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  1. high risk
    not to split hairs, but at least the 13z outlook gets the entire region into 2% tornado probabilities. The initial outlook with <2% made no sense. I was bullish on my tornado probs last night, but with some indication now that there will be an early afternoon wave of showers, this may hurt our better instability later in the day and lead to slightly elevated storms with less tornado potential (but certainly heavy rain potential).
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    NAM nest seems like an outlier with only a mid-evening show. 00Z HRRR and current and earlier hi-res windows all support a late afternoon round 1 and then an evening round 2. There is still some healthy disagreement on whether the low-level shear is sufficiently "good" by late afternoon or if the better shear sets up after dark, but I would certainly expect a 5% tornado outlook in the early morning Day 1.
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    I'll agree with the props to LWX for the synopsis. Looking at the early components of the 00z suite, the HRRR wants to initiate some convection during the late afternoon in the area that would have slightly better low-level instability to work with than later storms - this might be an earlier show, with lesser severe potential later at night. The NAM nest avoids the earlier convection and has the show all being later at night, with an ominous radar showing cells and line segments. That said, the cape is very tall and skinny, which reduces the severe potential at least a little, but the low-level shear is still very impressive.
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    I was looking at it when you posted. Sunday night could be very, very interesting around here. As I noted earlier, the NAM keeps temps well up in the 60s Sunday night, so the usual big drop in overnight instability here won't be an issue. While the overall wind profiles have some veer-back-veer in them (which can limit the ability of cells to stay discrete), and the cape is a bit "tall and skinny", the low-level shear looks truly outstanding, and the NAM NEST certainly suggests some cells out ahead of the main line. Tomorrow's day 2 for Sunday/Sunday night will almost certainly extend slight risk into our area, and it could end up as an enhanced risk.
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    The overnight threat Sunday could materialize better than overnight threats usually do here if the NAM is correct. It shows strong southerly winds keeping temperatures here in the upper 60s through the night.
  6. high risk
    It does, but look at the 2m dewpoint field. It has dew points rocketing up into the 62-64 range as the precip approaches which allows it to blow up the convection. Actual dew points have been falling this afternoon, more in line with what the HRRR is showing.
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    The key for today appears to be the low-level dew points. NAM3 moistens us all afternoon, we end up with low/mid 60s dew points by late afternoon and a pretty unstable atmosphere. HRRR mixes and advects some low dew point air into our region during the afternoon, and we end up in the low 50s by late afternoon.
  8. high risk
    yeah, I could have clarified, although the NAM3 only goes to f60...... But while Friday does have some potential, I am talking about today.
  9. high risk
    I had been "way out" on this event, but the 12z NAM3 is making me reconsider, with some impressive signatures much further north than in previous runs along with greater instability and a shear profile that is lacking in low-level shear but would have decent deep-layer shear with a modest increase in sfc winds. This solution is an outlier for now, but I'll be curious to see whether the HRRR trends in its direction.
  10. high risk
    HRRR soundings showing about 500 sfc-based cape, and SPC has added our area into general thunder. Will certainly be interesting convection around this afternoon.
  11. high risk
    very low freezing levels. definitely possible.
  12. high risk
    Friday afternoon could be a bit fun as the strong vort approaches. Convective showers are likely, and with very steep lapse rates, it looks like a few folks could see some lightning.
  13. high risk
    first thunder of the year in North Laurel!!
  14. high risk
    We saw this exact scenario 2 weeks ago, also on a Sunday. The wedge doesn't give up easily, and the temperatures are going to bust, except in the western areas. Models are still emphatic that we'll break out in a few hours and get to the upper 50s - maybe we can get that high, but I think that 60's in the metro areas are pretty unlikely.
  15. high risk
    Lots of talk about the light snow not being able to stick and references to the struggles of last Sunday, but this isn't a Sunday redux. 1) Air and ground temps going in to this storm are much colder 2) it's not necessarily a light snow event - if you look at the NAM3 in particular, it's mostly a 2hr burst of steadier snow that will rapidly cool the low levels Don't get me wrong, it's still a weak, fast-moving system, and DC and points south will struggle to get accumulation no matter what, especially if the GFS is right getting us to the low 40s. But north of DC could get a quick 1-2" if the NAM3 idea of limited heating prior to onset and some short-lived heavier rates is correct.
  16. high risk
    agreed. nice thump of afternoon snow for areas north of DC with temps in the mid 30s falling to lower 30s.
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    except the the guidance has repeatedly indicated that the primary warm layer will be around 800 mb
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    it's really worth noting that the NAM and NAM3 10:1 maps show accumulation overnight for much of the I-95 corridor, even though the p-type is mostly rain. That means that the microphysics inside the model are cranking out some sleet for sure, even though the p-type shows rain due to the p-type being computed outside out the model purely based on the thermodynamic profile. Don't take the accumulation numbers literally, as a 10:1 ratio obviously shouldn't apply to sleet, but the fact that it's non-zero is telling us that the model has at least some frozen falling in a profile that is so close to supporting more frozen, and it supports the idea that it wouldn't take much cooling to be a much bigger deal.
  19. high risk
    LOL. It was too much and too confusing for me to write "for the southern half of the northern tier."
  20. high risk
    can we stop saying things like the NAM3 has 5" and crap that like? The TT 10:1 map has 5". The model does not. If you want to know what the actual model is doing, look at the snow depth change or Ferrier maps. They're much lower, indicating significant riming of the snow, consistent with the forecast soundings which show a possible warm layer around 800. It's marginal with that warm nose, so those depth and Ferrier maps may end up too light, but the model does not have 5".
  21. high risk
    nice event for the northern tier
  22. high risk
    NAM is a wet outlier, but the NAM3, CMC, and GFS are somewhat in line for 1-2" across parts of DC Metro.
  23. high risk
    NAM3 brings us back to reality a bit, but it does show the potential for a couple of heavier snow bands.
  24. high risk
    a reminder to, at the minimum, split the difference between the 10:1 and accumulated snow depth maps, but that is still a LOT of precip. (or at least a lot more than we were expecting to see....)
  25. high risk
    Remember that the NCEP models tally sleet along with the snow, so when you see those generous snow maps, they're because TT is applying a 10:1 ratio to the liquid equivalent. The positive snow depth change is also plotted there, and it accounts for poor ratios and overall difficulty in accumulating - it's way less snowy for this case (consistent with the sleet).
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