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February 16th-17th Potential Winter StormFirst Legit Widespread Winter Storm of the Season?


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#71
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18z nam looks really good! LOLI think this is the trend.. the low will end up further S/E..Maybe we we get lucky...

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The afternoon AFD at IND says we're done. Not unexpected given the models the past few days and the trend of this winter in general.

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LATER IN THE WEEK...LOW LEVEL TEMP/THICKNESSES HAVE BEEN TRENDING
WARMER...AND NOW APPEARS THAT ANY PRECIP FALLING FROM THIS SYSTEM
WILL BE ALMOST ENTIRELY RAIN.


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Anyone know what the 12z GFS ensembles look like?

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View PostBeastFromtheEast, on 13 February 2012 - 04:06 PM, said:

Nice

And as Skilling always says 50-100 miles north of the H5 Low is usually where the best snows are.
marginal.

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After reading APX's AFD, 18Z runs depict a major screw-over for therm.

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The 18z is irrevelant. Disorganized and sloppy. Never trust a model until it gets inside 48hrs.

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Quad Cities nws thinks this system could end up even farther south than today's model runs. If so, this will be a complete miss for CR through Wisconsin.

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View Posthawkeye_wx, on 13 February 2012 - 05:28 PM, said:

Quad Cities nws thinks this system could end up even farther south than today's model runs. If so, this will be a complete miss for CR through Wisconsin.

Yeah, I'm just about ready to expect a dry forecast for Wednesday night and Thursday; maybe a few flurries, if low level temps cooperate. :P Of course, this is hopefully wrong, and perhaps just a knee-jerk reaction to the usually erratic 18z runs.

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View Postwisconsinwx, on 13 February 2012 - 05:37 PM, said:

Yeah, I'm just about ready to expect a dry forecast for Wednesday night and Thursday; maybe a few flurries, if low level temps cooperate. :P Of course, this is hopefully wrong, and perhaps just a knee-jerk reaction to the usually erratic 18z runs.

Yeah, this isn't a phasing situation. Yesterday's 18z was weak as well.

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View Posthawkeye_wx, on 13 February 2012 - 05:28 PM, said:

Quad Cities nws thinks this system could end up even farther south than today's model runs. If so, this will be a complete miss for CR through Wisconsin.

that has been the trend all winter and not only will it trend south, cold sector precip will fade as well

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View PostKokomoWX, on 13 February 2012 - 04:13 PM, said:

The afternoon AFD at IND says we're done. Not unexpected given the models the past few days and the trend of this winter in general.

Not sure we ever really had a chance since this came into "reliable" model range. Only question is how cold the rain will be and how much.

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View Postcyclone77, on 13 February 2012 - 12:06 AM, said:

Still looks like mainly a rain event for the QCA. May get a little snow at the tail-end, but not expecting much from this system. Pretty typical for this season. The more significant storm systems have had a tendency to be rain makers in this area.

Still agree with this from yesterday. As many others have already mentioned boundary layer temps are just too warm through much of the deformation zone.

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1-2". Whatever.

#84
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Im at WGN to talk Skilling down.

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View PostThundersnow12, on 13 February 2012 - 06:35 PM, said:

Im at WGN to talk Skilling down.

From what? :lol:

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View PostChicago WX, on 13 February 2012 - 06:36 PM, said:

From what? :lol:

He is kinda liking the snow threat with this and talking up the GEM.

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View PostThundersnow12, on 13 February 2012 - 06:48 PM, said:

He is kinda liking the snow threat with this and talking up the GEM.

He is a bit of a snow weenie (in a good way, giving it its due attention) at heart from my limited knowledge. That being said, perhaps he has a point, although the GEM hasn't exactly been snow friendly through most of its runs for this storm anyway.

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View PostThundersnow12, on 13 February 2012 - 06:48 PM, said:


He is kinda liking the snow threat with this and talking up the GEM.
you need to set him straight.

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Maybe Tom Skilling will be right! At this point we need to hope for some dynamic cooling.

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View PostThundersnow12, on 13 February 2012 - 06:48 PM, said:

He is kinda liking the snow threat with this and talking up the GEM.

Well the track of the 12z GGEM is fine. It's the lack of cold enough air that's sorely lacking. Alas, he's the degreed meteorologist. :D

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I'm hoping for Wisconsin to steal this one, could happen at this range.

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I certainly wouldn't write off the upcoming system Wed-Thu. That is one of those systems that can throw some surprises. If some of the model depictions of qpf are correct and we get a surprise bit of cooling in the boundary layer and a good track at 500/850mb on the system it can certainly snow like crazy somewhere. I think this system does, in deed, have a few surprises up its sleeve. I am not gonna give up on this one. We gotta get one of these to pull through.

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0z GFS sped the timing up enough to start the precip as snow Wed. night for YYZ.

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Yeah, the lack of phasing is killing this one for Wisconsin and Iowa. A decent warm front and weak cold front behind it. A nice representation of this winter.

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View PostAngrysummons, on 13 February 2012 - 11:08 PM, said:

Yeah, the lack of phasing is killing this one for Wisconsin and Iowa. A decent warm front and weak cold front behind it. A nice representation of this winter.

Yeah, it's really too bad.

The new RGEM continues to show a boiling BL. :cry:
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EGH.....EW.....UGH....This system is starting to look like S$%T.....Moral of this winter..NEXT...

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Its really a shame the Arctic air this Winter doesn't hang around more than 24-36hrs, this system had potential. But as I said, I'm not fully writing it off until tomorrow when I see all the newest data. I know that holding out some hope usually doesn't work out in the end, as the writing is on the wall pretty much- but you never know.

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Snowfall map from MKE
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View PostBeastFromtheEast, on 13 February 2012 - 11:32 PM, said:

Snowfall map from MKE


lol that has the potential to bust badly.

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View PostThundersnow12, on 13 February 2012 - 11:34 PM, said:


lol that has the potential to bust badly.
Looks like they are riding the 12Z euro for that map..

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Latest GEM looks different than the Nam and GFS..
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View PostBeastFromtheEast, on 14 February 2012 - 12:50 AM, said:

Latest GEM looks different than the Nam and GFS..
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Yeah, stronger/further north, but still mainly rain except for central Wisconsin.

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View PostChicago Storm, on 13 February 2012 - 05:04 PM, said:

marginal.
"marginal at best" snows> SVR wx :D

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Continues to be major differences between Euro and GFS/NAM. Euro favoring a more phased scenario resulting in moderate snow accumulations across WI and North/Central MI.

00Z EURO:
MSN: 0.35
MOP: 0.30
APN: 0.53
TVC: 0.53

Since DVN is iffy:
THU 00Z 16-FEB   3.0	 1.4	1015	  90	  83	0.00	 553	 541	
THU 06Z 16-FEB   1.7	-0.9	1013	  99	 100	0.47	 550	 540	
THU 12Z 16-FEB   1.3	-2.8	1015	  90	  69	0.33	 547	 535 


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View Postkab2791, on 14 February 2012 - 01:13 AM, said:

Continues to be major differences between Euro and GFS/NAM. Euro favoring a more phased scenario resulting in moderate snow accumulations across WI and North/Central MI.

00Z EURO:
MSN: 0.35
MOP: 0.30
APN: 0.53
TVC: 0.53

Since DVN is iffy:
THU 00Z 16-FEB   3.0	 1.4	1015	  90	  83	0.00	 553	 541	
THU 06Z 16-FEB   1.7	-0.9	1013	  99	 100	0.47	 550	 540	
THU 12Z 16-FEB   1.3	-2.8	1015	  90	  69	0.33	 547	 535 
MKE snowfall map FTW..


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