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The Weekend Rule? Saturday 2/17 - The Icon Storm


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Interesting tweet, and digging deeper into the upper level maps, I agree.

This gets us more upside in terms of qpf, but the DC metro is dangerously close to missing the best banding with this north trend. 

I don't think we go 4/4 on last minute south trend this time.

 

 

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Why is anybody posting anything from DT? The dude is an embarrassment. He is on the wrong side of the forecast so often but that’s not the real issue. Somehow he’s allowed to make errors in his forecast on a consistent basis, but he is quick to criticize the forecast of other meteorologist, and often in such a rude way that he just makes himself look bad. He definitely has issues. I will admit I follow him, but not because of his forecast and the fact that he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. No I follow him because it’s a freaking train wreck. I love it when he says something can’t happen and then the next model runs it happens. Many times when the weather is not going the way he predicted somehow his server goes down or there’s another personal crisis where he can’t get on to make a post. Look things happen, but it seems very convenient that they happen when his forecast goes up and smoke. He is a joke.


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7 minutes ago, Snowguy66 said:

Why is anybody posting anything from DT? The dude is an embarrassment. He is on the wrong side of the forecast so often but that’s not the real issue. Somehow he’s allowed to make errors in his forecast on a consistent basis, but he is quick to criticize the forecast of other meteorologist, and often in such a rude way that he just makes himself look bad. He definitely has issues. I will admit I follow him, but not because of his forecast and the fact that he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. No I follow him because it’s a freaking train wreck. I love it when he says something can’t happen and then the next model runs it happens. Many times when the weather is not going the way he predicted somehow his server goes down or there’s another personal crisis where he can’t get on to make a post. Look things happen, but it seems very convenient that they happen when his forecast goes up and smoke. He is a joke.


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3 hours ago, psuhoffman said:

This has sneaky upside.  It's not really a clipper, its a progressive west to east wave that partially phases with the NS.  It's trending more amplified, but I think there is a limit to how far north it can shift given the boundary.  Lift looks maximized in the DGZ and mid level temps are cold.  Get this into the .35-.55 qpf range and this could reasonably become a 4-8" sneaky snowstorm.  

The latest GFS doesn't like your ideas. Only .23.- .39

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1 minute ago, Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Not a big fan of the "dual  maximum" look, but whatever...that's yet to be resolved.  I'm just glad to have a decent advisory-level event in the offing, and it now looks like it should stick around for a day and not torch on Saturday now.

Not 100% sure for DC south, even mby. If the 18z euro jumps north from 12z, I’m pulling the fire alarm on this

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12 minutes ago, stormy said:

The latest GFS doesn't like your ideas. Only .23.- .39

isn't .39 in the .35-.55 range?

eta: PSU wasn’t talking about forum-wide ranges.  He was saying if you could get qpf in your backyard to .4 to .5 then you can multiply by more than 10 and get 4-8” in places.  At least that was my take.

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1 hour ago, WVsnowlover said:

Strange that 10:1 is higher than Kuchera. Definitely looking like the potential is there for the biggest snow of the season for many.

Kuchera (as I understand it) is highly sensitive to the maximum temperature in kelvin in up to 500mb (Tmax below). I ran the calculation for DC for the Euro where the max temp is 273..15 in Kelvin (0 degrees C) during the height of the storm and that translates to 8.01 to 1 ratios using the Kuchera method. 

 

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5 minutes ago, paulythegun said:

Kuchera (as I understand it) is highly sensitive to the maximum temperature in kelvin in up to 500mb (Tmax below). I ran the calculation for DC for the Euro where the max temp is 273..15 in Kelvin (0 degrees C) during the height of the storm and that translates to 8.01 to 1 ratios using the Kuchera method. 

 

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150% upside :)

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So I have a flight out of DCA at 6am to Atlanta on Saturday.  I plan on parking on the top floor of short term parking, so will take a snow measurement from there (probably off someone’s car…I will be gentle, it’s for science).  Figure we can see whose snow measurements are better…the FAA’s or a met school dropout.  Stay tuned!

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