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Did it miss the phase @24?

I was thinking the same thing. It looked like it was going to be a full phase at hr 24 or 27 but it really didn't happen until hr 30. I'm not sure if I was missing something there. You could see what looked like a phase starting at hr 18 and 21. Can anyone explain this for me?

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Man this is nice....I can't go wrong here! I'll get a few inches in Kvegas, and I'm headed to Washington, NC tomorrow where I'll probably get 5-10" there as well. What's a weenie to do?? :thumbsup:

Anyway, I can't watch this storm anymore. Too much to do now. But I have to say that the dedication shown by team here is admirable. Even kind of scary. :huh: I hope each and every one of you is rewarded for your efforts this week. If you are all as tired as I am from the shopping, work and staying up all night on this damn board that we love, then go get some sleep! The sledding starts in 24 hours!!!

Be good everybody, and have a very Merry Christmas.

BOOM! :snowman:

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I just got back from the hospital. Had to call the ambulance for my mom, so please keep her in your thoughts. The board is obviously slow, and for good reason. Our big one could still be on. I like the nam and now the GFS as well. Haven't had a chance to look at much anything else. Hope everyone is having a good Christmas Eve, and finally I think a lot of us will see a White Christmas. Overnight tomorrow night should be fun with good rates, and 850 developing low and the inverted Savannah River Trough that should enhance snow rates in ne GA , western SC and foothills of NC, so I'm pretty excited to see a Gulf low coming from the perfect position for my area and the Upstate , North GA , its been a long time coming. I want to say what a fun ride this has been, and I know it hasn't happened yet, but something good is about to happen I'm sure. Great discussions from all of us this week. Hopefully soon we'll be looking back with good memories on the Big Christmas Snowstorm of 2010.

I'll try to update the blog, but theres a million things going on now. Don't know if I can. Merry Christmas!

http://shelbyweather.blogspot.com I'll try to cover the entire southeast but I do concentrate on Ne GA and the western Carolinas.

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less than 1" qpf? I'd image we could be breaking 1" over a good chunk of the state.

the reason i believe so is that the qpf looks too light at 30. WIth a bombing low off the SC coast I'd think the precip intensity would be exploding over the area.

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Check out the RGEM. Major shift west even from 18z. If the 00z GGEM and Euro don't shift west, then I won't know what to say.

It's ever so slightly disappointing that the 00z GFS had slightly lower totals than the 18z. It does seem the the 18z runs are often more "out there" compared to 00z. And also, the models still seem to be coming to terms with how the storm will play out. So we'll see. Even see, 0.75" to 1" of liquid is nothing to sneeze at, and even if we get ratios of 7:1 and some initial rain, and cut that amount in half, that's still a good 2-3" minimum.

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less than 1" qpf? I'd image we could be breaking 1" over a good chunk of the state.

I agree... compared to 18z this run should have more precip over SC/NC but it seems that the model limits itself between .1-.25" amounts at 30hrs when there should be some +.25" amounts at that 6 hour interval. I'm not going to agonize over the precipitation grids though... our event is almost upon us.

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Unbelievable with the trends that we keep seeing. I'm beginning to think that 3-5 wouldn't be out of the question for the CLT region with another bit of a shift west like what we have been seeing on the modeling. Just look at the way this thing develops from WV: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/ecwv.html Now awaiting to see what the Euro has to say about all this. :)

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Check out the RGEM. Major shift west even from 18z. If the 00z GGEM and Euro don't shift west, then I won't know what to say.

It's ever so slightly disappointing that the 00z GFS had slightly lower totals than the 18z. It does seem the the 18z runs are often more "out there" compared to 00z. And also, the models still seem to be coming to terms with how the storm will play out. So we'll see. Even see, 0.75" to 1" of liquid is nothing to sneeze at, and even if we get ratios of 7:1 and some initial rain, and cut that amount in half, that's still a good 2-3" minimum.

Even just looking at the 500mb heights... this is a more amplified solution that should be able to spit out more precip than the 18z run. There isn't much convection in the Atlantic robbing the moisture source either, so I'm going to say the GFS just isn't handling the banding that will be occurring on the northwestern flank of the surface and 850mb low.

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