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Mid to Long Range Discussion ~ 2023


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19 minutes ago, msuwx said:

Folks complaining about the overnight runs must not have been paying attention this winter. At least it's something.

I agree! Not intending to be negative (should have drank my coffee before posting). Just trying to keep in perspective that we are still, even with positive trends more likely to miss on significant accumulations that cash in. But this is by far the best shot we've had this winter. 

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7 minutes ago, BornAgain13 said:

06z GFS & GEFS have a significant Winter Storm for SC, VA & NC

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I found it very interesting that Blacksburg didn’t even mention it whatsoever in their AFD. The word light snow was loosely mentioned Saturday night. Rather surprising there. 

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GSP this morning

.LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
As of 325 am EST Wednesday: ***Potential increasing for significant
wintry precip across the mountains over the weekend.*** A very
active pattern will continue for much of the extended period over
the Southeast, as a series of short wave troughs/upper lows is
expected to impact the region. Global model guidance is converging
toward a strong consensus regarding the first of these over the
weekend, as an already-potent...and still intensifying...upper low
will likely be centered over the lower Miss Valley at the start of
the period, and is expected to sweep across the Deep South through
the end of the weekend. Resultant coastal cyclogenesis will likely
bring another round of precip near...and quite possibly into the CWA
from late Saturday through early Sunday. The devil will be in the
details re: p-type...and those details are far from clear at this
point...with the presence of any cold air available to interact
with  frontogenetical forcing and deformation zone depending upon
the cyclone track and the cyclone`s intensity/ability to crank up
the cold advection to its west. Based upon the latest guidance, this
looks to be a rain/snow scenario for the time being, and we will
continue to side with climatology and a ballpark consensus of
thermodynamic profiles to keep any snow mention confined to the
mountains...and primarily above 3000` or so at that. However, there
remains plenty of time for this forecast to go sideways in either
direction.
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1 hour ago, olafminesaw said:

Overnight runs aren't necessarily all that great. Yes, models are currently converging towards an ideal track and evolution of The ULL. But not only is this very much subject to change, but the Euro shows, how even a pretty good outcome, which is like, 90% of the way to the GFS, just doesn't get the job done. Also the 0Z GFS tracked like 50 miles more inland which pushes the piedmont out of the good banding. 50 miles further east and you get something more like the Euro. It's delicate to say the least and we have at least 48 hours before we can really know what's going to happen.

Unfortunately with an ULL setup that’s just how this is going to be! You need to be just west of the low which is vertically stacked and where the banding sets up. You also need a stronger low. Euro  has progressively trended towards a more GFS and there is very little wiggle room here as there is no cold air availability other than what the storm has produced. That being said, nothing about the overnight runs trended worse. Euro actually trended better. The way I see it, someone is getting snow from this but where that is is tbd and going to change on modeling every run until it begins. That’s just the nature of this type of system but it’s a fun one to track with big upside for a small area

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50 minutes ago, PackGrad05 said:

00Z EPS still has a decent chance, but not as good as yesterday's 12Z run.
Does anyone know how to view the 06Z EPS on weathermodels.com?  I have premium.

06Z GEFS trended in the right direction also and shows a greater chance.

Neither is a slam dunk of course...  at least it is something to track for once.

Running now. Looks like an improvement to me (further south, stronger ULL)

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1 hour ago, buckeyefan1 said:

Euro 06z at 90

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0Z at 96

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6Z Euro looks just slower to move the ULL east than 0Z, which is what LWX was saying in their recent AFD:

To start, the long term forecast is riddled with uncertainties at
this point regarding the progression of a strong upper-low. Recent
runs of global guidance seem to be coming to some sort of agreement
on the evolution of a strong trough diving out of the central CONUS
into the southeast on Saturday. This system will likely cut off from
the upper jet over the southeastern CONUS. From there, that is where
things are a bit fuzzy.

A surface low will develop to our south along the cold front that
pushed through on Friday. The upper low track will be the key factor
in how things evolve from here, as these are very tricky to nail
down even a few days out, let alone five. That being said, the
guidance has actually been trending later on this suite, bringing
precip in more towards Sunday. This goes to show the uncertainty
with forecasting cutoff lows in the long term. The shortwave to
watch has actually entered the Pacific Northwest, so will be
interesting to see if there is any sort of swing in the guidance as
we get some balloon data today. There is still a real possibility
that this system even slides by mostly to our south, but we will see
what we can get out of the latest guidance today.
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7 minutes ago, eyewall said:

This is looking more like an I-77 special right now and a heartbreaker for RDU.

Agreed but no one can write it off yet either from the upstate through the piedmont and ULL are best known for surprises. I really think the upstate is more in play than a lot of modeling has shown to this point. For points east it really is going to depend on SLP track and strength and be an absolute thread the needle type of deal but it certainly will be entertaining to track bc I don’t think this will be resolved until the event starts. I’ve never known one of these setups to be resolved with any lead time, this will be no different 

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There's also some type of meso high (about 1027-1028 sliding through OH into NYS around the end of the run..) that can never hurt and based on surface reflection, you can see snow developing as the run finishes over the western NC mountains. Wherever this thing ends up traversing it's going to pack a nice punch of heavy precip.

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