AtlanticWx

Eyeball estimates but 1-1.3 in Germantown, MD. We've gotten absolutely lucky with the banding today. Safe to say we've overperformed our forecasts

hrrr has continued to trend north EVERY run without fail. surely this means something lmao

we're seeing two amazing trends happen in tandem with our energy. 1. our shortwave is trending slower/deeper than cams initially anticipated. take a look at the hrrr trend over OK with our shortwave. 2. our midwest vort that digs and raises heights is digging more than expected over nebraska and looks more consolidated. these two trends (can't paste gifs bc of the file limit, unfortunately) should help lift our storm more north than expected. feeling very optimistic about this one, our only fail mode is really something that's just dissipitating as we get closer. more boom than bust potential with this one imo, especially near the metro.

NAM had positive changes with our vort & confluence starting at hour 48. If this means anything for 0z runs, we're set. Confluence def lifted by 48 w/ trough buckling more -> more interaction by the period of interest

I honestly think we want the TPV lobe to hold back a little earlier instead of pushing east. The further west it is, the more interaction it'll have with the southern piece and capture it properly, just like we saw with the Euro solutions last night

yeah on the bright side, euro is one of the only models with the kicker literally starting to wrap around our system lmao

yeah i wonder why this is the case. is it because ensembles are more low res besides eps and eps is the most juiced out of them?

i mean it did, that's what caused it to be better further south and worse further north. good for us now, but we wouldn't want this to become a trend. idt it will tho so we'll see

euro made two negative shifts this run looking at it. by hour 84, there's less interaction between the two waves. additionally, the kicker is more destructive, stringing it out but stringing it out too late for it to affect us.

when are we getting a thread? after the gfs cave

6z euro somehow looked even better with the capture of the southern piece holy shit

4" here in south gtown, hit forecast with a few hours of snow left to go. let's get it

2.6 in GTown.

Can a met explain why HRRR is so much warmer than every other model with sfc temps?

Honestly getting really excited for this. Didn't think we would score in February, let alone stare down a possible 6-8"+ storm area wide

qpf max went up, i like this run more than 6z. just went south due to noise with the confluence which doesn't get sampled till tomorrow anyways. i like this change

eyeballing more than just a dusting now, all surfaces caving in gtown. 33.2°

wtf i didn't realize soundings looked like this

so excited to get a daytime snowstorm tomorrow. my sleep schedule has gotten so cooked by the late-night storms that peak at like 4 am. nice to see a snowstorm peaking at like 4 pm

hey yall, i've not been looking recently. how we looking for the storm and more specifically NW moco?

jan 6-7 is the new dec 5 of the 2020s

what are people's thoughts on ratios being overdone with kuchera for this event? soundings don't look impressive, with ripping winds and subpar lift in the DGZ just like on monday for the frontend thump

snowflakes look so much healthier now than they were in the first round. really seeing the impacts of better snow growth, accumulating nicely and efficiently

ripping fatties in germantown

3/8" of snow in the last 17 minutes, 1.3"/hr rates. Up to 4.7", but snow depth is around 4.3-4.4" due to compaction probably