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January 2016 Discussion


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Right. Although January and February has always been more up in the air. El Nino usually has its biggest warm impact in December.

For those who like just a few good snowstorms or winter blasts, there is TONS of time left. For those of us who enjoy winter for the long season it is, no matter how severe the winter ends up, or how many good snowstorms the region gets (I'm sure there will at least be several more) the time lost from Dec cannot be made up
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Right. Although January and February has always been more up in the air. El Nino usually has its biggest warm impact in December.

Yeah, my worry is like I mentioned doing the warm/wet cold/dry flip over and over. I mean it is fine for lake belts but put this way it isn't good.
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I think the LE for around these parts may be non-existent unfortunately. SW Michigan looks to be in a great spot.

 

 

I'd be shocked if there's not minor amounts.  Hoping that the convergence axis can shift westward faster than progged but not too optimistic about that.

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First post on the site! 11:20 am update from Lonnie Fisher of IWX:

ISSUED AT 1120 AM EST SUN JAN 3 2016

COLDER AIR QUICKLY SLIDING SOUTH ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES WITH LAKE

RESPONSE WELL UNDERWAY ACROSS LK MI. 2 DOMINANT BANDS APPEAR TO BE

TAKING SHAPE WITH THE FIRST EAST OF MARQUETTE MI TO JUST WEST OF

SOUTH HAVEN AND NOW ENTERING PORTIONS OF BERRIEN COUNTY. 2ND

STRONGER BAND WAS LOCATED ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES EAST OF THE FIRST

BAND WELL INLAND AND BASED ON UPSTREAM TRENDS MAY BECOME THE

DOMINANT BAND AT LEAST FOR THE AFTERNOON. SEVERAL HI RES MODELS

POINT TOWARDS THIS SCENARIO AS WELL...WHICH COULD REQUIRE A

DRASTIC MODIFICATION IN CURRENT GRIDS TO EXPAND HIGHER POPS AND

ACCUMS FURTHER EAST WITH POTENTIAL NEED TO EXPAND HEADLINES AS

WELL.

MAIN SHOW STILL RESIDING TONIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING WHEN SOME

LOCATIONS COULD SEE SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW WITH DECENT INLAND

PENETRATION AS MODELS BEGINNING TO STRONGLY SUGGEST A MESO LOW

SETUP THAT COULD SEND A ROBUST BAND INTO THE CURRENT ADVISORY AREA

AND CAUSE HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS THAN CURRENTLY FORECASTED. WILL

MONITOR TRENDS IN UPSTREAM EVOLUTION AND RE-EVALUATE WITH

AFTERNOON PACKAGE.

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First post on the site! 11:20 am update from Lonnie Fisher of IWX:

ISSUED AT 1120 AM EST SUN JAN 3 2016

COLDER AIR QUICKLY SLIDING SOUTH ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES WITH LAKE

RESPONSE WELL UNDERWAY ACROSS LK MI. 2 DOMINANT BANDS APPEAR TO BE

TAKING SHAPE WITH THE FIRST EAST OF MARQUETTE MI TO JUST WEST OF

SOUTH HAVEN AND NOW ENTERING PORTIONS OF BERRIEN COUNTY. 2ND

STRONGER BAND WAS LOCATED ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES EAST OF THE FIRST

BAND WELL INLAND AND BASED ON UPSTREAM TRENDS MAY BECOME THE

DOMINANT BAND AT LEAST FOR THE AFTERNOON. SEVERAL HI RES MODELS

POINT TOWARDS THIS SCENARIO AS WELL...WHICH COULD REQUIRE A

DRASTIC MODIFICATION IN CURRENT GRIDS TO EXPAND HIGHER POPS AND

ACCUMS FURTHER EAST WITH POTENTIAL NEED TO EXPAND HEADLINES AS

WELL.

MAIN SHOW STILL RESIDING TONIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING WHEN SOME

LOCATIONS COULD SEE SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW WITH DECENT INLAND

PENETRATION AS MODELS BEGINNING TO STRONGLY SUGGEST A MESO LOW

SETUP THAT COULD SEND A ROBUST BAND INTO THE CURRENT ADVISORY AREA

AND CAUSE HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS THAN CURRENTLY FORECASTED. WILL

MONITOR TRENDS IN UPSTREAM EVOLUTION AND RE-EVALUATE WITH

AFTERNOON PACKAGE.

 

Welcome. It's nice to have another poster in the IWX area and more specifically on my side of the state.  You should be in good shape to pick up a few inches before the band shifts west.

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Cold air is marginal (especially near the surface) but it's a start. 

 

Still has the cutter prior to that.

 

 

i posted the wxbell snowfall map in the other thread.   Even wxbell couldn't do anything with it (snow-wise)

 

To be fair, wxbell maps are based on surface temps being below freezing.

 

So of course if the EURO is slightly above freezing at the surface, those wxbell maps won't show much snow.

 

Either way, at this time frame, a marginal solution like that is workable enough for me. The kinks with precipitation type and temps can be worked out as the storm's time frame gets closer. 

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To be fair, wxbell maps are based on surface temps being below freezing.

 

So of course if the EURO is slightly above freezing at the surface, those wxbell maps won't show much snow.

 

Either way, at this time frame, a marginal solution like that is workable enough for me. The kinks with precipitation type and temps can be worked out as the storm's time frame gets closer. 

 

That track has changed dramatically from run to run since the 'storm' showed up a couple days ago.   I have a feeling we won't know anything until that first storm is figured out and what kind of parameters it ends up leaving for storm 2, (assuming there is a storm 2).  

Seems odd that storm 1 wouldn't pull the cold air and baroclinic zone further southeast....but who knows.

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I think the LE for around these parts may be non-existent unfortunately. SW Michigan looks to be in a great spot.

 

You are down there around Midway right? I think you'll get some snow in that area.

NMM one of the more bullish models.

Nice little 1"+ area over Kenosha.

 

wrf-nmm_asnow_ncus_48.png

 

 

 

Sweet looking maps Powerball!

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That track has changed dramatically from run to run since the 'storm' showed up a couple days ago.   I have a feeling we won't know anything until that first storm is figured out and what kind of parameters it ends up leaving for storm 2, (assuming there is a storm 2).  

Seems odd that storm 1 wouldn't pull the cold air and baroclinic zone further southeast....but who knows.

 

 

There are a lot of moving parts at play. If a bit more in the way of wavelength occurs between #1 and #2 (thus we end up with more east-based blocking vs. west-based), I could see the EURO's solution or something that's even stronger and further NW happen. But with the uber-progressive flow we've been stuck with, I doubt this scenario happens.

 

That said, with the uber-progressive flow we've been stuck with, I doubt the above scenario happens. So I'm still leaning towards a suppressed solution for that wave. 

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