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January 11-13 Winter Storm


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6 minutes ago, mimillman said:

Indianapolis special. Southern Illinois and Central Indiana get destroyed.

Notable shift east of 00z.  Taking the 12z runs as a whole, we have the GEM/Euro on the western side and the GFS/Ukie on the eastern side.

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The Euro still does go NNE from MS until it gets to OH then it turns east like the GEM, maybe this will have an erratic track, either way both eventually hit a brick wall with the high pressing in. Probably don't need that any stronger or else this might slide more W to E.

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1 minute ago, WestCoaster said:

A lot of consistency between GFS/GDPS/ECMWF with the 12Z suite... all showing the snow swath extending from southern Indiana to Central/Northern Ohio to SEMI to Southern Ontario

I wouldn't necessarily include the GFS with the latter 2, but maybe it's just me.  I guess it's not terrible agreement for 4 days out.

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Indy just gets crushed on the 12z Euro. Probably a 2 foot storm there verbatim, if not a bit more.  Big dogs have missed the city proper every which way over the years, so this would be something to see.  

Regardless of location, the main takeaway at this point is the continued consistency for a big storm.

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1 minute ago, pondo1000 said:

That is unreal! Hell, I’m 10 miles a tad north of west from you so that means 6 inches right? Lol

its actually tighter than that because looking again, the 2" in mby includes the slop we got this morning.    So really it's like Westerville/Delaware gets an inch and Marysville gets a foot lol.

I might need a straight jacket and drool bucket if that happens :blink:

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3 minutes ago, buckeye said:

its actually tighter than that because looking again, the 2" in mby includes the slop we got this morning.    So really it's like Westerville/Delaware gets an inch and Marysville gets a foot lol.

I might need a straight jacket and drool bucket if that happens :blink:

Wow!!!

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47 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

I wouldn't necessarily include the GFS with the latter 2, but maybe it's just me.  I guess it's not terrible agreement for 4 days out.

Comparing the GFS and GEM below for the snow swath, it's pretty decent agreement 4-5 days out if you ask me... although I guess the exception is your backyard.

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A handy little bit of advice offered from a met at IWX that I think most of us already know, but something to keep in mind:

"Based on our extensive in-house research, negatively tilted troughs always end up west of model based track typically from 1 to 1 1/2 degrees. That said, H7 low track indicated from greenville KY to sandusky OH would be shifted 50-75 miles west. Ensemble based tracks evenly split between west and east but composite EC/GEM very close to yesterday's composite while GFS continues to oscillate back and forth. I'd bank on it at this point."

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It looks like the GFS bouncing around seems to have little bearing on Toronto's snow totals from this system. Seems to have a much bigger impact for the western part of this subforum.

Despite bouncing around, the last 6 runs of the GFS have the following storm totals for Toronto:

8/12Z: 21"

8/06Z: 18"

8/00Z: 15"

7/18Z: 22"

7/12Z: 11"

7/06Z: 16"

 

Even the GEM looks promising:

8/12Z: 14"

8/00Z: 20"

7/12Z: 14"

 

Any of those totals would be the best snow I've received since February 2013... probably a Top 2 event for the last 10 years. I'm sure disappointment will find its way in over the next few days, but I am so happy just to have something to track... it has been so long since I have felt excited to track anything!

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A handy little bit of advice offered from a met at IWX that I think most of us already know, but something to keep in mind:
"Based on our extensive in-house research, negatively tilted troughs always end up west of model based track typically from 1 to 1 1/2 degrees. That said, H7 low track indicated from greenville KY to sandusky OH would be shifted 50-75 miles west. Ensemble based tracks evenly split between west and east but composite EC/GEM very close to yesterday's composite while GFS continues to oscillate back and forth. I'd bank on it at this point."


Did he go to Penn State? In college the meteorology teacher I had went there and told me this exact same thing. I’d have to imagine however the dry slotting and convection on the south side of a such a storm may cut model totals a tad. Almost always with these lows Toledo and it’s suburbs deliver, but the second you get east of the city it drops off fast. Could really be an event where you see that area off to the west that’s very rural shutting things down for potentially a week
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56 minutes ago, IWXwx said:

A handy little bit of advice offered from a met at IWX that I think most of us already know, but something to keep in mind:

"Based on our extensive in-house research, negatively tilted troughs always end up west of model based track typically from 1 to 1 1/2 degrees. That said, H7 low track indicated from greenville KY to sandusky OH would be shifted 50-75 miles west. Ensemble based tracks evenly split between west and east but composite EC/GEM very close to yesterday's composite while GFS continues to oscillate back and forth. I'd bank on it at this point."

Highly agree with this - it’s been proven time and time again. Stronger the surface low; farther west it travels. Weak and suppressed - further east. 

The amount of gulf moisture with this thing is impressive - PWAT’s 1.5”+.... in January! :o

A lot of the 12z guidance really wants this thing to head out east with that massive high pressure moving in quickly - but this is the norm being 100 hours out. Will be lots of flip-flopping in coming days. 

 

 

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Dayton also gets like 1" of ZR on the Euro.

My gut here was initially this would wiff me to the northwest and I still am worried about that, but with the next shortwave diving in acting as a bit of a kicker and a large high north of the storm, and a general eastward trend with the ensembles the last couple runs, I'm intrigued.  Still waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to inevitably trend farther NW again, but I do think there's a limit for how much it does so.  Would personally favor eastern IL/IN/NW OH/MI at this time. 

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4 minutes ago, Angrysummons said:

The GEFS have a nice swath of solutions to slower and amped up to a weak wave Ukie.

I would say 2/3rd are west if the op with some even bringing the rain/ice line close to here. Only one or two are like the ukie nonsense. Which is a large shift west compared to 06z ensembles as well.

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25 minutes ago, OHweather said:

Dayton also gets like 1" of ZR on the Euro.

My gut here was initially this would wiff me to the northwest and I still am worried about that, but with the next shortwave diving in acting as a bit of a kicker and a large high north of the storm, and a general eastward trend with the ensembles the last couple runs, I'm intrigued.  Still waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to inevitably trend farther NW again, but I do think there's a limit for how much it does so.  Would personally favor eastern IL/IN/NW OH/MI at this time. 

I'm actually worried it goes to far southeast in comparison to an amped solution. 

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3 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

I'm actually worried it goes to far southeast in comparison to an amped solution. 

Definitely possible if we don't get a clean phase...which the majority of models/ensemble members have, but some don't so it's a solution we can't yet discount. 

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