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  1. 12z RGEM is rolling. I can see hour 42 of all things...but it doesn't tell me much. Flow "might" be backed a hair more...though initially it is a bit faster.
  2. I think the change is most easily seen on the Tropical Tidbits website. The storm itself is much more robust. However, the hover feature on PivotalWeather will give you a good idea for Morristown - looks like those totals went up.
  3. Let's see what the 12z RGEM does...but yes, closer to the 6z RGEM. I am super gun shy with modeling being all over the place. Let's hope the trend is "up" in terms of snowfall. The 3K NAM pops a lee side low and backs flow into areas north of I-40 - progressively more as one gets to the NC state line and progressively more NE. Honestly, that change has caught me off guard a bit as it had been adamant that the amounts were going to be light, even here in TRI. Without the lee side low, would have been similar to 6z.
  4. That is a pretty massive move by the 3k NAM. Accumulations back into northern Knox Co with that...Significant bump up for SE KY, NE TN, SW VA, and W NC.
  5. 3K NAM is much more robust over NE TN and maybe even back to MRX. Pops a lee side low - finally seeing that dynamic. Doubt it is done correcting.
  6. I have seen snow roll in out West one time which was similar to this - on June 14th!!! Got 5-6" of snow at 6,000'. Was an incredible day of fishing to boot. Motion is sped up a bit, but the wall of snow is what is impressive.
  7. The 6z CFSv2 for this date is much colder than other modeling for January, but its MJO is also much different(and maybe wrong?) as it is an outlier. But it certainly shows how to have a cold-ish pattern.
  8. LR after the New Year is full of uncertainty. MJO is showing some signs of heading to low amplitude warm phases or COD areas of the warm phases. Will the -NAO connect into a ridge over the EC? Will a western ridge form and couple with the NAO, and thus create a very wintry pattern? What about the SSW? I am less and less of an SSW person. We had a great one during a spring a few years back. However, we had a super pattern upended by one since then. As I watch modeling become more uncertain in the LR(even more so than it has been), makes me wonder if the SSW is wrecking havoc. One constant on nearly all modeling is a very persistent NAO. I think that feature has probably saved us from a torch after the first week of December when we lost the PNA. Would be awesome to see the PNA and NAO both in favorable phases. We may have a chance of that briefly at times. So what do I "think" about January. I think the NAO is going to be there through at least mid-month. I think there are times that block will be so expansive that it will connect with the eastern ridge. I think there will be times when it retracts and forces most storms underneath like we are seeing now. I think there are times when we will see brief windows of a western and/or east Pacific ridge coupled with that NAO. Right now the cold source region for air is going be much above normal re temps with the exception of Alaska. It is entirely possible that we see a pattern where Alaska is cold and areas of BN heights stretch SE into the lower 48(northern Plains into the Mid-West). I am not as encourage by that pattern as I was a few days ago. I think a potential SSW is going to make, and is currently making, any LR modeling solution extremely suspicious right now. Let's just hope it doesn't take a favorable pattern and squash it. OTH, if it is possible the SSW could funnel cold into NA, add in the NAO..and it could get interesting. About the only things that I have marginal confidence about are the NAO being a constant, a persistent southern storm track in conjunction with an equal or greater number of cutters, poor cold air sources, and the MJO working back into the COD areas(at least) of the warm phases - not all of those at the same time. Right now it is like a great pattern is competing with a really lousy pattern....some of each will likely show. I lean AN for temps in January with normal snowfall. The great looking pattern from a week ago seems far less certain today. I do think a western trough is in play now for January.
  9. The 0z Euro did move the snow axis over the GL ever so slightly eastward. Have seen similar trends on most modeling tonight. That finite detail might help areas to the southwest of the current cutoff if the trend continues. Think the overall trend has been more neutral tilt which prevents the slp over western NC and/or the spine of the Apps to pull further westward. Been good. See you all tomorrow.
  10. 0z Euro is rolling. The 0z UKMET has somewhat upped totals east and north of Knoxville for pretty much the totality of the storm. It has been the weakest of all solutions for the past several runs. Since last night, it has slowly inched upward into a formidable storm to our north.
  11. Even after time stamp on the map above, there is an upslope component that adds more to the NE TN and SW VA areas. Absolute best case scenario for sure...Cold rushes into the storm earlier and the angle of approach is improved. Chattanooga, portions of Alabama, and even northern Georgia get into the action. Western NC can score one of two ways...change-over and/or upslope afterwards.
  12. Seems like the trend at 0z is to lower the angle of entry into the forum area. We saw the runs all day sharpen up the trough. The trough at 0z (absent the NAM) looks more neutral. Also, take a look at the top of the snow axis over the GL region. Toggle back a run, and you can see it "lean" to the east. That allows more snowfall on the SW side of the storm and into more of the forum area to the west.
  13. Track is good...just need more precip. Seems like models have shifted slightly SE - minus the NAM which is way on the western periphery.
  14. I think we are just looking at a model that is just now getting into range. It could be a trend setter or it could be an outlier. Just seems like the NAM's really amped line of storms is cutting off moisture transport behind the front, and thus lowering totals. Is the cold front slower when diving into the front or is it a lack of moisture behind the line of storms?
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