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1/17/16 Winter Weather Threat


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Yea, the number of members showing snow in the SREF plumes is up from 15 to 21 z.  A baby step?  I looked at a bunch of W NC stations and all has increases. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/sref/srefplumes/

 

Interesting.  I have heard in the past that the SREF often is an indicator of what the next NAM run is going to do.

 

It beefed up mean QPF here from 0.02" to 0.07", haha.

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I'm thinking 12z tomorrow.

Yeah, I doubt that we will see any huge changes either way with the 00z runs tonight. I think people think 00z runs are where changes happen, or that the 00z run has more data, or somehow that the run is "better" than any of the others and that's just a myth. Wave won't be on land until 12z tomorrow so I'm hopeful we will see the models nailing this storm by tomorrow afternoon. Short term models will be huge tomorrow evening as well since they'll be well in-range. 

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Interesting.  I have heard in the past that the SREF often is an indicator of what the next NAM run is going to do.

 

It beefed up mean QPF here from 0.02" to 0.07", haha.

That's like a 300% increase :blink:

 

But where I really don't trust them is with marginal temp events where other models are showing mix or rain!

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Yeah, I doubt that we will see any huge changes either way with the 00z runs tonight. I think people think 00z runs are where changes happen, or that the 00z run has more data, or somehow that the run is "better" than any of the others and that's just a myth. Wave won't be on land until 12z tomorrow so I'm hopeful we will see the models nailing this storm by tomorrow afternoon. Short term models will be huge tomorrow evening as well since they'll be well in-range. 

 

Even so you would think it's starting to get to the point where it can give a fairly good guess as to the overall setup. I think we're going to see some subtle differences on the NAM tonight. Already in @39 hours the PV is a tick west and you can see how that is allowing the moisture in TX to be a little further north with it's center...of course I doubt it has a huge effect down stream but I'll be this run ends up being further north than 18z had it. 

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Even so you would think it's starting to get to the point where it can give a fairly good guess as to the overall setup. I think we're going to see some subtle differences on the NAM tonight. Already in @39 hours the PV is a tick west and you can see how that is allowing the moisture in TX to be a little further north with it's center...of course I doubt it has a huge effect down stream but I'll be this run ends up being further north than 18z had it.

Agreed. No doubt we will see some trends on the 00z suite, just not pure weenie runs if they are to occur it will be likely tomorrow is what I meant, overall.
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Agreed. No doubt we will see some trends on the 00z suite, just not pure weenie runs if they are to occur it will be likely tomorrow is what I meant, overall.

 

Yea sorry, I was agreeing with you..probably didn't make that clear just that I guess what I meant was that if you start seeing some shifts tonight...well that gives it a much better chance. I think that's what I meant anyways  :bag:

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LOL, I bet DC posters still don't forgive it for what it did to them on Snowquester (3/6/2013). 20" of snow to a slushy inch! :lmao:

I won't forgive god for that bust. I've been around these forums for 10 years. Too many busts to remember. None of them ever got to me. Rolled off the shoulders like mercury. Then boxing day came along. It stung. I was pissed. But it was temporary and I moved on. I will never get over the march 2013 deal. Just talking about it makes me want to wander the streets and kick small animals.

On topic...I hope you guys score a little something Sunday. Just an hour or 2 of flakes falling is good for the soul and it's looking good so far.

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I won't forgive god for that bust. I've been around these forums for 10 years. Too many busts to remember. None of them ever got to me. Rolled off the shoulders like mercury. Then boxing day came along. It stung. I was pissed. But it was temporary and I moved on. I will never get over the march 2013 deal. Just talking about it makes me want to wander the streets and kick small animals.

On topic...I hope you guys score a little something Sunday. Just an hour or 2 of flakes falling is good for the soul and it's looking good so far.

Funny Bob, and it spawned this great article from Wes...

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/confessions-of-a-winter-weather-expert/2013/03/12/e089c346-8b1c-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_blog.html

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I won't forgive god for that bust. I've been around these forums for 10 years. Too many busts to remember. None of them ever got to me. Rolled off the shoulders like mercury. Then boxing day came along. It stung. I was pissed. But it was temporary and I moved on. I will never get over the march 2013 deal. Just talking about it makes me want to wander the streets and kick small animals.

On topic...I hope you guys score a little something Sunday. Just an hour or 2 of flakes falling is good for the soul and it's looking good so far.

 

Yeah, that one must have been really rough.  Fortunately, you guys had a rockin' 2013-2014 winter.  I guess some of you all on the outskirts on DC at least got a few slushy inches, but the district itself nearly got skunked.  The image of Cantore on green grass really stuck.  IIRC, the Shenandoah Valley area really got hammered still, though.

 

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Anyways, here is the 00z RGEM at hr 48:

 

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