dendrite

I know it's not exact, but on InstantWeatherMaps it has 46.7" as a max @ 51h in central mass

http://www.instantweathermaps.com/NAM-php/showmap-conussfc.php?run=2015012600&time=PER&var=ASNOWI&hour=051

That algorithm gave me 70" in Feb '13 too.

We'll get an entirely new scenario at 6z.

pushing 50" on the NAM around ORH lol

50"? Not quite.

Maybe it's onto something, but let's remember...it's the NAM.

Guys...we're playing with settings. The only way to test everything is when the peak traffic occurs.

I'm not sure how that helped.

We're on 16 cores now. We'll see how it goes.

The board has been struggling so I convened with myself and decided we should have a new thread rather than contribute to letting the forum bog down with the 00z models.

 

Kevin...I stole and split a post from the other thread so that you could still have credit for it.

Are there still piles of snow otg anywhere from Oct?

There are a few here in parking lots shaded on the north side that never fully melted from October. I still have 1" OTG from the series of January crap that has slowly been melting/sublimating away.

I've been reminiscing about this tonight...

If that happens again I'll be going on a banning spree.

The dendrites on the 20th were about as perfect as 2/7/03. Just less intense of course. But I think I had about 3" of fluff from probably under 0.10" of W.E. It had to be at least 30 to 1 ratios that next day. It makes sense though since 850s were like -12C to -14C and the snow growth was in the low levels there...perfect temp for dendrites.

I had 4.1" on 0.09". I believe that is still the highest ratio snow I've recorded here for anything over 1".

I know...the weenie snows on the 20th really made it fun imo. I did pretty well in that. Of course we changed to rain the next day after a few inches, but overall it was a fun 48 hrs.

12/08 totally slipped my mind. I just looked back over my numbers.

12/19 8.5"

12/20 4.1"

12/21 11.6"

Unfortunately the following week torched 2/3 of it.

Just give me a nice clipper for Xmas eve and Xmas morning...anything but the usual 50F rainy torch will suffice. Xmas 2002 was so great...

Another view of the intense lift down there.

I was really quite lucky the first half of the season with those deform bands. Every model hit the mid level lift and RH hard over my area and it resulted in impressive totals for Boxing Day and 1/12. F QPF.

My dendritic aggregates from 1/12. You can see how large they are when a few flutter close to the window when the winds let up. It just did this for hours with 2-3"/hr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqAcxl0TwF4

KBHM 272304Z 13010G21KT 1 1/4SM R06/5000VP6000FT +FC TSRA BR FEW037CB BKN046 OVC070 24/22 A2956 RMK TORNADO B02 TORNADO W-N MOV NE AO2 PRESFR OCNL LTGICCCCG ALQDS TS ALQDS P0021

Yup...just saw that too. Looks like there was 31mins of +FC obs from TCL too. Crazy.

Some 00z AVN/MRF maps from 2001.

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/STATS/maps/opnl/opnl.arch.2001.html