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January Medium/Long Range: A snowy January ahead?


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18z AI still has a storm for next Sunday, just develops a little differently and has precip heavier east. Doesn't look heavy west of I95, but probably a moderate event. Just too tough to figure with any real precision qpf amounts with the freebie maps.
It does show a miss of the coast with the 2nd event that hit se va/md hardest, just like 6z and 12z.
Better maps out on TT soon.

Ignore the ai model precip maps. They are way too generous and overly widespread
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20 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

Supposedly has better 500mb verification numbers than operational. 

Not really true, sorry

edit: sometimes it performs better in days 1-5, equal in 6-10, same or worse in 11-15… lots of spikes and valleys and there’s no way to know when it’s right or way off. I’ll give it credit for the 1/6 storm which it did well on, but it did poorly for 1/11 at D6+ because it overpredicted the cold after the first storm. Best used as a comparison tool as a way to hold the operational “accountable”, or as another ensemble member. 

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54 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

Not really true, sorry

edit: sometimes it performs better in days 1-5, equal in 6-10, same or worse in 11-15… lots of spikes and valleys and there’s no way to know when it’s right or way off. I’ll give it credit for the 1/6 storm which it did well on, but it did poorly for 1/11 at D6+ because it overpredicted the cold after the first storm. Best used as a comparison tool as a way to hold the operational “accountable”, or as another ensemble member. 

You don't have to apologize.  I hate the effin Euro. Always overforecasts snow imby the run before start-time. Happened twice this year. It's hit or miss like every other model.

That said, there are verification stats at this link down the bottom of the page prepared by the Euro folks.

https://charts.ecmwf.int/?facets={"Product type"%3A["Experimental%3A AIFS"]%2C"Parameters"%3A[]%2C"Range"%3A[]%2C"Type"%3A[]}

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8 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

You don't have to apologize.  I hate the effin Euro. Always overforecasts snow imby the run before start-time. Happened twice this year. It's hit or miss like every other model.

That said, there are verification stats at this link down the bottom of the page prepared by the Euro folks.

https://charts.ecmwf.int/?facets={"Product type"%3A["Experimental%3A AIFS"]%2C"Parameters"%3A[]%2C"Range"%3A[]%2C"Type"%3A[]}

Yeah, their stats only compare the AIFS with the other AI models, but not the NWP models. I usually like to compare AI vs NWP of the same model family (Euro AI vs NWP, GFS AI vs NWP, etc). That’s where I got my assessment from. 

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1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

It would be funny after days of everyone worrying about suppression it’s ends up a cutter. Lol 

But not surprising. In an epo driven pattern with no blocking a NW track is the way more likely fail. 

I can accept the fail path better :lol: It's just something annoying about missing south that I find annoying!

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these ensembles often show a foot of snowfall out near the gulf stream.  Somehow I don't think these snow accumulation algorithms account for the fact that the water temp is like 60 degrees out there.

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