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Christmas Storm V


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At 72hrs 1000mb low due east of Myrtle Beach and due south of Hatteras moving out to sea. It still seems to me that the ridge axis over the Rockies is just a little too far east to allow this thing to phase early enough. As we are getting closer to the event it seems the models are starting to fall into a consensus of a low tracking further out to sea with the heavier precip remaining near the coast. Could it trend a little back to the west? Sure sometimes these southern stream systems are more resilient than the models give them credit for.

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People, people, before this thread turns into a disaster it's not 100% over, not looking good but it's close and lots of things have to happen. Models are not perfect and neither are people. Bashing a model simply because it doesn't give you what you want is silly. If the QPF over performs we might still get a good snow out of this so just chill out. It's a bummer the Euro is falling more in line with the GFS but for folks in the Carolinas it's not over.

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This would be a 2-4" storm for some, maybe an inch here if I am lucky, The winner on this run is eastern NC. These is also a flurry/snsh threat afterward but no biggy. Want to get good totals- go up the mountains/usual upslope areas. Stick a fork in the big storm for everyone. Mass weenie cliff diving commence....

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People, people, before this thread turns into a disaster it's not 100% over, not looking good but it's close and lots of things have to happen. Models are not perfect and neither are people. Bashing a model simply because it doesn't give you what you want is silly. If the QPF over performs we might still get a good snow out of this so just chill out. It's a bummer the Euro is falling more in line with the GFS but for folks in the Carolinas it's not over.

Hey Burger, mind telling me some QPF for central NC from the Euro?

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This would be a 2-4" storm for some, maybe an inch here if I am lucky, The winner on this run is eastern NC. These is also a flurry/snsh threat afterward but no biggy. Want to get good totals- go up the mountains/usual upslope areas. Stick a fork in the big storm for everyone. Mass weenie cliff diving commence....

Even ATL is above freezing at the surface. Lame!

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this played out like my discussion 2 pages back. The first northern wave isn't consolidated or sharp enough to pick up the Texas low, so it weakens the Texas ULL as it approaches western Louisiana. Meanwhile, the westerly and colder winds sweep into the Southeastern Upper sections with a light band of very light snow. Then, the 2nd piece of energy or strung out 3rd and 4th pieces I should say, continue to dig south and maybe westward, but by then its about too late, becuase the Gulf wave is considerably sheared , but whats left of it could begin redeveloping and develop a little bit of a southeast coastal and thats the one that could clip eastern Carolinas.

So, there's probably not goin to be the QPF over most of Tenn, and especially northeast GA and western Carolinas thats shown on the ECMWF if this is how it plays out. It isn't much shown anyway, less than .25" for most arond here, but that would realistically be passing flurries as the northern stream just brings in moisture from the west, which always dies out east of the mountains in this flow. Could literally be partly cloudy, flurries in the mountains.

The best chance in this setup is north of the Gulf low, around central Alabama and central GA to eastern Half of the Carolinas. Coastal NC could get clipped very nicely if it develops strongly and quickly.

But, all this could fail miserably if the handling of either stream is not exactly , precisely right. And if thats the case, a huge different outcome would occur. You just can't say yet. Watch and wait.

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CAE is at .25 for the whole period maybe.. falling as snow but definitely not accumulating.

ATL is at .29, probably all snow maybe a brief mix but then then the surface is above freezing.

GSP is at .13 as snow, but surface warm.

CLT .20 snow, and still barely above freezing on the surface.

CHS .44 rain/mix/changing to snow .. above freezing surface...

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