Yeah I would go with an A here for Jan, I can't recall a better one in many years. December was awful as usual, and February has sucked other than still having snow otg for the first few days.
That's the problem with the 'less digging' idea with the NS vort- the cold will lag behind. Need more interaction sooner- and this run did it somewhat, but not enough.
Some slight improvement in the Southern sw and the NS vort lobe looks to be dropping in a tad more westward on HH GFS. Probably not enough but lets see.
What's happening to the early March highly touted big potential window?
Here we go. Just shifted a few days. And a better look up top! This is the one.
The Canadians say no at 12z.
Enjoy the Euro run y'all.
I have one of those 'play nice in the workplace' deals to attend for like the 30th time. Always need refreshers on how to behave professionally.
The thread title could use a little revising maybe. I simply identified this as a window for a possible sneaky wave behind the late week storm that had fail written all over it. I was already looking ahead.
The Great CAPE storm is a little hyperbolic.
(That one happened in early January. )
We do have a thread for digital snow. I suggested a while back that is the place they should be deposited until we have a discrete threat(and dedicated thread).
Those runs were pretty juiced up too with over an inch of precip not too far south. The qpf for the snow area was 0.50-0.65". If that's weak sauce, I like weak sauce.
Doesn't have to be a qpf bomb, at least for me. Rates and time of day matter more. The 12z/18z GFS simulations of yesterday had 4-6" (10:1) from the DC area across to central DE. I'd take that.
It is slightly better, so a small step maybe. Not sure we are going to get back to that earlier/deeper/wester dig of the NS energy like we were seeing yesterday.
Start a thread. One of 2 things HAS to happen apparently- we completely kill it with the dreaded jinx, or positive mojo/reverse jinx happens and we get buried.
I generally concur with this assessment.
Last winter the impact of HL blocking was largely mitigated due to the complete lack of legitimate cold in our source region.