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The Psuhoffman Storm


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This isn't true at all. Temps crash as precip moves in.

careful Phineas, the thicknesses are above 540 so even though NCEP maps indicate surface and 850's are good for most of the event, there must be a nagging warm layer in there some where

gotta check soundings once they are ready

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It mainly does it because the GFS "elongates" the trough so much that the eventual southern PV max is very compact and small. The CMC has a much larger southern PV max and it doesn't weaken though such processes as quickly.

Do you think the qpf shield would be better? It would seem to make since as the gfs usually does later down the road in these types of storms.

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Thicknesses--blah. Only way to determine precip type is through a sounding. Centered near DC--this profile would be a wet heavy snow on the GFS at 96 hrs.

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that's reassuring

wonder why it has thicknesses at 544?

anyway, like I said, need soundings and they look good all things considered

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that's reassuring

wonder why it has thicknesses at 544?

anyway, like I said, need soundings and they look good all things considered

1000-500 hpa thickness can be very deceiving since it is over such a broad vertical region. The 500 hpa circulation is actually E of the sounding location--so the heights aren't all that low in that region. As a result--thickness values are rather high.

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He might be looking at the bottom right and is confused because the solid line blends in with the state boundary's lines. But who knows what he's thinking.

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Or its possible he is looking at the upper right which displays the thickness.

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