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Wintry February 19-21, 2020 Winter Storm

Looking at the NAM and I just realized that it has sped up somewhat instead of coming in 21z Thursday it's now around 12z Thursday.
 
I haven't checked any soundings or maps yet, but if the NAM has a warm nose, then you can almost take that to the bank every time. Wouldn't be surprised to see that start to get established and trend stronger, which sucks.
 
yeah, NAM may be on to something, its showing what normally happens, stronger WAA, lots of frontogenesis, warm nose, and faster tongue of overrunning precip that arrives earlier, NAM may be on to something, as those are classic issues with overrunning setups
 
Warning criteria for a large part of Tenn.
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This sounding off the 12Z NAM for Thursday afternoon for the NW Piedmont is a thing of beauty: strong lift into the snow growth zone and below freezing through the column. If true, this produce fairly impressive snowfall rates.

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crecre9 said:
NWS Huntsville is not impressed.
"Although not indicated in the current
grids, a brief period of sleet will be possible for most of the
forecast area at the onset of precipitation, based on thermal
profiles in the 20/09-12Z timeframe. However, as the rate of
hydrometeor production increases aloft, the low-level airmass will
modify to support very cold rain or perhaps a rain/snow mixture for
portions of northwest AL/southern TN."
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Par for the course. They are often the last to the party.
 
The NAM sniffed out the last two flizzards it makes a man wonder...I think that HP will limit the coastal from correcting to far NW but it won't matter for Western areas as were getting ours from the overrunning whitch Webb hit the nail on the head precipitation will probably be more exspansive than being advertised and the Nams best at sniffing that out imo...more so than globals the meso picks up on terrain, smaller features that can enhance precipitation and other variables...

Oh and the warm nose is alive and well it's one of those things were we want precipitation to get here before 1pm so It can accumulate I ran into that last month 33 pouring snow but just couldn't stick but at the same time we want the precipitation to hold off a little so the warm nose can erode kinda a double edge sword I think 1-3 statewide is a safe bet at this range...
 
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Myfrotho704_ said:
yeah, NAM may be on to something, its showing what normally happens, stronger WAA, lots of frontogenesis, warm nose, and faster tongue of overrunning precip that arrives earlier, NAM may be on to something, as those are classic issues with overrunning setups
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Yeah I think the NAM is definitely onto something here while the ECMWF is out to lunch
 
NAM another crush job for central eastern NC, we might see a bit of a mix for the first few minutes but the NAM has snow and all snow the duration of the event here.....starts right around hr 52 and snows all the way till hr 70 or so call it 18 hrs of snow.....been awhile since we have had something like this possible here, since Dec 2010 probably.
 
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