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Wintry 1/9-12 Winter Potential Great Dane or Yorkie

WNC_Fort said:
It's tough because us foothill folks have to root for a slightly stronger solution that may put many of you south and east out of play. We're all so snow-starved, I was hoping this pattern would have found a way to deliver for all of us.
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You’ll get yours at some point. Hell I was there in April last year and it snowed.
 
The trailing N/S shortwave track on the 6z GFS...Juneau-Edmonton-Rapid City-Amarillo-Houston-Wilmington. 6z ICON same track (it's at Houston at hr120 end of the run). It's doesn't show on the surface maps yet, but that track is plenty favorable for backside action for the I-20 corridor.
 
As RAH discussed below, our one big issue is no big high pressure to the north. So again, I think we really need to keep hoping for the flatter/weaker miller A storm.


.LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/...
As of 425 AM Monday...

* Cold temperatures dominate the forecast through midweek with
attention turning to our next potential winter system Friday into
Saturday.

A reinforcing shot of Arctic high pressure is expected to progress
across the area Wed night into Thurs as the center of high pressure
over the southern Plains shifts eastward and into the Ohio Valley by
Thurs morning. Although the weather will be particularly quiet from
a precipitation perspective, the cold and dry Arctic airmass
deposited over our area and the northerly winds traversing the
expected snowpack over VA will combine to result in well below
normal temperatures Wed into Fri. Highs in the 30s to around 40
degrees and lows in the teens to low 20s will be common areawide.
This cold and dry air will set the stage for our next system Fri
into Sat.

A complicated system pattern will be driving this next system as
several shortwaves interact with an anchored parent low over
Newfoundland as well as northern-stream closed low near the Baja
Peninsula to start the period. Ensemble guidance suggest generally a
positive tilt trough axis to develop as the low over the Baja merges
with several waves and migrates eastward, extending from the Great
Lakes through the Ohio Valley and into the southern Plains by 12z
Sat. Ensemble member MSLP pressure centers from the GEFS, EPS, GEPS,
generally show a single low developing over the northern GOM states
and lifting ENE in a classic Miller A track through the Southeast
and off the Carolina coast through 00z Sun. This configuration would
favor a more rain/snow event with a relatively narrow transition
zone, but with a very large question remaining on where that is
expected to set up. The important missing ingredient from this
pattern is a dominant Arctic high positioned over the Northeast to
lock in the cold/dry air ahead of this system, which will have to
rely on locking in an insitu CAD regime as precipitation begins to
diabatically cool the dry preceding airmass.

Current forecast guidance suggests a chance for initially snow late
Fri into early Sat with the rain/snow line shifting northward
towards the climatologically favored I-85 corridor by Sat morning
with precipitation coming to an end through the afternoon hours.
Timing and amounts will likely change as models narrow in on how
important synoptic features develop and interact with one another.

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I’m expecting about an inch of snow/sleet accumulation on Friday and then capped off with a glaze of ice Friday night with temps in the upper 20s. Probably light snow most of the day Friday but struggles to accumulate, then when we finally get decent rates and temp drops in to the 20’s, it flips to sleet.

I’m hoping this is a reasonable “low” expectation and hi-res models will take us to glory.
 
That was actually an awesome run of the Euro AI... a little more qpf and a little colder... those are the exact trends we need!

@Fro for sure.. The Euro AI did so good with this storm, imo. It's been showing this solution the most consistently even going back a couple/3 days ago.
 
rburrel2 said:
I’m expecting about an inch of snow/sleet accumulation on Friday and then capped off with a glaze of ice Friday night with temps in the upper 20s. Probably light snow most of the day Friday but struggles to accumulate, then when we finally get decent rates and temp drops in to the 20’s, it flips to sleet.

I’m hoping this is a reasonable “low” expectation and hi-res models will take us to glory.
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At this point a few hours of snow would be a major win here in clt after getting blanked the last clipper. A front end surprise is what we prob should be praying for similar to the upstate a few years ago, but won’t be evident until we get into short range model range late week.
 
WNC_Fort said:
It's tough because us foothill folks have to root for a slightly stronger solution that may put many of you south and east out of play. We're all so snow-starved, I was hoping this pattern would have found a way to deliver for all of us.
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I'll be spending the second half of the week and weekend at about 3,500 feet in Little Switzerland (plans arranged long before this storm was on the radar). I've been pulling for the mountains/ foothills with this event, as well as back home to break the streak. Unfortunately, as is almost always the case, when the mountains score there will be at the very least mixing issues in the southern and eastern areas. I think the best scenario to get everyone involved is the weaker flatter solution. It may mean sacrificing a big time snowstorm where I'm going to be, but I feel somewhat confident the precip shield will expand further north and west than modeled as is typically the case.
 
GFS and regular Euro keep the upstate all snow on Friday too... the issues here is how much qpf actually falls. GFS and Euro say 1 maybe 2/10th's if we're lucky. (Euro verbatim says surface is 34 friday afternoon b/c we don't get heavy enough precip to wetbulb), Euro AI says more like 4/10ths. The precip just hits a wall and dies on the GFS/Euro, awful.

That's something that can trend the other way quick though...
 
rburrel2 said:
GFS and regular Euro keep the upstate all snow on Friday too... the issues here is how much qpf actually falls. GFS and Euro say 1 maybe 2/10th's if we're lucky. (Euro verbatim says surface is 34 friday afternoon b/c we don't get heavy enough precip to wetbulb), Euro AI says more like 4/10ths. The precip just hits a wall and dies on the GFS/Euro, awful.

That's something that can trend the other way quick though...
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Get under some heavy rates and maybe just maybe...
 
rburrel2 said:
I definitely think part of the reason for the muted qpf over NC/SC is b/c all the models have convection in the gulf moving west/east and blocking moisture transport. The issue is it's probably accurate since they're all showing it???
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The moisture is certainly heavy over Florida up to about Savannah Georgia and then it explodes over the Atlantic east of South Carolina. It’s not so much moisture robbing it’s just seems to be favoring New England last minute I could see it coming back for them.
 
I have to fly from GSO to DFW early Saturday morning, but southern travel is looking a bit precarious for the second half of this week. Rebooking for a Thursday or Friday arrival into DFW might not be a good idea because of the weather forecast in TX, but waiting until Saturday morning could spell trouble in NC.

My gut says to stick with the early Saturday flight I have even though it’s likely to be delayed or cancelled out of GSO. Surely the airline can get me to DFW by late Saturday evening. Conditions would have improved at DFW by then and the airline would likely have equipment available at GSO since that’s the first flight of the day for that route.

I love snow, but it stinks when you have to travel in the middle of it.
 
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This will probably end up pretty close when all is said and done IMO. After our snow here yesterday, we have had ZR all morning and some of the trees are getting coated.
 
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