NGTim

Pulling for you guys, Tyler, Met, Bucket, Moto, etc. This forum is where i come to extend my snow season. I am actually very happy with this winter as we got almost 6 inches where i am here in N GA, but its always fun to track April snow. I usually make one last trip up that way in April, but guess this year is a good one to stay home, so will be pulling for you and watching next week or so. I pray we are all spared bad wx Sunday.

I made the weather channel. Crazy storm came through Isle of Palms Thursday and I took a video of umbrellas bouncing down the beach. All in all I'd say they lost about 50 umbrellas just along the stretch where we were staying. At the end of the storm, the wind was blowing in the opposite direction. Below is a screenshot of the video. IMG_8995.HEIC

man, not sure exactly what this means, but i can't stop reading it from the afd. I so want to be in the deformation zone. but an advective more large scale forcing interacting with a developing Gulf/coastal low pressure system and the enhanced risk for convective banding of heavier snow within the northern deformation zone. Given the possible liquid equivalent moisture and snow to liquid ratios upwards of 12:1 /possibly higher at times/...a band could quickly dump a few inches within an hour. Some high res models that resolve convective processes explicitly are indicating multiple bands...though some discrepancy on exact location.

according to peachtree city, i have the potential to get 7 inches! But... i can also expect to get AT LEAST 0 inches. This is gonna be fun.

yes. and they are fun as heck to look at as well. it really is unfair that they are expected to tell to the inch how much it is going to snow and exactly where, and that is just not possible in GA where so many things can go wrong, as opposed to other areas that don't have two oceans, and and nearby mountains to deal with. So in addition to the wiggle room, it also provides us the public with more info. Its a brilliant win-win in my mind. They ask for feedback since its experimental, and I've already given it high grades. I am curious to watch it in it first debut storm.

i think the new "at least this much, most likely, and potential for this much" winter products are going to help them out as they don't have to put out just one number and then get grilled on it, for a situation that is going to be very variable over such a large area.

ok, serious question. since this is a gulf low, is there any chance that Saturday we will be moaning about thunderstorms in the gulf robbing moisture and creating a dryslot for someone who would have otherwise got good moisture? I asked this in the main thread the other day (i thought it was a valid question) but i think it might have been considered trolling or something. Probably best to leave the storm thread for mets anyway to not clutter it up even with questions. But it just seems so many times like this when we have a gulf low and we feel confident we are going to get a good thumping (maybe not necessarily my backyard, but somebody in N. GA) and then all of a sudden there is a dryslot and i hear that the moisture was robbed by thunderstorms in the gulf. I have not heard anyone discussing this and just wondered if the this is NOT something to worry about with this storm.