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February 12-13 Storm, Part III: Trilogy ends and then Obs thread soon!

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Bob Chill

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This is no mar 2013 but the expanding death thump reminds me of that.. but that one mainly showed up in big fashion the night prior. Of course it failed.

I've been thinking about that. Refresh my memory. I've tried hard to forget. The Mar storm wasn't juiced from lp out of the gulf right? Mostly ns vort driven right?

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usedtobe

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QPF? Yeah. General idea of the storm, higher, IMO.

I don't know about  the 1.75 on the high res version but think we see more than 1.00 and might see 1.25 though I'm not sure it will be distributed the same as the model has forecast it.  I still don't know what to make of the differences in tracks between the models.  I suspect that the Euro is too far west but wouldn't be surprised to see both u.S. models jog west at 06Z. 

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I've been thinking about that. Refresh my memory. I've tried hard to forget. The Mar storm wasn't juiced from lp out of the gulf right? Mostly ns vort driven right?

Yeah, it was a monster closed 500 low that dove in out of the Dakotas.

 

Recency bias sucks here since almost every storm busted recently.

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anyone know if the additional drops gets into all the models worldwide or just ncep stuff?

They get sent over the GTS so they get used by all the operational centers. 

 

By the way, we now have two comprehensive studies showing that these have minimal impact in both a mean, statistical sense and for individual, targeted events for current, state of the art DA/NWP systems.  As Ian said in other posts, more data is obviously better (particularly the wind profiles we get from drops)....but it is really hard to justify the cost.

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This is no mar 2013 but the expanding death thump reminds me of that.. but that one mainly showed up in big fashion the night prior. Of course it failed.

I think what a lot forget though about before 3/13 were the tortured analyses of the boundary layer. 3/13 was not a slam dunk by any stretch, and the relentless posting of skew-T's over 2 days for winter storm confirmed that. Almost everyone went glass half full because the 0Z runs got better, but the Euro was still not the bomb the other models showed.

It was a completely marginal situation that everyone went optimistic for.... Not a good comparison to this storm.

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They get sent over the GTS so they get used by all the operational centers. 

 

By the way, we now have two comprehensive studies showing that these have minimal impact in both a mean, statistical sense and for individual, targeted events for current, state of the art DA/NWP systems.  As Ian said in other posts, more data is obviously better (particularly the wind profiles we get from drops)....but it is really hard to justify the cost.

 

You would think it is a relatively old technology compared to the satellites we have up there.

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They get sent over the GTS so they get used by all the operational centers. 

 

By the way, we now have two comprehensive studies showing that these have minimal impact in both a mean, statistical sense and for individual, targeted events for current, state of the art DA/NWP systems.  As Ian said in other posts, more data is obviously better (particularly the wind profiles we get from drops)....but it is really hard to justify the cost.

thx for the info

so tell us the truth....did you feed the NAM to DT right before run time?....come on, you can tell us

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usedtobe

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I don't understand, everyone gets a WWW and Calvert gets a WWA?  I guess there will be a lot of mixing there/rain so that keeps totals incredibly low?  Cause if you go off the 00z NAM, calvert gets a lot of QPF.  Am I right with this?  Will only 3-5 inches predicted off of  1.2-1.5 QPF, must mean they will be above freezing very quickly.  Im just trying to understand this better, thats all.

I'm sure they were spooked by how quickly the 18Z GfS warmed the 850 temps.     This is the type of storm where there could be a big different north to south across the county.  If the NAM is right, we'll end up with warning criteria snow, if the GFS is right we won't. It's not worth worrying about.

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You will be happy...I believe the SREF uses the GFS for boundary conditions...it doesn't have its own assimilation system.

It uses multiple sets of initial conditions (one batch GFS, one batch NAM, one batch RAP), with perturbations on top of that....and I believe it actually uses GEFS (not GFS) boundary conditions.  Since it is offset by 3 hours, the 21z SREF is effectively initialized from the 18z cycles (though again with perturbed "ICs")

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SLPressure

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I give the 0z NAM a credibility level of 3 out of 10

Does that translate to a 30% chance of verification or is that not what you are saying?

Just trying to assess the weight of the NAM after all the bashing it takes (not that it doesn't deserve it?) and we are now supposedly within it's "wheelhouse".

And so I ask because as one of the most respected voices on this forum, your opinion is highly regarded.

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I think what a lot forget though about before 3/13 were the tortured analyses of the boundary layer. 3/13 was not a slam dunk by any stretch, and the relentless posting of skew-T's over 2 days for winter storm confirmed that. Almost everyone went glass half full because the 0Z runs got better, but the Euro was still not the bomb the other models showed.

It was a completely marginal situation that everyone went optimistic for.... Not a good comparison to this storm.

 

agreed...I posted about it before...it was in the low 50s the day before...when the precip started we were 41/34.....and it was march!....Was just talking with Orhwxman and he thinks low level warmth may be overdone...that sleet/ice might be more common than rain with this storm if we flip from snow

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I'm sorry if I've completely missed the joke, but how the heck does WxBell calculate their snow maps?  It's like they completely ignore the rain/snow line.  Look at the totals they produced from this NAM run on the shore and in southern Maryland!

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Bob Chill

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Yeah, it was a monster closed 500 low that dove in out of the Dakotas.

Recency bias sucks here since almost every storm busted recently.

True on that. One thing in the back of my mind here is the majority of storms since Nov wirh gulf moisture transport have trended wetter at short leads or overperformed. Not saying I think that is the case here but I'm encouraged for possible upside on the front end. We'll see.

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I don't buy the weak CCB from the NAM... nor do I buy the weaker H5... nevertheless... still an awesome run... I think there is upside potential from the CCB....and I think models were missing it. CCB was being squashed by convection earlier in the day... that is gone on the 0Z NAM... telling what the rest of the suite brings... 0Z brought back some of the CCB potential at the very end.

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