Jump to content
  • Member Statistics

    17,502
    Total Members
    7,904
    Most Online
    Weathernoob335
    Newest Member
    Weathernoob335
    Joined

Winter 2017-18 Medium/Long Range Disco


Hoosier

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 1.3k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
3 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Some pipe bursting cold on the 18z GFS. Some of these numbers are with no snow on the ground (southeast Iowa eastward).  

gfs_T2m_ncus_32.thumb.png.f0a23c4a7d8d3afb00059f1806aa1526.png

 

Haven’t we seen this before? I always feel like long range temperature output factor in snowcover, only to correct themselves when it becomes within appropriate range. It’s been so mild here, idk if the ground is completely frozen yet lol. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This current and most of the forecast regime for the next week+ is a good example of how all cold generally isn't a great thing. There's too much suppression of lee cyclogenesis occurring due to the baroclinic zone being so far south. There's too much confluence downstream as well and it's leading to the shortwaves getting sheared out with eastward progression (such as Friday's shortwave).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

20 minutes ago, Chambana said:

Haven’t we seen this before? I always feel like long range temperature output factor in snowcover, only to correct themselves when it becomes within appropriate range. It’s been so mild here, idk if the ground is completely frozen yet lol. 

I'm not exactly sure how the models handle snow that hasn't actually fallen yet.  Some models seem like they factor it in as the progged thermal fields appear colder in areas with snow.

The 18z GFS would be an interesting case in how cold can it get if the PV drops in over areas with no snowcover.  I can recall getting below zero without snowcover, but I don't remember getting well below zero (say -10F or colder) without it.  Upstream snowcover does matter too though, and it looks like we will have snow on the ground at least in parts of the Midwest.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I can tell you on Christmas day 1983 we had no snow cover per see in Dayton and Indianapolis and the temperatures never got warmer than 6 or 7 below zero. My wife and I drove from Dayton to Indy to celebrate Christmas at my parents. Winds were ferocious all day too. To this day...I have never experienced such a bitter cold feel. My face felt like it was being sand papered as I filled the gas tank.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The Euro weeklies by mid-January are :maphot:

The current MJO state is certainly playing a role in mitigating the typical Nina pattern were familiar with (west trough, east ridge). As the MJO propagates towards phases 2-3, likely by the 2nd week of January, we may revert back to a typical Nina pattern with perhaps a thaw somewhere around then. Now the key questions are;  

Will this current upcoming pattern, influenced heavily by the MJO wave, result in some storminess?

And will the thaw be brief and we revert back to a much colder pattern towards late January-early February?

Long ways out, but lets see what happens in the next 2-3 weeks! 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, iluvsnow said:

I can tell you on Christmas day 1983 we had no snow cover per see in Dayton and Indianapolis and the temperatures never got warmer than 6 or 7 below zero. My wife and I drove from Dayton to Indy to celebrate Christmas at my parents. Winds were ferocious all day too. To this day...I have never experienced such a bitter cold feel. My face felt like it was being sand papered as I filled the gas tank.

I went back and checked 12/25/83... you're correct about no snowcover in those areas.  There was snow on the ground not far upstream though... for example, 7" in Springfield, 8" in Moline, 4" in Chicago, which undoubtedly contributed to the brutality of that airmass even in the snowless areas downstream.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, Snowstorms said:

The Euro weeklies by mid-January are :maphot:

The current MJO state is certainly playing a role in mitigating the typical Nina pattern were familiar with (west trough, east ridge). As the MJO propagates towards phases 2-3, likely by the 2nd week of January, we may revert back to a typical Nina pattern with perhaps a thaw somewhere around then. Now the key questions are;  

Will this current upcoming pattern, influenced heavily by the MJO wave, result in some storminess?

And will the thaw be brief and we revert back to a much colder pattern towards late January-early February?

Long ways out, but lets see what happens in the next 2-3 weeks! 

 

I believe the euro weeklies had next week's cold depicted as warm just a few weeks ago.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

For this area Friday's system looks like maybe a burst of flurries at the tail end.  The secondary energy is looking weaker and weaker each run, and further suppressed/further south.  My hopes for anything other than a DAB before the end of the year is very quickly fading.  Luckily January will be rocking.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 minute ago, cyclone77 said:

For this area Friday's system looks like maybe a burst of flurries at the tail end.  The secondary energy is looking weaker and weaker each run, and further suppressed/further south.  My hopes for anything other than a DAB before the end of the year is very quickly fading.  Luckily January will be rocking.

Funny I was just thinking to myself that cyclone is probably going to come in here with a pessimistic post.  Maybe I should play the lottery lol?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

51 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

It would be nice if Christmas could evolve into a 1/5/14 type deal... even a poor man's version.  

Mama nature, make it happen.

I thought I was the only one who noticed the similarities between that storm and the upcoming setup. If I recall, that one also started off as a coastal bomb at this range. 

Another possible analog would be 12/23/2004.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, snowlover2 said:

12z GFS still takes the Christmas storm up the coast while the 12z GGEM has a nice snowfall for much of the OV.

Gonna let my IMBY weenie side show for a moment and say that 12z GGEM run is beautiful. Been awhile since there's been that much snow during Christmas time. :weenie:

Alright, that said, we'd need quite a few things to happen for that to materialize. As of now though, just the trend itself is looking encouraging for much of the forum to see action of SOME kind. Lots to sort out yet but I'd much rather see encouraging signs of a storm like this instead of the continuation of the idle period we've been in (and looked to stay in before this drop south) since the clipper regime made it's appearance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

×
×
  • Create New...