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Pattern January Joke

What is h5?
The 500mb pressure surface. Almost all of the vorticity and height anomaly maps you see posted on here are at 500mb. An important tool to make inferences about what the surface wx may be like, and a common place used to assess model verification.
 
Amazing we're getting under 150hrs and still many (not just one) model maps swinging around with this 1st system.
 
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GEFS trying to show some rays of hope for the south


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UKMET soundings under the Pivotal 🤡'rain' on the northern GA/AL border.Screenshot 2026-01-12 121203.png
The soundings are odd on Pivotal for the UKMET. Here is mine. 37 degrees and "snow"? The upper layers are plenty cold enough, will it all melt passing through the last 800 ft? I think it has to do with rates and dryness of the lower layers. I had a very similar setup last year and it snowed like crazy. I've also seen this sounding and had cold rain. Nothing will be sorted out until later this week.
 
The soundings are odd on Pivotal for the UKMET. Here is mine. 37 degrees and "snow"? The upper layers are plenty cold enough, will it all melt passing through the last 800 ft? I think it has to do with rates and dryness of the lower layers. I had a very similar setup last year and it snowed like crazy. I've also seen this sounding and had cold rain. Nothing will be sorted out until later this week.
Yeah, verbatim, you would need better rates to cool the surface. Most of our area will too. Famous last words, but temps will be fine provided rates are there.
 
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