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Possible coastal storm centered on Feb 1 2026.


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Just now, Wxbear25 said:

You don’t really want a super-deep low if you want widespread precipitation, because it implies two things

1) it’s likely occluding or close to it

2) the mid and upper-level features are so wrapped up that they basically wrap into itself as opposed to spread out

ideally, you want the ULL to still be strengthening and the storm just getting caught as it gets close to your latitude so it stalls and then slowly degrades over you, as opposed to having an already occluded low decaying over you 

True, my point was more related to the N/W extent of the precip with this. 

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9 minutes ago, Hoth said:

Does it usually set up where you have greater difference aloft? 

Yes. In basic terms,  think about what happens when you have diffluence aloft, it implies air is “spreading apart” by direction and potentially speed as well which results in mass divergence. Air then rises to fill that hole creating pressure falls below it, eventually resulting in the development/strengthening of low pressure at the surface

again, very laymen’s terms and not quite as in-depth as an atmospheric dynamics class, but it works as an illustrative process

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2 minutes ago, Wxbear25 said:

Yes. In basic terms,  think about what happens when you have diffluence aloft, it implies air is “spreading apart”, either by speed, direction, or both which results in mass divergence. Air then rises to fill that hole creating pressure falls below it, eventually resulting in the development/strengthening of low pressure at the surface

again, very laymen’s terms but it works as an illustrative process

Thanks. That’s pretty much how I was picturing the process. 

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2 minutes ago, Hoth said:

Thanks. That’s pretty much how I was picturing the process. 

There’s regular synoptic scale diffluence and then you get upper jetstreak dynamics where you get smaller scale divergence in the poleward exit and equatorward entrance region of the jetstreak. A lot of our bigger storms have 2 jetstreaks with their regions of divergence coupled together. 
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4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

There’s regular synoptic scale diffluence and then you get upper jetstreak dynamics where you get smaller scale divergence in the poleward exit and equatorward entrance region of the jetstreak. A lot of our bigger storms have 2 jetstreaks with their regions of divergence coupled together. 
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Giving me PTSD flashbacks to things I’d forgotten long ago lol

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It was about the time last week that everything started trending north for this past storm.  Obviously a much different set up, but the point is that we need to see some movement North and west (besides the GFS/AIGFS) at least by ensembles later tonight into tomorrow.  Doesn’t have to be huge…but something. And not the other way around.  

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So what did we glean from 12z? ICON OP whiff, its ens had somewhat of a two camp split. GFS was close to nuclear GEFS looked good as well, UKIE Whiff and Euro with a slight tick W, not sure about EPS. We watch I guess

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