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15 minutes ago, NJwx85 said:

You do realize the NAM is given little weight by the professional community?

You do realize that's not true?

For the winter storm for tonight, the CMC and ECMWF have trended
wetter, towards the NAM and SREF. The GFS is a relatively drier
outlier due to its more southern low track (due to well
documented issues the GFS has in dealing with damming highs east
of the Appalachians). AS a result have followed a NAM/ECMWF/CMC
regional/SREF blend for the forecast for tonight.


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9 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

You do realize that's not true?


For the winter storm for tonight, the CMC and ECMWF have trended
wetter, towards the NAM and SREF. The GFS is a relatively drier
outlier due to its more southern low track (due to well
documented issues the GFS has in dealing with damming highs east
of the Appalachians). AS a result have followed a NAM/ECMWF/CMC
regional/SREF blend for the forecast for tonight.


Mount Holly

Given the extent of the dry air in place initially,
wet bulbing should be a factor in allowing temperatures to drop a
bit more. We therefore blended closer to the cooler guidance such as
the NAM. 
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13 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

You do realize that's not true?


For the winter storm for tonight, the CMC and ECMWF have trended
wetter, towards the NAM and SREF. The GFS is a relatively drier
outlier due to its more southern low track (due to well
documented issues the GFS has in dealing with damming highs east
of the Appalachians). AS a result have followed a NAM/ECMWF/CMC
regional/SREF blend for the forecast for tonight.


Generally speaking, it's discounted or weighted less because it overdoes QPF. 

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1 hour ago, Stormlover74 said:

You do realize that's not true?


For the winter storm for tonight, the CMC and ECMWF have trended
wetter, towards the NAM and SREF. The GFS is a relatively drier
outlier due to its more southern low track (due to well
documented issues the GFS has in dealing with damming highs east
of the Appalachians). AS a result have followed a NAM/ECMWF/CMC
regional/SREF blend for the forecast for tonight.


I never said it wasn't considered at all, especially by the NWS. I was speaking more about private forecasters. I was more just saying that some here give the NAM way too much attention, and it's probably because everyone can easily access it and it runs four times a day.

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Just now, NJwx85 said:

I never said it wasn't considered at all, especially by the NWS. I was speaking more about private forecasters. I was more just saying that some here give the NAM way too much attention, and it's probably because everyone can easily access it and it runs four times a day.

People parse every word around here like it's a courtroom. It gets tedious. Nothing wrong with your info it has as much claim as anyone's here. I look forward to it.

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1 minute ago, weatherpruf said:

People parse every word around here like it's a courtroom. It gets tedious. Nothing wrong with your info it has as much claim as anyone's here. I look forward to it.

The bottom line is, it's okay to not agree with the modeling. That's happening a lot with this storm. You have one camp that believes the guidance is too warm at the surface and another that believes the precip max is too far North. That's why it's fun to make predictions and then see who ends up most correct. I personally find tracking/forecasting the storm to be better than the actual storm itself.

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The probability that a single model (GFS) is very wrong 6-9 hours before the onset of a storm is far higher than the probability that essentially every other model (GGEM, RGEM, NAM, ECMWF) are very wrong. I continue to believe that the GFS should be discounted. The higher resolution guidance should have a better handle on the soundings than the GFS. We will see soon enough.

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