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I would expect the NAM to trend towards other guidance. I would be pretty shocked if it doesn't. I'm not sure if the NAM is really meant to sniff out and lead the pack in changes at H5 but maybe it happens. What I do like on the NAM though is it does have a hefty looking band of frontogenesis materializing. It might not where we want it to be verbatim, but it shows it.
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Probably going to come down to rates and wet bulb. While temperatures don't look to climb crazy high Saturday (mid 30's...maybe 37 or 38) with the thickening cloud cover, temperatures aren't going to drop much after sunset. But yeah...certainly a situation where a few miles makes a huge difference. You see that often times along the CT shoreline as well.
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I was thinking this myself. I was surfing around trough various locations on bufkit and I noticed what seemed to be a very uniform and large area of crosshair or near crosshair signatures. I think this idea also makes sense when you look at the temperature gradients in the horizontal and vertical...there would be a fairly wide frontogenesis band most likely oriented W-E so many would cash in.
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One thing to keep in mind too is any increase in QPF farther north does not necessarily reflect a north bump. Tip mentioned this yesterday, but jet dynamics/structure could result in getting precipitation (even if light) farther northwest. Obviously the overall track is going to be noteworthy when focusing on banding and where the strip of max totals may occur.
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I like the GFS thus far. What could really help this storm overachieve somewhere is the tight baroclinic zone with this. That's a pretty strong temperature gradient in the latitude. I also like how the sfc low is more tightly wrapped up and the 850 low track looks good. You can argue 850 may get going too late but the scale of lift is pretty strong over a large area.
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That's what I'm kind of leaning towards as well. I think this will be a decent first event for everyone and at least something that ends the shutout. My initial expectations are for something in the 3-6'' range. If we get closer and things start falling in place and there is room for something higher...awesome. But I'm not going to be disappointed if I got 3''
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Is that how they do win on Jupiter?
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This could be a stretch but it's interesting to note majority of the advisories which were in place across the Sierra's have been upgraded to Winter Storm Warnings. The energy coming into the West has been trending stronger. Maybe this would help the likelihood the s/w remains stronger crossing the country and decreases potential of being sheared out?
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There was that one event the few days before Thanksgiving where Westfield did get a few inches, but at least where I am in Springfield we got nada...maybe just some flakes. Did have that Friday where we got snow showers all day and had a Trace but that is about it.