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March 8-12 Heavy Rain/Flooding


snowlover2

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Food for thought...this forecast was made on February 15th for next week's precipitable water amounts via the #rrwt, or Recurring Rossby Wave Train, found here..
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If WPC's forecast come to fruition, it will nail the Texas up through the Midwest part, but bust badly on the West Coast.

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Yeah, any further north with that band is going to mean serious trouble for the Mississippi-Illinois-Missouri river junction down here. The only reason December wasn't a #1 or close to #1 flood was the fact that a good portion of the rainfall fell south of the city. A band 30-60 miles north of that one would be a disaster.

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Newer model runs have the upper level low more progressive(although still slow) then a couple of days ago....but also more north it seems when some of the heavy rain..

 

15 inches of rain was modeled in AR a few days ago as record PW's values for March stalled..now its "only" 8 inches

 

GFS looks active beyond this too..

 

There is hardly any snow cover upstream so that is not a factor

 

plus its been rather dry some Jan 1st

 

another thing to remember is that convection sometimes holds up a front from coming north so the axis of heavy rain maybe more SE than currently modeled

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Yeah, going to depend heavily on the evolution of mesoscale processes. I don't think it's wise to get too cute with the exact placement of the band just yet, especially since the wave in question is still way out in the Pacific. Obviously, the pattern supports training convection and a stalled or nearly stalled boundary due to parallel flow aloft. Most of the convection looks to be elevated and the very moist atmosphere doesn't exactly favor cold pool generation that would shove the front around too much, but we'll have to wait and see.

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it's amazing that this keeps happening

Part of this is El Nino, but part of this is the future, I'm afraid. An intensification of the water cycle means more droughts and floods. The mean of the annual rainfall may not change all that much depending on where you are (STL has seen an increase of about 4"/yr since 1980 though), but rainfall variability increases are probably going to be the big story. The past few years have been a poster child for that -- long periods of dry punctuated by very heavy rainfall events.

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