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January Medium/Long Range: A snowy January ahead?


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It’s going to be cold no matter what. Whether we get snow depends on how the TPV behaves during its elongation and split and the amplitude of the waves out west. 

My coworker, who was an operational forecaster for several years (and still checks the models, though now in biz dev) insinuated similar. Polar vortex might push things south, but how south who knows. Interesting pattern regardless.
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3 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

What do you think about it looking like a quick shot? I see 40's dominating my LR forecast. 

The TPV slides by pretty quick to our north and as of now it looks like the pattern relaxes some after without another immediate shot of arctic air.  But its a long ways out.  But more importatntly that is not my main concern.  I am hunting snow, could care less about getting frigid below 0 temps.  

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2 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said:

So from 2’ to 0 in less than 24 hours. I would swear to God  but too much carnage would fall upon me. 

That was the GGEM that had the crazy 2 ft solutions, and its still the most amplified of the operationals at 12z but its more like 4-8" for the cities with more SE.  However, we are not supposed to use operational runs at this range.  The ensembles are meant for this, and the most common solution across the ensembles has been a miss to the southeast with that wave.  Doesn't mean it cant hit, its not so far off that there is no chance, but seeing one run of one model show some 2ft storm does not mean "THE MODELS ARE PREDICTING 2ft" when 90% of the guidance when taken holistically as a whole show nothing.  

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1 minute ago, stormtracker said:

My feeling is it’d be denied vs delayed but

There are going to be multiple waves starting with Sunday.  Euro misses with 4 straight, 3 south and then one north.  Could we get that unlucky, sure, but I still feel optimistic something hits during this coming period...maybe not the first one but it would take some bad luck to miss every wave.  

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1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

That was the GGEM that had the crazy 2 ft solutions, and its still the most amplified of the operationals at 12z but its more like 4-8" for the cities with more SE.  However, we are not supposed to use operational runs at this range.  The ensembles are meant for this, and the most common solution across the ensembles has been a miss to the southeast with that wave.  Doesn't mean it cant hit, its not so far off that there is no chance, but seeing one run of one model show some 2ft storm does not mean "THE MODELS ARE PREDICTING 2ft" when 90% of the guidance when taken holistically as a whole show nothing.  

So you now agree with me that the models DO NOT predict  weather but rather provide samples of a wide variety of possible outcomes. Then change that every 6 hours. I would also say the rest of them did not show “nothing” 

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