I have a feeling that while the NW trend is our friend for now, it will become the villain before it is all said and done, at least for those East of 85
The 12z OP was an amplified outlier to it's ensemble to some degree, so it makes sense that the op and mean split the difference and became aligned at 18z
As does the HRRR. As with the Sunday event, jet stream dynamics coming into play, often only gets picked up by short range models. Not saying something will happen on Thursday, but just something to keep an eye on
Being near the left entrance region of the jet streak is favorable for us, and I would not be surprised to see some good trends at the surface as we get closer
To be pedantic, it's not really overrunning since there's no warm air advection and no warm air aloft. The northern stream is squashing any warm air from the gulf but also squashing moisture
And some of it's timing, further west means slower means more spacing between the waves and more ability to develop and for the trough to tilt negative
Right, I'm thinking minor threats and then as the cold eventually collapses an overrunning threat. Not super optimistic on Sunday for anything significant with the way the first system trended.
My main takeaway from the Euro is it does little to add clarity to the Sunday storm. It, the GFS and the UKMET all look way different from each other. Again, once we get to around mid-week we should get a clearer picture with all the energy flying around
Model spread six days out is pretty wild. Basically there's two camps, energy breaks free from primarily trough (GFS, ICON, UKMET) and everything else that keeps the upper level energy consolidated to our North