Day 3 updates are extremely rare around these parts. Wow.
They must really want to communicate the potential threat. Otherwise - why not just wait for an official outlook update tonight for D2?
I'm not sure we'll get much sun - that is still very much to be determined. I think there might be enough heavy rain the night before leftover to spoil that aspect of it.
Also a note - CIPS keeps really hitting an event from May 1991 hard. I looked in the NCDC storm report database and it was a decent event in parts of the area. Focused north. There was a 70mph gust it looks like in northern Maryland.
I even think an 11am arrival time could do relatively well for us. I'm thinking a show time of 19z or later is mostly off the table. Maybe we compromise with the models slowing a bit but then the line/whatever it is arriving earlier. Gut says 10am-2pm could be the time to watch.
The slowing trend isn't as pronounced anymore - the other thing to consider is these squally type things do tend to come in a bit earlier than forecast. But the NAM keeps wanting to up the game. Insert all the usual "NAM at longer ranges" caveats.
The realist in me is expecting gusty showers or a gusty squall at best. But Feb 7 remains pretty highlighted in my mind. Things certainly haven't trended badly for us if you want some excitement. And if the recent Euro runs are right - we might do it all over again about 7 days later.
Of note - the Euro (and to a much lesser extent the GFS) are still hinting at another storm system around the same time the following week. Euro has a 980ish low to our north still.
The 06z NAM appears to have been an improvement again. SARS is even lighting up with sounding matches from the database at some points in our area. It maintains instability and puts good supercell and sigtor parameters in our area Mon.
Yes was just going to post - there is legit instability in the corridor on the 0z NAM. Still the NAM out in time, though. We'll see what the GFS says - I'm sure it'll be down to Earth a bit more.
And it looks like around 55-65 knots around 925mb at 12z Mon morning. Looks like the height for that is around 720m - so a bit over 2,000ft. Wonder how much of that will be able to transfer down to the surface in showers/storms.
Easily would be similar to April 27-28 2011 - but of course maybe not with that duration. The duration on that event was something I'm not sure we're going to see again outside of a tropical system.
Well it's weird because the PPF shows a big blob over us with reports. SPC Storm Archive appears to go back to 2000 - maybe some events are missing? Lemme grab a screenshot.
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/events/
There's a 3/14 event - but it doesn't match this at all.