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February Medium/Long Range Thread


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6 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

Thank you, that was a great explanation.

Honest question:  Why can't I find any examples with this H5 look and a big snowstorm for Richmond to Delmarva where all the guidance says it will be right now?  They all feature a significantly further southeast H5 track.  

I hope this link to the CIPS Analogs works. https://www.eas.slu.edu/CIPS/ANALOG/DFHR.php?reg=EC&fhr=F108&rundt=2025021512&map=thbCOOP72

Just clicking around, I thought the January 25-26, 1987 event has some similarities and was at least closer to the snowfall look you mention. Obviously it has some flaws, but the MSLP and 850mb representation isn't too dissimilar. But to your point, if you look at the mean snowfall probs, most of those snowfall areas were more north. 

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8 minutes ago, Ji said:

That looks pretty good

Let’s say it all together now “ too bad it’s the 84 hour Nam”

Ok just something that stuck with me...the 84 hours NAM was the first indication we had that the March 2017 storm I've said has some h5 similarities was going way NW of what guidance had indicated.  We tossed it of course...NAM and all...no way was our snowstorm turning into a sleet bomb...lol 

We have much deeper cold air this time...we want that same shift in the track this time.  

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2 minutes ago, wxmvpete said:

I hope this link to the CIPS Analogs works. https://www.eas.slu.edu/CIPS/ANALOG/DFHR.php?reg=EC&fhr=F108&rundt=2025021512&map=thbCOOP72

Just clicking around, I thought the January 25-26, 1987 event has some similarities and was at least closer to the snowfall look you mention. Obviously it has some flaws, but the MSLP and 850mb representation isn't too dissimilar. But to your point, if you look at the mean snowfall probs, most of those snowfall areas were more north. 

And it just dawned on me (trying to read the posts) that @MillvilleWxand others made reference to that storm lol. But the CIPS analogs at least had some extra links to review them.

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4 minutes ago, wxmvpete said:

I hope this link to the CIPS Analogs works. https://www.eas.slu.edu/CIPS/ANALOG/DFHR.php?reg=EC&fhr=F108&rundt=2025021512&map=thbCOOP72

Just clicking around, I thought the January 25-26, 1987 event has some similarities and was at least closer to the snowfall look you mention. Obviously it has some flaws, but the MSLP and 850mb representation isn't too dissimilar. But to your point, if you look at the mean snowfall probs, most of those snowfall areas were more north. 

yea we were discussing that fact (the analogs) earlier.  Also that 87 storm was brought up by me as an example of a snowfall distribution similar to what guidance indicates now...but it had a significantly further south H5 track and a more suppressive flow over the top.  I've yet to find a big Richmond-Delmarva snowstorm with an H5 low tracking through Ohio and southern PA.  Maybe we are about to witness a first! 

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3 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

Ok just something that stuck with me...the 84 hours NAM was the first indication we had that the March 2017 storm I've said has some h5 similarities was going way NW of what guidance had indicated.  We tossed it of course...NAM and all...no way was our snowstorm turning into a sleet bomb...lol 

We have much deeper cold air this time...we want that same shift in the track this time.  

Good enough reason for me :lol:

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1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

yea we were discussing that fact (the analogs) earlier.  Also that 87 storm was brought up by me as an example of a snowfall distribution similar to what guidance indicates now...but it had a significantly further south H5 track and a more suppressive flow over the top.  I've yet to find a big Richmond-Delmarva snowstorm with an H5 low tracking through Ohio and southern PA.  Maybe we are about to witness a first! 

If I can find any of note I'll post them. One other site you could try to use is https://xmacis.rcc-acis.org/ and search either by individual station or mulit-station and look back to see if maybe RIC, SBY, or even WAL may have some useful data that aligns. 

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yes, the H5 argues for this.  There should be more amplitude to the wave along the arctic boundary with a transfer to the coastal off the mid atlantic coast.  

Reel it in…you’ve been hawking over this time period. I like that the gulf is involved and we’re not just relying on Atlantic moisture from the coastal.
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Just now, wxdude64 said:

Wait... isn't that a Miller B?

We want a miller b hybrid actually...without the wave into the TN valley the coastal initiates too far southeast...its rare for us to get a big snowstorm from that trajectory.  Would take a really crazy capture phase.  If the initial wave along the arctic front has a little more amplitude it causes a further north transfer and tucked location of the coastal off the mid atlantic and we need a less extreme interplay with the NS and STJ to get this to work.  

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1 minute ago, wxmvpete said:

If I can find any of note I'll post them. One other site you could try to use is https://xmacis.rcc-acis.org/ and search either by individual station or mulit-station and look back to see if maybe RIC, SBY, or even WAL may have some useful data that aligns. 

Thanks!  

There goes what was left of my productivity 

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