Those watching model guidance for potential Eastern US winter storm this MLK weekend, an Atmospheric River recon mission (organized by @CW3E_Scripps) sampled upstream shortwave likely to play key role.

Nice in-situ aircraft & dropsonde obs to help model ICs in future cycles.✈️📊 https://t.co/v3VKhsuXpC pic.twitter.com/fvfN5jwZxM

— Philippe Papin (@pppapin) January 12, 2022