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Pattern Jammin January 2024

ILMRoss said:
nice little pattern coming

the risk is that the PV shreds everything apart. little impulses that would have a chance to be a cute event in other setups don't have a chance here. everyone thinks "suppression" here but it's less that and moreso these shortwaves not getting a chance to dig and slow down a hair. a strengthening surface low has a symbiotic relationship with a shortwave (surface WAA pumps the ridge, surface CAA strengthens the trough, in response shortwave gets stronger, means better lift, means stronger LLC. positive feedback, etc...) and that can't happen if the shortwave is consistently outrunning the low

as others have mentioned the remedy is a stouter, taller western ridge that would force waves to dig more. or honestly.. a little more amplification in general would be nice. this broad trough is cool in theory but doesn't really provide any great mechanisms to create qpf and spur cyclone development. that's an issue and with such a lauded pattern... would be nice to get a 6-10 incher across the i-85 corridor at like hour 300, you know? just ground truth that it's a fruitful pattern? something that doesn't just look like a virga storm?

good news is that there's still a lot of time on the clock. so here's the trend for the day 7.5 gfs. pick out our storm. you can't? exactly. models don't have a handle on this yet (i wouldn't expect them to) and still plenty of time for a consolidated shortwave with better tilt to come along and take advantage of things. just hoping waiting for that isn't a fools errand

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very well said
 
It didn't work out on the 6z GFS, but still had energy dropping over the Rockies. Plenty of time to watch, hope we can get something out of this.
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CNCsnwfan1210 said:
It didn't work out on the 6z GFS, but still had energy dropping over the Rockies. Plenty of time to watch, hope we can get something out of this.
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10 days out this is honestly not a bad look at all from the GFS especially when you look at the 500mb chart.
 
For what its worth post hr360. The CFS looks stellar out through FEB week 2 as far as it will go. Never seen it look so good for FEB. Love to see that ridge go up west coast all the way into Northern Canada. Always delivers the cold
 
Myfrotho704_ said:
Still like this period View attachment 141087View attachment 141088View attachment 141089View attachment 141090
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This has always been a more realistic time frame east of the apps, in my opinion. Rarely do we score on the front end of a cold air mass. I think a lot of us are getting discouraged that the ops aren’t syncing anything up at this time frame. Canadian and Euro both have a system but too far north. GFS has a better look regarding cold but no phasing/ too suppressed with the southern stream. At this point, at 7 to 10 days out, it’s all about pattern recognition on the ensembles, but it would be nice if one of the ops would show us something to get everyone excited for 6 to 12 hours at least. Hopefully one of them locks in soon.
 
CltNative90 said:
This has always been a more realistic time frame east of the apps, in my opinion. Rarely do we score on the front end of a cold air mass. I think a lot of us are getting discouraged that the ops aren’t syncing anything up at this time frame. Canadian and Euro both have a system but too far north. GFS has a better look regarding cold but no phasing/ too suppressed with the southern stream. At this point, at 7 to 10 days out, it’s all about pattern recognition on the ensembles, but it would be nice if one of the ops would show us something to get everyone excited for 6 to 12 hours at least. Hopefully one of them locks in soon.
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Yeah I know it's not the end of the story, but the lack of fantasy hits, and the paltry snow mean on the ensembles is a head scratcher. With the great look for the 19th I would think there'd be more hits. We're missing an ingredient I think.
 
SD said:
Eps seems to be holding the block longer which is what you want to increase your chances. I think the time to shine for most of us is after the 18th when the cold gets dumped and the pattern is likely relaxing before the final cold shot
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Definitely agree. I like this period until the pattern relaxes for a time. eps_z500a_us_43.pnggfs-ens_z500a_us_42.png
 
Look at the op gfs the trough axis is west and the are numerous ripples in the flow gfs_z500_vort_us_fh162-258.gif

We've seen this many times where the models are too unenthusuastic about moisture return and they also shear these waves to much as you go out in time. Take this pattern add in a decent amplitude wave throw moisture into an existing arctic aimass and all we do is win win win no matter what
 
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SnowNiner said:
I'm sorry that's just sad. For a great pattern east of the apps there should be blues in the Piedmont.


Perhaps the issue goes back to what @ILMRoss said that the trough isnt sharp enough. Also, the trough looks too far east. I'm grasping, but trying to find the disconnect.
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That's a snow depth map at 360 sooo if it's warming up on the back of the cold then that snow would melt and that map would suck
 
Mitch West said:
Definitely agree. I like this period until the pattern relaxes for a time. View attachment 141104View attachment 141105
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I was just looking at that too. Unfortunately the Apps continue to keep the cold air West and won't let it bleed. I mean we'd be below average but probably not enough. Here's the same time frames. We really need that western ridge to pump more and let the trough dig more.

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GFS does show a s/w in Mexico but it gets squashed by the 1048. We really need that high out in front of the s/w to push down the cold in front of it; maybe a 1040 over the Great Lakes. Sharpen the trough and let it ride.

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