Blizzard of 93

The 6z GFS & GFS Para continued to look great for the Thursday into Friday storm. The old GFS is mostly snow, except some mixing towards the end of the storm after a very good snow thump. The Para kept just above everyone snow for the duration of the storm. These are 10-1 maps.

The precious, somehow beloved by many, NAMs are coming onboard at 6z. This was a NAMing indeed! Here are the 12k & 3K (run ends at 60 hours) at 6z

Here are the 0z Euro 10-1 & Kuchera snow zoomed in maps for CTP.

The 0z Euro Op run was very nice with mostly snow for just about everyone, even at the height of the storm.

The 0z GFS, Para & GEFS continued to escalate the Thursday into Friday for many of us!

The 0z ICON has the snow thump for most of the LSV!

Yes, the 0z NAM took a big step towards every other available model for Thursday. Very nice front end thump despite only taking a step at this time. I’m looking forward to the rest of the 0z runs.

The 18z EPS remained steady for our Thursday into Friday snow chance. The 18z Euro Control looks very nice as well!

The 18z Euro still looks very good leading in to the storm with a well placed High pressure over Quebec as the steady snow gets underway in CTP. By Thursday evening the High is still in a great spot as the heavy snow still is unloading on all of us from the MD line on north. I like seeing the snow max zone at this range to our south... plenty of time to get this into the LSV!

@MAG5035 We were on the same page with our CTP zone posts within a minute of each other!

CTP is ramping up the zone forecasts for Wednesday night into Friday morning. Here is the current forecast for Harrisburg. Wednesday Night A chance of snow after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Thursday Snow before 2pm, then snow and sleet. The snow and sleet could be heavy at times. High near 34. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow and sleet accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible. Thursday Night Freezing rain and sleet before 1am, then rain or freezing rain between 1am and 5am, then rain, snow, and freezing rain likely after 5am. The sleet could be heavy at times. Low around 29. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Friday Snow likely before 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 38. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Lol...send the train North about 100 miles & then we will be Back in the jackpot that is South of DC !

The 18z Para GFS is on board the snow train as well ... Choo .... Choo!!!

I didn’t see the 12z Euro & 12z EPS posted from earlier... so here they are...

Here is the 18z GFS 10-1 ratio map just for this storm on Thursday into Friday.

Yes! Let’s go Euro in an hour!

The 12z Canadian is on board too for Thursday.

Bingo! Exactly... Here are the snow maps just for the Thursday event for the 12z GFS, GFS Para & GEFS. Lots of room to maneuver in any direction. I like where we are sitting now.

I do indeed... just having some fun and posting model output to get the whole story out there for the snow & temps part of the event on Thursday. I am good... we are well above normal snow for the date. I am just not wired to worry...

I don’t know what else to post... some of you guys would still be worried on precip type if we were 5 degrees with -20 at 850s ... Lol !

After all of that, here is 1 snow map to show on the 6z GFS that most of the LSV snow has already occurred by 18z Thursday. Yes, this map ends at 18z Thursday from the 6z GFS. I don’t care what happens after this if I have over 7 inches of snow on the ground...

Here are the 6z GFS surface precip panels for 12z & 18z Thursday. The majority of the snow thump has already happened by 18z Thursday in the LSV.

Here are the 6z GFS surface & 850 temps at 18z Thursday. Still plenty cold even south of the MD line.

Here are Better maps of the good old 6z GFS that you thought didn’t look so good. Here are the 12z Thursday surface & 850 temps

Again... 18z is after a good chunk of the snow thump already moves through!