The Waterboy

I hate this hobby.

The ICON wasn’t horrible.

StormChazer, Do you have 18z Euro details? I saw hour 90 in another forum but it was already in Central Ark at that hour. Curious to see what 84 and before looks like.

Let’s hope that trend doesn’t continue. We’re threading the needle as it is right now. Any shift East like this is bad news for most of us.

Looks to me like the 2m temps at h84 are 3-4 degrees colder on the NAM/GFS vs the Canadian. Doesn’t matter by h90 as everyone is below freezing at that point. Not sure if that is a concern yet but NWA has 6-12 hours of precip above freezing (on the Canadian) before the changeover.

Tulsa just got NAM’d…

I was thinking about that earlier too. We don’t see too many dig south from Montana/North Dakota. Do you recall anything similar that actually panned out for us? I actually kind of like these clippers. They are typically faster moving with limited moisture but we can squeak out a couple of inches. This one seems to have more potential than usual.

Tulsa NWS as well

12z GFS solid for some of us. Still need a little more shift west for the Tulsa folks.

That was very interesting! Maybe we have something to watch.

Definitely frustrating to see a majority of the models have snow in Colorado/ Western KS for it to disappear as it approaches us and pop again into TN. The NAM is currently the only one giving us much of a chance. Maybe we score a dusting to an inch with the cold temps/higher ratios.

18z GFS still looks good for the new year. Need a bit of a shift NW but plenty of time to worry about that later.

00z GFS was a nice look for the 21st. Maybe a step in the right direction.

10 years ago today was the Joplin tornado.

Same here.

Huge flakes in Bentonville for the last 2 hours. Absolutely nuts. Grass is completely covered. Measured 1 inch on an elevated plastic surface and that’s with a fair amount of melting. What a day.

That was a pretty amazing 7-10 day stretch. We won’t see that kind of prolonged cold again for a long time. Maybe not in our lifetime. Definitely one for the record books. It was nice for a change to not have to worry about borderline temps, warm air advection, warm ground temps, blah, blah, blah. Once the cold locked in we just needed the storm and we got two. With the 9” I got in December that puts me somewhere around 15-17” for the season. Definitely an upgrade over the past 5 years. Congrats to everybody! Maybe we should root for La Niña more often! Finally, I almost hate to ask the question but I will anyway. Was that the end of winter or do we see one last chance for more before mid-March?

It’s way too quiet around here. Any reports from OKC? Looks like it’s just moving into Tulsa.

12z NAM still looks solid.

Caved might have been too strong of verbiage. I was just saying it ticked south some. Still a great look though.

00z NAM caved to the GFS/Euro and shifted back south a bit. Still a nice storm. The first 34 hours look great then it falls apart up north after that. Big hit again south of Fort Smith into South Central AR.

According to the snow ratio maps on Pivotal they would still be between 15-20:1 depending on the location.

18z GFS and v16 not near as far north with precip as the NAM was. For example, Wichita gets 7” on the NAM, 1” on the GFS. Dodge City 8” on NAM and 0 on the GFS.

I remeasured in multiple spots. Somewhere between 5 and 6” here. So hard to say for sure. My previous 6 1/2” has to be too high although I find multiple areas with that. So who knows.

Just measured again. 6.5” in Bentonville. Definitely not an official measurement. But I found quite a few spots at that depth.