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December 2022 Medium-Long Range Disco


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Yeah but when you are getting into late December, it is becoming our climo wheelhouse. The days will be the shortest they are all year. 

Not really. We rarely see December snow anymore, especially significant snow. It’s not about the amount of daylight. It’s about the cold air masses and being in the heart of winter. Late January into February is our climo wheelhouse. Especially for a MECS/SECS/HECS
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25 minutes ago, Interstate said:

Yeah but when you are getting into late December, it is becoming our climo wheelhouse. The days will be the shortest they are all year. 

When you consider since 1888, the Washington DC reporting station has only had snow on the ground 19 times on Christmas Day, late December still isn’t our wheelhouse. From a climo sense its more likely the 23rd storm favors the interior. Hope I’m wrong.

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Would be pretty lame to get skunked in December given that there has absolutely 100% been cold  around (or attainable) for the entire last year going back to November '21.  Another battle is against the GOM and Atlantic temps which still seem to be on the warmer side of the anomalies (though I don't how much that would impact interior sections). 

Re the storm prospects, looks like there's a way to score with that initial wave/overrunning on the GFS before a flip, and then again on the tail end as the front sweeps through.

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Not really. We rarely see December snow anymore, especially significant snow. It’s not about the amount of daylight. It’s about the cold air masses and being in the heart of winter. Late January into February is our climo wheelhouse. Especially for a MECS/SECS/HECS
Blizzard of 73 in South Carolina happened in February
2010 had that February snow

So this has been a case for awhile

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Ridging out west is getting flatter each run. Subtle but Looping last 6 runs its noticeable. Going to be a challenge to keep this one along/off the coast. Just my preliminary thoughts. I keep saying by Sunday I would committ one way of the other. Still time to go and still sone opportunity even with an inland track for some frozen for many.

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5 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

So far, doesn't look like the GFS is backing down

Wrt the TPV in Canada it’s not. That’s good.  I think there is a reasonable chance the Gfs is more right there. The reason I’m not more bullish on this setup is even if the Gfs scores the coup there…and the tpv sides east on top…it still stalls west of ideal and the pna is west of where we want and with mo 50/50…it would still be a struggle to prevent a cutter. Just might cut up the Apps not to Chicago.  But with a more Gfs progression we might have a better shot with a thump on the front or 1-2” on the back. So it’s better. Hope I’m wrong and this trends to a HECS but I’d be rooting for that lead wave as our best shot to get on the board. 

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