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The models have now switched to the outcome I anticipated. First wave is too far north and the second wave is suppressed. Snow is becoming more and more of a rare event here in the southeast. It was already something that required near perfect setups. We are already on borrowed time this winter with models showing the cold pattern breaking up after these two chances. Fab Feb?

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Just now, TARHEELPROGRAMMER88 said:

The models have now switched to the outcome I anticipated. First wave is too far north and the second wave is suppressed. Snow is becoming more and more of a rare event here in the southeast. It was already something that required near perfect setups. We are already on borrowed time this winter with models showing the cold pattern breaking up after these two chances. Fab Feb?

I don’t like February as a snow month around here — of course we can — but that month is on a march toward spring with every day getting exponentially longer and with a higher sun angle. By end of month, it gets really difficult with BL.

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First storm is a wash other than some onset ice in CAD regions. I think we all knew it would arrive there eventually - it looked like a miller b from the start. Tough to make those setups work at the front end of the pattern without an anchoring high to the north. 
 

I remain as optimistic as ever about the 8th-12th period. I don’t see any reason to change course on that. Clear signal, just no clear answers, which is fine at a week+.

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4 minutes ago, BooneWX said:

First storm is a wash other than some onset ice in CAD regions. I think we all knew it would arrive there eventually - it looked like a miller b from the start. Tough to make those setups work at the front end of the pattern without an anchoring high to the north. 
 

I remain as optimistic as ever about the 8th-12th period. I don’t see any reason to change course on that. Clear signal, just no clear answers, which is fine at a week+.

I agree. If one of us had been in a coma since November and woke up and checked the models, I think they'd be thrilled at what they saw. I do think models backing off from the 8th-12th a bit should give us some pause, but overall the pieces are there to make something happen and that's all we can ask for in a Nina (or near Nina) winter 

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I agree. If one of us had been in a coma since November and woke up and checked the models, I think they'd be thrilled at what they saw. I do think models backing off from the 8th-12th a bit should give us some pause, but overall the pieces are there to make something happen and that's all we can ask for in a Nina (or near Nina) winter 

My thought: I truly think our models suck. I mean, bottom barrel garbage, useless trash 90% of the time. A product of poor funding and nobody outside of the weather community seeing the need for improvements these past several years. It won’t shock me at all if we can’t even sniff a big dog in advance on the models anymore (prob likely tbh) and it equally won’t shock me when and if we get closer to a threat that they all jump on board 72 hrs out.




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Yes the models AND ENSEMBLES (for specifics) are pretty poor in the longer range…over 5 days.  I think in reality, the models are just as good, if not better than they’ve ever been.  When they miss a forecast or don’t show what we want, people say the models suck.  So for the last 3 years, the perception is that the models suck since there was nothing ever to track. I know that last year we didn’t have a single storm show up for more than maybe a couple runs well out past 5 days - it would pop up one time and then it was gone.   So there was never anything to track and whattaya know, we got nothing.  So that’s not bad modeling, but good.  As for the period coming up, some have built sky high expectations that will be hard to meet.  I think if we were realistic, we wouldn’t put much, if any, weight on a model out past 120 hours. 
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