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GHD III possible Winter Storm February 1st-3rd


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I know it could, but we've all been burned on the EURO this winter.

 

 

GFS has the same general look at h5 over the southwest @hrs 90-100, unless we get the trough looking more like this, it's going to send the low straight overhead and bring p-type concerns throughout the CWA

 

ecmwf_z500a_us_5.png

 

same look on the GFS, neutral tilt, elevated heights in the plains

 

gfs-ens_z500a_us_17.png

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GFS has the same general look at h5 over the southwest @hrs 90-100, unless we get the trough looking more like this, it's going to send the low straight overhead and bring p-type concerns throughout the CWA

 

ecmwf_z500a_us_5.png

 

same look on the GFS, neutral tilt, elevated heights in the plains

 

gfs-ens_z500a_us_17.png

 

Yeah I definitely agree we want it to stay positively tilted as it goes through the southwest. I'll have to dig through the sleet storm thread and see if your map matches up in the SW at all.

 

Anyway, here is the ensemble and operational low tracks.

 

Operational CMC moved the most since the 0z run. OP GFS really didn't move much through IL. It bends to the east more now in upper lower MI.

(Somehow the operational GFS track disappeared on the map), but it's basically from Quincy to ENW to Rogers City.)

 

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WPC....

MODEL DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION

NWS WEATHER PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD

153 PM EST THU JAN 28 2016

MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE REACHING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST FRI AND

CROSSING THE NORTHERN PLAINS INTO SUNDAY

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PREFERENCE: NON-UKMET BLEND THRU 30/12Z...

12Z ECMWF/CMC BLEND AFTER

CONFIDENCE: SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE PRIOR TO 30/12Z...

BELOW AVERAGE AFTER

MODELS ARE FAIRLY STRONG AGREEMENT IN TIMING/PLACEMENT OF THE WAVE

AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST INTO

FRIDAY...WITH ONLY THE 12Z UKMET DEPARTING BEING FAST ALOFT AND

EAST WITH THE SURFACE LOW.

BY 30/12Z SPREAD BEGINS TO INCREASE...WITH THE 12Z GFS BECOMING

TRENDING DEEPER AND MORE AMPLIFIED ACROSS WITH A DEEPER SURFACE

WAVE ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES BY SUNDAY; COUNTER TO THE DAY TO DAY

TREND SEEN IN THE ENSEMBLE SPAGHETTI PLOTS THAT WERE TRENDING

TOWARD THE FLATTER SWLY FLOW ACROSS THE PLAINS/GREAT LAKES INTO

SUNDAY. THE 00Z AND 12Z ECMWF ALONG WITH THE 00Z ECENS HAVE BEEN

QUITE CONSISTENT RUN TO RUN WITH THE FLATNESS AND ORIENTATION OF

FLOW ALOFT AS WELL AS THE FRONTAL ZONE INTO THE MID-MS RIVER

VALLEY; THE 00Z GFS WAS WELL IN LINE WITH THIS. THE 12Z NAM IS

MORE MIDDLE GROUND OF THE SOLUTIONS AND FAVORS THE FLATTER

SOLUTION WHILE ALSO DEVELOPING A SECONDARY SFC TROF/BOUNDARY

ACROSS THE DAKOTAS; HOWEVER TRUE TO ITS BIAS IS A BIT

STRONGER/DEEPER WITH THE WAVE ENERGY ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS

MORE WHICH IN TURN AFFECTS THE QPF ACROSS THE AREA IN A SIMILAR

MANNER TO THE GFS. THE 12Z CMC IS INITIALLY A BIT SLOW PER USUAL

TO THE OPERATIONAL SUITE...AND HAS A SIMILAR FLATNESS TO THE FLOW

HOWEVER DUE TO A SLIGHTLY FASTER DOWNSTREAM WAVE ACROSS CANADA AN

INFLECTION/WAVE DEVELOPS ACROSS THE UPPER MS RIVER VALLEY BY THE

END OF DAY 3 WHICH SEEMS REASONABLE THOUGH A BIT FASTER THAN THE

ECMWF AS A WHOLE IN DEVELOPING THIS WEAK INFLECTION. THIS SEEMS

LIKE A REASONABLE COMPROMISE TO THE 12Z ECMWF TO REPRESENT THE

ECENS MEAN AND LONGER TERM CONTINUITY. AS SUCH WILL SUPPORT A

NON-UKMET BLEND THROUGH LANDFALL OF THE WAVE INTO THE NORTHWEST

THRU 30/12Z...AND A 12Z ECMWF/CMC BLEND AFTERWARD. CONFIDENCE IS

FAIRLY STRONG INITIALLY AND IS SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE IN THE

NON-UKMET BLEND; BUT QUICKLY CONFIDENCE REDUCES TO BELOW AVERAGE

IN THIS LARGER SPREAD/FLATTER FLOW OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS BY DAY

3...

LONG WAVE TROUGH APPROACHING THE WEST COAST LATE SAT DIGGING INTO

SOUTHERN CA SUNDAY NIGHT

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PREFERENCE: 12Z NAM/ECMWF BLEND

CONFIDENCE: SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE

INCREASES MODEL SPREAD EXISTS WITH THE DEVELOPING LONGER WAVE TROF

IN THE LEE OF DEVELOPING MID-LEVEL RIDGING ACROSS THE PACIFIC INTO

THE GULF OF ALASKA SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. THE RUN TO RUN ENSEMBLE

ANALYSIS SHOWS THE ECENS MEAN REMAINING RELATIVELY CONSISTENT

WHILE THE GEFS/GFS HAS BEEN TRENDING TOWARD A FASTER SOLUTION

THOUGH A BIT FLATTER WITH THE UPSTREAM RIDGE COMPARATIVELY TO THE

ECMWF/ECENS MEAN. THE 00Z ECMWF REMAINS THE MOST AMPLIFIED WITH

THE UPSTREAM RIDGE EVEN MORE SO THAN THE ECENS MEAN. THE 12Z NAM

IS MORE AMPLIFIED WITH THE UPSTREAM RIDGE COMPARED TO THE 00Z RUN

COMING INTO PHASE WITH INCREASING OPERATIONAL MODEL AGREEMENT AND

IS MOST IN LINE WITH TIMING OF THE EARLIER FAVORED 00Z ECMWF

MAKING IT A MORE VIABLE POSSIBILITY. THE 12Z GFS CONTINUES TO

TREND IN THE ECMWF DIRECTION PARTICULARLY WITH THE UPSTREAM WAVE

THOUGH TIMING OF THE TROF IS STILL SLOWER AND STRONGER -- CLOSER

TO THE 00Z UKMET AND CMC IN TIMING BUT ALSO THE STRONGEST OF THE

SOLUTIONS. VERY LITTLE CHANGE IN THE 12Z UKMET AND CMC TO THEIR

00Z COUNTERPARTS STILL A BIT SLOWER AND STRONGER WHILE THE 12Z

ECMWF LOOKS QUITE SIMILAR TO ITS 00Z RUN IN TIMING IF MAYBE A

SHADE BIT STRONGER; STILL FURTHER CONFIRMING CONTINUITY. BEST

LIKELIHOOD OF POSSIBILITY WOULD BE TOWARD THE MORE CONSISTENT

ECENS MEAN...WHICH REMAINS BEST REPRESENTED BY THE 12Z NAM/ECMWF

MASS FIELDS. CONFIDENCE REMAINS SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE IN THIS

BLEND.

www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/model2.shtml...

www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/h5pref/h5pref.shtml...

GALLINA

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Demetrius Ivory of WGN posted a EURO animated snowfall map.

Secondary deformation band formed behind the departing low to give Chicago 6".

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=929515743806246

That looks more like the front end plus an inch or so on the back end. And IMO it's overdone, not sure what algorithm they're using to calculate that.

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That looks more like the front end plus an inch or so on the back end. And IMO it's overdone, not sure what algorithm they're using to calculate that.

 

Was just going to post that...looks like the front end based on the time that the bulk of the snow occurs.

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That looks more like the front end plus an inch or so on the back end. And IMO it's overdone, not sure what algorithm they're using to calculate that.

 

Looked like a back end feature to me, but I dont' have access to the maps.

NAM did really well with the November system.

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Ricky throwing us a bone 

 

IT'S STILL OVER 100 HOURS OUT FROM ANY SENSIBLE WX IMPACTS FROM  
THE STORM LOCALLY AND PARENT WAVE IS STILL WELL OUT OVER THE  
PACIFIC. UNSURPRISINGLY ...THERE IS SIGNIFICANT VARIABILITY IN THE  
ALL IMPORTANT SURFACE LOW TRACK AND TIMING INTO TUESDAY ON THE  
OPERATIONAL RUNS. RECENT RUNS OF GFS HAVE BEEN BY FAR MOST  
AMPED/NW WITH LOW PRESSURE TRACK...WHILE ECMWF IS FARTHER EAST.  
THERE HAVE BEEN NO RECENT OPERATIONAL RUNS OF THE GFS/ECMWF/CANADIAN  
THAT GET OUR AREA IN THE MOST FAVORABLE WINTRY PRECIP PATH INTO  
TUESDAY. HOWEVER...GEFS/ECMWF ENSEMBLES/CANADIAN ENSEMBLE MEANS  
AND MANY INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY RUNNING FARTHER  
SOUTHEAST WITH LOW TRACK...SO CANNOT RULE OUT FUTURE SHIFTS TO  
COLDER/SOUTHEAST WITH THE OPERATIONAL RUNS.
KEY WILL LIKELY BE HOW  
FAR EAST/SOUTHEAST MIDLEVEL TROUGH CLOSES OFF.  

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