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March Madness 03/03/2014 -------> The EURO abides


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I'd still shade MOS 75/25 at least.  The op run is flopping around like crazy.  -6 for the coldest low at DCA next week on the 00z run (which is absurd) to +8 on the 06z.

Yeah, that's probably a reasonable split.  But if we get a clear, calm night with fresh snowpack and an arctic airmass...

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I have not looked as much at this in previous GFS cycles (other than the PV)...at least not the jet features you're talking about...but is this a significant change in the GFS's "look", or has it been wavering back and forth on that?  I do recall the other day the GFS had a cycle that gave us a similar scenario, ice/sleet to a snowstorm, but that was in two waves.  Those plots would be gone by now (at least on NCEP's site), so don't recall exactly what the PV or jet structure was doing in that case.  I'd suspect kind of similar, except instead of two waves it's now more consolidated as you say.

The quick and dirty is this:

1. Older/colder solutions didn't have the British Columbia PV sitting there. This ended up incorrect and then models adjusted warmer.

2. Then, the warmest solutions had a more elongated Quebec low that kept confluence less assertive and jet streak weaker. This led to a strung-out, long duration precipitation. This is looking less correct.

3. Now, the Quebec low has trended more consolidated/more assertive, quickly pushing cold air at all levels SE. This tightens gradients, increases jet streak, cold air advection and heavier precip. But this also ends things quicker.

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We are in the Euro's wheelhouse...no reason to take the .235 hitters too seriously when we have a guy with a 1.14 OPS coming up...

 

Yeah, but we need the .235 hitters to walk or get on base by scratching out a couple of hits...and then hopefully have the Euro slam one into the upper deck for a grand slam!

 

(Funny, baseball analogy talk for a winter event, the irony isn't lost!)

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The quick and dirty is this:

1. Older/colder solutions didn't have the British Columbia PV sitting there. This ended up incorrect and then models adjusted warmer.

2. Then, the warmest solutions had a more elongated Quebec low that kept confluence less assertive and jet streak weaker. This led to a strung-out, long duration precipitation. This is looking less correct.

3. Now, the Quebec low has trended more consolidated/more assertive, quickly pushing cold air at all levels SE. This tightens gradients, increases jet streak, cold air advection and heavier precip. But this also ends things quicker.

 

Thanks, appreciate the good summary/recap on that!

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Thanks, appreciate the good summary/recap on that!

 

No problem. Trying to isolate true signals from noise is difficult with multivariables. Then, you have to try to anticipate future changes, being that we are still a few days out. Could the Quebec assertive PV continue to trend stronger? Could the Pacific wave continue to trend stronger? Very difficult stuff, as usual, and all relies on what occurs up in Canada, really.

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We are in the Euro's wheelhouse...no reason to take the .235 hitters too seriously when we have a guy with a 1.14 OPS coming up...

That 1.14 ops only means a little more than a single per plate appearance.  It doesn't mean he's going yard every time.

 

LOL

 

People over on the NYC sub-forum are thinking that the 12z GFS was a fluke. Thoughts?

Why?  It screw them?

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