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The January 5/6 Thing


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12 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

In your opinion, what makes more sense given climo and setup: GFS or Euro?

Snippet from WPC Heavy snow disco this morning-

Over the past few days models have
converged on a stronger and slightly north solution regarding the
initial placement of this upper low, with still some differences
regarding it's track and ability to maintain strength as it moves
eastward to the Mid-Atlantic. Downstream confluence is quite strong
and limits to what extent the precipitation shield can lift north.
The
GFS/GEFS remains alone in a stronger solution which leads to more
potent WAA and a farther north heavy snow axis, as well as mixing
issues spanning farther north than most other guidance. The answer
likely lies somewhere in between, but may be closer to the ECMWF
suite given latest trends.

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I know everyone focuses on the Jack stripe but overall forum wise a lot of people will get a good snow out of this. Euro ticked N as expected, GFS corrected a little south and our maple leaf friends are right there with us. 
 

Hard to argue with 3 models agreeing and the JVs close too

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1 minute ago, H2O said:

I know everyone focuses on the Jack stripe but overall forum wise a lot of people will get a good snow out of this. Euro ticked N as expected, GFS corrected a little south and our maple leaf friends are right there with us. 
 

Hard to argue with 3 models agreeing and the JVs close too

For sure this is probably the most forum-wide (likely) warning level event since…2016?? Farthest south LWX counties and areas around RIC would be ones I personally am not sure about warning level snow, but probably warning level wintry conditions with snow+ice. 

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1 minute ago, WxUSAF said:

For sure this is probably the most forum-wide (likely) warning level event since…2016?? Farthest south LWX counties and areas around RIC would be ones I personally am not sure about warning level snow, but probably warning level wintry conditions with snow+ice. 

Yep will be my biggest event since the blizzard of 2016

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1 minute ago, WxUSAF said:

For sure this is probably the most forum-wide (likely) warning level event since…2016?? Farthest south LWX counties and areas around RIC would be ones I personally am not sure about warning level snow, but probably warning level wintry conditions with snow+ice. 

Yep. I think EZF definitely flips, DC SE pings a bit, but north of 50 should stay all snow, with the usual max lining up along and just south of i-70, and maybe even a secondary max little north of that due to higher ratios. 

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11 minutes ago, HighStakes said:

Can't say enough how great it is have legit cold settle in 48 hours before knowing every flake counts.

Amen to this. No looking out to wet pavement and dripping trees. And as @CoastalWx said, our best chance at having snowpack in a loooong while. 

11 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

Yep. I think EZF definitely flips, DC SE pings a bit, but north of 50 should stay all snow, with the usual max lining up along and just south of i-70, and maybe even a secondary max little north of that due to higher ratios. 

Just south of 70 works for me :guitar:

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13 minutes ago, HighStakes said:

Can't say enough how great it is have legit cold settle in 48 hours before knowing every flake counts.

100% - it is cold AF this morning with the wind too. Ground already white from yesterday. Not going to see green grass for a while now. Snow on snow coming and it’s going to stick around.

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8 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

Yep. I think EZF definitely flips, DC SE pings a bit, but north of 50 should stay all snow, with the usual max lining up along and just south of i-70, and maybe even a secondary max little north of that due to higher ratios. 

Question. I know what happens just a little bit upstairs makes all the difference with sleet vs snow, but are we looking at a little bit different creature with this storm than most?

What I mean is we have a really fresh dump of cold air where other storms are eroding or it’s a race for a backdoor front to come in before precip falls. How much benefit is a cold column all the way down prior to stem the mid level warming due to the WAA ?

I’m generally curious what is causing the thermals to come up as much as modeled when it will be a colder storm than most times

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