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December 2017 Mid-Long Range Disco


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8 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

Euro EPS has some big stuff happening in the 10-15 range. We'll see.

Not surprising.  I am not saying nothing can happen before then, but many have astutely pointed out we typically do better as this type of pattern matures and relaxes, not during the early stages.  Once in a while we luck our way to something on the front end of these cold periods and those are the best because then we can have some extended snowcover and fun tracking, but more often then not we have to wait for a relaxation to have a significant threat.  That period in the day 10-15 would fit.  

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1 minute ago, mitchnick said:

We need as much cold air as possible in these parts, in case you forgot.   lol

The kind of cold you all are chirping about tends to be dry as a bone, that much I recall from experience. Was privy to a -29 one Christmas Eve in central Ohio in the 80s. Clearest night sky I have ever seen. No snow anywhere around that air mass.

I know this isn't to be THAT cold, but when people on here start getting all excited for frigid temps, I tend to immediately think they are courting dry at the same time. '09/'10 was NOT frigid. It was just right. Need moisture.

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2 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

The kind of cold you all are chirping about tends to be dry as a bone, that much I recall from experience. Was privy to a -29 one Christmas Eve in central Ohio in the 80s. Clearest night sky I have ever seen. No snow anywhere around that air mass.

I know this isn't to be THAT cold, but when people on here start getting all excited for frigid temps, I tend to immediately think they are courting dry at the same time. '09/'10 was NOT frigid. It was just right. Need moisture.

excited?...no

observation?...yes

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6 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

The kind of cold you all are chirping about tends to be dry as a bone, that much I recall from experience. Was privy to a -29 one Christmas Eve in central Ohio in the 80s. Clearest night sky I have ever seen. No snow anywhere around that air mass.

I know this isn't to be THAT cold, but when people on here start getting all excited for frigid temps, I tend to immediately think they are courting dry at the same time. '09/'10 was NOT frigid. It was just right. Need moisture.

Yeah cold doesn't do it for me without snow cover.  10 degrees and brown dry leaves isn't fun.    

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2 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

excited?...no

observation?...yes

My apologies, I wasn't saying you were excited yourself, but there are some on the board who get fired up over extremely negative temp departures in the winter. I am not one of them, mostly because such departures tend to kill real legit snow chances (unless we all want to chase to South Carolina...)

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

Oh come on Mr. Freezemiser, you know you want the bone dry, brutal cold. :shiver:

OK, I admit it! I have a humidifier on my house furnace and know that many aren't as fortunate as me, so the thought of others suffering with static cling is a tolerable alternative to heavy snow  imby. Doesn't everybody think like that????

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30 minutes ago, StormchaserChuck said:

Really surprised there isn't snow in this 1st wave. Maybe it'll sneak up in last few days. 

The models have sucked with the strength of the WAR the last several winters and continually strengthened it and moved systems west inside 4-5 days.  I would not be surprised at all if this still ends up being an event

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Mount Holly doesn't sound too impressed-

Friday through Saturday night...there are two main features we
continue to watch through this period. First, a low developing
on the previously mentioned cold front (by this time well
southeast of our region), lifting northeast Friday into
Saturday. Previously the GFS was showing this making a close
approach to the region, but now it keeps the low well off shore,
with little if any impacts for our area. Interestingly, while
the ECMWF also keeps this well off shore (as it has shown for
the last several model runs), it now depicts two slower lows
propagating on the front. The second one is deep enough to
possibly bring some precip to our region. For now though, I
continue to favor a progressive and southeasterly solution with
this feature, keeping PoPs around 20 to 30 percent through this
time period, but not expecting major impacts for our region.
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6 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said:

Mount Holly doesn't sound too impressed-


Friday through Saturday night...there are two main features we
continue to watch through this period. First, a low developing
on the previously mentioned cold front (by this time well
southeast of our region), lifting northeast Friday into
Saturday. Previously the GFS was showing this making a close
approach to the region, but now it keeps the low well off shore,
with little if any impacts for our area. Interestingly, while
the ECMWF also keeps this well off shore (as it has shown for
the last several model runs), it now depicts two slower lows
propagating on the front. The second one is deep enough to
possibly bring some precip to our region. For now though, I
continue to favor a progressive and southeasterly solution with
this feature, keeping PoPs around 20 to 30 percent through this
time period, but not expecting major impacts for our region.

My zone has a 0% chance of snow.  I can only improve from there.  And I can't get any worse.  

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