best event was the Monday event which go the least hype from long range but we wasted 1.5 inches of qpf on 33 and rain. Its been just another frustrating winter and its tiresome

Worst part was if we looked at the first week of february temp and precip it would look just like the CFS2 that Mitch kept posting.  This is exactly how that can verify without actually cashing in on any snow in DC

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