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Jan 11-12 Model/Forecasting Discussion


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Ji's best friend has this to say.

"00z gfs looks too far east and not strong enough with coastal. upper pattern improving, model should respond as it did late in dec storm"

He may rarely be right, but he almost never sleeps. That guys updates in the middle of the night, at least he used to when i payed for his crap.

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they just have a few people that make it easy for other areas to paint them with a broad, undesirable brush

I enjoy reading their threads in the off season

they become different when snow is the issue, that's all

sort of like Pittsburgh fans as long as you talk about anything other than football

i was mostly talking about the area rather than the people. i dont miss my extra 65"+ a yr nearly as much as i thought i might since this area is like 100x more interesting than most of new england.

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Okay, looking at the surface down to our south it is apparent that none of the models have correctly modeled this storm so far. The precip is further east and north than any model that I have seen. I'm sure it will shear out as it gets to the coast but I don't think it will be as bad as currently modeled. With that in mind, coupled with the latest runs of the sref and NAM I would have to think that this storm will stronger than the models are showing. I really think that from DCA north and east to philly could be looking at a 4-8/6-12 event. Tomorrow's 12z's will be HUGE!

Good night.

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Serious question. Take out last year, as we all know it was special. But is so much model confusion for EVERY potential East Coast snowstorm this year normal? It's hard to even tell what to put more weight in, cause they are all waffling left and right and every 6 or 12 hours. Is this normal for a typical winter or is something else afoot?

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I say,based on NAM and RGEM, it will be a bit more amped

BWI-.45" or more

DCA-40" or more

IAD-,35" or more

based on modelology principles

possible.. i think the nam maybe is more right than the gfs precip wise. i like the euro quite a bit at this pt though. i do believe balt-ne has a legit shot at getting up toward 6 if not there.

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Okay, looking at the surface down to our south it is apparent that none of the models have correctly modeled this storm so far. The precip is further east and north than any model that I have seen. I'm sure it will shear out as it gets to the coast but I don't think it will be as bad as currently modeled. With that in mind, coupled with the latest runs of the sref and NAM I would have to think that this storm will stronger than the models are showing. I really think that from DCA north and east to philly could be looking at a 4-8/6-12 event. Tomorrow's 12z's will be HUGE!

Good night.

FWIW. All day in their discussion, the NWS Upton office was saying that the storm is stronger than modeled, and the precip field is larger.

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is there any correlation to snow in ATL and how we do in DC? Kinda like when the handwriting was on the wall when SAL ORF stayed all snow on 12/26 translating to a miss for us- was wondering if there is any connection to ATL getting snow and DC..

IDK but, they were only supposed to get 1-3" tonight and from friends down there they already got like 4"+.

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Serious question. Take out last year, as we all know it was special. But is so much model confusion for EVERY potential East Coast snowstorm this year normal? It's hard to even tell what to put more weight in, cause they are all waffling left and right and every 6 or 12 hours. Is this normal for a typical winter or is something else afoot?

this is one of the most hectic seasons i recall personally on the models

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Okay, looking at the surface down to our south it is apparent that none of the models have correctly modeled this storm so far. The precip is further east and north than any model that I have seen. I'm sure it will shear out as it gets to the coast but I don't think it will be as bad as currently modeled.

And sleet is already getting into Atlanta. Way ahead of schedule. Must mean something. Probably that DC will get 2 feet.

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