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Steve

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lol...dude you must be a go big or go home kinda guy...hell I'd be happy knowing what the 4" shift requirements are :lol:

12z NAM - 45 miles

00z EUR - 45 miles

12z GFS - 92 miles

12z GEM - 75 miles

Again the 4" line could potentially be 8" if 20:1 ratios were involved. And I'd think it'd be close to cold enough.

But yea I kinda am. Not a lot you can do with 4" or at least that's what my wife says. Wait.. maybe she isn't speaking of snow... lol..

But seriously takes at least 6 to ride a snowmobile lol

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12z NAM - 45 miles

00z EUR - 45 miles

12z GFS - 92 miles

12z GEM - 75 miles

Again the 4" line could potentially be 8" if 20:1 ratios were involved. And I'd think it'd be close to cold enough.

 

Cold doesn't guarantee good ratios as we saw with that January clipper.  Plus, we don't know how much dry air is going to eat into totals on the northern end.  For all we know, it could take a couple of hours to moisten up. 

 

I think we need at least a 50 mile northern movement before I'll become more comfortable as to our chances at something over 4" (3.9" is this winter's big storm... in November).  This winter has handed out 12"+ storms like they're Cracker Jack prizes... to everyone at or above I-80. 

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That's my worry and it's another reason to root for a more northern system.  Being on the edge of the returns will be almost as bad as a whiff to the south.... worse even.

 

I guess it's a personal preference.  Rainers always bug we worse than southern suppressors.  There's just nothing worse than having cold interrupted long enough to rain, and then cold sweeping back in.  

But yea, either way it sucks.

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I guess it's a personal preference. Rainers always bug we worse than southern suppressors. There's just nothing worse than having cold interrupted long enough to rain, and then cold sweeping back in.

But yea, either way it sucks.

Funny how when we neex climatalogy to kick in we can't get it. KY getting slammed instead of further north
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this is the euro....painstakingly close.  You can see once it gets almost to TN...it jumps east but has an inverted trough into WV.   We need a stronger storm to come further north before that jump.... literally we are talking such a small adjustment.   I remember with SB, the euro was locked in with the axis of heaviest around Mansfield at this time frame.  There were also two back to back identical runs.  I can't recall if the euro ever depicted the Chicago to Detroit slamming outside of 24 hrs.

 

Anyways, there will be lots of radar hallucinations.  I'm sure radar will look better than what's happening on the ground if the euro's version holds.

 

 

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My moment of positivity is quickly evaporating.  It's going to end up where every location in every state around us has had at least one decent storm except us.  Climo continues to win. 

 

that's not climo....that's sh*t luck lol.   Climo isn't Lexington getting a bigger storm than CMH.... likewise climo isn't IND, (worse off than us), still at single digit snowfall totals.

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that's not climo....that's sh*t luck lol.   Climo isn't Lexington getting a bigger storm than CMH.... likewise climo isn't IND, (worse off than us), still at single digit snowfall totals.

 

I meant the climo I started talking about in December and winters that follow such terrible Decembers.  Apparently, it's not that bad anywhere else, but for I-70... yeah, it's working out pretty much how those other winters went, except maybe colder.

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The northern edge of the precip shield should do well with this.  Others have mentioned concerns with virga, but both the NAM and GFS are showing a deep saturated DGZ on the northern edge of the system, basically from the sfc to 500mb.  This is the type of system the will over perform on the northern edge, as long as convective issues to the south don't interfere with deep moisture transport.  That combined with well below freezing surface temps should allow anything that falls to accumulate quickly.  I'm optimistic enough to go with the higher end of the range for southern Ohio, and I'd still not rule out the trend for a more wound-up storm slightly further north.  I wouldn't be surprised the axis of the heaviest snows to be on more ENE (more parallel to the Ohio River) than E to W as modeling is currently showing, with a storm that digs more north and then transfers.  There is even some jet-coupling that should enhance lift.  There are definitely signals showing the possibility of a northerly tic, but I don't know what to expect out of the modeling this winter, to be honest.   

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sometimes you just have to laugh. It always seems we are either dissecting the advancement of the 0 850 line or dissecting the northern edge of the precip shield....

What's frustrating is if you look at just the 27hour map, it looks like we're about to get clocked. But it just squirts off to the east. So very close.

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