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January 24th-26th potential winter storm part 2


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  On 1/25/2011 at 8:10 PM, buckeye said:

nam looks like se.OH gets a decent hit

Wow, is that close. That primary is hanging on longer. Now, if the NAM did not initialize correctly on the 18z, how accurate is it? Meaning could that snow make it even further north and west. I know-WEENIE ALERT!!!!!!

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  On 1/25/2011 at 8:24 PM, pondo1000 said:

What u think, about 100-150 miles?

Ask the met lol. MOE? and btw remove the images from your quote :)

But comparing hour 6 of the nam and the current radar, it appears off to me. Looks 150 - 200 miles NW to me. With nothing behind it, to put the heavy band in AL like the NAM shows. so it looks off to me, but as I said I am not a met.

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  On 1/25/2011 at 8:39 PM, passmaster16 said:

Seems farther west from those images

Looks like the NAM is off by about 150 miles. Per radar its nw with that band. Would need a met to chime in. I'm not the greatest at nowcasting, but it looks obvious to me that it is nw.

Just broke out google maps. And comparing where hr 6 of the nam shows the heaviest precip near Decatur, AL but current radar has it near Memphis, TN it is 191 miles nw.

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  On 1/25/2011 at 8:41 PM, dilly84 said:

Looks like the NAM is off by about 150 miles. Per radar its nw with that band. Would need a met to chime in. I'm not the greatest at nowcasting, but it looks obvious to me that it is nw.

Just broke out google maps. And comparing where hr 6 of the nam shows the heaviest precip near Decatur, AL but current radar has it near Memphis, TN it is 191 miles nw.

Did any of the models show precip that far west? Is it just a larger precip shield or is the system itself positioned differently?

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  On 1/25/2011 at 8:50 PM, passmaster16 said:

Did any of the models show precip that far west? Is it just a larger precip shield or is the system itself positioned differently?

Everything looks right on the model except the piece that would effect ky etc, and that piece looks further NW. The ULL is a bit north as well.

Here was the 12z gfs at hr 6. it's off compared to radar.

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  On 1/25/2011 at 9:12 PM, Trent said:

You are comparing a radar shot to a 6 hour total qpf map from the NAM, those are two completely different things. You should be looking at the sim reflectivity image:

nam_ref_006l.gif

That makes sense...but even based off of the sims the precip is nw of the projection per radar.

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  On 1/25/2011 at 9:16 PM, ArmyGreens said:

That makes sense...but even based off of the sims the precip is nw of the projection per radar.

Don't forget that image would be for 7 pm, doesn't appear things are off by that much.

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  On 1/25/2011 at 9:25 PM, Trent said:

Don't forget that image would be for 7 pm, doesn't appear things are off by that much.

i dont look at sim radar. but i see your point. Its still off though. there is precip breaking out in souther il/in and the sim radar doesnt show that. And if that is for 7pm and its 4pm now then the precip is still significantly north and will be even more so at 7pm. Also. eventhough that is a qpf map, that was 18z at hr 6, so where is AL going to get the much precip from 18z to 6hrs from now, as that qpf map shows, when the heaviest precip is no where near AL as the 6hr maps shows?

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