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Christmas Storm III


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Yep, FFC still following the GFS. FWIW, I currently have almost all of the southeast forecast, AFD's, and HWO's from each forecast office, all in one place for easy reference. If you go to my home page, on the top menu, click on Forecast, Forecast Products, and go to the state and forecast office from there. The forecast page also has the corresponding links to the respective AFD and HWO. I should have the rest of them finished in a hour or so.

LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LONG TERM. LARGE MODEL DIFFERENCES WITH THE NEXT SYSTEM PROGGED TO MOVE THROUGH THE CWA. GFS SHOWS THE LOW TRACKING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA FRIDAY NIGHT AND CLEARS THE CWA OUT PRECIP WISE BY SATURDAY EXCEPT FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THIS SOLUTION WOULD HOLD THE BULK OF ANY WINTER WEATHER PRECIP TO THE NORTH OF US...HOWEVER THE THICKNESSES SUGGEST EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA COULD STILL SEE A DUSTING OF SNOW. THE ECMWF SOLUTION IS QUITE DIFFERENT THOUGH. THIS SLOWER SOLUTION TRACKS THE LOW SOUTH OF THE CWA ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE SATURDAY NIGHT. IF THIS WERE TO PAN OUT...A WINTER WEATHER SITUATION COULD SET UP ACROSS THE CWA. CURRENT FORECAST LEANS TOWARD GFS SOLUTION BUT THIS WILL CONTINUALLY NEED TO BE RE- EVALUATED AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL SEE SOME CONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE MODELS SOON.

Typical- FFC and some other offices are the "anti Bastardis"- while he will always pick the most extreme model, FFC will invariably be super conservative.

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Yep eventhough the L doesn't show up on Twisterdata's graphics you can tell at 84 hours it is definitely forming on the SW coast of LA near the TX line. The wind field in the model has it somewhat elongated but the general gist is it is there any nicely to the south. All in all probably not a bad run.

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AREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN250 PM CST TUE DEC 21 2010.DISCUSSION...CURRENT...CLOUDY DAY BUT RATHER MILD WITH TEMPS IN 40S N TO 50S S.WMFNT HAS MOVED N ACROSS CWA DURING DAY. HAS BEEN SOME VERY LITERAIN E 1/2.WEAK LO PRES OVER CNTRL AR MAKING SLOW PROGRESS E. EXPECTING ACHANCE OF LITE RN TONITE...MAINLY E 1/2...AS LO HEADS INTO TNVLY.STRONG HI PRES (1035 MB) OVER UPPER DAKOTAS AND MN WILL PROVIDEBAROCLINIC IMPETUS FOR SYSTEM EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SRN STATESBY FRI. ONSET SLOWER AND HAVE LOWERED POPS FOR FRI. MODELS INFAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT...EXCEPT FOR NAM...KEEPING OUR HOPES ALIVEFOR A WHITE XMAS. BEST PERIOD OF MEASURABLE SN WILL BE XMASEVE...AND GFS GIVES .3 QPF AROUND BNA...EXPANDING E INTO PLATEAUBY MIDNITE. THIS WOULD BE ADVISORY CRITERIA AT LEAST...AND 4INCHES NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION IF GFS RIGHT. FLY IN OINTMENT...12ZEURO HAS LO EVEN FURTHER S THAN B4 AND DELAYS START OF PRECIPSOME...WITH BEST CHANCE OF SN SAT. SO...STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY BUTPLENTY OF TIME TO MAKE BETTER DETERMINATION.BACKLASH SNOW WILL LINGER INTO SUN...AN EVEN MON...AS LO MOVESALONG ATLC COAST. LITE ADDITIONAL ACCUMLATION LIKELY...ESECIALLY E 1/2. [/font]QUITE COLD INTO TUE.]
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No way I'm reading through 13 pages of a 'new' thread! :) GSP is already drawing battle lines. Gotta love it!!

AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT AREASALONG AND SOUTH OF I-85 WILL BE THE LAST TO CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOWAND COULD HANG ON TO RAIN OR A RAIN/SNOW MIX THE LONGEST. THE BOTTOMLINE OF ALL THIS...THE POTENTIAL FOR MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOWFALLRATES WITH SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS THE FA ISINCREASING
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You know FFC had to breath a sigh of relief when the GFS came out. They were dreading having to mention snow this far out. Once all of the models agree they will have no choice. Also, can someone tell me if this is an overnight thing for GA.

Early morning, last I heard.

Yeah, it is early days. I kind of thought the FFC reading was ok. I mean, climo says there is mostly no way this happens, and without full agreement yet on the models, what can they say? If you take the mean, the low crosses Ga. somewhere, and that usually, 8 or 9 times out of ten says No right there. I'd be way cautious too, until Thur. or the goofy comes on board. This is Ga.... Snow on Christmas won't happen but once in a bunch of years if you go by history. They have me at 38 and rain and that will be right a million times out of a million and ten...and back end flurries for you would be right most times to, lol. But every once in a long, long while the drunk squirrel catches the unicorn, so maybe they will change come Thur. Hope so! T

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Bmx starting to come on board....

This afternoon's disco.

.LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

UPPER FLOW PATTERN WILL UNDERGO AMPLIFICATION OVER THE WEEKEND

WITH A BIG TROF DIGGING SOUTHWARD OVER THE EASTERN UNITED STATES.

AN SHORT WAVE TROF WILL DROP THROUGH THE BASE OF THE UPPER TROF

FRIDAY NIGHT. THE GFS AND ECMWF MODELS DIFFERING ON THE SOUTHWARD

DISPLACEMENT OF THE SURFACE LOW...WITH THE ECMWF SEVERAL HUNDRED

MILES FARTHER SOUTH THAN THE GFS. BOTH FAVOR A CHANGE-OVER TO SNOW

ON SATURDAY ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA...BUT SNOW LINE WILL BE FARTHER

SOUTH WITH MORE PRECIPITATION BASED ON ECMWF. AT THIS TIME WILL

SHOW CHANGE-OVER TO SNOW ACROSS NORTHERN COUNTIES AND A RAIN-SNOW

MIXTURE SOUTH. STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY

COULD VERY WELL RESULT IN FLURRIES. BASED TEMPERATURE FORECAST

FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ON A BLEND OF MOS AND MODEL GUIDANCE. A

SLOW WARMING TREND MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH NO PRECIPITATION EXPECTED.

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Oh how I hope the radar will look similar to this :gun_bandana: For the South, the Euro was not far off if it bombed a little earlier

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LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

UPPER FLOW PATTERN WILL UNDERGO AMPLIFICATION OVER THE WEEKEND

WITH A BIG TROF DIGGING SOUTHWARD OVER THE EASTERN UNITED STATES.

AN SHORT WAVE TROF WILL DROP THROUGH THE BASE OF THE UPPER TROF

FRIDAY NIGHT. THE GFS AND ECMWF MODELS DIFFERING ON THE SOUTHWARD

DISPLACEMENT OF THE SURFACE LOW...WITH THE ECMWF SEVERAL HUNDRED

MILES FARTHER SOUTH THAN THE GFS. BOTH FAVOR A CHANGE-OVER TO SNOW

ON SATURDAY ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA...BUT SNOW LINE WILL BE FARTHER

SOUTH WITH MORE PRECIPITATION BASED ON ECMWF. AT THIS TIME WILL

SHOW CHANGE-OVER TO SNOW ACROSS NORTHERN COUNTIES AND A RAIN-SNOW

MIXTURE SOUTH. STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY

COULD VERY WELL RESULT IN FLURRIES. BASED TEMPERATURE FORECAST

FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ON A BLEND OF MOS AND MODEL GUIDANCE. A

SLOW WARMING TREND MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH NO PRECIPITATION EXPECTED.

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