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February Medium/Long Range Thread


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2 hours ago, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

NAO remains positive through Day 15.. You guys may say it's not, but what you are looking at is the AO. The NAO is actually SLP calculated between Iceland and the Azores. What's happening for the next 15 days is a "south-based +NAO", and I've run the maps, it goes with warmer than average conditions in the Mid Atlantic and Southeast. This is why 500mb never gets cold. I'm still of the opinion that the coming storms are mostly rain or ice.. we will do well if we exit this +NAO pattern with more than a few inches of snow total. +NAO/-EPO, which is modeled for some of the time, is correlated to icestorms. 

That might be the textbook definition of a -NAO, but for practical purposes the NAO is solidly negative on the means by early next week. So is the AO. I somewhat agree that the advertised pattern for next week generally supports mixy events, but a mostly/all snow event is possible with favorable timing/less amplification.

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25 minutes ago, Weather Will said:

WB 6Z GFS: a blend of the GFS and EURO works well for most of us...we will see.

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That's a pretty dramatic jump north from 0z long way to go but if I recall we were always walking the line of where the boundary sets up. I'm not sure that's been determined yet but I'm guessing down by North Carolina is the least likely for now.

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That's a pretty dramatic jump north from 0z long way to go but if I recall we were always walking the line of where the boundary sets up. I'm not sure that's been determined yet but I'm guessing down by North Carolina is the least likely for now.
We've lost all our wiggle room. This screams 3-6 inched and freezing rain

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1 hour ago, CAPE said:

This is the upper level pattern for early next week. Suppression is not the failure mode I would be worried about with this look. Imo it wont be easy to get an all snow event. Best shot very northern parts of the region.

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Debbie downers were actually correct stating SER is very powerful plus in years past when things looked great the eventual correction was a cold air dump out West. It might be the new normal. Models not great. It's happening yet again.  

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Debbie downers were actually correct stating SER is very powerful plus in years past when things looked great the eventual correction was a cold air dump out West. It might be the new normal. Models not great. It's happening yet again.  
We've had very little ser the past 2 winters

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9 minutes ago, Ji said:

We've lost all our wiggle room. This screams 3-6 inched and freezing rain

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Hard to tell at this point since it's only Wednesday  but it's definitely a different vibe this morning especially for our southern friends and even our close in southern burbs. #dontbelieveensembles

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14 minutes ago, Ji said:

We've lost all our wiggle room. This screams 3-6 inched and freezing rain

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As you astutely pointed out temps are marginal for the entire event for a lot of us.  White to wet to gray seems about right.  But who knows its a week out roughly.   

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2 minutes ago, Fozz said:

GFS is now an epic hit for most of us, not suppressed like 0z. 12-18” MECS.

Wish we could lock this all up but there’s still a week to go.

Storm start keeps moving earlier and earlier. GFS has that precursor idea on Monday! 126 hours out. 2nd batch about 24-30 hours later. Euro was about 12 hours slower.

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10 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Storm start keeps moving earlier and earlier. GFS has that precursor idea on Monday! 126 hours out. 2nd batch about 24-30 hours later. Euro was about 12 hours slower.

This reminds me of February 2007 when we also had the potential for a big time KU snowstorm, but we got a last minute rug pull and it became the memorable VD sleet storm for most of us, with zr a little further south.

If I recall, that was also a good but very imperfect setup where we didn’t quite have a clean block in place, so it shifted north and we got mixing.

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Storm start keeps moving earlier and earlier. GFS has that precursor idea on Monday! 126 hours out. 2nd batch about 24-30 hours later. Euro was about 12 hours slower.

I don’t like how close the no snow line is on the gfs
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Weren’t you just posting on your FB page about 2016 and model runs look so good etc…

I said I had not seen models/ensembles scream like that since 2016 for a storm

I mean the eps mean was 9-10 inches
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3 minutes ago, Ji said:


Not much. 4-6? We also don’t know what it does in round 2 but I’m assuming ice as surface temps are still in upper 20s at 144 hours

So 4 - 6 with the precursor on Monday and the main event looks like ice? 

Can you post the surface map at 144

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