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  1. John1122
    Looks like the 18z American models are having issues. My friend has a few acres for sale at 2900 feet. So tempted to move but I'd have to sacrifice things like reliable internet and you know, build a new house plus convince my family moving to fulfill my snow obsession is a good idea when I can drive to 2900 feet in 5 minutes or so. It would probably double my snowfall yearly though. That extra 1200 feet makes a huge difference. I think that area here will probably get several inches of snow out of one or both systems next week. I believe the snow level was down to 2660 feet on a sounding I looked at that showed rain here during the overnight runs. I don't think there's any private land above 3000 feet here anywhere. The government owns it all in some form or another be it WMA, State Park or the Air Force I think owning the 3500+ land on Cross Mountain. The top there averages about 55 inches of snow a year.
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    The Euro is back to me getting 2 or 3 inches Monday. It's going to be razor thin for a lot of us next week.
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    Overnight modeling is all too wound up/further north. Very cold rain with snow above 2500-3000 feet. Need everything a good 100 to 150 miles south but there's not much to force it down and cold is extremely marginal.
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    Wave 2 is weaker and further north.
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    Too warm on the Euro this run on wave 1. Jamestown gets some heavy mix. The rest of us stay liquid.
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    GFS is slowly working it's way more towards the more snowy models. 12z today it bad virtually nothing in the mountains. 00z it buries the mountains with 6-10 inches. Bigger and longer lasting precip shield in general too.
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    The ICON has a 1 to 2.5 inch event basically for some of middle to the Plateau. Doesn't really hit the far Western areas like the NAM did.
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    RGEM is slower/warmer than the NAM. On the NAM the Northern stream wave gets out in front of the southern system. On the RGEM the northern wave is more in synch and is sitting in the great Lakes when the storm is getting going. That shuts down some of the cold for the system on the RGEM so it's a rainer.
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    The NAM rolled in guns blazing for the West and Mid Valley. Fizzles for the East Valley.
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    In the 1960s it snowed here no matter what it seems like.
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    Ventrice also tweeted earlier that the Westerly OBO was beginning to affect the Troposphere and that could possibly weaken the MJO convection for a while. I've never researched it for here, but for Atlanta's winter events I believe GaWx found they mostly occurred when the MJO was in the C.o.D. Generally if Atlanta is having a shot at snow it's cold here and we've had it too.
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    The weeklies had probably their snowiest run of the winter season so far. It wasn't spectacular but would represent something close to normal for most areas through January 25th. The snowiest 4 weeks we have are basically January 17th-February 14th so the Weeklies are just reaching there at the very end. It was around 4-6 inches in Eastern areas, 2-4 Western and southern areas.
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    If I were guessing most of the big -NAO storms that hit eastern areas come when the Pacific is also favorable. The best temperature set up obviously comes when all three are negative. But when the EPO is negative in conjunction with the AO, basically everyone in the South, west of Raleigh to Columbia is colder when the NAO is positive than they are when the NAO and AO are negative but the EPO is positive. So our ideal combination is -EPO/-AO/-NAO, followed by -EPO/-AO/+NAO, then +EPO/-AO/-NAO. We are rarely dry for long but it can happen. Getting cold is always our biggest step towards wintery weather Valley wide and it's much easier when the Pacific is working for us instead of against us.
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    The Pacific being poor is just a killer. I'd take a favorable Pacific over the -NAO 8 days a week. Miller A rain event happen when the Pacific is bad. Wide spread winter is possible when it's good even if the Atlantic is bad.
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    The AO is supposed to go epic in it's negativity. If the Pacific can marginally cooperate we should be heading for frigid weather later in the month.
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    Definitely and uptick in snow across most members vs 12z.
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    Starting at 102 the GEFS has most members showing a 24 hour winter event evolving across the Valley.
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    There's some school of thought that solar flares tighten the polar vortex and cause the NAO to go + but that it runs in 100 year cycles that cause it to go negative. You can probably guess which cycle we appear to be in right now. However, not all is lost, just late year researchers at Columbia University in the Earth Observatory and School of Engineering released a paper that pretty much debunked any connection between the two.
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    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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