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February 4th-7th Winter Storm Potential


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3 minutes ago, Baum said:

most likely overdone...as they typically are...any year...and I would not say amped. Looks like a solid 3-6" snow event with the wildcard being lake enhancement. This was never a 8-12" type event in this neck of the woods. 12Z GFS holds serve on placement it appears.

Kuchera fluffy amped. 2-4" looks reasonable with someone near Alek receiving 5". Although inexplicably he'll measure 2.7"

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Unfortunately, wouldn't say confidence in the outcome has increased today for the LOT CWA. While the NAM and GFS were good, and 3km NAM was decent, other models backed off/shifted southeast with snow swath, most notably UKMET and GEFS. Hopefully the 12z Euro doesn't follow the trends of the other guidance since it's overall been most consistent with this set-up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Baum said:

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still a couple inches here, but that model looks weak across the board just about everyone. Can't really say I ever lend to much credence to it in the first place.

I think it's more the placement than the amounts.  The Ukie amounts look relatively similar to most other models but it is farther south.  If we had a UKMET Kuchera map, that would probably be about 4-7" in the se 1/2 of LOT and 6-8" in the narrow band running northeast from STL.  

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1 minute ago, Hoosier said:

I think it's more the placement than the amounts.  The Ukie amounts look relatively similar to most other models but it is farther south.  If we had a UKMET Kuchera map, that would probably be about 4-7" in the se 1/2 of LOT and 6-8" in the narrow band running northeast from STL.  

good point. That sounds a bit better than the moderate intensity event the map shows.

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7 minutes ago, Thundersnow12 said:

Trend is pretty clear so far with faster nrn stream/central plains wave leading to less favorable tilt of the mean trof. Euro is a snoozer up here. 2" and change. NCEP guidance only ones in the wetter camp so toss. Ukie/GEM/Euro all stepped worse. 15z RAP also with that guidance as well. 

The central plains wave has been the problem for the models.  The GFS, for example, initially had this wave becoming very progressive and badly stretched out.  Then, a day or so ago, it suddenly trended toward a much slower, closed-off wave that even allowed good snow to get pulled back into Iowa.  That was clearly wrong as well.  The other models have been less extreme, but they've all struggled with the details of that wave.

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