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The January 5/6 Thing


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3 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

Verbatim. NAM is a sleet bomb. But who really cares. I wanted to see more cold press this run. And we saw that. On to the varsity models. 

I didn’t hate that NAM run especially early on.  Liked to see the confluence stronger.  

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Plenty more snow to come after 84 hrs on the Nam courtesy this ball in KY.

https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=nam&p=500hv&rh=2025010300&fh=84&r=us_ma&dpdt=&mc=&pwplus=1

If you touch Dca to get a sounding at 78 hrs then move it to 84, you go from zr to sleet at 84 hrs as the column cools. With that vort moving east, that changeover to snow would probably be over an hour later.

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2 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

Verbatim. NAM is a sleet bomb. But who really cares. I wanted to see more cold press this run. And we saw that. On to the varsity models. 

It's the 84hr NAM, so we can usually take with a grain of salt. There are some elements I did like seeing on the run, however that should be really solid for our hood. Take a look at the 7H VV panel on the final frame. This is indicative to some incredible lift areawide that coincides with the heaviest QPF being advected southwest to northeast. This is literally how we get those classic WAA snows that overperform in our hood. The antecedent airmass is COLD leading in and remember, the 12km isn't the finer 3km resolution from the Nest, so it could be skewing the warm nose a little more in an areal sense. There will be a warm nose and there will be a shift to sleet for some, but just have to remember climo. Where does that usually occur? If you're out west of US15 and north of I-70, probably not much to worry about. South and east of there, there COULD be a short period, but this system is leaning towards a very dynamic vort pass and surface reflection developing off the coast. That potential CCB to round out the storm would likely develop in this case if you took what the NAM was spitting out, verbatim. Just look at this 700mb panel for VV's with the 7H contours overlaid. Look at the closed 7H reflection to our west? Any flip to sleet will not be a long standing issue and the shift back to snow will occur. I didn't see much to hate from this run, NAM not withstanding. Let's move on

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Since we’re all dissecting the Nam the one thing I will say is any time I see thermals are wonky upstairs it is a red flag. All the years that thing has been around it usually has held superiority over models when it comes to low level cold. Naturally there’s elements of meteorology that will affect it, I.e. placement of low pressure, etc.. but if it is showing some pronounced warm layer Aleet Aleet could show its ugly face. Food for thought. I personally wouldn’t put much stock into this far out but just be mindful of how it can still be useful in its own way. 

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It's the 84hr NAM, so we can usually take with a grain of salt. There are some elements I did like seeing on the run, however that should be really solid for our hood. Take a look at the 7H VV panel on the final frame. This is indicative to some incredible lift areawide that coincides with the heaviest QPF being advected southwest to northeast. This is literally how we get those classic WAA snows that overperform in our hood. The antecedent airmass is COLD leading in and remember, the 12km isn't the finer 3km resolution from the Nest, so it could be skewing the warm nose a little more in an areal sense. There will be a warm nose and there will be a shift to sleet for some, but just have to remember climo. Where does that usually occur? If you're out west of US15 and north of I-70, probably not much to worry about. South and east of there, there COULD be a short period, but this system is leaning towards a very dynamic vort pass and surface reflection developing off the coast. That potential CCB to round out the storm would likely develop in this case if you took what the NAM was spitting out, verbatim. Just look at this 700mb panel for VV's with the 7H contours overlaid. Look at the closed 7H reflection to our west? Any flip to sleet will not be a long standing issue and the shift back to snow will occur. I didn't see much to hate from this run, NAM not withstanding. Let's move on
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I can walk to rt 15, but still west of it. I hope that counts.

This vort keeps looking better. It was getting sheared out a few days ago. The lack of a strong coastal low will keep it capped as a mecs, but still looks like a classic west to east, i70 storm.
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1 minute ago, clskinsfan said:

ICON is WAY colder than the NAM heading into the event. 

It just needs to not hold onto its huge jump north. If I remember correctly it did some weird stuff yesterday at 18z before coming back into agreement with the other (better) models by 0z

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