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Sat (Jan 22) coastal snow?


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the short range are catching up to Euro. This might even trend a little more west, not much but some, enough to bring .60 or .75" qpf inland for the coastal counties. I hope you guys get dumped on.:snowman:

Doesn't it appear to be trending a bit stronger - so as to possibly help out with the early week storm? Maybe help to hold in the cold air?

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the short range are catching up to Euro. This might even trend a little more west, not much but some, enough to bring .60 or .75" qpf inland for the coastal counties. I hope you guys get dumped on.:snowman:

+1

It happens, but to get a all snow sounding on the coast is a feat in and of itself, let alone and all snow sounding an entire event. I remeber living near RWI in 89 and seeing Wilmington get 12+ of snow, while we barely got an inch or so.

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Certainly getting more interested down here...not even close to pulling the trigger, but the gun is out of the holster.

Talked to Skip this afternoon, and while I did not watch his evening forecast, based on the conversation and his talking to with producers, they were introducing the chance for immediate coastal sections. He was more concerned about the Mon-Tues event, but both of us agreed that the low in the GL would affect the flow, and slide the HP offshore. This could be a big deal for areas along the coast not used to seeing much, the parcel is just coming onshore in BC, and sampling by the EC likely occurred over Russia. Interesting to see if it trends back closer to the coast once the packet is in the US RAOB network. Fun times ahead for areas that most often get left out, may be making a trip to Riverside in Swansboro for dinner Saturday night, and a walk on N Topsail if it pans out. :snowman:

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OH Skip! I may have to drop Marvin a line in the AM to see what he's thinking. It does look interesting, and would be nice to cash in on some of the action our inland areas have seen so far. Although a day's worth of snow on December 26th (.10 accum), and sleet/ZR last week already make this one hell of a winter for the Grand Strand, another pure snow event would be fun.

Talked to Skip this afternoon, and while I did not watch his evening forecast, based on the conversation and his talking to with producers, they were introducing the chance for immediate coastal sections. He was more concerned about the Mon-Tues event, but both of us agreed that the low in the GL would affect the flow, and slide the HP offshore. This could be a big deal for areas along the coast not used to seeing much, the parcel is just coming onshore in BC, and sampling by the EC likely occurred over Russia. Interesting to see if it trends back closer to the coast once the packet is in the US RAOB network. Fun times ahead for areas that most often get left out, may be making a trip to Riverside in Swansboro for dinner Saturday night, and a walk on N Topsail if it pans out. :snowman:

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Robert, one thing I noticed on the new NAM. At 78h, it has much higher heights over Greenland than the 84h on the earlier run. Also the 50/50 low is west of its earlier run. Looks like we may be seeing more -NAO influence. Thoughts??

probably so. Also the first storm (Thurs/Fri) gets out up there quicker since it doesn't strengthen til later now, this allows enough spacing for the next system to develop the Southeast coastal. Not sure what this means for the next upstream system.

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MHX gets absolutely crushed:

110122/2200Z  70  01013KT  29.5F  SNOW    19:1| 0.4|| 0.4    0.020|| 0.02     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00   100|  0|  0
110122/2300Z  71  01012KT  29.3F  SNOW    20:1| 2.4|| 2.7    0.118|| 0.14     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00   100|  0|  0
110123/0000Z  72  01011KT  29.3F  SNOW    26:1| 3.7|| 6.4    0.142|| 0.28     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00   100|  0|  0
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 Date/hour    FHr  Wind    SfcT   Ptype  SRat|Snow||TotSN    QPF ||TotQPF   Sleet||TotPL    FZRA||TotZR    S%| I%| L%
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110123/0100Z  73  01011KT  29.1F  SNOW    27:1| 2.6|| 9.0    0.094|| 0.37     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00   100|  0|  0
110123/0200Z  74  01011KT  28.8F  SNOW    24:1| 1.0||10.0    0.043|| 0.42     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00   100|  0|  0
110123/0300Z  75  36011KT  28.4F  SNOW    16:1| 0.5||10.5    0.031|| 0.45     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00   100|  0|  0
110123/0400Z  76  35011KT  27.9F  SNOW    17:1| 0.4||10.9    0.024|| 0.47     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00   100|  0|  0
110123/0500Z  77  34011KT  27.7F  SNOW    15:1| 0.1||11.0    0.008|| 0.48     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00   100|  0|  0
110123/0600Z  78  34010KT  27.5F           0:1| 0.0||11.0    0.000|| 0.48     0.00|| 0.00    0.00|| 0.00     0|  0|  0

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What was 12z euro showing for ILM and Morehead?

Not sure about MHX, but the 12z was 0.33" for ILM (all SN), compared to the previous 0z run which was over six-tenths of an inch.

Robert, not sure how much stock I would put into the GFS at this point, it seems to be the last to catch on, and as a whole, we have seen the guidance trends towards the EC over the past 24 hrs, although odds are it is too far offshore for all but the immediate coastal sections.

0z UKMET @ 72hrs

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The 0z NAM has ~0.05" of qpf falling as light snow SAT AM at SAV with the temp. falling to 33 F and 850's falling from 0C to -2C. However, this is an outlier amongst its other recent runs and other models. Also, climo says snow is rare at SAV. Therefore, despite it being only 2.5 days away, I'm giving this snow scenario only a slim chance to occur....say 5%.

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The 0z NAM has ~0.05" of qpf falling as light snow SAT AM at SAV with the temp. falling to 33 F and 850's falling from 0C to -2C. However, this is an outlier amongst its other recent runs and other models. Also, climo says snow is rare at SAV. Therefore, despite it being only 2.5 days away, I'm giving this snow scenario only a slim chance to occur....say 5%.

0z NAM has 0.04 QPF KCHS one hour of snow and that's it.

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I wasn't even paying attention and taking a break from weather battling this stupid cold. Delta was showing me guidance for CPR when I about needed CPR when the 12z NAM showed something brewing well offshore and perked my interest. Now that I started eyeballing it some, poof.

maybe I'll go back in hiding for a day and see what happens :axe:

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I wasn't even paying attention and taking a break from weather battling this stupid cold. Delta was showing me guidance for CPR when I about needed CPR when the 12z NAM showed something brewing well offshore and perked my interest. Now that I started eyeballing it some, poof.

maybe I'll go back in hiding for a day and see what happens :axe:

That seems to be the general pattern here too, once I start tracking it the threat goes to sh!t. Gas bill was 150 last month, Dec 10th - Jan 12th, wife likes to keep the thermo 75-plus :axe: and the furnace works triple time, tired of the cold, would like another SN, and am more than ready for the growing season, a win-lose situation all around. :(

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