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December Medium/ Long Range


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22 minutes ago, Ji said:

No says no

There likely won't be much if any moisture left by the time the colder air comes in. Places further NW maybe see some snow showers at the end. The GFS and sometimes the 12km NAM seem to overdo this in these situations.

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I mentioned this in a post yesterday afternoon- the NPAC trough digging into the GoA needs to weaken/retrograde towards the Aleutians in order to get some cold air in place with storm chances for our region. The extended products have been advertising this occurring in the last week of the month. The last couple GEFS runs depict this process occurring just before Christmas, as does the 0z GEPS. EPS not quite yet.

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2 hours ago, CAPE said:

I mentioned this in a post yesterday afternoon- the NPAC trough digging into the GoA needs to weaken/retrograde towards the Aleutians in order to get some cold air in place with storm chances for our region. The extended products have been advertising this occurring in the last week of the month. The last couple GEFS runs depict this process occurring just before Christmas, as does the 0z GEPS. EPS not quite yet.

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Even with the advertised 500mb hemispheric look, we are going to take time to rebuild our cold air source. Granted we aren't torching per se east of the Mississippi, but most of our cold source regions are. 

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4 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Even with the advertised 500mb hemispheric look, we are going to take time to rebuild our cold air source. Granted we aren't torching per se east of the Mississippi, but most of our cold source regions are. 

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These ens mean temperature anomaly maps can sometimes be deceiving, same as h5 maps. The air up in Canada is still pretty cold. There certainly could be a cold shot or 2 over the coming weeks that gets us below normal temps, but it gets somewhat washed out on a mean. Given the advertised pattern, any cold would likely come behind a storm.

Big picture is we will have to wait and see how the pattern progression plays out. At this point snow chances for the lowlands are probably on the low side until maybe the last few days of December.

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From what I can see, GFS is not advertising a blowtorch, even if it is a bit above normal. Nothing super exciting and super cold or super warm. A few warmer days followed by near or slightly below. So, as said, it probably averages out above normal, but not as mild as I think it once looked. Maybe my interpretation is wrong. 

 

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9 hours ago, Terpeast said:

I know its 84h, but the NAM has the freezing boundary further east than gfs or euro

I would think at closer leads this rain to snow changeover if there is to be a quicker change will be sniffed out by the short-term dynamic models should there be a surprise and colder air rushes in faster which indeed could happen; it is what we have to look for come Tuesday to Wednesday maybe sooner. 

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15 minutes ago, midatlanticweather said:

From what I can see, GFS is not advertising a blowtorch, even if it is a bit above normal. Nothing super exciting and super cold or super warm. A few warmer days followed by near or slightly below. So, as said, it probably averages out above normal, but not as mild as I think it once looked. Maybe my interpretation is wrong. 

 

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1 minute ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Im more partial to its end up run setup

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I’ve been dreaming about a major overrunning event like that for 7-8 years. Since that year we were tracking one in late December and then the cold air ended up squashing it to oblivion. 

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2 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

I’ve been dreaming about a major overrunning event like that for 7-8 years. Since that year we were tracking one in late December and then the cold air ended up squashing it to oblivion. 

When is the last big event (or even moderate) one like shown at the end of its run? I personally can't remember a single one but my non fuzzy memories of winter start post 2016.

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8 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

When is the last big event (or even moderate) one like shown at the end of its run? I personally can't remember a single one but my non fuzzy memories of winter start post 2016.

I don’t have @psuhoffmans photographic memory for light to moderate events lol. But I think it’s been awhile…

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