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January 17-19th Plains/MW/Lakes Storm Potential


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GB forecast discussion is saying 4-7 inches seems likley for their area:

FOR MONDAY...ECMWF/CANADIAN/GFS VERY CONSISTENT IN BRINGING WAVE

ALONG ARCTIC BOUNDARY SOUTH OF GREEN BAY. THE 12Z WRF TOOK THE

SYSTEM NORTH OF GREEN BAY TO ADD SOME DOUBT TO THE SNOW TOTALS.

CURRENT THINKING IS THAT BETWEEN SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY NIGHT...

SNOWFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 7 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE DEPENDING ON STORM

TRACK.

Not a bad little system if that panned out.

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here it comes

BOTH NAM/GFS SHOWS 850 MB RISING TO ABOUT +1 CELSIUS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS MONDAY....SO WILL EXPAND AREA OF MIXED PRECIPITATION NORTH TO INDY AREA MONDAY AND MONDAY EVENING.

nam is highly suspicious....it actually shows the inverse of the ohio river WTOD at 84. I've never seen that before...so i don't know what to call it.

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And this is why for the most part I hate on air mets. One local nut went raving about a "big storm" coming on Tuesday and now he's going to have to retract that forecast entirely.

Who?

CP24 has been calling for snowmaggedon for a couple of days now and especially today. To them, it's going to be a very end of the worldly 5cm tomorrow causing huge problems and riots, followed by a deathray of 2-4cm on Tuesday that may force the evacuation of Toronto.

And, they are reporting on this storm and the "CP24 storm watch" every five minutes.

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CP24 has been calling for snowmaggedon for a couple of days now and especially today. To them, it's going to be a very end of the worldly 5cm tomorrow causing huge problems and riots, followed by a deathray of 2-4cm on Tuesday that may force the evacuation of Toronto.

And, they are reporting on this storm and the "CP24 storm watch" every five minutes.

lolz. CP24 is an all news, all the time channel, so they live on sensationalism. The person calling for the big storm was Anthony Farnell of Global.

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Nah I think will see a amplified southern stream system in next 36hrs.

You may need to temper your thoughts a little WeatherGuru, but a southern stream wave may still be possible, but it isn't going to come in one big chunk but instead in at least two waves and will not be a big "explosive" southern low. The first ejecting wave is the one that links up with the Canadian Vortex and develops a surface low that heads N through the Great Lakes region, the second is a piece of energy dropping S. Here is the ECMWF 50 member ensemble mean. On the left is the mean, right the op. The left is in normalized standard deviations of the 500 hpa height field, and it gives an idea to the spread, consistency, and "confidence" in the mean solution using various mathematical functions. Short story, the ECMWF and other guidance are quite confident in a dominant northern wave but are less confident in where that secondary southern wave goes. The green is very low normalized standard deviations (northern stream around Great Lakes/northern plains/northern OV) while the purple shading is higher deviations down in the southern plains.

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CP24 has been calling for snowmaggedon for a couple of days now and especially today. To them, it's going to be a very end of the worldly 5cm tomorrow causing huge problems and riots, followed by a deathray of 2-4cm on Tuesday that may force the evacuation of Toronto.

And, they are reporting on this storm and the "CP24 storm watch" every five minutes.

:facepalm:

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lolz. CP24 is an all news, all the time channel, so they live on sensationalism. The person calling for the big storm was Anthony Farnell of Global.

Ah, never heard of him.

Wow, the Global website weather section is the most hi-tech wx site I've seen yet from a Canadian news station! They even have a desktop app. Talk about the twilight zone.

http://www.globalnews.ca/weather/index.html

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I think models gotten to wacked with northern stream system and eventual end result will be a stronger and more organized southern stream system. 18z NAM is hinting this at 84hr.

if that low did take shape later as you suggest. It would probably head further east than your depiction. The northern low out runs it and would drive the baroclinic zone further south and east by the time the southern got it's act together.

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You may need to temper your thoughts a little WeatherGuru, but a southern stream wave may still be possible, but it isn't going to come in one big chunk but instead in at least two waves and will not be a big "explosive" southern low. The first ejecting wave is the one that links up with the Canadian Vortex and develops a surface low that heads N through the Great Lakes region, the second is a piece of energy dropping S. Here is the ECMWF 50 member ensemble mean. On the left is the mean, right the op. The left is in normalized standard deviations of the 500 hpa height field, and it gives an idea to the spread, consistency, and "confidence" in the mean solution using various mathematical functions. Short story, the ECMWF and other guidance are quite confident in a dominant northern wave but are less confident in where that secondary southern wave goes. The green is very low normalized standard deviations (northern stream around Great Lakes/northern plains/northern OV) while the purple shading is higher deviations down in the southern plains.

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thank you for setting him straight....someone needed too. Yes its still possible we see something along the lines of the southern stream or in play but on the new run of the NAM, there isn't anything really showing that.

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