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Christmas Storm V


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I didn't exactly get slammed last winter here. My area was literally within the 5 mile zone of the rain part of the Dec 18 storm. Started as snow for a few minutes, went to sleet, and then the last 6 hours was freezing rain. I think I'm the only one who got a pretty good icestorm from that one (1/4") . I drove to Grover and Blacksburg and they were 99% rain and hardly any sleet. It was wild coming back to my house and seeing such a quick change. Also, went to Shelby uptown and they didn't have much freezing rain, just mostly sleet.

I was in 11th grade and remember it well too. I got very sick right after it hit and couldn't enjoy all the snow. We were out about 2 weeks as well if I recall. The roads were a disaster with black ice every morning, because all the snow that was piled on the sides of the roads from being scraped, just melted enough during the days to form puddles right across the roads every morning.

Hky, if you go back center the 3 day loop on the 21st of the month, I'm wondering if this is a split flow phase. I don't think its a split flow phase like we have now. I know these are separate circumstances, I think its pretty neat to see how that one evolved. You can see the shortwave out in the west drop south of Arizona, then completely swing south of Texas and get pulled north back up into the Gulf, then the rest is magic. I bet that was rare setup.

Yea it's rare to see a stj vort that far south. Only 87 and 93 have that look from going back through old storms.

Just imagine how hard of a time the current mods would have dealing with a s/w that drops into north central mexico and phases with a canadian vort...

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Not nearly as educated as many on here in the science, but it looked like a little phasing with a sheared off piece of our southern stream between 18 and 24 hrs on this run, anyone else see that?

I noticed at hr 18 but wasn't sure if it was any different than previous runs.

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the northern vort is too far east at 36, the southern stream is in Houston, probably going to get squashed. If the northern stream were to come in a little later or a little further west, it would do it. But this run did manage to back up the northern stream a little bit west it appears, on some panels anyway.

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To me it looks like the northern stream is digging too far to the east thru 36hr mark.

I am seeing the same. I think it is in part due to the ull in the northern stream over IA/MO. While it doesn't have a closed contour that vort is preventing the energy from really making it south for the phase.

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the northern vort is too far east at 36, the southern stream is in Houston, probably going to get squashed. If the northern stream were to come in a little later or a little further west, it would do it. But this run did manage to back up the northern stream a little bit west it appears, on some panels anyway.

In your opinion could the northern stream trending a little to the west or is this just noise?

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I am seeing the same. I think it is in part due to the ull in the northern stream over IA/MO. While it doesn't have a closed contour that vort is preventing the energy from really making it south for the phase.

Saw that. It digs SE versus due south like the Euro was depicting several runs ago.

By 18z at least the NAM has a stripe of >.01" QPF over me. So maybe I'll get some flakes. LOL

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