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Mid-Long Range Discussion 2026


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Almost the entire southeast is now in severe drought with extreme drought quickly expanding.  Last weekends rain did very little and this week drying up has turned away yet another opportunity to dent the drought. We could really use a gfs-like scenario for drought relief with Sundays system 

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35 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Almost the entire southeast is now in severe drought with extreme drought quickly expanding.  Last weekends rain did very little and this week drying up has turned away yet another opportunity to dent the drought. We could really use a gfs-like scenario for drought relief with Sundays system 

It has been a La-Nina winter.  Hopefully we get more rain during the growing season. 

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53 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Almost the entire southeast is now in severe drought with extreme drought quickly expanding.  Last weekends rain did very little and this week drying up has turned away yet another opportunity to dent the drought. We could really use a gfs-like scenario for drought relief with Sundays system 

I wonder if the GFS is once again way overdoing the qpf like it did for the 1/25 storm. Some runs had 3”+ of qpf at ATL just a few days in advance but they ended up with only 0.85”. If so, it would likely gradually reduce it from run to run.

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10 minutes ago, Heisy said:

Hey all, you’re nc event few weeks back. Did the euro end up caving to other models inside 2 days or something? I feel like the gfs did well with it.

I feel like the GFS slowed backed the moisture up to the West as we got closer to the event, Euro did the best at showing the dry slot over Raleigh first and the heavier snow that fell through the upstate it picked up on that first. The Nam was all over the place and the GFS AI and Euro AI did the best at identifying the heaviest totals near CLT-Salisbury area. With in 18hrs the RAP and HRRR pretty much held course with the future radar, but a blend of GEFS and EPS is the way to go in my opinion and cut everything back a little bit with daytime snow in late Feb. It will be interesting to see how it plays out!

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46 minutes ago, Upstate Tiger said:

With the last storm the GFS and CMC did the best for our area.  The Euro was always a bit dry.

I kept track of QPF out put from all models for several days before the storm for MBY HKY. 2-3 days out GFS output ranged in the .65"-.8" range and GEFS was consistently around the .5"-.55" range. The Euro was consistently around the .35-.45" range and the EPS was around .45" -.5" range. We wound up receiving about .52-.54" of precip. Both AI models nailed the .7-.8" totals near and around CLT to Salisbury. I think general rule of thumb you stick with ensembles and blend those together and you will get a pretty accurate look at what's going to happen starting in the next 12 to 24 hours.

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14 minutes ago, WXNewton said:

I kept track of QPF out put from all models for several days before the storm for MBY HKY. 2-3 days out GFS output ranged in the .65"-.8" range and GEFS was consistently around the .5"-.55" range. The Euro was consistently around the .35-.45" range and the EPS was around .45" -.5" range. We wound up receiving about .52-.54" of precip. Both AI models nailed the .7-.8" totals near and around CLT to Salisbury. I think general rule of thumb you stick with ensembles and blend those together and you will get a pretty accurate look at what's going to happen starting in the next 12 to 24 hours.

 GFS seems to have a bit of a too heavy QPF bias in general. Not for all cases by any means but averaged out, which would fit the definition of a bias.
 Any other opinions on this?

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3 minutes ago, Met1985 said:

If we are tracking this especially for the flow snow in the mountains you have the NAM, Canadian,  and the GFS looking good while the Euro is basically showing nothing...

Yeah I don’t understand why the Euro has consistently been too dry with most systems this winter even when it’s surface is similar to other wetter models.  

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