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2 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

I think our chance is for the WAA transport to be oriented right at us to get a front end thump. GFS kind of shows this. 

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One thing I’m hoping for with the LP track is that meso models show the upslope enchantment were used to seeing with type of system. 

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Guys, there’s no need to bittercast on the RDU peeps. I want the snow badly here in WNC, too, but I am sure they want it in RDU just as badly.

I still think we are in a favorable position, three days out. We’re not likely to see a foot of snow, but a couple of inches or so, seems fairly realistic. And, it could trend more as the field of precipitation blossoms more to the NW like it usually does.


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3 minutes ago, calculus1 said:

The 12Z GFS actually looks pretty decent for WNC. I think the CMC and ICON depictions are just underdoing the precipitation on the NW side. I don’t think we would see the lee side minimum in this setup.


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I agree, I think we will see more precip in our area than what most of the models are currently depicting. 

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13 minutes ago, calculus1 said:

Guys, there’s no need to bittercast on the RDU peeps. I want the snow badly here in WNC, too, but I am sure they want it in RDU just as badly.

I still think we are in a favorable position, three days out. We’re not likely to see a foot of snow, but a couple of inches or so, seems fairly realistic. And, it could trend more as the field of precipitation blossoms more to the NW like it usually does.


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I hope it wasn’t taken that way. There’s some great posters down that way that I’d be happy for. I took issue with the jab @wncsnow when they’ve trolled this entire pattern for weeks. Now that it might be going their way, they want everyone to quit talking about anything other than RDU. 

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Call me crazy, but I’m still not that worried about the leeside minimum that was just depicted on the ECMWF. I think the climatology of a system taking this track will lead to the system filling in the precipitation to the NW up against the Apps. Of course, I’m not a trained met, so my thoughts are solely based on inference from previous iterations of similar storms, and I could be really wrong by not understanding all the interactions of the atmospheric conditions.

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4 minutes ago, calculus1 said:

Call me crazy, but I’m still not that worried about the leeside minimum that was just depicted on the ECMWF. I think the climatology of a system taking this track will lead to the system filling in the precipitation to the NW up against the Apps. Of course, I’m not a trained met, so my thoughts are solely based on inference from previous iterations of similar storms, and I could be really wrong by not understanding all the interactions of the atmospheric conditions.

I heard this several times before the dud of an event in January. Didn’t pan out then and won’t now 

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Just now, BooneWX said:

Gut says this isn’t an event for anyone west of 95 but we’ll see. NW trend is something to watch for but we’ve SE trended this whole winter up to go time with the exception of a few storms.

But don't you know? Every storm trends NW!

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21 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

But don't you know? Every storm trends NW!

If only! Would be nice to score in one of the only 2 ways it’s humanly possible to score here (miller a or b). That’s why I always chuckle at the “foothills are climo favored.” Climo favored my ass! Too far east for flow snow, shadowed for everything else. 2 ways to get snow and two ways only here. 

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My point and click NWS forecast says 90% chance of snow on Wednesday and could be heavy at times. Kind of surprised by that.

I expected it to temper back some if anything.  Hopefully they see something us amateurs don't.  Granted I am technically NW Piedmont but very close to foothills.

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6 minutes ago, Ernest T Bass said:

My point and click NWS forecast says 90% chance of snow on Wednesday and could be heavy at times. Kind of surprised by that.

I expected it to temper back some if anything.  Hopefully they see something us amateurs don't.  Granted I am technically NW Piedmont but very close to foothills.

I was just coming here to say this. GSP was chicken noodle soup for the soul this afternoon with their disco. They are sticking with a potential warning level event. My point forecast says “90% chance of heavy snow” on Wednesday.

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I was just coming here to say this. GSP was chicken noodle soup for the soul this afternoon with their disco. They are sticking with a potential warning level event. My point forecast says “90% chance of heavy snow” on Wednesday.

Yup 2-4” here with snow heavy at times :)


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I really let myself get down and out during that January system. This one was the nail in the coffin for me. I'm out of tracking winter weather for this year. It honestly just has not brought me joy. I'll still probably linger but I'm out for the forseeable future. Best of luck, guys. 

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