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GFS ens just beginning to see the 24th Spattering of members over eastern NE with a couple deep members. It’s primitive as signals go and more members likely yet to join … provided the compression continues to ease The op version is for the moment a vast west outlier
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It's interesting how the low in a lot of the flat versions during the prior consternation ...were detonating out along the right exit region (outer S side of the purple streak), but as this came thru the last 36 hours ...gradually the modeled low has migrated under that streak. It could continue across and end up on the polar side of that sucker. There's some feedbacks tho - where the lower level thickness gradient is packed, that's usually where the low tracks.
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Not exactly shocked we are at this state that we are with this thing. I mentioned to Jerry when he started this thread the other night that in this situation ... it was a good thread. I know, because truth be told ..i was about to launch myself lol. Anyway, the higher resolution operational guidance versions were probably going to pick up on this idea prior to the coarser resolved ensemble members, definitely their normalized mean there after. It was unlikely, given that this system emerges or disappears inside of decimal variances ( due to all the compression ), that the ensemble mean would altogether be very useful in the medium range. I thought at the time that < 72 hours ...but 96 ..same idea in principle. Should we get Charlie Browned at this point it's may be fair to consider it a failure at a systemic level with the tech. Upper light to lower moderate event. May cap a little higher than that. In fact, details like CF over eastern shore points and even some straight up OES banding undercutting the mid level goodies ...there's ways to cheat us up a tad.
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3 and 4 days ago the GGEM solutions looked remarkably similar to the total mean as it stands right now, when the other guidance were pancaked. This is a mid range coup at this point ...unless we get Charlie Browned ... It could be a tick NW of the reality as of the day's runs, but in principle ...this is kinda its storm
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The GFS versIon of the flow medium across the country has a definitive difference to the Euro leading the 24th. Not sure which will turn out ultimately real. GFS has a western ridge node moving bodily eastward thru southwestern Canada/Pac NW leading up thru the 23rd and that allows less shearing with the trough back east in its solution --> system up the EC. Euro holds this ridge node farther west; in fact, it's not even clear if it ever comes east, rather just sort of dissolves. Anyway, that opens the flow up in the east. Wave space arguments become a negative interference for amplitude --> no system up the EC
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Just in my opinion the trend in the Euro is more telling here. Also, it looks like the EPS is ahead of the game comparing to the operational. The 06z EPS ( from what I can tell...) was about where the operational is now, but the EPS of now is closer than the operational. In other words, the op version is playing catch-up This is red flag that the correction vector in the operational is NW of prior runs.
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I'm on the fence with that aspect ( bold ) ... There's a lower ceiling to this because the total diffluence aloft is being offset by the fact that the s/w space is entering a region that is already moving so fast. ↓ diffluence limits q-g (quai geostrophic) forcing and that ↓ UVM potential ...that outta ache up some heads... lol ... anyway, I don't think we can get carried away with this one
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how about the near triple stream phase 28th + ha
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Yeah, agreed ... the 23-25th is probably the next viable risk period - nod to any model that speeds that up by a day between now and then, because of the underlying mode of circulation being what it is - fast. Just something that's been air apparent to me about that period, is that said mode of circulation is slowing. I spoke at length about this, yesterday, ...and then immediately the Euro's 12z run "re-compressed" the flow. The GFS however has maintained its idea of slowing things enough that the next series of wave mechanics have better ability to conserve it's total vitality as it runs up the flow at that time. That's why it's been more robust with that development. The CMC is not as relaxed... it's speeding up the same wave complex, but also has it suppressed because - time to iron this out. But ...as the present event that's looking above median confidence at this point, was all but gone yesterday ... these compression patterns can be overcome, too
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agreed ... I was commenting on the RGEM earlier - prior to this 12z cycle but still is so... There's not much hope ( to me ) of this being a ptype issue NW of very SE zones given a 'super' blend of what's available in guidance. Also, I thought at glance that this may be very meso banded ... it may be to some degree, but the 300 mb critical 'fan' jet doesn't actually exist in this situation in either the GFS or CMC. The wind maxima are collocated S of the region. I'm not sure that will supply the slant wise polarward tug aloft that is needed for better frontogenic forcing - interesting
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The short version is the critical confidence gathering interval ( that time when it 'seems' actually right) is probably taking place as we type. The longer version/reasons why: So, we're crossing from the mid range into the outer short range. The limitations on prognostic accuracy, in the model handling ..., are still present - the under lying circumstances with the compression/sensitivity loading aren't going away with this. But those are being offset now I've been personally holding out for crossing that threshold in this particular situation, because of that latter aspect above - we need(ed) to get closer where the resolution could 'see' more coherently in a situation where tinier variances would effectively mask the better solutions..etc.. million ways to describe how the models lack resolution to suss out those tiny differences at long ranges, those that are hidden by compression. The ensemble means have, as expected, been later to the party than the higher resolution operational versions. The GFS oper came on board technically overnight; will see shortly if a sense of consistency with this 12z run. I suspect the 12z Euro does as well...seeing both the 06z operational was kindly nodded favorably by the EPS mean - also have a narrow but probably important strip of spread smearing on the nw side of the track mean.
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k, so ... overdue arguments are shaky when it comes to statistics. we understand what is meant by that - if a region should experience a given x-y-z every 4 ... 8... 12 years, etc, and that has not occurred, we say "due" but the problem with that logic is that the statistical domain is not closed - it extends in interminably in the past, and future. such that you can have 3 events in 3 years, and greatly expend your 'due' in the other direction, then, go 20 years without anything. at 30 years, you look back, and that is why it's 4 times in 28... etc etc... in other words, the interpretation of 'due', automatically becomes false if not considering the noise/frequency behavior, in the total history. having outlined all that ... now, consider a changing climate - springs and autumns have really demoed increasing occurrences of quixotic extremes. october presentations of snow and or cryo supportive synoptics have increased in frequency - this has also been true in springs ...as late as May, since the last 20 or so years of the 'hocky stick' acceleration. these extremes make the "due" aspect above, even less useful. it's almost safer and more logically clad to suggest that the climate expectation is for stochastic extremes, more so than the prior inference will allow the due thing to parlay very well.
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anyway, assume full impact ( or the most possible ...), what that is probably caps at a middling/moderate type event. yeah, meso banding this, or cf enhancement that can materialize and lay down a stripe that exceeds the general layout in any event. but by and large this system is limited by ... yup, you guessed it, compression getting in the way of huger mechanics, and also speed. this fugger is haulin' ass. it may only last 7.change hours. i'd go (light+moderate)/2 ...and anyone that gets more than that has to buy a round at the next meet up. unless it all misses haha
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mm maybe initially in a shallow sfc layer, but that ends up a cryo profile easily when cyclogenic atmosphere runs overhead the way i see it. the 850 mb event entry is -5c over ORH and the llv thickness is in the snow range, and it's not warmer at 700 mb in this case. it may be a difference of opinion ...over a model cinema that isn't worth the effort ( the rgem at 84 hours hahahaha ) anyway lol, but that low is going to pop s of long island in that circumstance, when the right exit region runs over the b-c axis that is better defined in that region. that will back the 850s and immediately there is no warm air at that point. you guys in the se ( again...talking my own rgem extrapolation ) may have to deal with a cf for a time... but it's less than 0c at 850 on either side of that
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yeah, 06z euro is west and essentially on-board with the 06z gfs ... both of which may actually be tamed version of the 00z ggem, but i recall back in the older days the ggem had a slight meridian bias at d4. in theory the upgrade heredity would atone ... but just like with the euro's sw lag, or the gfs progressive bias... these still seem to vestigially nuance the runs every once in a while. and look, we're crossing the 96 hours threshold - go figure...
