Blue_Ridge_Escarpment
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Wintry 1/20 - 1/23 Winter Storm
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Flotown
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Thanks
Flotown
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A once inch mean at this range I'll take
Yeah I like keeping them together right now until we get a little clarity on the leading wave
griteater
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18z GEFS Ens Mean Snow on SV for Fri-Mon
JLL1973
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I was thinking the same thing. I looking at next Sunday system but others are looking at a midweek system and a Friday system. I’m confused
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Zander98al
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Incredible, big overlap with cold and moisture. I'm going to buy me some chains for my car tires lol. Looks like we may see a slammer here.
Parker
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18z GEFS Ens Mean Snow on SV for Fri-Mon
Wow, that is about a pretty of a setup as ever for central/south Alabama. Let’s go!
If you want to really shoot for the stars we could make 2 out of this. With overrunning initially and a more wound up trailer wave
Good news is overrunning precip totals can be crazy undermodeled.
Grit posted a gif earlier of my thinking honestly. It's not uncommon to have multiple waves ride along a stalled out Arctic front giving smaller events, and something I'm honestly rooting for right now. Instead of one big bad wave that MAY over amplify.
Even with that, we could still have the small waves and a bigger one when all is said and done.
Stormlover
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GFS next Sat night
I tend to agree with this statement but this is something we haven't seen in many years. A VERY strong front which stalls off of the coast then over running moisture. These come in waves. The models are having a hard time with a consistent solution, thus the ensembles are the way to go. Something is most likely going to occur next Friday, Saturday, or Sunday but is it going to be one day or multiple?
This is how NWS RAH described in their 3:45pm discussion:
Following Arctic high pressure will sprawl ewd from the nrn Plains
to the Northeast and Mid Atlantic, with what may be the coldest
airmass of the season for cntl NC by Fri through the weekend. It
will be the srn extent of that Arctic drape, where both isentropic
lift and cyclogenesis may become energized by the aforementioned low
predictability shortwave troughs aloft, where precipitation --
including wintry on the poleward side-- will be possible, including
near or just southeast of cntl NC. To reiterate, those details and
the sensible weather impacts, with the threat of precipitation
spreading nwd into the Arctic air, remain highly uncertain - but a
possibility worth monitoring as those details are hopefully resolved
during the coming days.
Following Arctic high pressure will sprawl ewd from the nrn Plains
to the Northeast and Mid Atlantic, with what may be the coldest
airmass of the season for cntl NC by Fri through the weekend. It
will be the srn extent of that Arctic drape, where both isentropic
lift and cyclogenesis may become energized by the aforementioned low
predictability shortwave troughs aloft, where precipitation --
including wintry on the poleward side-- will be possible, including
near or just southeast of cntl NC. To reiterate, those details and
the sensible weather impacts, with the threat of precipitation
spreading nwd into the Arctic air, remain highly uncertain - but a
possibility worth monitoring as those details are hopefully resolved
during the coming days.
May not get resolved until those radiosondes (wave-offshore pacific) come in Tues morning
That general look, is extremely similar to February 2014, and that Arctic front
Blue_Ridge_Escarpment
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I liked the look of the 18Z icon with the energy out west.