January 2026 Short/Medium Range Thread

[*Flash*]

Also, for the record, I'm really bummed seeing the amount of pro/TV/AMS mets plastering eye candy snow maps without beneficial context to the public. I'm not looking to purify my feeds per se, but if I see a local met or influencer page not communicating within due diligence, my tendency to unfollow/snooze. Weather is more enjoyable without the bias. Hype is fine once confidence is high enough to support it. 

[nrgjeff]

And just like that the 12Z RRFS lines up with the GFS south. (Blanks Chatty.) I think they will get their snow in contrast to the Euro No. Euro might be a higher resolution but some of the GFS code still captures small perturbations. Euro is king of the extended, but we are getting into the time period when the GFS is useful.

More granular discussion, RRFS splits the difference between the NAM right up on the Apps and the GFS closer to the coast. RRFS makes sense for a central GA to Piedmont snow. Should I just goto the Southeast forum? Nah, Tennessee still has the Friday night Saturday am snow showers, lol!

Plus the Southeast forum is like a Super Walmart on a Saturday afternoon. 

[Bigbald]

It truely is remarkable how often we go from a good looking solution 8-10 days out, to medicore as 6 days approach...to hopefully we can get 1-3 inches 4-5 days.... at 48 hrs maybe we can see some flakes ha.

Yet it almost never works in the reverse.  

[Daniel Boone]

1 minute ago, Bigbald said:

It truely is remarkable how often we go from a good looking solution 8-10 days out, to medicore as 6 days approach...to hopefully we can 1-3 inches 4-5 days.... at 48 hrs maybe we can see some flakes ha.

Yet it almost never works in the reverse.  

Yeppers. So is the life of a Snow lover in the Tn Valley, lol.

[UnionCountyNCWX]

Well unless something changes it looks like im driving to Wears Valley from Charlotte for the weekend (not snow related) just to miss the snow at home lol. 

 

I am also rooting for the NW trend with you guys. 

[tnweathernut]

4 minutes ago, UnionCountyNCWX said:

Well unless something changes it looks like im driving to Wears Valley from Charlotte for the weekend (not snow related) just to miss the snow at home lol. 

 

I am also rooting for the NW trend with you guys. 

If it makes you feel any better, you'd probably miss it in Charlotte too.....    lol

[GBOVolz]

Mods sometimes have trouble with under doing the precipitation shield on the NW side. Not saying we are still in the game but I’m struggling to find some outs.


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