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December Med/Long Range Discussion


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The big difference between the euro and gfs is how the hp is positioned and moves away. Euro has a strong high just north of us that slowly retreats NE. This not only enhances CAD but also doesn't allow a far west track. Gfs has the hp center basically overhead and it slides ENE. This allows stronger return flow eroding the cold and also a further west track with the precip shield. 

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2 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said:

sleet/zr with the trailing low

That's some pretty stout CAA with that high positioning and strength. Would be a nasty ice storm for NW of 95. Light to moderate precip falling into shallow sub freezing air. Great combo for accretion where it would be ZR. Still lots of scenarios on the board right now. Too volatile in this range for specifics, but its a given now that something frozen is likely given the setup.  

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3 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

The big difference between the euro and gfs is how the hp is positioned and moves away. Euro has a strong high just north of us that slowly retreats NE. This not only enhances CAD but also doesn't allow a far west track. Gfs has the hp center basically overhead and it slides ENE. This allows stronger return flow eroding the cold and also a further west track with the precip shield. 

Dont worry....euro will come around 

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1 hour ago, Bob Chill said:

Another imortant piece of the puzzle for snow chances is how quick precip gets here. The cold will be retreating. That's almost a given. Ens mean precip panels show potential for a faster onset than the op run. Mean panels actually have almost .1 through most of the region by 0z Saturday and then .15 by 6z. That's fairly significant qpf on the means for the lead time and a good bit faster than the op run. Earlier onset the better in this case 

An earlier start time is a good bet.  Warm air advection snows come in about 1-4 hours quicker than modeled.  

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1 minute ago, showmethesnow said:

Not going to look to hard with the CMC but by any chance did you get an idea what type of icing event we would be talking about after the snow?

Very similar to the euro with timing and evolution. 

Navgem likes Wednesday also. CMC Navgem blend has never let us down right?

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18 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

The big difference between the euro and gfs is how the hp is positioned and moves away. Euro has a strong high just north of us that slowly retreats NE. This not only enhances CAD but also doesn't allow a far west track. Gfs has the hp center basically overhead and it slides ENE. This allows stronger return flow eroding the cold and also a further west track with the precip shield. 

Gfs is also ejecting the system through the Rockies much further north. The whole pattern is biased more towards trough west ridge east on the gfs vs the euro and the gefs for that matter. 

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8 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Canadian still brings the goods, both for a good snow event midweek and a very good event next weekend. Weenie run lol. 

If Justin Berk can ride the Canadian for years, then we should all ride it too.  Axe to head emoji. Lol. 

Anyone doing play by play for the CRAS?

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1 minute ago, Bob Chill said:

Very similar to the euro with timing and evolution. 

Navgem likes Wednesday also. CMC Navgem blend has never let us down right?

Guess I will ride the CMC/Navgem combo for the Wed/thur storm. At least until I can't ride it anymore. :) Used to be that the old Euro/CMC combo were almost a sure bet. Wonder if we can count on it with the new and improved version of the Euro.

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8 minutes ago, BTRWx said:

I don't think the eps last night looked all that favorable for a cold/snowy pattern. 

There were two ttb 850 frames that had our region BN delta_t for hrs 120-144 between the two coc Ls.

This image was as good as we could get and most of the rest of the run was AN delta_t.

ecmwf-ens_z500a_us_6.png

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2 minutes ago, BTRWx said:

There were two ttb 850 frames that had our region BN delta_t for hrs 120-144 between the two coc Ls.

This image was as good as we could get and most of the rest of the run was AN delta_t.

ecmwf-ens_z500a_us_6.png

The height field isn't ideal but there are other factors. Source regions of the airmass. If you have true Arctic air pressing it will bleed further south then you would expect just looking at the h5. It's definitely not a hecs pattern but with cold it's not awful for waves along the Arctic boundary and messy storms IF the boundary gets far enough south. Ggem last nights gefs and eps say it does. 12z gfs says nope. 

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2 hours ago, Bob Chill said:

They're a lot of fun to track and analyze at short leads. You and I had some good times picking apart some of the events in 13/14 and 14/15. Although one of the events flipped to snow a good but later than we thought. Can't remember which one but I do remember being pissed off with rain at 11pm when it should have been snow at 9. Lol

Idk if its the one you're referring to but 3/6/15 flipped to snow (down here at least) way later than forecast. We were all having a meltdown in our thread while LWX kept upping our snow totals- turns out LWX was right. Total blowout once it flipped. I liked that storm a lot. :-)

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