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Winter Storm 1/6 - 1/8, 2017


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Anybody remember 2 or three years ago, the big storm for NYC and CT, RI and such and the threads up there were bickering about runs of models and how each sucked and then they were looking at the NAM, one of the big two ( GFS and Euro) did a lot better?? Anybody recall that and what model!? I'm wanting to say it was GFS? It comes out on top, every once in awhile.

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You can really see what each model is going to do looking at the 48 hr maps (valid 18z Jan 4).  Euro has the 540dm line all the way into E Washington at that time while the GFS and NAM have it well back into Montana and the 546dm line cut off.  Already obvious from there that the Euro was going draw it in more.

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3 minutes ago, mackerel_sky said:

Anybody remember 2 or three years ago, the big storm for NYC and CT, RI and such and the threads up there were bickering about runs of models and how each sucked and then they were looking at the NAM, one of the big two ( GFS and Euro) did a lot better?? Anybody recall that and what model!? I'm wanting to say it was GFS? It comes out on top, every once in awhile.

 

nam and euro showed 2-3ft for nyc, and gfs showed much less and verified.

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10 minutes ago, Wow said:

You can really see what each model is going to do looking at the 48 hr maps (valid 18z Jan 4).  Euro has the 540dm line all the way into E Washington at that time while the GFS and NAM have it well back into Montana and the 546dm line cut off.  Already obvious from there that the Euro was going draw it in more.

Forgive me, I'm sure this is an ignorant question, but here goes.  Why can't we knit together the best short range model (SREF, HRRR etc) and the best mid range model (NAM???) to determine where the starting point should be for the best long range models (GFS, Euro, UKMET etc) in say 48 hours?  Isn't that ultimately what we are trying to figure out?  What will the starting point be on Wednesday night...

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4 minutes ago, Brick Tamland said:

Matthew East on Facebook :

All talk of model biases, strengths & weaknesses, etc... all valid, but we're dealing with handling of one small feature a little differently over the next 48 hours resulting in HUGE end result differences.

Yes this is what I'm talking about.  We should get come kind of consensus pretty soon I think.

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8 minutes ago, DopplerWx said:

nam and euro showed 2-3ft for nyc, and gfs showed much less and verified.

As good as the euro is at times it has its failures too..including its share of winter storms  around here but for some reason there is this almost myth like belief that  it's always right or that chances  for a storm are not valid until or unless the euro shows it. Maybe it's because the gfs is ran 4 times per day and there is more info for the average person to digest from it but regardless it seems like the euros busts are hardly ever  remembered while the gfs busts are always remembered. 

Fact is, although it's much better to have the euro on board than not, just because it's not right now doesn't mean the gfs is wrong or that something half way or leaning toward the gfs is either. It might very well win in the end but it's not a sure bet in my eyes that's for sure. 

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5 minutes ago, Lookout said:

As good as the euro is at times it has its failures too..including its share of winter storms  around here but for some reason there is this almost myth like belief that  it's always right or that chances  for a storm are not valid until or unless the euro shows it. Maybe it's because the gfs is ran 4 times per day and there is more info for the average person to digest from it but regardless it seems like the euros busts are hardly ever  remembered while the gfs busts are always remembered. 

Fact is, although it's much better to have the euro on board than not, just because it's not right now doesn't mean the gfs is wrong or that something half way or leaning toward the gfs is either. It might very well win in the end but it's not a sure bet in my eyes that's for sure. 

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Mathew was a great example. The Euro for a few days was sliding Mathew out to the east in behind Nicole as she broke down the ridging to his NE. The GFS stayed on a more westward solution and ended up being correct.

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RAH is leaning towards the Euro.

Confidence in the forecast goes down the tubes after that as models
diverge due to a system in the western Pacific that may or may not
eject some dynamic energy that could evolve into a stronger southern
stream low pressure system for the weekend. This scenario has not
been corroborated by the other models and is inconsistent at this
point and therefore this scenario has for now been thrown out as an
outlier. Instead the forecast is based on the ECMWF solution which
does not produce the southern stream low pressure system until much
much later and instead develops a low over the Gulf of Mexico and
brings it up the southeast coast on Saturday. It is very early to
hammer out any details but at this time there is the possibility
that precipitation falling, especially from the Triangle
northwestward could fall in the form of snow. At this point, about
half of the ensemble members are producing some measurable snow and
the other half are not. If this scenario were to occur it would be
in the Friday night through Saturday morning time frame and exiting
by Saturday afternoon. Lows Friday night will drop into the 20s with
highs on Saturday only in the mid to upper 30s.
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19 minutes ago, Lookout said:

As good as the euro is at times it has its failures too..including its share of winter storms  around here but for some reason there is this almost myth like belief that  it's always right or that chances  for a storm are not valid until or unless the euro shows it. Maybe it's because the gfs is ran 4 times per day and there is more info for the average person to digest from it but regardless it seems like the euros busts are hardly ever  remembered while the gfs busts are always remembered. 

Fact is, although it's much better to have the euro on board than not, just because it's not right now doesn't mean the gfs is wrong or that something half way or leaning toward the gfs is either. It might very well win in the end but it's not a sure bet in my eyes that's for sure. 

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Nice to see you bud!  That's a great point. Very good point actually 

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8 minutes ago, Solak said:

RAH is leaning towards the Euro.


Confidence in the forecast goes down the tubes after that as models
diverge due to a system in the western Pacific that may or may not
eject some dynamic energy that could evolve into a stronger southern
stream low pressure system for the weekend. This scenario has not
been corroborated by the other models and is inconsistent at this
point and therefore this scenario has for now been thrown out as an
outlier. Instead the forecast is based on the ECMWF solution which
does not produce the southern stream low pressure system until much
much later and instead develops a low over the Gulf of Mexico and
brings it up the southeast coast on Saturday. It is very early to
hammer out any details but at this time there is the possibility
that precipitation falling, especially from the Triangle
northwestward could fall in the form of snow. At this point, about
half of the ensemble members are producing some measurable snow and
the other half are not. If this scenario were to occur it would be
in the Friday night through Saturday morning time frame and exiting
by Saturday afternoon. Lows Friday night will drop into the 20s with
highs on Saturday only in the mid to upper 30s.

and for good reason, EPS is miserable for RDU. 7/50 ensemble members with 2"+ none above 4" or so, most are on the low end of the 2-4" range out of the 7. That's terrible. EPS has bounced back to higher totals before - but the trend is lower and lower with each run. Until that changes, look for them going all-in on the EPS mean.

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2 minutes ago, Jon said:

and for good reason, EPS is miserable for RDU. 7/50 ensemble members with 2"+ none above 4" or so, most are on the low end of the 2-4" range out of the 7. That's terrible. EPS has bounced back to higher totals before - but the trend is lower and lower with each run. Until that changes, look for them going all-in on the EPS mean.

No reason to go all in on anything until the wave gets on the coast/shore and is sampled better. 

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Just now, BornAgain13 said:

No reason to go all in on anything until the wave gets on the coast/shore and is sampled better. 

Exactly. If I was making the forecast I'd lean Euro too. Just the way it works, we'll see here shortly within the next 48 hours.

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32 minutes ago, Lookout said:

As good as the euro is at times it has its failures too..including its share of winter storms  around here but for some reason there is this almost myth like belief that  it's always right or that chances  for a storm are not valid until or unless the euro shows it. Maybe it's because the gfs is ran 4 times per day and there is more info for the average person to digest from it but regardless it seems like the euros busts are hardly ever  remembered while the gfs busts are always remembered. 

Fact is, although it's much better to have the euro on board than not, just because it's not right now doesn't mean the gfs is wrong or that something half way or leaning toward the gfs is either. It might very well win in the end but it's not a sure bet in my eyes that's for sure. 

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Late January or beginning of February last year Euro had been showing 14-16 inches of snow for most of the week in the NW corner of SC before a storm hit this area. We ended up with nothing close to that, we had about and inch of snow and about two inches of sleet.

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