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Hail threat (once again this ongoing cool season), looks to return to STX and coastal region tomorrow night (16th). Some severe hail is not out of question inland. Even if storms stay elevated. The models (not too surprisingly) have been somewhat downplaying convective instability and moisture parameters lately around here. And the incoming mid-upper trough out west that SPC claims to be "weak" last night on D2 outlook has not appeared to be so on Euro since over a week ago. With even H5 flow still possibly going over 30 knots later tomorrow. 12z and 18z HRRR runs today now are also showing fairly stout 850mb southerly WAA flow potentially over 40 knots tomorrow as well. And even a split-jet flow regime moving over the state, tomorrow night (on Euro also). Which typically induces even more support for lift & dynamics aloft ahead of it.

Good question. That's something I'd like to figure out: how to read via satellite to see where impactful tropical convection is (for the pattern over N.America in general and the TN Valley in particular) and how it that convection is evolving (moving, increasing, and decreasing) to potentially modulate weather in extra tropical regions.

LWX had my spotter report posted for awhile yesterday, but once again later dropped it for State Highway’s inflated 2.0” I noticed hardly anyone is submitting spotter reports in Calvert anymore- or else they’re just not using them. Idk They still take all the (more accurate) Cocorahs reports at least. Calvert had a lot of those (including mine, which is still up). The BWI measurement was absolute bullshit too… I was up there today lol

This can be true…but he used the logic that the GFS is what’s being advertised. Well now so is the 12z Euro. So I mean, c’mon. If you’re just saying what’s being advertised, as he said he was, then where’s his good remarks for the nice looking model run?

Wonder who the 9” is in Nassau

When the RMM charts show between phase 8 and cod, does that make sense to you based on convection or is there something else going on?

Confirmation bias

Oh wow nice. Not nearly that much here but you could see it diminishing quickly on the radar as it worked its way east so not surprising.

No worries at all. I've been trying to think of some way to contribute, but I'm kind of burned out on looking at tropical convection, lol.

I've been thinking about weighing in on the MJO stuff, but I'm not really sure what I make of it. This sort of mess is new to me: For what seems like most years lately, its been doing this loop d loop mess between 5 and 6. When I look at the Maritime Continent region, it basically looks how it has looked to me for most of the times I've looked at it over the past few years: Sahara satellite just because it is so fun: So what are we looking for wrt tropical convection and why? I can look at the RMMs as well as anyone and see where it is, but I'd like to start to dig deeper. I'm going to poke around in this article for a while and see if I can come up with a useful summary: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/29/1/waf-d-13-00102_1.xml

A parting view on the ride out of town last night.

Mood flakes here in East Nantmeal 19.9 degrees....light dusting on all surfaces

No reason to apologize, sir. You are a wealth of information and fun to learn.

True. -AO are known to make this area cold. Just curious how the -WPO affects us. Add with that a MJO in phase 8. Good gracious all these teleconnections. Was nice years ago when it never was even discussed. Seems today’s times are so confusing. Simple days of forecasting are long past.

Genuinely curious--could you provide some examples?

Most of us on here describe lows which track to our west as a cutter. Sometimes they ride north of the Great Lakes traveling from west to east. Other times they start out near the Gulf or Southeastern States and lift up through the Eastern Lakes anywhere from Cleveland to Eastern PA into Canada. Can either be Miller A or Miller B. Either way parts of the region at least make into at least the 50s with mostly rain for our area and mild SW to SE flow. The strongest cutter that I experienced since the 1990s was 11-11-95. A deep low rode north near the APPS into Canada and a secondary developed just to our west. This delivered 70-75 mph gusts in Long Beach which the western half of town losing power for nearly 24hrs. The worst flood cutter I remember here was later in January 1996 with a deep snowpack. All the roads were like rivers in Long Beach as the giant snow piles on the side of the road blocked the storm drains. The most recent damaging flood cutter upstate was 12-25-20. The 40” +record snow pack rapidly melted and lead to serious flash flooding with 1.50” of rain and landslides damaging the ski resorts.

A -nao with a -ao would be ideal for us. I don't mind a pattern reset, as long as we can get back to cold thereafter.

Picked up about 1/3” here in Lebanon and it covered everything quickly. Temp down to 20° .

15.8 this morning. But looks like a mild trend coming up for the 2nd half of December.

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lol why ask? Sometimes you need to consider the source and just move on.

December can be the coldest month in la nina, but doesn't mean the other 2 months "torch". Also, this December has been more than "cool" so far.

No. Wrong BAM.

Near 7:00pm the temp is holding near 21 degrees. The snow flurries/showers is still continuing. That makes 3 hours with it still snowing, just very light. My meltdown will be forethcoming.

They did all they could to let the giants win but got the W