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Thursday 1/20/22 Stat Padder Discussion and Observations


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  On 1/20/2022 at 10:56 AM, osfan24 said:

Think this one is going down as a bust. We NEVER do well with these kinds of waves where it starts as rain and then will change over to snow. The cold is always later arriving than models believe. I'm supposed to be flipping over in the next hour and it looks like the cold air is still stuck up in PA northwest of Hagerstown.

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Certainly appears that way. May very well come down to models being just to 1-2 hours off on the arrival of cold air. Unless that R/S line starts hauling ass, I’m not sure we see more than an hour or two of wet snow that doesn’t stick to roadways. Bummer. 

My son up at the Mount in Emmitsburg just texted and said they’re currently seeing a rain/snow mix 

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  On 1/20/2022 at 11:04 AM, jayyy said:

Certainly appears that way. May very well come down to models being just to 1-2 hours off on the arrival of cold air. Unless that R/S line starts hauling ass, I’m not sure we see more than an hour or two of wet snow that doesn’t stick to roadways. Bummer. 

My son up at the Mount in Emmitsburg just texted and said they’re currently seeing a rain/snow mix 

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It's a shame because the returns overhead right now are really nice. There is definitely some juice in this wave. Just not cold air.

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  On 1/20/2022 at 11:02 AM, Weather Will said:

Still rain in Brunswick.  King GFS is going to bust on this one….

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Probably wasn’t the best move for us to bank on the GFS in this setup for sure. It’s been the king so far this season, but we also haven’t seen a frontal wave rain to snow setup before today. This setup is more in the wheelhouse of models like the hi res NAM since we’re talking about a potential for rain to heavy snow at 32-33 degrees. Minute details mean everything, which isn’t exactly the GFS’s specialty. 

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  On 1/20/2022 at 11:10 AM, jayyy said:

Probably wasn’t the best move for us to bank on the GFS in this setup for sure. It’s been the king so far this season, but we also haven’t seen a frontal wave rain to snow setup before today. This setup is more in the wheelhouse of models like the NAM Nest since we’re talking about a potential for rain to heavy snow at 32-33 degrees. Minute details mean everything, which isn’t exactly the GFS’s specialty. 

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The bigger problem isn’t the temps…they will crash in the next couple hours. It’s that the front is more progressive and the wave gets pressed south before the cold can get in. It’s only a couple hours off but that was the couple hours it was supposed to be snowing. I never posted much on this because I had a gut feeling this was how it would play out (we’re in a very suppressive flow right now) and I didn’t want to be a deb in the thread. 

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  On 1/20/2022 at 11:17 AM, psuhoffman said:

The bigger problem isn’t the temps…they will crash in the next couple hours. It’s that the front is more progressive and the wave gets pressed south before the cold can get in. It’s only a couple hours off but that was the couple hours it was supposed to be snowing. I never posted much on this because I had a gut feeling this was how it would play out (we’re in a very suppressive flow right now) and I didn’t want to be a deb in the thread. 

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Yeeeep. Can easily see how the GFS’s solution from yesterday could have unfolded if cold air got here like 2 hours earlier, but the timing just isn’t right. Oh well. Ended up being exactly what models showed a few days ago. A mainly rain to snow nothing-burger. On to next Tuesday!

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Not sure why the NWS didn’t mention the bust potential in their 4am discussion…I’m not saying they should have dropped the advisories but they should have at least mentioned that this didn’t seem to be materializing as advertised. Could definitely see it at 4am. Hopefully we still get an hour or 2 burst. 

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  On 1/20/2022 at 11:20 AM, osfan24 said:

I guess the bobchill heater is over. You could argue, while we got some snow, the last "big" storm trended away from us and ended way northwest, this one is going to end up as a rainstorm, and the weekend system is, at best, giving the immediate coast some snow.

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In the short term… sure. But we still have at least a few more potential threats to track over the next few weeks. As PSU said a week or two ago, our best chances will come in the 21st-28th window when we have a more ideal setup for a coastal storm to develop. 
 

Definitely would have been nice to cash in on a few inches from this one today with models primarily showing us below freezing for the next week to allow snowpack to hang around, but we can’t win em all I guess. 

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  On 1/20/2022 at 11:30 AM, Baltimorewx said:

Not sure why the NWS didn’t mention the bust potential in their 4am discussion…I’m not saying they should have dropped the advisories but they should have at least mentioned that this didn’t seem to be materializing as advertised. Could definitely see it at 4am. Hopefully we still get an hour or 2 burst. 

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my kid got a 2hr delay for rain :lol: 

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  On 1/20/2022 at 11:41 AM, osfan24 said:

Ha, same. I guess it's better than them being off.....for now.

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  On 1/20/2022 at 11:43 AM, BristowWx said:

our county got rid of the delay and just made them asynch days...actually proving to be a decent idea I think so far..the 2 hour delay was a big waste of time...they get in and put bags down, eat lunch and leave. 

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Baltimore County just closed for the day. 

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