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Holston_River_Rambler

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  1. I was about to post about the NAM 3k. It's a lot more widespread than other models at least to my eye.
  2. I'll take anything to get some cold back in Canada: EPS: GEFS: Here is the run-to-run change on the GEPS 850mb temps, don't know how useful one run to run change is, but I decided to try weatherbell, so we can have those gifs now:
  3. Sorry @Carvers Gap what I was writing might seem really weird in light of what you asked before I finished typing it, lol.
  4. Been trying to think if I have anything to add or build on what @Carvers Gap said yesterday, and I just can't add much. Kind of burnt out on models right now. There is just a ton of volatility at range. Yeah that's normal, but there just seems to be some like hemispheric pattern swings out in fantasy land. To me it seems normal to have storms come and go, but I feel like models are decent at the general pattern. IDK, maybe it is the SSW projected is now flopping and that is screwing with things? FWIW there is still a minor split, but not at the levels most people look at and show on social media (i.e. 10 mb) I'll also add that recent long range runs are trying to make a second run at a warming. Definitely on the table as much as anything is, but still in fantasy land. Further down in the atmosphere we've gone from having these hugely anomalous HL blocks the second week of Jan. (NAO, I'm looking at you) To this look at the end of the 6z GFS: And look, I at least think I get it. These are OP runs at basically max range, of course they're going to be wrong and flip flop. But that is like a 360 degree flip. Maybe I should lay off the OP juice and stick to the low gravity ensembles, but, IDK, I wonder if there is some sort of pattern shake up in the works around the second week of January. I don't necessarily men locally, but big picture, N. Hemisphere type stuff. WRT the MJO, I'm kind of hoping toward dying in phase 3 right now. Although models kept trying to COD it when it was in 4 and 5 earlier in the month, it did eventually pitter out in 6. TBH, I'm still not sure exactly what the MJO is. Is it a planetary scale process that involves the earth's rotation and Coriolis effect at the equator that is enhanced or suppressed based on SSTs and ongoing convection? I mean I think I kind of get why tropical convection matters, but I guess I just wish there was a way to see where the MJO was based purely on satellites.
  5. If you decide the plateau route, and if that is the track the upper low takes, Sewanee/ Monteagle might not be a bad spot.
  6. Yep, I was just trying to find a good precip projection for a gif. Might see my first real snowflakes. I don't count the 7 half melted flurries that could have been whirly doodles from a Tulip Poplar a week or so ago.
  7. One thing we do have working for us this time is ENSO. Certainly not saying a SSW couldn't mess up any pattern, but hopefully now that Nino is flexing we can keep the SPV stressed.
  8. I'm definitely with Carver's for waiting until Friday to decide. I was actually thinking about Sam's Gap this AM. It's interstate all the way, but just a bit too far for your time. GFS gives it a few inches Saturday afternoon and it puts you up to almost 4000 feet. If you decided to go that way, you could just about do a loop in the same return time and come back through Asheville and see how things looked on the Foothills parkway near Cosby.
  9. GOES derived lightning strikes, looks like a nice one over Spence Field and Thunderhead mt. I guess that seals the deal for late this week/ weekend?
  10. Merry Christmas all, Here is the 3D Vortex I mentioned from yesterday: Not much else to add but this 3D gif present.
  11. That upper low will be another good NAMing for someone over the next few days
  12. Shout out to @stadiumwave who posted this in the main forum El Nino thread. I hadn't even thought to check the mean yet. 6z GEFS mean has a split too: Also question for stadiumwave if you read this, which gif host do you sue to get the higher resolution gifs?
  13. First full SPV split I've seen in the long range this season on the 0z GFS Sadly the 6z wasn't as enthusiastic, but it is still way out there. GFS was trying to get to the above a couple times yesterday, but didn't quite make it. Here is the same evolution at 50 mb: Should be a fun 3D vortex tomorrow AM. It only runs the previous days 0z data to make that visual, so we won't have tonight's 0z for the 3D images until tomorrow.
  14. I like it when the GEFS from College of Dupage has creamsicle on some of the members for our area. Some people calls it orange, I calls it creamsicle.
  15. 7 flurries here. Also saw some sandhill cranes migrating on these winds.
  16. A lightning strike popped just north of Louisville KY with a squall. I was kind of hoping that the clearing might enhance lapse rates for places that see snow.
  17. Pretty good radar returns over eastern KY this AM well ahead of the shortwave rotating through this evening and overnight. Looks like folks above 2500 feet could already be seeing some snow.
  18. Kind of an aside, but something I noticed beyond the usual SPV talk, is what's modeled to happen over Greenland at 50mb: temps and anomalies: heights: With some of the talk about potential NAO blocking in January, this is something to watch to see if it can percolate down to atmo. levels where it matters more for us. Even the GEFS mean is pretty enthusiastic: The Euro isn't quite as enthused: Obviously this is still way out there, but something to think about down the road.
  19. End of the RGEM looked nice for upslope Monday but it is the end of a hi res run.
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