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  1. John1122
    The difference in the 00z Euro vs the 12z is the PNA ridging. At 00z is was stronger and it shunted the system further south, that let it wind up more. 12z the ridge was less sharp and the system stayed weak and open as it rolled across the south. I wouldn't sleep on it yet. It may not be a block buster but I wouldn't rule out snow for someone in the region from it.
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    Not saying the Euro is going to verify, but events like that do happen here, it's just been a while. One of these days it's eventually going to happen again.
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    Major winter storm on the Canadian as well for the region later in the run. Ice and snow on top of it. The teleconnections look much better. The Euro is getting towards a -EPO/-AO/-NAO look.
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    At 500, the GFS looks great around the 15th all of a sudden. Nice -EPO bumping into Alaska with a near nationwide trough.
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    Not as extreme as the Euro, but the Icon laid down a solid 2-3 inch stripe from the Plateau to Nashville and a little southwest of there, also a dollop of 2 inch area in NE Mississippi in the same timeframe as the Euro storm.
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    For some reason I expected it to be warmer today. It's a steady 35 and should probably start falling in the next hour, as the sun will set for me in about 10 minutes.
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    I just noticed how impressively it blanks Knox county on that run.
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    The Euro just bombed the mid-state.
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    I actually saw a story yesterday discussing ways to mitigate global warming via man made activities. One was reflecting sunlight via billions of floating pingpong balls. Others were releasing aerosolized sulfate high in the atmosphere at around 65000 feet, and using sea water to seed clouds. They said that each could lower global temps by .8 to 1.3c in the next decade. If if brings back winter, I say let it ride.
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    Had a decent snow shower before dark that lasted about 15 minutes.
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    A few flurries floating around here.
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    Probably the most positive about that EPS/GEPS/GEFS long range, a crap ton of cold should build across Siberia, Alaska and Canada as we approach the first day of solar winter. Those regions are ultimately our source for cold air when it gets tapped. The pattern looks changeable enough that we could get some very cold blasts during relaxations in the warmth. Those are fairly common in La Nina patterns historically, though I pause to use historical outlooks these days because they don't seem to work out as often.
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    The next 10-14 days look volatile, at least on the Euro. Cold/warm/cold/warm roller coaster weather. The Euro loads Alaska with cold and occasionally ridging out west bumps a piece towards us. As for snow, all about timing but we will likely have a least one cutter in the next 10 days.
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    The EPS basically kept us BN again at 12z in the extended range due to a West coast ridge that holds the SE ridge at bay. By late run Alaska and the SE are the only BN areas around North America.
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    Ended up with .72 of rain from this system. The soaking continues. We are likely to experience another epic drought before long. Something will have to balance the three year barrage of rainfall here.
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    EPS was night and day different 12z to 00z. It went from a deep Alaska vortex at D 14 to a PNA ridge, -NAO look and a deep Eastern trough.
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    The EPS is a worst case scenario. The polar vortex heads to Alaska in about 2 weeks. That tends toward being a stubborn pattern to dislodge. Have to hope it doesn't happen at all.
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    Some years we get stuck in a pattern and models try to get out of them, but they just stay in place as we get to reality. Granted, 80 percent of the time the pattern seems to lock in never ending warmth. But a few years it locks and repeats cold like 95-96, 09-10, 10-11, 14-15, 15-16 etc. Usually once those patterns finally do break we get a long term swing in the opposite direction. Unfortunately for us, the last several locked in long term repeating warmth patterns lasted until basically the start of Met spring and we just had cold. wet, miserable spring seasons. In the years where cold repeated, usually by mid February it lifted out and we torched for weeks on end. It seems like one of those years summer basically started in late April and never let up.
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    If you like bone chilling cold, this is the map for you. EPO blocking in Alaska and NAO blocking creates a -AO as well and the takes the cold from Siberia and dumps it through Alaska and into the Lower 48, aimed perfectly at our region.
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    The complete fantasy but true definition of a board wide megastorm that Warbus mentioned in the pattern thread. Look at it to see what a Tennessee Valley masterpiece looks like. This is about as good as it can get from one end of the Tennessee Valley region to the other. Very hard to pull this off because it is so far geographically from Bristol/SWVA to Eastern Arkansas/Northern Miss.
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    This comes about with a ridge on the West coast and the elusive -NAO working in combination. As long as we can keep the Pacific on board we have shots of getting cold and a suppressed storm track.
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    From MRX. This was pretty close to the model output, which frankly surprised me. Not sure if they're getting better or just got lucky.
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    There's been flurries all day today. Thick clouds in place with the snow sticking on trees still in places where it didn't blow off. Above 2500 feet there was a solid 6 inches of snow. 3 inches or so below that. Then below 1500 it went down to about 1 inch. Dramatic differences over short elevation differences. Looking towards the Southwest. That's Cross Mountain at 3525 feet in the back. Hard to see so I laid a stick in it. From 2500ft, about 6 inches on the ground.
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    It was just the track of the low, you were too far East. The cold was very much an east/west thing. That's why it was snowing down in Alabama and raining in northern Virginia. The high-res models had a pretty big area up into SWVA with little accumulation. I didn't think it reached all the way up to you though. They honestly handled this event really well. The RAP gave me around 3 inches last night and that's about where I'm going to end up at. The bullseye outside the high eastern mountains was the eastern rim and western Plateau and it looks like it was good there too. Knoxville overperformed on a couple of models but I believe the RAP had them with .9. It even had the blank spot across Anderson county and it appears to have verified. They likely got downsloped.
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    I guess the radar is on high sensitivity and may he picking up ice crystals in the clouds.
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