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Wintry 1/26-1/28 Winter Storm Potential

We get a storm every year that we try to pull offshore. I say trace to 2” along the coast. On to February for me. This is in terms of wake county. Coastal plain people should still be excited
 
I thought the ULL looked fine but the big change was the kicker dropping down. NAM’s not going to get that right at hour 60.

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That's about as far west as the precip shield makes it into NC, but no snow is depicted on the 18z ECMWF. Seems to be a little further west than the 12z run however.
 
Models are slowing this system down a lot. This went from a late Sunday/early Monday system to a now mid-afternoon Monday system. If this keeps up we could be looking at Monday night. I suppose this also results in the NW trend because it's not at the cost of the progression of the phase/tilt to negative of the trough.gfs_z500_vort_us_fh54_trend.gif
 
Models are slowing this system down a lot. This went from a late Sunday/early Monday system to a now mid-afternoon Monday system. If this keeps up we could be looking at Monday night. I suppose this also results in the NW trend because it's not at the cost of the progression of the phase/tilt to negative of the trough.View attachment 13382
That’s a really big move.
 
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Slightly unrelated, but it's also interesting is that the 29/30 system is clearly speeding up in that same shot. Quite frankly, I have no clue what implications (if any) that would have on this system.
Yes I have been noticing that, almost seems like they are trying to link or get “sucked in” together. Not sure if it is the coastal pulling though the front or vise versa. Not sure either if it will help or hurt this thing pulling further NW
 
uk has also made another shift west. I think the take away from tonight is modeling has for the most part either held or shifted more favorably. We still have all day tomorrow AND Sunday for things to change, and they will change. I can guarantee you that.

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The waves continue to interact & phase sooner and more favorably upstream w/ the southern stream wave getting out ahead of the northern stream system, seems pretty obvious to me where we're headed here. Bigger storm w/ more precip further inland and a slower storm now towards Monday night = more snow further inland. US HWY 1 & I-95 corridors are in the driver seat
 
The waves continue to interact & phase sooner and more favorably upstream w/ the southern stream wave getting out ahead of the northern stream system, seems pretty obvious to me where we're headed here. Bigger storm w/ more precip further inland and a slower storm now towards Monday night = more snow further inland. US HWY 1 & I-95 corridors are in the driver seat

Eric, the ensemble mean has trace amounts of precip up past Columbia This thing definitely has legs for the coasts/obx at the very least.
 
Eric, the ensemble mean has trace amounts of precip up past Columbia This thing definitely has legs for the coasts/obx at the very least.

This has big legs further inland on the path we're currently going down. I'm not really concerned with where the models currently are verbatim but where they're going to be near the 0 hour (& even then could miss to the SE) because it's pretty obvious if this trend continues even to a lesser degree for the next 36-48 hours, areas like RDU, Goldsboro-Wilson, etc could be dealing with something substantial-very substantial. The large-scale changes happening upstream would dramatically alter the sensible outcome for folks in the east-central piedmont of the Carolinas. I've seen this movie play out far too many times.
 
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