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


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On 1/6/2025 at 1:36 PM, 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!

 

Saw FZRA icing accumulation this past weekend was actually 0.50 - 0.75 inches in southeastern MO (St Louis NWS) storm report near Chloride. Just like the GFS painted there last week.

A 2.5" Sleet LSR somewhere in that region as well, but there was snow mixed in many of those sleet reports.

Things are trending less snow and potentially more icing over Eastern TX because of projected warmer LLs, but possibly a dismal rain only. Even in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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And just like that, the 12Z NAM has ALL the meteorologists biting their nails.

 

The storm just doesn’t manifest.

The precip train stays to the south of DFW and the cold air doesn’t catch it. Dry and where there is precip it’s rain.

And we don’t even sniff flurries up here on that run.

 

So here’s to hoping the NAM is out to lunch and not onto something…

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10 minutes ago, MoWeatherguy said:

Canadian did hold.  There's only 4 inches difference between it and GFS lol.  Has Canada ever had it right?

I want to say there's an interesting statistic that when the Canadian and ICON agree with one another, it has a very good track record.

But otherwise, it's always too cold or overdoes it.

It is the optomist's model, lol.

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6 minutes ago, StormChazer said:

High res NAM

This is 8:00PM on Thursday. I would say this is probably the best case scenario at this point that we could reasonably expect.

 

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This is midnight's totals with precip still falling.

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We'll be lucky to squeeze out a couple of inches for those of us in these northern reaches of AR, OK, and SW MO.

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8 minutes ago, StormChazer said:

High res NAM

This is 8:00PM on Thursday. I would say this is probably the best case scenario at this point that we could reasonably expect.

 

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This is midnight's totals with precip still falling.

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Images are at different times, but still a good run 

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7 minutes ago, StormChazer said:

Beginning to notice a favorable trend. It appears there will be a decent bit of energy on the northern side of this storm that benefits us. Here is some examples.

Last frame of the HRRR shows the second bit of precip.

About as good of a trend we can ask for under 48 hours out.

 

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0z GFS is following suit.  Snow amounts in our northern reaches has almost doubled from what was depicted at 12z this morning.  Below is 0z tonight. 

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9 minutes ago, The Ole Bucket said:

Absolutely. But this is one case where I do worry that while the whole storm may indeed drift north the cutoff may be sharper than what is being modeled. Feels like it depends on that other little feature to the north and west...

Yes, I agree.  And then there's the warm nose issue that is always mishandled.  I think the 12+ on models down south is way overdone. 

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