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Mid to long range discussion- 2025


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2 minutes ago, Brick Tamland said:

GFS was a mixed bag for sure for next weekend. Sleet, freezing rain, rain and a little snow. Would like to see it coming in colder for more snow, but the big thing this far out is it is showing a storm. Still a long ways to figure out what type of precip we will get.

Brick is back and will bring the mojo we need!!

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12Z GEFS through 1/11 despite the more suppressed surface low mean vs the GFS is still not good as it is similar to the meager 6Z: cold air is lacking meaning easier to get plain rain if any precip.; runs of recent days had 5-10 times this much snow 

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Block and 50/50 have trended weaker on the GFS. But admittedly, some of that weakening may be responsible for us having a storm at all and not a suppressed strung out mess. Gonna have to strike a balance between giving our wave room to amplify but not invite too much ridging in front of it wrecking thermals. 

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12Z Euro once it finally gets precip in has rain in the SE due to a cutter 

Really bad trends continue on the consensus. Icon an exception. CMC cold but dry. UKMET if projected ahead was likely going to be too warm most places due to projected too far N track of low and warming thicknesses ahead of it.

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4 minutes ago, BooneWX said:

Great Lakes low. Would it kill us to ever see a high up north? What’s nuts is how easy it is to get CAD in theory. Quite literally any moderately decent high from Iowa to New England could get us across the finish line. 

CAD is nothing but a pipe dream these days. If we get another cutter after the one Sunday, I'm done. 

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15 minutes ago, SnowDawg said:

Block and 50/50 have trended weaker on the GFS. But admittedly, some of that weakening may be responsible for us having a storm at all and not a suppressed strung out mess. Gonna have to strike a balance between giving our wave room to amplify but not invite too much ridging in front of it wrecking thermals. 

 The storm you may be getting could very well be a plain rainstorm per model trends. A strung out mess would be far more interesting to me (like 12Z Icon actually) at this stage than an amped up too far north rainstorm.

 It is what it is. It is already predetermined what will occur but the models aren’t smart enough to know, which makes for interesting drama. I’d hate for the models to know in advance. Then there’s be nothing to discuss and debate forecasting wise.

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2 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

And where is all the blocking? The flow seems too progressive and fast to me almost like a typical Pacific driven flow.. 23 one morning and raining a day later. 

Storm aside, it really is wild to see how much the pattern advertised has devolved into such a mess. Cold, sure, but just slightly below average January cold. That’s not enough anymore outside of the mountains. 

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1 minute ago, wncsnow said:

We need the storm to move quicker instead of wait to eject. If it’s faster there appears to be more cold air around. 

Yep and I won’t give up hope until it’s onshore. We still have a lot to work out in the coming days and no doubt, 18z will show something wildly different. We’re still very much in windshield wiper territory.

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4 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

We need the storm to move quicker instead of wait to eject. If it’s faster there appears to be more cold air around. 

Agreed. But not looking good for most of the SE as of recent trends. Next week could very well be a big nothing-burger. But still it is early enough for a reversal. Icon, a good model, gives me hope. But if a nothing burger, we’ll survive just fine and we’ll have this to laugh about in the future. Irony is that you were about the most negative originally and could turn out spot on!

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23 minutes ago, GaWx said:

 The storm you may be getting could very well be a plain rainstorm per model trends. A strung out mess would be far more interesting to me (like 12Z Icon actually) at this stage than an amped up too far north rainstorm.

 It is what it is. It is already predetermined what will occur but the models aren’t smart enough to know, which makes for interesting drama. I’d hate for the models to know in advance. Then there’s be nothing to discuss and debate forecasting wise.

It is just annoying when we haven't had any measurable snow here the last 3 years to see great model runs 10 days out to not end up coming to fruition. I know we can't ever count on the models that far out or even 5 to 7 days out sometimes. But it is still annoying when it happens when it has been that long without snow. I'd rather have nothing show up more than 7 days out and instead just have something pop up inside 5 days. 

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3 minutes ago, GaWx said:

Agreed. But not looking good for most of the SE as of recent trends. Next week could very well be a big nothing-burger. But still it is early enough for a reversal. Icon, a good model, gives me hope. But if a nothing burger, we’ll survive just fine and we’ll have this to laugh about in the future. Irony is that you were about the most negative originally and could turn out spot on!

Unfortunately my negativity about wintry weather is usually correct. I wish I was wrong this time, and maybe I still am. But it begs the question, would you rather be right or happy?

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