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March 5th Snow Threat


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Last March, for the March 2-3 event, there wasn't much on the ground early in the morning but we got banded for a few hours after that.  Ended up with around 5" where I'm at.  It was in the low-mid 20s even in the afternoon.  The tricky thing with that event last year was the tight QPF gradient, as I recall.

 

Then there was also March 1-2, 2009...change to snow pre-dawn, not much at first, but some good bands went through in the morning.  I recall that it stayed in the 20s all day for that one as well.

I get your point about the temps during the morning, but 3/1-2/09 was snow from the previous evening onwards-- it just didn't stick well at first in the places where it wasn't coming down hard. 

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I suggested he add a way to choose your own snow ratio. Imagine the maps. :D

 

But yes to Bob.. it's worth having all year at this point and Ryan adds new stuff constantly. 

thats like asking an alcoholic to choose his own ABC store

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Weatherbell is the gold standard, especially if you want to give your hard earned money to right wing deniers.  

Ryan may be slightly biased but he generally has a good deal of science in his corner when so. The others.. no comment. 

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I get your point about the temps during the morning, but 3/1-2/09 was snow from the previous evening onwards-- it just didn't stick well at first in the places where it wasn't coming down hard. 

 

Ah, good point.  I couldn't recall all the details, but now that you mention that...I seem to remember there were a lot of closures announced the night of the 1st.  Woke up thinking it was a huge bust because there wasn't much on the ground, then *bam!*, we got banded.  I was only mentioning that event and the one from last March because they were kind of similar in how remarkably cold it stayed throughout the daylight hours (in the 20s).  Could thrown in St. Pat's day from last year too, though it wasn't quite as cold (but it was 2 weeks later, so still remarkable!).

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Looking forward to watches going up tomorrow with the afternoon afd. I suppose technically they could go up in the morning.

That would be awesome to get a +36 hour lead on a Winter Storm Watch... seems like they have been waiting longer than that this year.

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It's weird because WxBell shows a 13" jackpot in central Kentucky, but EuroWx shows a large portion of the state 15"+.

 

I would go with WxBell on this one.

 

I think WB uses 10:1 ratios while EuroWx tries to account for ratios (thus showing higher totals in this case).  In this case, I guess it thinks greater than 10:1 ratios will occur in Kentucky/West Virginia, though I'd have my doubts as betting on ratios usually doesn't work out well.

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