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Jan 11-12 Model/Forecasting Discussion


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Getting hard to tell how we get screwed each run. Lots of options.

the reason there are mutiple solutions but every one screws us now is because the models are all having one thing in common, a bad track of the h5 energy. Some amplify the primary low around that energy in the OH valley, some do not but then slide the coastal OTS but the problem is the same, the H5 energy is tracking further north, and its NOT digging so is not transferring energy to the coastal. As long as the H5 track remains over OH into PA we have no shot. That has to change for any solution to work. The SLP track of the coastal makes no difference as long as the upper support that would cause precip isnt where it needs to be.

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looks like Euro did as expected last night and I won't need to wait for 1/16 to officially call the rest of this winter a bust

this winter has 72/73 written all over it, but w/o the warmth

at least the Euro rocks ACY again

If we can get a week of 60s in January, then the winter won't have been a complete bust. I'd take a week in February, too.

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If we can get a week of 60s in January, then the winter won't have been a complete bust. I'd take a week in February, too.

I hope so honestly

if it isn;t going to snow then get warm and quit costing me money

when you think about it, this whole scenario of one model in the long range picking it up, then another model showing huge hit, the Euro climbs on board, then 3 days before Euro follows GFS by jumping ship

all we need now to do a formal repeat of 12/26 is to have the GFS come back with a big hit, a couple runs of the Euro jumping back on board, then a last minute fail for whatever reason

that's why I'm a big believer in seasonal pattern/trend

though I have to admit, after living in the area all my life I have never seen a winter like this where areas so close to us have been rocked and we have been screwed

normally, you have to go at least 150 miles as the crow flies and not just 75

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I hope so honestly

if it isn;t going to snow then get warm and quit costing me money

when you think about it, this whole scenario of one model in the long range picking it up, then another model showing huge hit, the Euro climbs on board, then 3 days before Euro follows GFS by jumping ship

all we need now to do a formal repeat of 12/26 is to have the GFS come back with a big hit, a couple runs of the Euro jumping back on board, then a last minute fail for whatever reason

that's why I'm a big believer in seasonal pattern/trend

though I have to admit, after living in the area all my life I have never seen a winter like this where areas so close to us have been rocked and we have been screwed

normally, you have to go at least 150 miles as the crow flies and not just 75

So are you going to still follow the models today and tomorrow Mitch?

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Until we see how the phasing evolves, my approach is -- if we get 2-3'', I'll claim victory. Does at least look like we should see snow falling, which is always nice.

Personally, I do wish it could start Monday evening instead of Tuesday; since if it waits until Tuesday, that brings up all the internal, personal issues of "Do I do the Columbia-to-DC commute Tuesday morning?"

The last real and only (and relatively light!) snow resulted in a 2-hr commute leaving DC at 1:30pm.

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looking at the NAM, it looks as if there remain other options on how this ultimately plays out (southern vort seems noticeably north)

not saying the net result will be diff from anything we've had so far this year

i think the only way we score is if the s/w stays stronger diggier in the later panels

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Let the weenie-ism begin.

Looks like on Satellite and radar that there is some good STJ action already and a 1004 L. Probably won't mean much for us in 48 hours though.

Here is my weenie post...the 06z NAM was pretty putrid moisture wise for areas that look like they are about to get rocked looking at the radar....some places around a .25 so if anything I say the NAM is moisture starved as compared to radar for areas not yet receiving stuff....to be fair it was pretty wet in Texas where the rain was already falling.

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I think our best and perhaps only hope is for that PV to keep lifting out faster and that southern wave to become unexpectedly robust and hang together much better. The NAM is sort of hinting at something like that, but it's almost certainly not going to be enough.

(edited to add: Midlo beat me to it - hehe)

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Ok so don't laugh but I'm watching the weather channel because I like watching the snow fall even if it is not at my house so I wanted to see how they are preparing down South....anyway they said after viewing some of the latest info that the snow/freezing rain line seems to be around I-20 in Atlanta...below that not so much snow and mostly frozen above that more snow but not crazy until you get up into NE Georgia and far Eastern Tennessee. Seems to me that is more North than previous guesses.

Ok you can laugh now

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