I hope you are able to find some peace right now during this tremendous loss. I can’t imagine the pain and loss but I will keep your family in my prayers, especially this holiday season.
The CCM/deform band depicted on the GFS is serious bidness at hr 90 - runs straight the majority of the forum. Even with cities mixing/flipping to rain, with that deform band depicted, it should make everyone happy.
Unpopular opinion but I loved the NAM. Its a mauling for 81 west to the mountains. As we get in closer to the event, its becoming every man/woman for themselves with rooting for the best solution for their backyard.
I realize this thread is basically focused on this week’s medium range threat but the long range continues to look good. Of course never a guarantee to actually get frozen, but the blocking continues to look stable. Uber long range wanted to mute it a bit but it just keeps reshuffling. I like that the PV doesn’t look to be a tight concentrate circle...amazing what higher heights in the NAO/AO domains will do.
Yep, was going to post the same. If it went past 84, I’d think we’d like what it showed. And nice to see precip already breaking out by hour 84 across the mountains and SW VA.
PSU posted something similar for the last coastal (which was all rain)...GFS sniffed that out from 10+ days out but just had the thermals a bit off. USA USA
Sounds about right for the mid Atlantic wheel of emotions...worries bubbling up about a SE trend hours after the worry was a north trend that turned everyone mixing.
I won’t get into the intense banding that the 81 corridor/ish crowd will get but can make up for some of that with better ratios. Phin also pointed out the orographic enhancement that the globals won’t pick up on yet - and the upslope snow showers that will continue after the coastal moves away. But i think the bullseye will be somewhere in the 81 corridor-ish.
This will be my first coastal since buying the place in late 2016 so will be interesting to learn climo out there for these events.
Lucky for you, there will be more snow in Oakland this winter
Can someone remind me...what’s the general ‘cut-off’ for relying on the OP vs referring to the ensembles for trends/outlier vs OP/etc? Tomorrow...or 72 hours...?
Yes, as a few others pointed out it seems we traded some intensity on the EPS mean for slightly colder solution. Something that helps those on the margins.