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January Medium/Long Range Discussion


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We’re seriously discounting this storm because the GFS doesn’t have it 5-6 days out? Icon RGEM and cmc are all more similar to the Euro than the GFS at 500 & H5. Also, the GFS’s 5 day verification score hasn’t actually been that good as of late. The storm we scored 2 Monday’s ago was a nothing burger until about 48-60 hours out. Anything is still possible. Buffalo wasn’t seeing 1-2 feet of snow from yesterdays system until about 72 hours out. I get that we have different climo, but the point remains the same regarding track and evolution of systems. 

This can’t be as black and white as “one model has this nailed down perfectly and the other is completely wrong” this far out.  Both could very well be incorrect and the solution lies somewhere in the middle or… something entirely different plays out altogether. 

We need yesterdays system out of the picture and the prospective players on the field before we can start discounting models entirely. Hoping one is right because it shows snow or saying the GFS is right because it’s done OK lately is not a legit way to go about It. 
 

We all know It is going to take near perfect timing for this to pan out, but discounting it entirely this far out is just silly.  

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3 minutes ago, jayyy said:

This can’t be as black and white as “one model has this nailed down perfectly and the other is completely wrong” this far out.  Both could very well be incorrect and the solution lies somewhere in the middle or… something entirely different plays out altogether. 

We need yesterdays system out of the picture and the prospective players on the field before we can start discounting models entirely. Hoping one is right because it shows snow or saying the GFS is right because it’s done OK lately is not a legit way to go about It. 

We all know It is going to take near perfect timing for this to pan out, but discounting it entirely this far out is just silly.  

No one is doing this, except maybe tongue-in-cheek. 

People (correctly) have a healthy dose of skepticism. But no one is doing what you describe.

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49 minutes ago, ovechkin said:

A red tag in another thread mentioned the GFS doesn’t handle SS as well in this range. Then again the EURO is as reliable as the Caps goaltending.  Which will be correct? Calgon take me away! (1980’s commercial reference for anyone under 40.)

A non red tagger, me, brought up this same issue earlier today lol

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7 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Oh man, oldie but goodie.  Now we need to drag out the JMA

In Korea and Japan the weenies make fun of the GFS. These aren't your grandpa's Asian models.

And the hi-res version of the ICON is go good in the Alps region of Europe that they don't even look at anything besides the ICON and EC.

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1 minute ago, eduggs said:

In Korea and Japan the weenies make fun of the GFS. These aren't your grandpa's Asian models.

And the hi-res version of the ICON is go good in the Alps region of Europe that they don't even look at anything besides the ICON and EC.

The ICON was pretty good for our last storm. Very consistent too. Only issue for me are the snow maps on TT which are always wrong. But others have correct ones. WB I think.

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9 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

The ICON was pretty good for our last storm. Very consistent too. Only issue for me are the snow maps on TT which are always wrong. But others have correct ones. WB I think.

Yeah it was pretty good, but it's still not on the same level as the EC, GFS, UK, and CMC. But if the Deutscher WetterDienst continues developing it, it might soon be.

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