Bob Chill

Virga was minimal. First flakes ongoing. I may end up in a dead zone between the TN valley and coastal dance but for now, it is snowing and sticking

Lol. I'm one and done there. I think it's been 10 years. I don't call individual storms. Ruins the fun of the track and makes me biased when I shouldn't be.

Didn't take much to get thru virga stage here to your west. First flakes on time! (3rd time this year... wut?! Lol)

Probably but I think what's coming is being underestimated. Not in a big snow way because guessing that is impossible. All guidance is congealing on a version of the "big bowl". If you can't have a gnarly 50/50 or am effective-NAO, the Big bowl is the next best thing for suppressed flow without elevator up and down amplification (one of my least favorite patterns for snow). Progressive up and down produces big storms but they are narrow, fragile, and widely spaced. Miss one and you might be done lol. I'm prob a minority where I'll gladly trade a one and done big storm pattern for an extended active pattern. What I want doesn't mean shit but i like what i see today even better than the last couple. This is an active pattern with cold over the entire continent

Did the sandwich get hurt? You never said and people are concerned

We still callin it a wrap?

1/20/2016 iirc. Smallest accum snow event to shut down the roads probably ever. It was like an inch and people slept in cars lol. A week later was better though

Dam DT. Has me basically on the 6" line. Benefits of living near his bias. I just wish he was right more than once every 3 years

I'm a numbers guy too. We avg 12-13" of total QPF during our snow climo window and only 1-3" of it averages as snowfall depending where you live. Call it 15% on avg. That's a warm wet fact . With such a small slice of total precip averaging snow, it's easy to see why it disappears on models all the time cuz mid/lr progs think we avg double or triple that haha

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Gefs is pretty good for the Mar 4-8th window. Southern rockies > deep south > MA... I'm kinda feelin this one too. Not the specific gfs idea. Just that it's coming, won't take forever, and will be keeping us up at night soon enough. Gefs just looks dang good considering

More than once and that's enough.... allllll in

Absolutely the same. Train tracks isn't the best word because the repetitive nature isnt just storm tracks. Areas can make up for lost time quickly in all categories but they way it happens is through a variety of events. It's more like a magnet than train tracks because that implies the same exact type of storm keeps happening. I've believed in it for over a decade and use it as a predictive tool. It won't always show up on h5 progs. It's more of a personality thing vs nuts and bolts. Stark examples are drought busters. All of a sudden it's time. Why and how I don't know but when switches flip they mean it. The lake Powell recovery (still bleak but last few years weren't supposed to happen lol) captures what I'm talking about. It got all kinds of unusual boosts including tropcial. There are cycles in cycles on longer timescales. Imho, and I've said this before, I don't think the last 8 years are a new anything. Meaning "sudden new normal". It was just a typical (with precedence) MA "anti-heater". Other than the 60s, there are examples in every decade. I'm not arguing that we're losing on the margins from temps. I just never once believe that we won't have strings of acceptable and normal winters. It was a big part of my confidence making a call against the grain this year. It was time and I guessed right. Intuition is telling me this year is our heater (or acceptable) kickoff year and the next 6-8 years will look pretty decent when it's all said and done. Not without a gnarly dud or 2 but it will not look or feel like the last 8 years on paper. There's my Uber long range call. Hope I'm alive for verification Lastly, I also strongly believe the EC (including us) will have a record breaking snow storm in the next 10 years. Warmer temps hurt us on the margins but def help us with intensity and qpf. I'm def not a Deb over our long term prospects. We just have to deal with a warmer planet like every other living thing on it

See ya every 6 hours thru mid March brother. It's coming

Just checked the soundings to go along with the 700mb fronto plot. Someone is getting hit pretty good

3k nam likes RIC area for best lift during the WAA piece right as coastal enhancement starts taking over. That same area of lift helps me too and sends some crumbs back out here for a touch of coastal enhancement. Stronger/juicier wave leading in = broader coastal enhancement ETA: I'm not versed in RIC (or my own new climo lol) with the subtle stuff but one of my personal rules of thumb with WAA snow is the northernmost cohesive band of heavier precip usually has a localized maxima in real time that models don't do a great job at getting right even at very short leads. North of that line is diffuse flurries and subsidence. Sweet spot just south usually has great snow growth

We're benefitting from the shortwave gathering more juice as it rounds the base. Changes at short leads are more subtle but check out 6z vs 12z gfs in the deep south. Area between the gulf low and boundary qpf maxes is more robust. This is at 24 hour leads. I need it more than you guys but keep stuffin the h20 molecules please lol

Agree 100% on that. We had some of this stuff happen in feb/Mar 2015. After the Vday mini blizzard, the tpv didn't leave our proximity for weeks. Couple progressive waves similar to this one got pac man'd to hell. One psu and highstakes will remember well. The cold dry air tore an arc out of the nw side so on paper it had the same vibe. That was a weird underperformer too. It was too cold and dry. Radar didn't reflect reality much. Heavies were light. Snow quality sucked at times. Ground up flakes and sand. I worry a little about that tomorrow. Wouldn't come as a shock to get sub 10:1 on whatever qpf falls. 850/700 frontogen panel are pretty meager until you get towards RIC

Lol. There's not much difference there. Just don't talk dmv fast lol. Wife and I love it here. Everything is amazing. Nice helpful people, no bs, fair cost for any service, low cost of living, and the scenery is off the chain. I traded 5" of climo so to do it and I'd prob trade a few more if I had to lol.

It's really not a Miller B. If anything its a pure coastal Miller A. It's just getting hammered by cold/dry/un-energetic air on the NW side

Icon is a modest but visible step towards a more amplified storm. Hard to hate it no matter what the yard panels look like

Enough guidance gets the back edge of coastal enhancement over me that I 100% want a more amplified and developed system. It can only help me. I've been thinking 3-6 for like a week. No reason to change my mind but I do believe my chances (as they stand right now) favor the higher end of that and it may come a little easier than I first thought. Pretty cautious though. This entire evolution has been tough to figure out since d1 too Eta: my bust bar is sub 3". That would be pretty lame for an 8-10 hour event lol

Probably something that doesn't taste like hotdogs

ICON is unusually important for trends. You'd think consensus would narrow sharply over the next 2 suites

During March, as long as Canada isn't torching, all we need for snow is a +pna. It's not easy snow without other stuff but simple continental cold and a decent trough axis can get it done. Down my way I need things pretty anomalous to get the column right but the nova/md/de zone can get it done without anything crazy. March is cutoff season too so a cutoff bowls into an OK antecedent airmass works too. I don't see any classic big storm stuff but imo, from what I'm seeing, odds def favor another accum snow event (or more) versus flipping the switch and swatting mosquitoes