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MO/KS/AR/OK 2024-2025 Winter Discussion


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8 hours ago, StormChazer said:

I'm OK with this 5 days out.

I obviously want a shift north, but the fact that the EURO is hanging onto a snowstorm in and around our area is a good place to be at this stage.

Now we just cross our fingers for a 50 mile shift north and we are COOKING.

 

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SGF explicitly stating that they expect their forecast area yo remain dry all week. Kinda surprising 

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Starting to feel depression! Tulsa has gotten the shaft for several years now! This storm goes bonkers in Kansas and Missouri and the storm later this week is gonna go bonkers for Texas! Talk about bad luck...I'm still so bitter about Tulsa's "Donut Hole" last year! (Sorry for Debbie downer post) I was certain this would be a good pattern for us...unbelievable!:facepalm:

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Logically & climatologically speaking I am finding it absurd to think much of central and northeast TX could see over a foot of snow by next weekend. I still expect the models to jog the storm track 50-75 miles more to the north putting the I-44 I-40 corridor in the bullseye in the coming days. I'm waiting for the NAM runs to come in.

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Last nights runs did 2 things.

 

1) All the major models now agree on the idea of a major winter storm impacting Texas/Oklahoma in a broad but relatively same area. Beforehand, there was still some discrepancy on whether it would happen or not in the runs.

 

2) There was a northward shift in the precip amounts, mostly due to a broad area of snow that is expected to develop and push through most of us.

These new runs put most of us in the 2-6 inch range.

My rule of thumb is it usually takes at least 4 inches to be a truly memorable, nice blanket of snow on everything worth playing in etc.

 

I’m hoping last night’s runs aren’t the needle swinging in the opposite direction only for it to move back south a little more, and instead it is a trend that the afternoon models will reinforce.

 

I’ll continue to post precip maps etc from my weather bell account. If anyone has any requests, let me know and I’ll post it.

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9 hours ago, stormdragonwx said:

Logically & climatologically speaking I am finding it absurd to think much of central and northeast TX could see over a foot of snow by next weekend. I still expect the models to jog the storm track 50-75 miles more to the north putting the I-44 I-40 corridor in the bullseye in the coming days. I'm waiting for the NAM runs to come in.

Why? Historically N and NE TX get huge snows from these type set ups. SW trough and coastal surface low with cold air in place equals 6-12" for I-20. OK and AR may get in on this one more than in a typical coastal low event as there is an additional lobe of energy on the NW side of this one. This is similar if a bit colder version of 2/2010.

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1 minute ago, StormChazer said:

One thing looks to be apparent, it’ll be a sharp  gradient between the have and have-nots.

I just want at least 4 in Tulsa. I don’t need 8-12(although I’d love that), just at least 4.

Very doable with this setup, but I’d we can shift north a little more over the next 36 hours that’ll make me feel better.

Yah same here.  That cutoff is concerning and close to me.

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Maybe this is just a bias from my days of tracking when I lived in VA... but I feel like right now you'd prefer the models to be a bit south at this point. Certainly shifted north last time once we got within a couple days before the event. Then held steady-ish, though I for sure got way more sleet than expected and much less FZRA (not that I'm complaining)

Some of this "Texas is gonna get a foot" seems absurd to me. Surely it has to come north some!

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17 minutes ago, The Ole Bucket said:

Maybe this is just a bias from my days of tracking when I lived in VA... but I feel like right now you'd prefer the models to be a bit south at this point. Certainly shifted north last time once we got within a couple days before the event. Then held steady-ish, though I for sure got way more sleet than expected and much less FZRA (not that I'm complaining)

Some of this "Texas is gonna get a foot" seems absurd to me. Surely it has to come north some!

I’m not sure we can count on a northern shift. Ensembles are fairly dialed in. 

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41 minutes ago, The Ole Bucket said:

Maybe this is just a bias from my days of tracking when I lived in VA... but I feel like right now you'd prefer the models to be a bit south at this point. Certainly shifted north last time once we got within a couple days before the event. Then held steady-ish, though I for sure got way more sleet than expected and much less FZRA (not that I'm complaining)

Some of this "Texas is gonna get a foot" seems absurd to me. Surely it has to come north some!

The upper low path is pretty locked in and has been for days. It will dig into N MX tomorrow before kicking out along the MX/US border. As it kicks out a low will form around Brownsville, TX and travel up the coast. This is a pattern that happens every winter and they rarely go north of models. If anything they tend to be suppressed by the Arctic high pressures over the top of them.

Y'all could get some snow out of this as the SW trough merges into the Polar jet. The heavy stuff is related to the Gulf low though.

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1 hour ago, The Ole Bucket said:

Maybe this is just a bias from my days of tracking when I lived in VA... but I feel like right now you'd prefer the models to be a bit south at this point. Certainly shifted north last time once we got within a couple days before the event. Then held steady-ish, though I for sure got way more sleet than expected and much less FZRA (not that I'm complaining)

Some of this "Texas is gonna get a foot" seems absurd to me. Surely it has to come north some!

Surface low location is pretty locked in. It'll move around a bit but no big changes this close probably. The bigger issues are how far north the snow is able to progress north which depends on the orientation of the system to the southwest and how the digging northern energy phases with it, and how quickly additional northern stream energy cuts off the progress of the moisture streaming north. In the perfect scenario the digging energy causes a part of the trough to tilt negative which slings the precip back farther north and west, which may happen for a brief period if all goes well. Getting the trough to be more neutral would be good as well but it probably won't last long as the additional northern energy will shift the winds behind it back to the north which shuts off the precip, and can be seen pretty dramatically on the 12z Euro snow maps. 

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