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The March Lion Storm


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6 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

It whiffs SE MI. toss. Lol.

 

Jokes aside models have diverged more than reached a consensus 

 

3 minutes ago, Stebo said:

The jump of SEMI doesn't make much sense but I'm not going to get hung up on one model run there.

Yeah, can't imagine the Motor City Magnet being denied by any system within an arm's reach

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1 hour ago, Hoosier said:

NAM would be a major impact around here... not just the snow, but the wet snow/wind combo.  Mixing depths aren't all that great but the low level flow is strong and ripping in off the lake.  Hard to trust it yet though with how much it has been shifting around.

Just to take a walk on the weenie side... 12z NAM has a period of 925 mb winds around 60 kts near Lake Michigan. Mixing to at/near that level would result in serious gusts closer to shore (the instantweathermaps gust product has 60 mph, which would be plausible IF we have 925 mb winds as strong as shown).

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2 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Just to take a walk on the weenie side... 12z NAM has a period of 925 mb winds around 60 kts near Lake Michigan. Mixing to at/near that level would result in serious gusts closer to shore (the instantweathermaps gust product has 60 mph, which would be plausible IF we have 925 mb winds as strong as shown).

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Considering The Crib hit 57 mph gust with Sunday morning's CF, don't see why not?

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7 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

The crib might gust near 70 mph if a NAM type solution were to verify (not joking).  It is in a perfect spot to maximize wind.

What'd it hit during Sandy? I think that was also a similar ideal situation iirc? I remember the beach sand here in St. Joseph being blown into massive drifts..

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15 minutes ago, RogueWaves said:

What'd it hit during Sandy? I think that was also a similar ideal situation iirc? I remember the beach sand here in St. Joseph being blown into massive drifts..

58 mph, but that was with weaker 925 mb winds than what the NAM is progging.  

NAM is the high end solution for Chicago metro at this point.  Probably unlikely to be as impressive (although the Euro backs it up to some extent in the Chicago area) but kinda fun to look at.

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3 km coming in big too.  
Ended up a bit more spread the wealth for areas slightly farther south in metro, roughly I-80 corridor and north, while slightly lower on max totals. All in all, two incredible model runs for the metro, with as you said high end on the snow and wind combo for impacts.

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I feel bad for all the local NWS offices, the model spread on this is ridiculously huge.
Also, these dynamic cooling setups are quite fickle and dependent upon everything maxing out. I was involved with the horrible bust on 12/24/14, the NAM had a few runs similar to what 18z just showed including the 12z run the day before, and we literally got nothing. Everything fell apart.

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4 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

Ended up a bit more spread the wealth for areas slightly farther south in metro, roughly I-80 corridor and north, while slightly lower on max totals. All in all, two incredible model runs for the metro, with as you said high end on the snow and wind combo for impacts.

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I may be forgettting something, but from a wet snow and wind perspective, the only other storm I can think of in the past 20 years that even remotely resembles what the NAM is advertising in the LOT cwa is 3/9/98.  And that one was more of a city/south storm, with biggest impacts in northwest Indiana.  The 18z NAM would surpass what that 1998 storm did.  This would be an entirely different beast from the GHD storms with major power outage concerns.

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6 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

Also, these dynamic cooling setups are quite fickle and dependent upon everything maxing out. I was involved with the horrible bust on 12/24/14, the NAM had a few runs similar to what 18z just showed including the 12z run the day before, and we literally got nothing. Everything fell apart.

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Yeah, what is interesting though now at least locally is the low is going to south and the winds shift out of the NE at the surface fairly quickly into the event, we actually start cooling by midday here. If that were to happen would lead credence to the quick hit in the evening here.

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33 minutes ago, Snowstorms said:

There's always that one super amped 18z run within 48 hours of every storm, lol.  

But damn that is one sharp cut-off. Hamilton in the bulls eye with a whopping 18-20" and only 4.0" at YYZ. 

Looks like more than that at YYZ proper, just going by the QPF maps. But that is an incredibly tight gradient across the City. Eastern burbs smoking flurries.

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4 minutes ago, Stebo said:

No it is a system that phases in the region and slides east, it isn't really cutting north except up to I-70 before phasing and sliding eastward.

Will add here that every time we've had these long warm interludes during this cold season, they've ended very abruptly, and usually with something dynamic and snowy. So, this would continue that theme imho

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1 minute ago, Angrysummons said:

That is what the foreign models do. But the GFS is different and I suspect the NAM will eventually catch on to that as well and stop developing the occluding low so far south. The GEFS were pretty vocal on that low being pretty strong cutting through the lakes and landing over SNE. That looks about right.

The rain/wind will be impressive as will the lake/coastal erosion...........the snow side? bleh. Localized slop.

GFS and the NAM are pretty much on par with storm location, the difference is the GFS doesn't handle dynamic cooling events very well, so I am not sure what you are seeing because I am definitely not seeing that.

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1 minute ago, Angrysummons said:

Not the coastal/occlusion low, it is to far south initially on the NAM, which changes the dynamics. The GFS is much more compact and makes more sense. The 18z NAM will not verify as is.

It isn't occluding... it is phasing with the northern stream energy.

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20 minutes ago, snowstormcanuck said:

Looks like more than that at YYZ proper, just going by the QPF maps. But that is an incredibly tight gradient across the City. Eastern burbs smoking flurries.

According to the link below (8th member of the Euro ensemble run), there are some amped up 12Z Euro ensemble members with over 1" QPF for the GTA. And also some whiffs and some in-between.

https://weather.us/model-charts/euro/7cde42424525268bfe98328ed2d8f162/m8_acc-total-precipitation/20180303-0600z.html

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