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Wintry Jan 15-16 Winter Storm Discussion & Obs

Won’t see any changes from me every run. Still going with Mount Rogers, Virginia for this storm! May head up that way Friday as my snow spot winner. Charlotte NC is gonna be very tricky uptown may see 1-3” snow while the city is much less due to ice and rain. To be even more specific, the have and have nots with the ground being white or not is likely to be in Mecklenburg County. Either way, many on this board will score with a mixed bag. I don’t think a widespread ice storm will occur either, it’s likely to be a thin strip of counties over upstate SC and north-east Georgia perhaps stretching north east into Huntersville NC off i77.
Might wanna move a tad east for the heaviest snow axis
 
Won’t see any changes from me every run. Still going with Mount Rogers, Virginia for this storm! May head up that way Friday as my snow spot winner. Charlotte NC is gonna be very tricky uptown may see 1-3” snow while the city is much less due to ice and rain. To be even more specific, the have and have nots with the ground being white or not is likely to be in Mecklenburg County. Either way, many on this board will score with a mixed bag. I don’t think a widespread ice storm will occur either, it’s likely to be a thin strip of counties over upstate SC and north-east Georgia perhaps stretching north east into Huntersville NC off i77.

Well, there ya go folks. We now officially have a dependable forecast that we can all safely rely on. Thank you Birdman, for all you do...
 
Wait, Uptown is 1-3” while the city is safe? Have they moved uptown since I moved to durham?
Yeah, I was definitely being sarcastic to the world-famous Birdman. It made no sense once so ever which is what caused me to respond. Even while battling strep and possibly Covid. Anyways, I still stand by my original statement that there is still way too much time to go. Especially when narrowing accumulations by 2.4 miles...
 
Suppressed solutions continue to appear on GEFS which puts my mind at ease. Can we say the holy words “We toss!” for 18z OP??? Lol

No we don’t toss because the OP definitely a scenario. However we don’t lean heavily on the OP either because the essambles still hold a lot of weight.


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No we don’t toss because the OP definitely a scenario. However we don’t lean heavily on the OP either because the essambles still hold a lot of weight.


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At what range do you start to focus on the op run? When there is better agreement in ensemble members?


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Us in AL, MS and west GA need to maintain that hybrid look or more amped farther west track of the low after the transfer. The 18z GFS was a dead smack Miller B which really hurts us.
Yeah and the gefs was in our favor definitely. Time will tell soon
 
Interesting post from ILMRoss over on American making the case that the 18z GFS of not right.
No there's a little truth to that. SLPs want to ride ribbons of low level vorticity, which is the fancy pants way of saying "wind shifts". During CAD wedges, there's an area (typically off the coast) where the NE winds of the wedge butt directly against the SW or SE flowing winds off the coast. This is an area of natural "spin". When upper air energy is close by that spin gets stretched and spins faster (think the common ballerina analogy where it spins faster when the ballerina brings body closer together).

So the GFS has this. I've tried to put in some arrows below showing wind speed and where this "ribbon" exists and where you'd expect the LLC to ride. This is basically why all the mets are flummoxed as to why the GFS wants to barrel this thing up 95.image.png.1f3be307fb7c3b76e2b1ff782282b9f7.png
 
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