One thing that could be a positive for the Piedmont is if the storm continues to tick south that initial deformation band will more likely settle over the area.
models are struggling to resolve these blobs of convection and how/when/where these pieces will come together as a consolidated low. A bit more negative tilt would make a huge difference East of 85 as consolidation would happen earlier. Kinda running out of time for big shifts,but the Euro kinda moved in that direction set the orientation of the trough
I am guessing most of those Eastern solutions are showing an elongated low with deeper pressure on the East side. The GFS OP has this feature, but the primary low on the West side
The ULL dug further south. The coastal low pops off the coast but doesn't have time to consolidate before moving off shore. Most of the moisture is to the East, need more negative tilt to throw moisture back to the west.
Yep, I will add, the Euro ensembles run at full resolution, so it is very good at eliminating some of the noise around the model wobbles. Moisture has been on the upswing which is huge for the Western half of NC
Seems so. Last time this happened it came out on the sites that have the delayed version (tropical tidbits). It comes out all at once once the full run is out, I think around 1:30/2:00
.75 QPF across the Eastern 2/3 of North Carolina, for both the GEFS and EPS. Reduced by 25% to get an idea of the footprint of snowfall = 6-10" snowfall at 15:1 ratios. Banding within that broad footprint will allow for 12-18". Some dry slotting may occur West/East of that band where "only" 3-6" falls. The footprint and magnitude of this general consensus will continue to shifts as models try to resolve the Dance of the ULL and developing powerful storm