Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
precip is lacking, not buying us getting snow. but cold looks legit
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
John1122 wrote:
As for this snow potential, I believe a good bit of East Tennessee will see snow flurries/snow showers. The better you do in upslope the better your shot at seeing them.
Agree john but I would not rule out an inch in the northern and central valley areas
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Reb wrote:precip is lacking, not buying us getting snow. but cold looks legit
Precip is not lacking in the ensembles and cmc
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
I actually like the small version since people cant seem to delete the same image from their quoted post
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i like the double trailer myself
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
I'll gladly quote the proper version if Reb logs on and posts it! Perhaps this is foreshadowing for what the 00z is telling?
Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
New Year Might Start off With a BANG
All models show the northern hemisphere entering another heightened period of extreme amplification--that means that the jetstream will buckle quickly--like a whiplash, and when that happens, major events occur. For several runs now the ECMWF or European model has shown a deep eastern trough early next week. The last couple of runs have really got deeper, colder and stormier for the Southeast and much of the East Coast by next week.
There's too much discrepancy on the model runs right now to say where the storm will develop, but for now its worth watching. I will mention the GFS model, which has been showing many cutoffs well in advance this season, doesn't show this one. However it did briefly have a similar event back on December 22, which made it a run valid at 384 hours..so it could be a lucky strike for it. Either way, despite model indices, such as this being a La Nina, strong +AO and NAO, we still tend to get into a period of strong amplification about every 3 to 4 weeks, and twice these upper lows have dropped a little snow in the Tennessee Valley. Now if the ECMWF model is right, much colder air gets involved, and a potential major deep snowfall would result, but we can't say for sure yet.
One other thing, the ECMWF model also latched on early last year around this time, and caught the Christmas Southeast snowstorm from about a week out...eventually other models joined it. I'll update how I think this goes when I get a feel for one way or the other, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the models work westward slightly with this cutoff, placing the Southeast in a major rain-to-snow storm, and potential historic deep snow for some areas, especially around the Appalachian Chain and adjoing piedmont. No guarantees on any particular storm though and this one may not work out quite like this, but believe me when I say we're nowhere near done with monster sized storms in the South.
I have been stating a while now that this Winter will be an Historic one in terms of snow depth, for some areas of the Southeast. I still think that, and the tell-tale sign is the fact that the models continue to show all the high amplitude pattern and the resulting "cut off" lows. We've seen several this season and very far south, so it's only a matter of time before someone is digging out of a snowfall they will remember a very long time.
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
thatd be a good 1-3 inches area wide
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
the ozgfs has the trough little further west, but its moisture starved.. the cold looks to be in and out type thus far.
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
The ensembles will disagree with the cold in and out but I guarantee you the gfs will trend wetter with such a well organixed full lat trough
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The gfs and euro ensemble AO/NAO is headed towards negative colder times ahead for most of JAN
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The 18z gfs ensembles are developing the negative NAO by JAN 10
Im waiting for the 0zCMC to run and maybe even the euro...reb u with me?
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im all in brother. prob sleep around 2
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
hello folks...latest gfs shows much colder weather coming about two weeks into the new year too, so keep hope alive!
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keithinala wrote:hello folks...latest gfs shows much colder weather coming about two weeks into the new year too, so keep hope alive!
Keith, thanks for joining us here buddy!
I think you'll find lots of optimism here about the short to medium term outlook!
-Cheers!
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keithinala wrote:hello folks...latest gfs shows much colder weather coming about two weeks into the new year too, so keep hope alive!
Been waiting on you Keith...glad you made it over buddy....this is a more layed back place than the other forum.... post whatever u like and as much a syou like
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yep, i second that keith, that trough is at a good place to carve out a big time storm to develop to our sw. and also, welcome keith to the forum buddy.well off to work in a few. lets hope the euro is on to something yall, thats the kind of trough we need.keithinala wrote:this euro at 240 looks awesome
http://www.instantweathermaps.com/ECMWF-php/showmap-ecmwf.php?run=2011123000®ion=USA&var=HGT_500mb&hour=240
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
Canadian apparently didnt have the storm locked in.
Looks like a dry frontal passage, and cold air.
We'll have to wait for the next cold blast for any chance of white stuff.
Where's our pattern change toot?
Looks like a dry frontal passage, and cold air.
We'll have to wait for the next cold blast for any chance of white stuff.
Where's our pattern change toot?
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Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
jmundie wrote:Canadian apparently didnt have the storm locked in.
Looks like a dry frontal passage, and cold air.
We'll have to wait for the next cold blast for any chance of white stuff.
Where's our pattern change toot?
This storm is the pattern changer and it wont end up dry...you live by them models and you'll die by them too...we still got about 5 days before this one is decided
Re: Quick shot of snow and Arctic Outbreak coming
Even the ensembles have dried up. I understand not basing a forecast entirely on models... But continuing to call for
Something with confidence in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is not good meteorology.
Something with confidence in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is not good meteorology.
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