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January 15th-17th 2024 Arctic Blast/Snow Event


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The Arctic blast is coming and there's a pretty good shot that at least the western half of the forum seeing several inches of snow. Time to fire up a thread so long range discussion can proceed as normal in the January thread. Don't have the ratio'd Euro but I suspect it's better than the 10:1. 

06z GFS

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00z Euro

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MRX Morning Disco 

"

Early next week will see a dramatic change in the weather brought on
by much colder temperatures for first half of the work week. The two
main impacts for the first part of the week will be bitterly cold
temperatures/wind chill values and possibly accumulating snowfall in
the Valley. Fairly high confidence on the very cold temperatures
with the worst mornings being Tuesday and Wednesday mornings where
ambient temperatures look to drop into the teens, and widespread
single digits Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning will be the
coldest wind chill morning as the winds will be about 5-15 mph out
of the west dropping wind chill values to near zero area-wide and
well below zero in the higher elevations.

The other aspect of this system will be the possibility of
accumulating snowfall across the Valley for Monday through Tuesday.
QPF amounts look somewhat limited for this event, but if the
temperature forecast verifies it will be favorable for snowfall
across much of the area. Probabilistic guidance continues to show a
greater than 50% chance to see over an inch of snow along Interstate
40, with better chances to see more snowfall as you go further
northwest, with around a 20% to see an inch of snow near
Chattanooga. Probabilities of seeing over 3 inches of snow drops down
to about 30% along Interstate 40. So currently most ensemble
guidance is painting possibly Winter Weather Advisory criteria
snowfall amounts for the first half of next week. This is still
several days out and the QPF amounts can change quite a bit with
systems like this, so make sure to stay tuned to the latest forecast
and don`t just pick out the highest forecast snowfall totals you see
on social media as the most likely scenario."

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OHX Morning Disco

"

.LONG TERM...
(Friday Night through next Thursday)
Issued at 203 AM CST Thu Jan 11 2024

Some wrap around moisture will linger into Friday night which
could end as some light snow showers along the Plateau. Little to no
accumulations are expected with those. This weekend will be chilly
with highs in the 30s to low 40s but we are going to miss those
30s and 40s because a very cold airmass will be sagging southward
on Sunday. We`ve been talking about the potential for some snow
early next week and that continues to be the case. Some timing
differences persist, but snow showers will be possible as early
as Sunday night, but more so on Monday as a couple shortwaves
swing through. QPF will likely be light with these disturbances,
but snow ratios will be higher than our typical Middle Tennessee
snows thanks to the cold air in place. The details on the timing
and any snow accumulations will still need to be worked out in the
coming days.

The one thing that has been consistent is the bitterly cold air with
this air mass. Once temperatures drop below freezing Sunday
evening, locations will remain there until at least Wednesday
afternoon, if not Thursday afternoon. Lows Tuesday morning and
Wednesday morning will be in the single digits across the
majority of the area."

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33 minutes ago, fountainguy97 said:

GFS trending toward EURO. All I care about right now is what the euro does. If we can just increase QPF even .15-.2 across the region you're talking about widespread 7-8"IMG_1166.thumb.gif.2918305f538334649354cf3361f8b0d4.gif

 

the ceiling is so high with this one. GFS is snow in the single digits. Ratios will be upwards of 20:1

Also, hasn't the Euro been under performing on precipitation this season so far? With this last storm I was projected to get around 1.5 inches of rain and ended up with 2.5. One can only hope that trend continues next week. 

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2 hours ago, John1122 said:

No morning disco from Memphis yet. That area has the best shot at snow the way it looks now but as always, everything is subject to change. 

This morning the ABC 24 news Meteorologist in Memphis talked about the possibility of accumulating snow in west Tennessee along with bitterly cold temperatures for next week.  He said he was going to wait until tomorrow morning to start talking about/predicting snow totals.  Guess we will see what he says tomorrow 

 

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27 minutes ago, Holston_River_Rambler said:

6z  Euro control was a lot slower and deeper with the trailing wave. It almost looked like it was trying for a suppressed Miller A:

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Wow that was a major East coast Storm there. 12z will be interesting! Need it to turn that corner even faster to get precip back our way but that's a great look 5-6 days out.

 

i feel like we have been saying 6 days out for 4 days now lol.

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Looks to me at hour 120 12Z GFS, the low is centered about 100 miles west of 6z GFS for the same point in time. If we can get that to continue until that sucker is nearer to the coast... At 120 that low though is 100 miles closer to Hatteras than it was at 6Z.

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1 minute ago, John1122 said:

Technically the GFS had it as a perfect Miller A initially and we've wondered through the D5-7 lost phases.

True but it has had every solution possible to be fair lol. Euro more or less set the tone. Really liking this set up, now we need you to book a trip to Chattanooga

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