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Wintry Machine Learning Mauler 1/30-2/1

So I have people who ask me for what I think for the Raleigh area and this is what I sent out this morning…

Good morning from everything I’m seeing this morning. Still looking the same my guess is still 3-7”. I will say some of the models have shown a dry slot showing up around the central NC if that were the case in the triangle it could cut our totals to around 2-3 inches. Just something to keep in mind.


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Issues watches at 1am.. Waiting for the grids to update if changing to a warning.
I definitely could see you doing better than me Mark. Going to depend on the placement of the ULL. Anywhere from the southern Foothills down to Greenville Spartanburg over to Charlotte is going to get smoked somewhere. Just depends on where the best forcing sets up.
 
I’ve only heard bad things about the SREF. Is it okay with QPF amounts or does it typically overdo it?


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It's been really bad in the past. I guess the big thing to take from it is its footprint of where the precip maximum is going to be.
 
If I were forecasting for Charlotte, I would go 5-7 inches, with equal chances of that bumping up or down over the next 36 hours. Not going to get any better setup than this temperature wise (normally our big bugaboo) at the surface and aloft. Have a busy day ahead at work. I hate work. Y’all hold the fort down
 
Definitely some dry slot members
The question I have, though, is how much is dry slot and how much is convective feedback issues? All models often have this with deeply bombing lows. With weaker storms moving south to north, yes, a big dry slot. This is a sub 980 monster moving more west to east. Any opinions?
 
The question I have, though, is how much is dry slot and how much is convective feedback issues? All models often have this with deeply bombing lows. With weaker storms moving south to north, yes, a big dry slot. This is a sub 980 monster moving more west to east. Any opinions?

Webb’s post yesterday is spot on. We’ve seen similar setups in the past that led to places in central NC/SC getting dry slotted to death in the subsistence zone between lows.
 
I’ve only heard bad things about the SREF. Is it okay with QPF amounts or does it typically overdo it?


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Was around 2012-2014, but the SREF was showing 10ish on the plumes as the event was unfolding and #ColdRain the entire time in South Wake County. It remains the single greatest heartbreak in meteorological history. Hard to re-earn trust after that.

Joking aside, its a reasonable data point that should absolutely be taken and used within the greater data set to determine the forecast. Verbatim by itself though, no.
 
I’ve only heard bad things about the SREF. Is it okay with QPF amounts or does it typically overdo it?


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From reading, the SREF has a 90% accuracy rate when the model runs are consistent or tightly clustered from run to run. It can have a wide spread of qpf within 72 hours.
 
For CLT-GSP-GSO the path to a 6-8" event is there with the ULL...for Raleigh we needed the coastal and looks like that is slipping away. Still a nice event for us though...1-3" in really cold temps ain't all bad.

We needed that ULL to be negative at this point. Just doesn't quite get there.

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The question I have, though, is how much is dry slot and how much is convective feedback issues? All models often have this with deeply bombing lows. With weaker storms moving south to north, yes, a big dry slot. This is a sub 980 monster moving more west to east. Any opinions?
There will be a dry slot, this is 2 systems and western areas will do well with ULL. I've been saying this for days now, there will be an area of disappointment between the ULL and the coastal. Personally for mby I need that coastal further N/NW. Gonna be a brutal gradient somewhere
 
Ummm did we lose the Graf???
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My jaw dropped when I saw this run for western folks. I always imagined the ceiling for places like ATL at 2-4 inches since the Canadian and RGEM were the most aggressive... The EURO of all models has now raised the high end (4-6 inches) which is pretty wild in my opinion. Maybe it is picking up the upper level feature better than before and accounting for those higher-end totals, but man that seems so far-fetched that I would take even this run with 5 grains of salt.
All hail the Canadians! If this solution verifies that is, I always knew ATL was still in the game! Keep that ULL trending SW and stronger for crazier totals in GA! Wish the AI models would follow suit…
 
There will be a dry slot, this is 2 systems and western areas will do well with ULL. I've been saying this for days now, there will be an area of disappointment between the ULL and the coastal. Personally for mby I need that coastal further N/NW. Gonna be a brutal gradient somewhere
I am not arguing that, there will be a dry slot. The sub 980 low is what I’m talking about, which is highly anomalous. If anyone with experience with New England nor’easters, how prominent is this dry slot?
 
Something to note about the EURO is that often times in the past it has really struggled with the extent of moisture inland directly associated with coastal lows… in both tropical systems and winter storms. If you look at the 1/3/2018 storm, the EURO never brought any precip inland from the coastal areas even as all short range models at the time were coming inland with the precip shield. I’m not saying that’s definitely happening here some of its dryer looks down east like we saw with the 6z run, but it is certainly something to watch
 
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