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


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6 minutes ago, fountainguy97 said:

Man the gfs is just absurd for cold. 9+ days most of the state below freezing starting Sunday. Those with snow cover have 5+ nights in the single digits or 0.

 

my wallet is thin as it is lol. Heat bills are going to be crazy.

This weather could be historic regardless of snow. I don't know what the record is for staying below freezing is in Tennessee, but I have think what the GFS is showing is a pretty big deal. I can remember maybe 3  days below freezing in a row.

Nuts what is being advertised. We are not ready or equipped for this! 

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By the 0z GFS having low sitting about 50 miles from Hatteras its another shift westward. Today the GFS has shifted the low track about 200 miles total westward. If we can get this thing running inside Hatteras like through Albemarle Sound that back far western precip shield will include Nashville. For GFS that is a trend westward with the low track on the operational through the day today. Also even as modeled the precip shield both north and west extent is under modeled likely as we see in these storms pretty much every year for as far as I can remember.

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17 minutes ago, TellicoWx said:

Quick search for streaks below freezing (have to go back to 1890's):

Nashville : 9 days

Knoxville: 10 days

So while tracking snow is fun, we could possibly looking at at least a top 5 historic cold streak. 

And potentially the second winter in a row with coldest of winter for many when the MJO is strong in the MC.

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Final piece of the puzzle maybe @Holston_River_Rambler...MRX AFD this morning:

Once we get into the afternoon hours the lapse rates
above the low level inversion increase enough that a few hundred
J/kg of CAPE may be present in the atmosphere. This is enough to
warrant the mention of the possibility for occasional rumbles of
thunder, mainly across the central and southern Valley this
afternoon.
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IMO they seemed more optimistic for early next week than usual. Not sure if that is a good or a bad thing for my very weird snow superstitions at his range:

Clouds increase on Sunday night into Monday, and light precipitation
is forecast to overspread the region during the day on Monday. This
will be in response to divergence associated with a strengthening
300mb 140 kt upper jet across the Central Appalachians through the
Mid-Atlantic. Low-level convergent 850mb flow will increase and
overrun the cold air at the surface. GFS forecast soundings for
Monday show a saturated profile through the DGZ with temperatures
below freezing through the entire atmosphere. Surface temperatures
would likely be in the mid 20s while precipitation is falling which
would result in higher SLRs. Deterministic models and ensembles are
in good agreement with the setup for Monday. The big question is the
exact amounts of QPF. The ECMWF is showing closer to 0.1 inch, the
GFS is near 0.3 inch, and the GDPS is around 0.3 inch. With colder
temperatures resulting in higher SLR of 12:1 to 16:1 according to
the NBM on Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning, any small
changes in liquid QPF will create large changes to expected snow
totals. At this time, we will continue with around 0.2 inch QPF for
this system which is producing a mean of 2 to 3 inches of snow. The
NBM probabilities for 1 inch of snow in CHA is around 40 percent, at
both TYS and TRI the probability is around 70 percent.

As we head into Tuesday, bigger questions arise. The GFS and GDPS
are more progressive and negatively tilted with the approaching
shortwave and upper trough while the ECMWF is less progressive with
this shortwave and results in a weaker surface low. While the
deterministic ECMWF shows the weaker solution, many of its ensembles
continue to show a stronger system with higher QPF and potential
snow on Tuesday. For this reason, there is still a lot of
uncertainty on Tuesday about any potential wrap around moisture with
this southern low pressure system. With the stronger solution, we
likely get another 0.1 to 0.3 QPF, and with the weaker solution, we
get near nothing. The GFS ensembles are consistent with the stronger
solution which would keep precip, and snow, around through Tuesday
night, and perhaps Wednesday morning. These details won`t be
resolved for several days.
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1 minute ago, Holston_River_Rambler said:

IMO they seemed more optimistic for early next week than usual. Not sure if that is a good or a bad thing for my very weird snow superstitions at his range:

Clouds increase on Sunday night into Monday, and light precipitation
is forecast to overspread the region during the day on Monday. This
will be in response to divergence associated with a strengthening
300mb 140 kt upper jet across the Central Appalachians through the
Mid-Atlantic. Low-level convergent 850mb flow will increase and
overrun the cold air at the surface. GFS forecast soundings for
Monday show a saturated profile through the DGZ with temperatures
below freezing through the entire atmosphere. Surface temperatures
would likely be in the mid 20s while precipitation is falling which
would result in higher SLRs. Deterministic models and ensembles are
in good agreement with the setup for Monday. The big question is the
exact amounts of QPF. The ECMWF is showing closer to 0.1 inch, the
GFS is near 0.3 inch, and the GDPS is around 0.3 inch. With colder
temperatures resulting in higher SLR of 12:1 to 16:1 according to
the NBM on Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning, any small
changes in liquid QPF will create large changes to expected snow
totals. At this time, we will continue with around 0.2 inch QPF for
this system which is producing a mean of 2 to 3 inches of snow. The
NBM probabilities for 1 inch of snow in CHA is around 40 percent, at
both TYS and TRI the probability is around 70 percent.

As we head into Tuesday, bigger questions arise. The GFS and GDPS
are more progressive and negatively tilted with the approaching
shortwave and upper trough while the ECMWF is less progressive with
this shortwave and results in a weaker surface low. While the
deterministic ECMWF shows the weaker solution, many of its ensembles
continue to show a stronger system with higher QPF and potential
snow on Tuesday. For this reason, there is still a lot of
uncertainty on Tuesday about any potential wrap around moisture with
this southern low pressure system. With the stronger solution, we
likely get another 0.1 to 0.3 QPF, and with the weaker solution, we
get near nothing. The GFS ensembles are consistent with the stronger
solution which would keep precip, and snow, around through Tuesday
night, and perhaps Wednesday morning. These details won`t be
resolved for several days.

Wait until they look at their Ole reliable 6z Dr No (aka NBM) lol

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