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February 18/19th Storm Potential


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3 minutes ago, CAPE said:

These things always seem to go from something simple and workable to convoluted. The good front end thump is perfect for this set up with the legit cold/dry air in place initially. That idea seems all but gone. The regular GFS still has it though. I will probably have to kick it out of bed in a couple hours.

I was noting earlier that the low track this go around is more of a hybrid Miller A/B, so at least this time we shouldn't have to worry (as much) about transfer issues or a rapidly impinging dry slot. Hoping this time we'll see a prolonged period of fatty flakes before the flip. While during the prolonged snow/sleet/freezing rain/back to snow event the other week I ended up with 4.0" of storm total snow, for the winter thus far I still have yet to see more than 2.5" before ending or mixing. So 3-4" is my bar. If we can get more than that from DC and areas along 50 east to the Cape, and add on a little glaciation with some sleet and freezing rain, I'll be happy. 

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1 minute ago, WxMan1 said:

I was noting earlier that the low track this go around is more of a hybrid Miller A/B, so at least this time we shouldn't have to worry (as much) about transfer issues or a rapidly impinging dry slot. Hoping this time we'll see a prolonged period of fatty flakes before the flip. While during the prolonged snow/sleet/freezing rain/back to snow event the other week I ended up with 4.0" of storm total snow, for the winter thus far I still have yet to see more than 2.5" before ending or mixing. So 3-4" is my bar. If we can get more than that from DC and areas along 50 east to the Cape, and add on a little glaciation with some sleet and freezing rain, I'll be happy. 

Yeah it has been clear since this first began trending back from what looked a rain event, that the best possible outcome would include quite a bit of non-snow p-types for the coastal plain. But now that we are here, the way to maximize the snow part is to get it to come in hot and heavy on the front end. Maybe the precip 'fork' look will morph into something different in the next few runs.

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33 minutes ago, Cobalt said:

KU 101 also suggests that our KUs storms don't come from a +AO, +EPO, +NAO, and -PNA regime in a mod Nina. The fact that there's even an outside chance of getting close to warning level snows within a vicinity of the metros is pretty impressive here. 

KU no but we often do get decent snow events AFTER a blocking episode breaks down due to the course of events that was already set in motion.  

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8 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Previous runs of the HRRR has outright precip hole after the initial round of moisture. The 00z run appears to have that pretty much gone. Things lighten up, but it's not a nasty dry slot or anything.

Here's a fun comparison! I know it's the HRRR at range, but most guidance has wave 2 impacting our area.

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HRRR at hr 46

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Aaaand Euro at the same time. Just a tiny difference. 

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41 minutes ago, BTRWx's Thanks Giving said:

It's good way to extrapolate what may happen. 

eta: The reason I brought this up is just yesterday the euro had a prime KU high.  Now that scenario has changed.

On the 3k the high is north of east of Ontario so I have no idea. Yea the location of that blue H may not be hut there is a huge sprawling banana high from the Midwest to New England and a general center is north of Ontario. On the euro the main max is in upstate NY but the pressure is 1034 north of Ontario and 1035 in upstate NY. That is insignificant. The whole high didn’t move the model is just jumping around with where the exact lowest pressure in that huge sprawling high is run to run.  I honestly don’t have a clue what you’re on about. 

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42 minutes ago, Cobalt said:

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No Short Pump jackpot on DT's first guess.. not sure if that's something to be concerned about or not :ph34r:

That’s actually not a bad map and pretty close to my current thinking in our area. Might be too liberal with the 3-6 area way up north and I might have the axis of the 6-10 more ENE then. NE and make it 6-12 because I think some isolated spots hit close to 12. 

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