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Historic Christmas Cold & maybe snow?! Dec 23rd-30th


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26 minutes ago, BlunderStorm said:

I have 3 limiting factors I've become conscious of, 1) Big A Mountain downslope for NW flow events. 2) Clinch Mountain downslope for Miller A events. 3) Warm air advection heading all the way up the Clinch to my doorstep although less than everyone SE of me. I think the big issue for Grundy is the low elevation, it's hard to flush out the warm air from the maze that is the Appalachian Plateau.

That definitely makes a lot of sense. When I was younger and less educated I would get so frustrated because it always seemed like it took a miracle to get snow here. My dad always assured me that it can't snow in (the underworld) to put it PG :lol:

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No idea if it means anything for here, but the Euro is badly missing on snowfall in Southern Nebraska and Northern Kansas. At 00z last night it was giving 1 inch in those areas,  1.5 inches at 12z. They are looking at 3-4+ with 3 hours of blizzard conditions. 

This is the current OBS there. Their NWS said 3 additional inches look possible. 

 

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2 hours ago, Jed33 said:

The GFS is also getting colder for Friday morning! Seeing a lot of sub zero I40 N

I saw Spann got caught off guard tonight when the model showed a 6F/-14.5C for Bham in this outbreak. This must be what you  found. He felt the reading was too low. I'm still sticking with 7F/-14C as Bham lowest, which would match Jans '03 & '14.

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A snip from MRX 3rd shift discussion. "I have been forecasting in the Southeast for 23 years, and I have never seen an outbreak of combined cold and wind like this one. This will be a potentially life-threatening cold event if precautions are not taken. Please see our office social media pages for infographics on how to stay safe"

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Don't have much to add analysis wise, just lurking in the background

Figured a model summary for later posterity might be nice

Now back to prepping for the arctic tundra :shiver:

 

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2 minutes ago, Knoxtron said:

Don't have much to add analysis wise, just lurking in the background

Figured a model summary for later posterity might be nice

Now back to prepping for the arctic tundra :shiver:

 

CANADIAN

Crossville

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Nothing for middle or west folks? SMH

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Looks like the Euro coming in with accumulation was enough to get MRX on board to issue a WWA. The added heavy snow wording to my forecast. They also lowered temps. My forecast is -3 tomorrow night with a high of 3 Friday. 
Yeah they added "Heavy snow" verbiage to my point forecast too and I'm in valley. Think all the reports from the plains has them spooked that even with small amounts of snow the conditions could be severe, even Blizzard like at times like as have been seen so far. Places that only got an inch or 2 like Cheyenne still got Blizzard like blowing snow conditions for a few hours.

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Hrrr is not a fan of eastern areas. Hopefully we see it trend wetter this afternoon.
I think we are going to be stuck in a nowcast situation with this. There have been many things occurring in the plains the last 12 hours that were not modeled correctly even on the hi-res models. Storms of this magnitude don't happen often enough for the models to handle them well.

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7 minutes ago, fountainguy97 said:

Hrrr is not a fan of eastern areas. Hopefully we see it trend wetter this afternoon.

Yeah, noticed that. Hopefully, it's out to lunch on that run. I never liked it as it was always too low on snowfall projections for this area as there were always more realized. however, it did improve last Winter. So, hope it's not onto something.

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