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  1. Holston_River_Rambler
    To be fair, really the only thing we've done well on the past couple of years are waves spinning up on fronts that have passed by, so this one fits the trend.
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    12z GFS looks good for the third wave deal:
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    Not really adding much here, but man this looks nice: still just 6z run, but would be different from the last two years in that it displaces and splits towards us: exactly what we've been missing this year too, a nice punch from Scandinavia
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    Yeah, I think part of the EPS flip flop is what exactly it does with the lowest heights in the N hemisphere. The runs where it has them closer to Greenland usually = stouter SE ridge.
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    Convection is a mess this AM,a little bit everywhere:
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    Here's that Euro storm, for those interested, mostly eastern and elevation areas: I think we're at the point, like John said, where it's a win just to get a modeled storm under 200 hours, lol. Same thing, at least for me, for the pole. Nice to see that sucker getting pushed around consistently and **gasps** aimed toward us for once instead of Siberia. Euro looks similar, but doesn't do out as far yet. 3D maps shows a bottom up and top down attack I think I would prefer it to stick together and roll over toward us. If it splits at the end of February, probably yet another cloudy, rainy spring in the cards. EPS says its our turn to drink:
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    12z EPS says the battle of wits has begun! Control looks like it still likes the trough idea.
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    And check out the -AO on the GFS. I know it is the fantasy GFS, but seems like forever since we've seen something like this even in fantasy range. EPOs, yeah, we've seen em and watched em dissappear, same with NAOs, but AOs this winter, not so much, even waaayyyy out in time. I was wondering if the strat had anything to do with it and at 10mb, not so much, but it is drifting south, towards Canada at that height. Now, at 50 mb, there is much more wobbling and disruption. I wonder if what we see here is a situation where the strat is too strong to split, but the descending QBO allows upper ridging that would normally split it, to push it south toward Canada? That also creates, in the GFS's fantasy realm for sure, an interesting wind configuration at 100 mb, just above the jet stream level:
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    UKMET tries to give soem lovin' to E Arkansas and NW TN today, but according to snow maps, can't quite get it done. I think if it plays out that way, there will be ye olden trowel feature and it will all depend on where that sets up.
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    GFS has done better the past two years, but this year's SPV is a beast.
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    @Carvers Gap Strat got interesting overnight after a few bland runs: Euro (sadly only out to ten days): Yeah it does reconsolidate n the Euro, but that is the first time this season I've seen the Euro do anything like a split at the 10 mb level. Before it only made it up to 50 mb. GFS: shows how that reconsolidation could be like a rubber band being stretched. Once you stretch it out, even if it temporarily returns to its original shape, there's still built up momentum that has to be worked out
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    The more I think about it this year, I wonder if these long range flip flops are due to how strong the SPV is and how well coupled it has been. It's like have a single cyclone determining the N Hemisphere pattern. Any little change affects everything.
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    0z GEFS kinda bit on that look too.
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    In more critical news, would be nice to see a EPS spaghetti plot to see if that is just a washed out with a variety of solutions, or if that sort of bland, general trough over North America is what many members see.
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    Long range pattern is like a Venus fly trip this year, and we are the fly, lol. It has decided we are getting wise to its tricks, so it must sweeten the nectar to draw us back in: We have to double reverse psychologize the pattern by acting uninterested, lol:
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    Here's the 500 mb pattern for that Ice Storm in Jan 1951, from NCEP reanalysis:
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    18z GFS on board too, but later in the run.
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    Congrats to all on y'alls side of the mountains today! If I didn't have a meeting today, I'd already be on the road to Waynesville for lunch at Boojum Brewery, lol.
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    Looks like it is about 3500 feet. If I still lived in Knoxville, might be a good day to see where the snow line is on LeConte.
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    So close, yet so far away: https://ncbroker.com/webcam/
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    0z EPS looked like it might have been trying to lift the trough out of the southwest at the very end, but TBH it's at like hour 340 something, so we'll see what happens at 12z. The 0z GEFS looks very, very similar and both have us at or slightly below normal with 850 temps.
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    My take. Not meant to be at odds with Carver's above. Was actually thinking about this today and saw that he went for a projection, so thought I'd throw one out there. Besides I was cheated of my sacrifice (apparently my long lost brother Houston met his end) and subsequent plan to come back like Gandalf the white, so I guess I'm still here... Trough dumps out west as depicted SE ridge verifies more amplified. Warmth and rumors of heat. Downsloping, maybe Greene county hits 80 once. Series of impulses ride the southern jet. We rain. Each disturbance amplifies as it moves north, cranking the SE and W Atlantic ridges up and one of these impulses, if it really gets going over the Canadian maritimes, aims a nice shot at the PV. Now, Masiello (not in his normal forecasting mode, but in his observation mode) has pointed out that the SPV has taken a shot every month this winter around the 20th. If this times out just right we get what we've been missing: the hammer and the anvil. N Atlantic/ Scandy ridge AND Northern Pac ridging puts the hurt on and splits the SPV. Model mayhem. Cold dumps somewhere and hopefully, following this winter's pattern, it dumps in Canada and comes south, just as the MJO finishes a tour of 4/5/6. Big westerly wind burst again and +AAM. QBO is at its lowpoint of the winter and we finally get some blocking to show up on modeling. Because of the uncertainty after a SPV split, I'll leave this one at this point in time.
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    Bleaklies. At least for once they give no hope, and maybe that is a sign things are about to turn:
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    Maybe instead of raindance's idea of a repeat, we are actually running in reverse and will get back to November's pattern in March. Looks familiar to me( 31 December's 12z EPS run, out to 360 hrs) today's 12z EPS Remember when we had that conversation about the N Hemisphere pattern locking up? lol.
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    Isotherm's latest update pretty much tosses the whole first half of Feb. Still, somehow, seems optimistic about late Feb and March.
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