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Winter Med Range Discussion days 3-10 pbp II


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It took a noteworthy jog south from its 06z run, and matches with GFS Op trend from 06z to 12z...i.e. ridge out west is slightly more east (doesn't allow for quites as much amped ridging and warming in the southeast) and sfc high over the NE is slightly more west thru its progression

 

It's also much faster.

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Dont jinx me like that, chris!

well if I end up getting screwed, you bet I will try :devilsmiley::D

 

Seriously though, with the precip amounts the canadian is spitting out I would welcome a change to rain instead of that being all ice. Not sure of the exact depth of the surface cold layer but Maybe you would end up being saved by sleet but the upstate for sure would be crushed.

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I think the blocking over the top that is setting up is really helping...

 

I agree - and the more the noreaster strengthens the stronger the downstream blocking. If the trend continues, I would think this would continue to slow and strengthen the high pressure to the north of Tuesdays storm

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The trend is great on the GFS, but I think it still doesn't get it done with it's track and how fast the high moves out so quick (for more than a mix to rain).  The CMC (below) keeps the high in better wedgy placement to keep the storm going cold throughout, but it keeps the wedge although the high is gone too...which I'm not sure I believe.  I'm also concerned that the UK ticked north on the last run.  Still very skeptical of this storm.  But if by tomorrow things continue to tick south and the High stays longer in the NE, then maybe we're looking at more than just a mix to rain deal in CLT. 

 

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Why Chris, Why would you curse us.. :)

 

However, starting to look Tasty....

:devilsmiley:

 

That's something I'll be watching closely. You nailed the Jan event last year imby, while I was expecting more ice than snow/ip.  As it stands now(verbatim) mby is a chilly rain/warm rain/rnsn to end   ;)

the 0z canadian had columbia sitting at 33 with a dp of 6 below zero at hour 120 based on soundings. (can't go further than that and haven't seen the 12z run yet). So I don't think there is a period of snow/sleet/freezing rain for a time where you are. That said, as jeremy just mentioned you might end up with a shot of severe weather before it's over LOL

 

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One thing I noticed on the 12z GGEM for the midlands of SC on hour 138, it has KCAE at 62, KCUB at 50 and 64 at KMMT. 

An incredible temperature gradient for sure by tuesday afternoon/night. Just south of columbia it's damn near 70 while just north of columbia it's still below freezing. About a degree per mile maybe?

 

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. :devilsmiley:

 

 

the 0z canadian had columbia sitting at 33 with a dp of 6 below zero at hour 120 based on soundings. (can't go further than that and haven't seen the 12z run yet). So I don't think there is a period of snow/sleet/freezing rain for a time where you are. That said, as jeremy just mentioned you might end up with a shot of severe weather before it's over LOL

 

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An incredible temperature gradient for sure by tuesday afternoon/night. Just south of columbia it's damn near 70 while just north of columbia it's still below freezing. About a degree per mile maybe?

 

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Camden is at 36, which is about 30 miles NE of CUB.

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The trend is great on the GFS, but I think it still doesn't get it done with it's track and how fast the high moves out so quick (for more than a mix to rain).  The CMC (below) keeps the high in better wedgy placement to keep the storm going cold throughout, but it keeps the wedge although the high is gone too...which I'm not sure I believe.  I'm also concerned that the UK ticked north on the last run.  Still very skeptical of this storm.  But if by tomorrow things continue to tick south and the High stays longer in the NE, then maybe we're looking at more than just a mix to rain deal in CLT.

 

I sure would like to see the kind of storm that you aren't skeptical about.  It would be a goodun.  This is 3-4 days out, so yeah, this could go back well north for all we know.

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One thing I noticed on the 12z GGEM for the midlands of SC on hour 138, it has KCAE at 62, KCUB at 50 and 64 at KMMT. 

I remember one instance where CAE was in the 60's with thunderstorms and CLT was 32 with freezing rain.

 

One thing I'm really liking is the lower 10's and single digit dewpoints right before precip onset. Reminds me of the airmasses before some if the big frz rain sleet storms we got around here during the 95-96 winter. It will take a little more time to moisten the lower levels however.

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:devilsmiley:

 

the 0z canadian had columbia sitting at 33 with a dp of 6 below zero at hour 120 based on soundings. (can't go further than that and haven't seen the 12z run yet). So I don't think it's all rain where you are for sure. That said, as jeremy just mentioned you might end up with a shot of severe weather before it's over..check out the surface temps LOL

 

An incredible temperature gradient for sure by tuesday afternoon/night. Just south of columbia it's damn near 70 while just north of columbia it's still below freezing. About a degree per mile maybe?

 

 

 

Exactly.  And that temp pic shows the timeframe when the High has already scooted off the coast.  But somehow that wedge is still strong.  I don't buy that. 

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I sure would like to see the kind of storm that you aren't skeptical about.  It would be a goodun.  This is 3-4 days out, so yeah, this could go back well north for all we know.

 

lol.  I felt GREAT about the superbowl storm.  Didn't work out so well.  I thought that had a lot more going for it than this does....most likely I'm just wrong!

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I remember one instance where CAE was in the 60's with thunderstorms and CLT was 32 with freezing rain.

 

One thing I'm really liking is the lower 10's and single digit dewpoints right before precip onset. Reminds me of the airmasses before some if the big frz rain sleet storms we got around here during the 95-96 winter. It will take a little more time to moisten the lower levels however.

 

I dont know if you remember this event but December 2000 had this huge warm front that pushed CLT up to 62 degrees. The front never made it to Gastonia which remained in the 30's. Pretty cool event. 

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:devilsmiley:

 

the 0z canadian had columbia sitting at 33 with a dp of 6 below zero at hour 120 based on soundings. (can't go further than that and haven't seen the 12z run yet). So I don't think there is a period of snow/sleet/freezing rain for a time where you are. That said, as jeremy just mentioned you might end up with a shot of severe weather before it's over LOL

 

 

 

An incredible temperature gradient for sure by tuesday afternoon/night. Just south of columbia it's damn near 70 while just north of columbia it's still below freezing. About a degree per mile maybe?

 

 

I was looking at the gfs. The canadian is just a couple of degrees cooler at the onset with a much lower dp  :D   It would be the work of the portals, that mby would be in the 70's while 30 miles just to my north and west, frozen precip is falling....sigh

 

I remember one instance where CAE was in the 60's with thunderstorms and CLT was 32 with freezing rain.

 

One thing I'm really liking is the lower 10's and single digit dewpoints right before precip onset. Reminds me of the airmasses before some if the big frz rain sleet storms we got around here during the 95-96 winter. It will take a little more time to moisten the lower levels however.

I do too....early 2000's and I'm thinking 04 or 05? Anywho....it's nice to see a bone being thrown out to the se peeps before winter is over   :)

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I was looking at the gfs. The canadian is just a couple of degrees cooler at the onset with a much lower dp   :D   It would be the work of the portals, that mby would be in the 70's while 30 miles just to my north and west, frozen precip is falling....sigh

 

I do too....early 2000's and I'm thinking 04 or 05? Anywho....it's nice to see a bone being thrown out to the se peeps before winter is over   :)

On the contrary neighbor... :D It's not much but the gfs throws you a small bone lol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 GFS Model Run: 12Z FEB 12, 2015                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 Forecast Hours:    0hr    6hr   12hr   18hr   24hr   30hr   36hr   42hr   48hr   54hr   60hr   66hr   72hr   78hr   84hr   90hr   96hr  102hr  108hr  114hr  120hr                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Sfc Prs(mb):    1003.7 1002.5 1009.5 1014.2 1015.6 1016.1 1013.8 1012.8 1011.3 1007.1 1004.2 1007.4 1015.8 1017.4 1017.3 1018.2 1018.0 1016.5 1014.8 1012.6 1007.9                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Mean SLP (mb):  1013.1 1011.7 1018.7 1023.8 1025.5 1025.4 1023.2 1022.5 1021.0 1016.6 1013.2 1016.7 1025.6 1027.2 1026.9 1028.0 1027.8 1026.2 1024.6 1022.2 1017.2                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 2m agl Tmp (F):   42.3   57.5   36.7   29.2   28.5   40.8   35.3   31.9   30.5   50.4   47.2   39.7   24.7   36.2   31.7   30.0   27.2   40.8   38.1   31.2   33.0                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 2m AGL Dewpt(F):  41.2   39.0   16.5   13.6   10.9    4.7   12.7   15.6   14.1   25.0   33.1   30.9    2.4   -3.0    3.0    1.0   -1.3    5.8   21.4   26.7   32.1                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 2m agl RH (%):      96     49     43     52     47     22     39     50     50     36     57     70     38     18     29     28     29     23     50     83     96                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 10m agl W  Dir:    280    284    341     14      3    334    195    203    241    245    250    307     42    360     60    103     95    139     67     75     74                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 10m agl Spd(kt):     6     15     18      7      6      2      6      7      7     17     14      9     11      8      6      7      7      5      4      8      9                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 6hr Precip (in):  0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.02   0.03   0.29                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 AccumPrecip(in):  0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.02   0.05   0.34                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 6hr CPrecip (in)  0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00   0.00                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Precip H20 (in):   0.5    0.3    0.1    0.1    0.2    0.2    0.3    0.3    0.3    0.3    0.5    0.3    0.2    0.3    0.3    0.5    0.5    0.6    0.7    0.8    1.0                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Sfc LI      (C):  14.0    9.7   23.9   28.0   26.7   22.6   22.3   24.2   25.6   15.0   14.8   19.1   33.2   31.6   30.5   30.9   31.9   26.1   23.2   27.0   25.4                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 700mb VV(-ub/s):  -0.9   -1.3   -9.4   -0.1   -2.1   -2.6   -3.6   -3.7   -1.9   -1.4   -1.8    2.9   -1.3   -5.1   -1.4   -2.8    0.3   -1.5   -2.2   -0.2    1.1                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Thk1000-500mb(m)5513.2 5481.4 5418.1 5388.7 5342.7 5315.5 5347.0 5372.0 5405.0 5434.1 5476.6 5452.7 5390.3 5399.5 5413.8 5406.3 5405.9 5418.9 5433.5 5452.8 5481.8                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Thk1000-850mb(m)1347.6 1334.0 1289.2 1270.6 1273.8 1279.8 1292.1 1295.7 1299.3 1316.5 1330.4 1305.2 1265.2 1269.6 1280.9 1275.1 1277.3 1289.0 1302.8 1311.6 1320.5                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Thk850-700mb(m):1568.6 1561.5 1524.6 1534.7 1518.6 1505.6 1509.8 1520.5 1530.5 1549.2 1551.1 1552.0 1536.7 1535.9 1538.7 1545.4 1543.9 1543.9 1544.5 1547.6 1553.5                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Apparent Tmp(F):    38     57     26     21     21     40     30     24     23     50     41     33     13     29     25     22     19     37     34     23     25                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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I was looking at the gfs. The canadian is just a couple of degrees cooler at the onset with a much lower dp  :D   It would be the work of the portals, that mby would be in the 70's while 30 miles just to my north and west, frozen precip is falling....sigh

 

I do too....early 2000's and I'm thinking 04 or 05? Anywho....it's nice to see a bone being thrown out to the se peeps before winter is over   :)

1/19/02 had a crazy temperature gradient. I was going to Charlotte that day and in Columbia it was 70 while in Fort Mill it was 33/32. We had ice in Concord that day.

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