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1/5/17-1/8/17 Southern System.


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Figured we might as well get this one going. The Euro has this system effecting the area in less than 5 days. GFS day 5-6. We've all seen the model runs, some version of this event has been showing up for a week or so now, but as is typical with Southern systems the models are all over the place from run to run. Today they've generally came into agreement that there will be a system that will effect at least some of the region. Up in the air as to which parts. Could be winter as far south as the 1-20 corridor, could be Northern TN/Southern Ky/SWVA and everyone in between. 

There is even a minor system that ushers in cold just before this one that might provide some minor accumulations. This time frame should be the event to watch but that too is up in the air still due to massive model madness.

Best case for the region comes from quite a number of GFES ens members. Most of them show a wide variety of systems that hit in favorable ways for our region. Thus the beautiful means map that gives solid averages to about as wide a swath of our area as you'll ever see. That just shows how many of us are in the game at this point. 

Worst case is probably the 00z GFS op. It's a miller b type which means warming for most of the valley region. Maybe not all, it even has a front side thump. Some of us picked up a nice event out in front of a rainer last year. Next is the GGEM which was a little too far south but still gave the area a decent 1-3 inch average.

I've not seen a 6 hour breakdown on the Euro, but I know the following panel is a look I'd take all day long in winter.

 

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18z GFS Para shows the love to the far southern Valley areas and a little south of there towards I-20.

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18z GFS OP was an enhanced version of that. These runs came with the storm being a little less wound up out west and starting a little further south. That allowed them to drop further south before winding up and kept us all in the cold.

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Tonight's 00z GFS started further north, was a bit stronger and starting trying to get negative tilt in the plains, a big area of HP pressed in to it's NW and kept it from cutting. Instead it weakens as it heads SE then due East along the I-40 corridor. That lead to extremely heavy snow in southern and central Kentucky with decent snows along the border. This would also be an ice threat in the east as models usually struggle with too quickly warming temps during heavy precip rates.  This seems to be the northern extent of the track over the past number of days, I don't remember the last time a true cutter was modeled, I think maybe the Canadian 2-3 days ago was the last. Miller B/Apps runner seems to be the northern edge of operational models. The GEFS had a number of Gulf Coast lows and a few that tracked similarly to the 00z op in it's suite. 

 

00Z GFS with the I-40 track.

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I like the position of the 6Z with heavier snow axis south, we've all seen many times within the last 3 days of modeling a shift north and northwest with precip.  Also if I were to take the GFS features verbatim, I would actually bump a lot of the northern totals up a bit as again we often see undermodeled northern precip shields on these storms.  All and all I love the 6Z and would happily take more 6Z GFS runs. 

Not to mention northern areas of that run are not going to be 10:1 as Tropical Tidbits shows in totals.  

** Moved from main winter thread, didn't realize we had a storm thread**

 

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Though often unreliable at 84, the NAM should be able to provide some minor info as some of the players are coming into its range.   Will be interesting to see where it leads.  And for newcomers, at 84 it can be totally unreliable.  Just looking in this case for any nuggets that might hint that something correlates.  Use with caution.

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As we know, 500mb will determine to a large extent the future of this event. The Para has been doing well at 500mb this year per verification scores. Better than the regular GFS and on par with the Euro. Also, inside of 5 days they start getting very high correlation scores at 500mb. So it's pretty nice to see essentially every model producing a miller A track or something close to it in it's latest run. 

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5 minutes ago, tnweathernut said:

H5 looks a little deeper at 102, will probably be a little north, but east coast still looks good.  Should be another nice run, let's see where it goes

it dropped to the gulf at 114 looks like last run little stronger really blossoms at 120

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