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Midweek Storm DISCO


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Haven't followed this storm at all, but can someone explain how this one can be so much warmer than the last given the similar track and colder antecedent temps?

Not a met but here is what I think I know:

high is retreating n and e therefore not holding cold air in.

midlevel flow thus is from the s and e in front of the storm and then backs ene as the storm gets over the cape and gom

we might benefit from residual high pressure to our north that creates a drainage from the n and nne

we get a good dump on the front end from the warm moist flow from the south overrunning our very cold air at the surface

eventually, in some areas, mid levels warm enough to melt the precip as it is coming down and refreeze it as sleet or if cold layer is thin and near the ground, frzg rain

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Haven't followed this storm at all, but can someone explain how this one can be so much warmer than the last given the similar track and colder antecedent temps?

This is a southern stream system...the primary to our west is flooding us with WAA out ahead of it. Even though today/tonight will be cold we're already experiencing the WAA aloft so most of our deep cold is gone as the system approaches. The sfc high is trying to keep a nose in over the typical CAD areas to keep an icing/snow threat for the interior.
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Anyone concerned about the lack of cold air now? This airmass was supposed to send lows into the single digits here....they didnt get past 19. If the original airmass isnt as cold, then wouldnt it make sense that the cold air is less established and easier to push out by the time the storm arrives?

Well many places that were supposed to decouple didn't overnight. Everyone should mix up to their forecasted highs today anyway.
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Not a met but here is what I think I know:

high is retreating n and e therefore not holding cold air in.

midlevel flow thus is from the s and e in front of the storm and then backs ene as the storm gets over the cape and gom

we might benefit from residual high pressure to our north that creates a drainage from the n and nne

we get a good dump on the front end from the warm moist flow from the south overrunning our very cold air at the surface

eventually, in some areas, mid levels warm enough to melt the precip as it is coming down and refreeze it as sleet or if cold layer is thin and near the ground, frzg rain

OH, don't tell MRG this, he will say you are disturbed because the hypothesis leads to less snow than desired. :thumbsdown:

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