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Wintry February 6th-7th
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Looks about right, I've been betting on this being a GSO storm for a while...
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Lots of spread in the models on where potential snow is going to be. Some have the snow axis far north and some have it far south. I think a previous poster said it best: We need to watch where the front sets up on Friday. That will tell the story.
ForsythSnow
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Definitely. This has the potential to sneak up on anyone from Macon to Columbia all the way up to metro Atlanta through Charlotte.
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Canadian is a miss. Too suppressed with the precip and areas that do get it are simply too warm to get any snow. I wonder why V16 is such an outlier in terms of how far north the precip shield gets. GFS suites are the only models getting precip even up to Atlanta.
Bready86
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Canadian trended further NW
12z
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The new GFS has been honking this as a decent hit for central NC for a few runs now with fairly little variance. I think the 00z run was probably the best yet IMBY.
I guess something to note is that like with the last storm, temps will be marginal (if it even happens) and ratios will be crappy, so the clown maps will overstate things. However, soil temps should be better this time around since it’s been fairly chilly recently, and so we may not lose as much to melting, which will help.
But let’s worry about there even being a storm to worry about first!
I guess something to note is that like with the last storm, temps will be marginal (if it even happens) and ratios will be crappy, so the clown maps will overstate things. However, soil temps should be better this time around since it’s been fairly chilly recently, and so we may not lose as much to melting, which will help.
But let’s worry about there even being a storm to worry about first!
That's quite the spread for only 60 hours out.
Snowflowxxl
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I'm getting January 2018 vibes
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Flo
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Don’t those contradict each other?
The Doc says im trying. lol it now shows a little dusting from southern MS into MGM area. Show a little blip btwn CSG and MCN (12z run and the 00z run from last night had nothing) So an improvement and a nod more toward the NAM
current euro run
12z run
00z last night...
An improvement and more of a nod toward the NAM
12z run
00z last night...
An improvement and more of a nod toward the NAM
Check out 850's right as precip is moving in. My gut tells me 0c will wind up running a path from charlotte to wake.
It's great to see the LR storms showing up, but we know how easily we can lose them (and get them) as we get closer. So focusing on the short range, the GFS(s) are still showing some snow for this Saturday night. Nothing great, as surface temps will be marginal, but still it's something. From RAH:
After being well offshore with its 12z
run, the 00z ECMWF has shifted back north with the track, bringing
precipitation to all areas in central NC except for the NW Piedmont,
lining up very well with the 00z GFS. In addition, the region will
be in an area of upper divergence in the right entrance region of a
160-kt jet streak, and the high shifting completely offshore will
result in moist SE flow. Thus have POPs ranging from slight in the
far NW to high chance in the SE from Saturday night into early
Sunday morning. With temperatures dropping into the lower-to-mid-
30s, low-level thicknesses appear supportive for the possibility of
some wet snowflakes in at least the NW half of the forecast area.
However, accumulations if any should be very minimal, especially as
this will be where forcing for precipitation is weaker.
6z GFS hr 72 (don't get excited, 2m temps are > 32 for non-mountain folks):
After being well offshore with its 12z
run, the 00z ECMWF has shifted back north with the track, bringing
precipitation to all areas in central NC except for the NW Piedmont,
lining up very well with the 00z GFS. In addition, the region will
be in an area of upper divergence in the right entrance region of a
160-kt jet streak, and the high shifting completely offshore will
result in moist SE flow. Thus have POPs ranging from slight in the
far NW to high chance in the SE from Saturday night into early
Sunday morning. With temperatures dropping into the lower-to-mid-
30s, low-level thicknesses appear supportive for the possibility of
some wet snowflakes in at least the NW half of the forecast area.
However, accumulations if any should be very minimal, especially as
this will be where forcing for precipitation is weaker.
6z GFS hr 72 (don't get excited, 2m temps are > 32 for non-mountain folks):