Yep I noticed mostly that the trough was a lot more positive around hour 72 which favors us a lot. 12z euro missed out on good confluence press that the GFS has been showing the last 2 runs. Progress is progress...
It looked a lot better on 500mb vort than it actually ended up on surface. Hopefully we can keep this going with tonight's runs. Anything but ice is good with me lol.
I had heard it's a model blend that mostly favors the euro. That would be the only model showing big totals this far south anyways. Still gonna take a lot for that to happen imo. Today's runs will definitely tell a lot of the story. Hopefully we keep seeing things move in our direction. Like we said above, it's been so long since a big storm for Columbus.
Not all that far off from what the euro just did. This thing is gonna change a lot in the next 3 days. I'm not sure I buy the anafront solutions to be honest.
2 pieces with a more eastern track with the second would be our best bet imo. Obviously hard to trust models with the big dog crushing the NE this weekend.
Yeah it's a possibility and it's what we're rooting for to happen. Need main wave to be just a tad slower and west as the second energy has been trending faster. Phasing looked best yet on this euro run, but it didn't translate down to the surface much like the NAM.
Boom potential is definitely there with the right band placement. We still convincing ourselves ULL's hold on longer before transferring compared to models?
Seems as if a tiny difference in the stream interaction (1-3 hours) is the difference between central Ohio getting heavy totals and almost nothing. Virtually no model is accurate enough to nail that down imo.
Euro doing the same thing as GFS. ULL sightly east, but more phasing and more precip to the west. If we could get that ULL to come a bit west I think a lot of us are in business.
Something to ponder. Compared to 6z GFS, which I think is what 12z nam initialized on, has the first energy faster and stronger than what is actually occurring. Is this what allowed the 12z Nam to phase more?
Only reassuring thing for Columbus area is that we only need about a 30 mile shift west to see some decent snow. That can happen all the way down to 24 hours before even starts.